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Show Ragged-edged Catholics, that is thofe who hang on to the church in order to getcKian burial, had .tter ke n o-tice o-tice that the Easter time is nearly oser.-Catholic oser.-Catholic Register. Lord Kelvin. nowTTthis country, maybe may-be a prosaic old gentleman e"-, scorns sentiment and finds his chief delight de-light In scientific inves ligations, but trie title he bears is associated with a reign of romance whose story and song nave cheered many a cottage fireside ,C. Haste to Kelvin Grove" is a ballad that has charmed many a youthful neari. A regulation of the Congregation of Rites says: Only such vocal music is ai lowed In the church ns ia of an earne&i. pious character, becoming the house i the Lord and the praise of God, ana. being in close connection with the saVAe(l text, is a means of inciting and furtner-ing furtner-ing the devotion of the faithful. Miss Holraan. whose engagement to Marconi was publicly announced, la now going to marry another fellow. Perhaps 'tis better for the scientist. He should be consoled with the dictum of the violinist violin-ist who. when advised to lower the h. string at the close of his number, saia. "No. If that string cannot stand the concert pitch, the sooner it breaks the better." Catholic Union. This is sent adrift by the Dublin Freeman's Free-man's Journal: . During his recent visit to Rome Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland was often Invited to pajs his evenings at the Vatican with the aged Pontiff and some of the cardinals. On one of these evenings, the conversation conversa-tion having drifted to music and national na-tional airs, as expressive of the character char-acter and aspirations of a people. Cardinal Card-inal Satolll, who, during his stay in America, had learned to know the Pauline prelate, suggested to the Pope that he invite in-vite him to sing one of the Irish national songs. Of course, on such an occasion. the desire of the Pope is taken as a command, com-mand, and immediately after some members mem-bers of the papal choir had rendered Verdi's "Miserere," the archbishop arose and sang a well known Irish song, in his own Inimitable voice, with such volume of resonance and feeling that, as it swelled and rose through the ancient halls of the Vatican, those venerable princes of the church were visibly touched; the Pope himself seemed stunned, and fa'o to the cardinals arouna mm. ... pathos, what sincerity of feeling!" "Your Holiness," answered the Jesuit, Cardinal Mazella. "it is not feeling, nor sincerity, nor pathos it is Ireland s aThe'tory probably should be . taken cum grano salis, but it's a good one. anywav, and no one will enjoy it more than the prelate of St. Paul.-Latholic Uunion and Time Philadelphia Is looked upon as a prosy old place, but there are apparently some quite rapid people in the Quaker City after all. They must have need for a Social Purity alliance down there, for such an organization exists, and at a meeting of the society the other nieht Rev Floyd W. Tompkins of Holy Trinity, the most fashionable Episcopal church In the city, spoke most scandalously concerning con-cerning the Philadelphia girls. Here a what he said: . Thorp in altogether too much cigarette smoking and liquor drinking done nowa-davs nowa-davs by young girls in the best classes of Philadelphia society. I have never seen an American girl put a cigarette to her lips, thank God. put I know that the do smoke and otherwise imitate men when thev get by themselves. And I know the drink habit is growing among young so-cietv so-cietv women. Girls go to our country clubs and walk up and order dnngs along at the places where they are sold. The same thing happens In Atlantic City. It is not accounted unusual for young girls unescorted to indulge in coktails or other beid"ness' begets sin. Society not dominated domin-ated by the restraint of religion natural. .y falls into the excesses described above and others more disastrous. Catholic women, thank God. are uncontamlnated by these evils. |