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Show Woman's World CONDUCTED BY HELENE VALEAU. j gELEJTE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. Miss Valcau will reply to all Questions Ques-tions asked by the femlnlno readers of the Intermountaic Catholic The wfi! known character and authority of her replies reed no introduction to those tlready familiar with her ability. Mlei Valeau will take a kindly and personal Interest In those who write to her. and i will spare no pains Id seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and care fully. Write only ou one side of tbs I paper. Address letters to Miss Helen 'Y&Je&u. lntermountain Catholic. GOD SAVE ALL IIERE. $ Tare's a prayer that's breathed alone Iii dear old Erin's land; f xis uttered on the treshold-stone "VVith emiles and clasping hand; I And oft perchance, 'tis murmured low With sigh end falling tea. I The grandest greeting man may know, The prayer, "God save all here!" I In other, lands they know not well I How priceless is the lore I Tliot hedges with a sacred spell 3 Old Ireland's cabin door; 1 To those It is no empty sound, i W ho think with many a tear I of loved memories wreathing "round .'ji The prayer, "God save all here!" i Live on, O Prayer. In Ireland still, it Live on for ev'rmore, f The echoes of her home to fill :i When uttered at her door, ) And guarding by its holy spell I The soul and conscience clear, I Ho graven on each heart as well, t The prayer, "God save all here!" i i j THE HISTORY OF SAIXT GALL. I Saint Gall, from whom a fiourish- jng lanton and city in Switzerland de- t rive their name, was a native of Ire- I lan.l, of noble lineage, born about the 1 Tear 650. He was educated at the ! famous monastery of Bangor, where lie was carefully instructed in gram- 1 mar. poetry and religion, in Latin and j Greek, and finally was ordained priest, I Mid became noted for his holiness of j !" Jii 585 he followed his teacher, St. Coiumbanus, to France and accompanied accom-panied him to Luxeuil and elsewhere during his exile. "When they were about to pass into Italy St. Gall was detained by illness at Bregenz, on Lake Constance, and after his recovery, recov-ery, having by this time learned the , j liiiiguage, and finding that in this v'ld frontier district there dwelt a l.Trge pagan population, he resolved to remain where he was and endeavor en-deavor to convert the people to Christianity. Penetrating into the forest, for-est, which then covered the country, he chose out a spot for his abode on the banks of the River Steinach and, in 612, built a small oratory with pome huts for himself and . twelve fervent disciples who insisted on following fol-lowing him. This was the origin ef i the famous monastery of St. Gall. In 615 St. Coiumbanus died at Bob-bio Bob-bio and bequeathed his pastoral staff to St, Gall. In the following year the saint refused the bishopric of Constance, Con-stance, which was pressed upon him by the clergy and people, but he procured pro-cured the appointment of John, one of his disciples. St. Gall preached at John's consecration a sermon in Latin, Lat-in, which is still extant, and is considered con-sidered a very remarkable, production, produc-tion, comprising a history of religion from the earliest times, ."in style simple, sim-ple, full of force and piety and a great depth of learning." In 625 he was nominated by the monks to the abbacy ab-bacy of Luzeuil, but refused to accept It. He died about 645 and was buried at his beloved hermitage, or, as some claim, at Arbon, near by. A great ' monastery bearing his name was shortly afterwards erected on the site of his missionary labors. The abbey of St. Gall eventually became one of the most famous monastic establishments establish-ments in Europe, noted for the learning learn-ing of its monks, the splendor of its architecture and its great library. St. Gall is sometimes called the Apostle of Switzerland. His festival is October 16. Many of his disciples became noted, as St. John, bishop of Constance, Con-stance, and St. Magne and St. Theo- Idore, founders of celebrated abbeys, on: neighbor's reputation. We should have a special care at ell times that we say nothing derogatory deroga-tory to the reputation to another, unless un-less it is absolutely necessary. If we cannot say something good, let us keep silence. There is no one perfect. There is no man but what has sinned that has not done some act in his life that he is ashamed of or sorry for. The mere mention of this act by another, in its naked simplicity might do harm; but who possesses sufficient sagacity and impartiality to weigh the actions of his neighbor, and to Judge him? Who has seen his heart who hus traced his motives to their proper source, and known the exact circumstances circum-stances in which "he has been placed, or the temptations against which he has been obliged to contend and fight? DUTCH CATHOLIC TRESS. The most signal proof of religious earnestness and intellectual activity among Dutch Catholics is found in the statistics of the Catholic press. One almost feels tempted to doubt one's visual . power while reading the returns on this vital subject of our times. Nevertheless, you find it stated stat-ed that these less than 2,000,000 Catholics Cath-olics support fifteen Catholic daily I papers, some of which in size, makeup 'o general Information equal the b-ading secular Journals of today. To thes.e must be added thirty-one papers, pa-pers, published either twice or three 'i'l.es a week, seventy-six papers pub-lih-d once a week, and fifty-two monthly and quarterly publications, iiie last named ranging from the hum-bie hum-bie but effective annals, to the more -elect reviews and magazines devoted to theological, scientific and literary subjects. Catholic editors and Journalists Jour-nalists each have their separate societies so-cieties for the purpose of working in unison for the common good of the Catholic press. CURIOSITY INDEED. It was in the museum. "Those, sir," announced the guide : he stopped before a grlass case, "are 'he eggs of an American condor. They were found 5,000 feet above the sea level." The visitor removed his hat with a grave bow. "Why do sou remove your hat?" asked the guide, curiously. "Out of respect." "Respect?" "Yes, respect for any eggs that could have been, higher than the eggs of the barnyard hen." SLEEP. The first sleep is the soundest after the first hour the intensity of sleep slowly diminishes hence the value of forty winks after dinner In I quickly recuperating shattered powers. pow-ers. Temperature and vitality are lowest at about 2 a. m., so that two hours sleep before midnight are worth four tnereafter. Nature