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316 IMPROVEMENT ERA. who wish to learn something authentic of our prosperous land. Price, 75 cents. The "Beobachter" Kallender for 1903. This annual publication (288 pages), issued by J. H. Ward, Salt Lake City, editor of the oldest German newspaper between the Missouri river and the Pacific ocean, comes to hand, neat in appearance, full of information, and with a review of literature in Utah, by the editor. Elder Ward deserves great credit for his work, and also the congratula- tions of the.German people in Utah for his capable efforts in their behalf. NOTES. Dr. E. Castelli, of Washington, D. C., in the Medical Record, has recently given a very clear definition of the cause of seasickness! He says that it "is the result of the consciousness of the oscillation of the act of orientation." The remedy is much simpler; "fix your eyes upon a mirror. Why? Because eyes and mirror form one body, and the chang- ing of horizons being reflected by a surface equal in every plane, the eye'loses the consciousness of the different changes." Let a missionary try it and report to the Era. "Smoking Church Services" are the latest innovation in London, and promises to attract workingmen who have hitherto been outside the pale of religious influence. Archdeacon Wilberforce of Westminster started the movement last year by inviting the men who were fitting up the Abbey for the coronation to attend service in the cloisters during their lunch hour, and giving each man an ounce of tobacco. Many ac- cepted the invitation, and joined heartily in the services. The home and the hearthstone are the basis of a nation's greatness. Marriage is the institution blessed of all, and happy are those whose fortunes and aspirations are twined into one loving embrace, and who thus tread life's pathway. Charity to the imperfections of the other, loving patience and kindness, loyalty in sickness and in health, loving ministrations one to the other, loyalty and fortitude in adversity, and mutual joy in the hours of prosperity, all crowned with steadfast love —these are the characteristics of a happy union. Nothing is more beautiful to contemplate. Such a marriage is a benediction to all.—John H. Small.