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Show j ...Our Boys and Girls... EDITED Y AUNT BUSY. j Thin department la conducted solely la the ntr ttt of our girl and boy renders, I Aunt Busy Is lad to har any Mmo from th pieces and nephews who read this pars. nd to gin them alt the advice and help In her power. I Writ' on one side of the paper only. 1 Do not have letters too lonr. I Original stories and verses will be gladly receives S and carefully edited. I The manuscripts of contributions not accepted wf3 I be returned. f Address all letters to Aunt Busy. Intermountala catholic. Salt Lake city. I - CHILD SAINTS. I St. Peter of Yerona was an eloquent preacher at j 1". St. Catherine of Sienna was a zealous tertiary I at the same age. St. Paschal Baylon converted the j lu rdstnen of Aragon when he was but a lad in his j teens. St. Aloysius was a saintly child before he J was 0 .years old. When a boy at school St. Dominic su.ld books to feed the poor during a famine then J rn'insr. and he offered himself in ransom for a slave I when he was but 15. St. Louis of Brignolles, j; nephew of King Louis, was devoted to the glorification glorifi-cation of God and the mortification of self at an I parly age. Jt is recorded of this child that he vould steal out of his royal bed and sleep upon the floor in memory of the King who had not where to lay His head. So saintly was the childhood of St. Charles Bor-romeo Bor-romeo that his singular virtues caused his elevation to the Cardinalate at the age of 22. St. Stanislaus Kostka was but 17 when he died, after a life which, I though but short, had is every minute devoted to !(k. St. Laurence 0 'Toole was a model of virtus at the age of 14, and became abbot before he was IS). St. John, the beloved Disciple, was only a boy when Our Lord called to him to follow Him. St. Ivouis, the Crusader, King of France, was but 12 when he ascended the throne and coluntarily vowed to make the defense of God'a Louor the aim of his I life. I St. Agnes, St. Cyril and a host of other child ! martyrs gave up their lifos for the holy frith. I These young saints needed not the msturity of years to teach them the better way. Sanctity and genius, though often revealed at an early age, are occasionally of slow development. Some do not know themselves until the world has I " tried them. St. Francis Xavier, St. Augustine, St. I Ignatius, St. Alphonsus were among those who found the heavenly path amid the tangled ways of earth. J Each one's life is his own 1o do with as he will. The qualities of heart and mind which' God has j given him must be used for God and man the i earlier the better, for we are not all set right when J we make mistakes at first. Early virtue and early i knowledge are sure to bring early reward. SMILE AND WAIT. One of the hardest, and yet one of the most useful use-ful lessons we can ever learn is to smile and wait ? after we have done our very best. It is a finely trained mind that can struggle with energy and cheerfulness toward the goal which i he cannot sec. But he is not a great philosopher who has not learned the secret of smiling and wait- I ing. A great many people can smile at difficulties '. who cannot wait, who lack patience; but the man ' who can both smile and wait, if he has that tenacity f purpose which never turns back, will surely win. ! The fact is, largo things can only be done by opti- mists. Little successes are left to pessimistic peo- pie who cannot set their teeth, clench their fists, t and smile at hardships or misfortunes and patiently wait. Smile and "wait there are whole volumes in this , ' sentence. It is so much easier for most people to work than to wait. . . i Some Good Old Rules. To get a wrong thought out of the mind, put I in a noble one. To dispel darkness let in sunshine, ij To drive out bad temper, teach self-control. These I are good old rules that many people never seem 1 to reach or understand. Scolding a child rarely helps along an inch. It I belongs to the past deeds done and over with. In- I spiring a child tells for miles ahead. It belongs to I the present deed and the long future. It belongs, (also, to the most deep and complete power of a mother over her child. The mother who has understood, under-stood, who has inspired her boys and her girls, is I never outgrown, never superseded by newer affections. affec-tions. The thought of her remains the fundamental one, to the very end of life. This is the power that every mother longs for and the power that she can and ought to have if she is wise enough to hold earnestly to the best things for her child. THE BEST KITEFLIER IN TOWN. Some years ago there died in Nebraska a man named Walsh, who, as a boy, started a suspension bridge. When Walsh was about 10 years