has no rule as to the length of sleep, except that men need less than women, since women are the more sensitive creatures crea-tures and a woman's heart beats five times more in a minute than a man's. Sleep should be Just so long that when you wake in the morning a stretch and a yawn only are necessary to land you in a daytime of bounding vigor. As to early rising, it is comforting to hear Dr. Bryce say that it is a habit that has gone far to wreck the constitutions con-stitutions of many a growing youth. EDUCATION' AND EFFICIENCY. Nowhere for many years continuously continu-ously has the education machine worked more untiringly than in London. Lon-don. Yet of the skilled labor of London Lon-don two-thirds is done by men nd women from ' the provinces, while seven out of every ten dock laborers and 80 and 90 per cent of those who seek refuge in night shelters are London Lon-don born and bred. What does tht3 mean? Is it merely the fice competition compe-tition caused by the compelling attraction at-traction of London, with its glitter ot wages? Or does it prove some fatal weakness in the London schools?- London Saturday Review. PROPER TEMPERATURE FOR FRYING. When fat is the proper temperature tempera-ture for frying it is smoking hot and perfectly still. VThen it bubbles that is a sign that it contains water, but when the bubbling ceases and a blue vapor arises, it is ready for us. It must be kept very hot to prevent the food cooked in it from soaking up too much grease. Moist foods will lower the temperature for a. few minutes. As soon as the food is cooked it should be drained on brown paper. USEFUL INFORMATION. A teaspoonful of baking powder added to mashed potatoes with the milk before they are whipped will make them very light and flaky. After emptying a glass Jar of fruit or Jelly, wash, dry thoroughly, and fill with sugar, keep In a dry place, and next summer you need omy to buy the fruit as you already have the sugar. Celery can be kept for a week or longer by first rolling it up in brown paper. Then pin it in a towel ana keep it in a dark, cool place. Before preparing it for the table place it In a pan of cold water and let it remain for an hour. This will make it crisp and cool. Here is the correct way to stone ralBins: Free the raisins from the stems, and then put them in a bowl. Cover them with boiling water wa-ter and let them stand for two minutes. min-utes. Pour off the water, open the raisins, and the seeds can be removed quickly and easily without the usual stickiness. THE TYRANNY OR TRIFLES. Trifles are often the touchstone of character. Beautiful sentiments, lofty resolves.are easy to utter before admiring ad-miring audiences or in the glow of composition. It seems inevitable then to be broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, generous ,to opponents, tender even to antagonists; but the tyranny of the petty and the trifling may still be in the background lying in wait with cunning malignity to trump up the finest sentiments and bring confusion upon the lofty moralist. Some there are who can patiently endure large trials, but are betrayed by small ones. They are like the wealthy man who will give thousand to benevolence and yet quibble and scold over 25 cents with a cabman. The fine lady Who is all smiles and urbanity in the drawing room cannot be truly Judged by the petty nothings that fall from her lips. We must see and hear her with her stable boy and cook to know how it stands with her as to self-government and control. Our way of looking at life is largely indicated by the way we look at its little annoyances. Trifles have a startling power of self-revelation. We may Judge that we are pretty decent, well-behaved folk until some little pitfall or stumbling stone reveals the ; essential weakness of the structure of self-respect we have so carefully built. The shame of the tumble may be a decided benefit, or ' it may only confirm a chronic habit. The crotchety, crotche-ty, eccentric, unreasonable class, wbo are a special trial to others, have generally gen-erally arrived at this condition by) yielding to the tyranny of trifles, exaggerating ex-aggerating small annoyances, growling growl-ing over little defects, nursing their self-love and pettishness inversely to the size of life's conveniences. Little freakish exasperating torments have made them big torments to others. , It is the malign purpose of trifles to overthrow our pretensions and humiliate hu-miliate our self-conceit. If we heed their warnings, they may be the signal sig-nal service to our moral growth. A kind of mental vagabondage comes ' from the perpetual consideration of things nonessential and that do not concern us. If we cut off the frivolous frivol-ous hindrances that keep us apart from our true interests, it is wonderful wonder-ful how roomy the mind becomes for the reception of better things. The Angelus. THE GRWOTII OF LANGUAGES. There is an interesting and from the national point of view a satisfactory satisfac-tory statement in the statistics lately published in an Italian paper concerning concern-ing the growth of modern languages. According to the figures given the English tenguage, which a century ago was spoken by 20,000,000 individuals. indi-viduals. Is now the means by which not less than 100,000,00 give expression expres-sion to their views of things. French, on the other hand, has spread less than any of the chief European languages, lan-guages, for whereas it was used by 34,000,000 men at the beginning of the ninettnth century, it is now spoken spok-en by 46.000,000. Seventy million individuals in-dividuals speak German today, ! against 36,000.000 100 years ago; 69,-000 69,-000 000 Russian, against 30,000,000; 32,000,000 Italian, against 18,000,000, and 44,000,000 Spanish against 30. 000.000. SIN OF FRETTrNG. There is one sin which, it seems to me, is everywhere and by everybody underestimated, and quite too much overlooked in valuation of character. It is the sin of fretting. It is common com-mon as air, as speech so common that, unless it rises above its usual monotone, we do not even observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together of people, and see how many minutes It will be before somebody frets; that Is makes more or less complaining statements of something or other, which, probably every one in the room, or on the street corner, it may be, knew before, and probably nobody can help. Why say anything about it? It Is cold, it is hot, it is dry, somebody has broken an appointment, ill-cooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith somewhere some-where has resulted in discomfort. There are plenty of things to fret about all right. |