. Christian herald and signs of our times. devery little while you pass a floating laun-dry. The houseboats are furnished likeany ordinary house, and are used muchduring the heated season. The laundry-boats are two stories high. In the lowerstory you can see the laundresses washingthe clothes, and beating them with flatwooden paddles. In the upper story theclothes are dried and ironed. It is a sightsuch as can be witnessed in no other citv. Helpful Prayer. Almost all Christians have, at times,felt the absolute helpfulness of in private, for ones self or for oth-ers, is a purely p
. Christian herald and signs of our times. devery little while you pass a floating laun-dry. The houseboats are furnished likeany ordinary house, and are used muchduring the heated season. The laundry-boats are two stories high. In the lowerstory you can see the laundresses washingthe clothes, and beating them with flatwooden paddles. In the upper story theclothes are dried and ironed. It is a sightsuch as can be witnessed in no other citv. Helpful Prayer. Almost all Christians have, at times,felt the absolute helpfulness of in private, for ones self or for oth-ers, is a purely personal and individualconcern. It is wholly between ones selfand God. No one else is to be consideredin its thought or phrasing. In this it dif-fers from public prayer with or for others are to be led in prayer, theyare carefully to be borne in mind in what isspoken and in the spirit of ones prayer is necessarily quite differentfrom private prayer. Still another kind ofprayer, differ-ing from bothp r a yerby ones. TRAVELING BEOOUIN MINSTRELS OF PALESTINE. tice of despoiling them of their feathersfor personal adornment. One New Yorkreader (Mr. U. S. B.), writes enclosingan article from the Westminster Gazette,which contains this interesting item : The aigrette, so much affected by woman in headdecorations at the present time, is made of the slen-der, decomposed dorsal feathers of the small whiteegret, or heron. These feathers form the birds nup-tial ornament, hcing acquired at the pairing timeand shed when the breeding is over. The bird in-habits heronries, and it is in the breeding seasonthat thev are sought for l>y the feather-hunters. ItIs thru, tin., thai (heir anxiety for the safety of theirvming makes them fearless of the gunners, the in-stinct of iel& preserve to* on being overmastered i>y the love of their offspring. As they hover in a whilecloud over the heads of the hunters, they are shotdown without trouble ; and when the lew ornamen-ta
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