old the first steps for the construction of the suspension bridge at Niagara were taken. The first thing necessary was the stretching of a single wire across the chasm. The engineer in charge had thought of a way to get it across. "What " is the best kiteflier in town?" he asked. The " tv was named as the best kiteflier in the town ? X; -ira Falls, and the engineer accordingly ac-cordingly r-s.i-.ed ' -t he be brought to him. He was made to unJo .. ii that he must fly his kite across the Niagara r.vr He flew it across and allowed j it to come d.r. a on the other side. Men were there to seize it. T!ien the engineer attached a wire to the string on !ii side, and the men on the other side detached the; kik- and by means of the string drew the wire across. By this, in turn, a cable was drawn Across, and the bridge was well begun. Harm's Weekly. . TEE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF CANADA. The origin of the name of Canada is interesting, and is not widely known. The Spaniards went there before the French settlers and searched for gold and nher 'nines; finding no trace of the precious metals in prospecting, they constantly repeated the words ' 1 a-a nada, ' ' meaning ' ' There is nothing here. J ' The Indians gradually became familiar with these oft-repeated words, and when the French arrived, thinking they, too, were on the search for gold and anxious to get rid of them, they lost no time in re-leatinr re-leatinr "Aca nada!" "Aca nada!" The French settlers did not know Spanish; they thought that the Indians wera telling them the name of their country, so they adopted it themselves, and gave it the name of Canada, Benzigcr's Magazine. I THE CHAMOIS TRAIL. i Every day at noon at Grindelwaid there is a rush I of visitors for the telescope in order to gaze at 1 one of the most interesting natural scenes in the I Alps, "the chamois trail." Regularly at this hour 1 a herd of twenty to thirty chamois may be seen pass- ing in Indian file up the yawning abysses of the precipitous Mettenberg rocks, separating two glaciers, the male animals leading the way, the king of the herd keeping twenty yards in advance and on the watch. At the bottom of the Mettenberg, where the slope is freed 'from snow, the chamois find a meager subsistence. They leave their usual feeding grounds at dawn, when there is little likelihood of avalanches, and return to their haunts at on hour when avalanches for this portion of the mountain has frequent avalanches have already fallen and the danger is past. Geneva Correspondent Pall Mall Gazette. "Helping Somewhere." "Is your father at home?" I asked a small child on our village doctor's doorstep. "X6," he said, "he's away." "Where do you think I could find him?" "Well" he said, with with a considering air, "you've got to look for some place where people are sick or hurt, or something like that. I don't know where he is, but he's helping somewhere." And I turned away with this little sermon in my heart. If oyu want to find the Lord Jesus, you've got to set out on a path of helping somewhere, of lifting somebody's burden, and lo! straightway one like unto the Son of man will be found at your side. Are you "helping somewhere?" SAND SWEPT ASIA. In the arid lands of central Asia the air is reported re-ported as often laden with fine detritus, which drifts like snow around conspicuous objects and tends to bury them in a dust drift. Even when there is no apparent wind the air is described as thick with fine dust, and a yellow 6ediment covers everything. In Khotan this dust sometimes so obscures the sun that at midday one cannot see to read fine print without a lamp. ENVY. Envy is one of the meanest of all the passions. It is alike offensive in the sight of God and man. It is not only an unreasonable, but a malignant spirit. It looks with the eye of hatred. upon a brother, for no other reason than because he either is, or is supposed sup-posed to be, a special favorite of providence. If this hateful passion ever rises in your breast, banish it as one of the worst enemies of your happiness, your character and your soul. The Chinamon's Will A Puzzle. A Chinaman, dying, left eleven sheep and three sons and, making a will, left one-half of his estate to his eldest boy, one-fourth to the next, and one-sixth one-sixth to the third son. They wished to divide without with-out killing a sheep, but sould not see how to do it, so they sent for a wise man. Sending to his own fold for a sheep, he put it in with the eleven. Now take your half six, said he to the eldest, and he did. so; the second, take your, fourth three; the younger, young-er, take your sixth and begone two, and they all did so, when the wise man drove his own sheep home, Was the division according to the will ? |