A MAKCH MORNING.

Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MAKCH MORNING.

A mist of purple is on the hills, The valleys are dim below ; One sweet bird-note through the silence thrills, Though the fields are lost in snow. The willow tassels of gold and green In the tremulous breezes sway, And only a wavering gleam of light Quivers from skies of gray. 0 quiet world! In a peaceful dream, Your troubles forgotten quite, Patient and still in the hush you lie, ■ While the morning ends the. night. Full soon to sorrow you must awake, Must struggle and grieve and pray; | {But the Lord of Life looks tenderly down In the dawning light of day. His great heart throbs with the grief and pain, The burden each soul must bear; And joy and comfort and strength He brings To lighten your load of pare. So, ouiet world, you have naught to fear While the wavering light glows plain ; For, awake or asleep, His love is near, And He cannot love in vain. —Angelina Wray in the ' Congregationalism'

"Kyphosis Bicyclistarum" is a jawbreaking name to a new disease caused by stooping on bicycles when racing. Dr Andrew Wilson, in ' Health,' says that the result of the stooping is to produce deformity of the spine, with, of course, "effects of malign character on the hearts, lungs, and other organe." Medical men, however, state that shoulder straps, if properly made and worn, give the necessary support to the back, at the same time expanding the chest, thus aiding in guarding the heart and lungs from injury from compression. '