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Show Woman's. World CONDUCTED BY HELENE VALEAU. .11 ST A LlTTIiK .MOTHKK. j-iif's jusl. a little mother in a cabin far away; I kiswd her in thr gloaming 'tis forever r 1 a day. h, my divams . w lver calling, calling call-ing d'cr . 't -veary sea, Vine e b.-ic :;jllyshanmn, Katy dear, o i: ' ;vk to me." s standing . H oorway, Idling ,;(, Hie s ,. -W.ih !.i km ; icr bosom and .lie frills -! n ' Jier face; , j- smiling .. .u: lady smiles above the JJo! (.'hield, And niy heart inns forth to meet her o'er the wate of waters wild. j. ..ii know our Hahshnnnon, w horn l in- very winds are sweet w li tin- .--.-iltnoss of t lie sea foam and the umg of smoldering neat? ;.. inn Know mr mists that fold us in a Manket soft mih i;ra, j p.. yu know li i- ISallyshannou in the : .-d rose dawn of day? -j-i : . -n vim see the little mother, just herself, so small and obi. With a look J'rn sure would warm you w you shivering, with the ii. so -mirthful, t . so jiatient. :-h-w hose work is never done, (i so ready with her laughter at the rise and set of sun. j the trreat bouse where I'm serving folk are ever kind lo me, i;a! tiny do not irues my yearning for the cabin over the sea. ; i;- I earn and wage 1 send her, yet J cannot longer hide; j must seek .my little mother, I must nestle at her side. j jd.e'. just a little mother in a cabin far away; I si- re 1 kissed her in the gloaming 'tis forever ami a day. j:, my dreams she's calling, calling: 'Mother, darling, yes I'll come; I ;; go back to Hallyshannon. to my mother and my home.' --.Margaret E. Sangster, in Woman's H.nne Companion. i i.mimm: CUKIOS1TY. Her husband was a merchant, and i.;..- day while down town she dropped ir.to his. office. What are all those books on top if that safe?" she asked. Those are the day hooks, my iHr." he replied. "And where are the nis;h: books':" Hi. .Ueried. "Night liooks?" he echoed, in f-ur-; j.;-l ! yp." she rejoined. "Thoe you hav to work over dt night sometimes when you are kept here until J o'clock in the morning." Chicago Mews. Hl.K ItKSrONSIIill.ITY. "Susannah." asker the preacher, iv! ' n it came her turn to answer the ui;al question in such cases, "Jo you -,;;. this man to be your wedded husband, hus-band, for better r for worse" yes' as he is, pahson." she J titer -r' ; t' i! : "jes' as he is. Ef he gits any i.f'tter Ah'l know de good Lawd's f-rii" to take m :' an ef he gits any v ussi r, y'y. Ah'll 'tend to 'im my-e;f." my-e;f." -Youth's Companion. oi k lady's (i.unr.. (Ky Florence Gilmore, in Ave. Maria.) T! (lowers that bloom irofuse in .May i'Sm wondrous fair, so wondrous s . eet ) , Ul.! Kanh mute strews in glad array i if garlands at Our L,ady's feet. 'The rarest souls that blosom liere (So wondrous pure, so wondrous lair 1, H ni:i swift plucks with tender fear. That they may grace her garden there. WKDJUXG (illTS. . Yar and years ago, when a young i'.i.).ie t;ot married, it was customary j tor their friends to help them set up; t hmrie of their own. One relative v,-j'd give some linen; another would cjr TMtute some dishes, while a third w.iuM furnish a room, etc. The gifts K : useful, were a real help, and : within the means of the givers. .Nowadays wedding gifts consist, fr-onetitly. of costly gewgaws. such silv'-r sets and cut glass, that, in i.,est cases-.- Hf- out of harmony with the condition in life of the givers and the receivers, that are a tax on the r"M,;.icps ,f the guests that is m-.st ptu.lslnirly paid, and that are a spx-'es ef hi,!i kmail on every ne to whom is an invitation to the function. .!::-t as a sens- of decencv nukes K'mi.- ,-.,jde insert, in death announce-tji.. announce-tji.. notice "no flower." so self-r"i-'v; will yet compel all decent folk ' ternj.tRting matrimony to utter the v-J-..i.:i:g "no . resent?." TOMOKKOW. a multitude of people are vrt : ' t; f..r tomorrow." "Tomor-T'j "Tomor-T'j : 1 sli.d! he better," murmurs the I ' :'; "Tomorrow I shall have bet-'' bet-'' :... ha 11 do better work, shall ; i .er i:j my bargains, shall be-' be-' I" '..tir.ii- mistakes." thus say ' : : . t ii'iate, the careless, the sp-c-..'... . the i-emoiseful. Yet common- i:-. tow becomes today only to u.vili.l dead, the unfortunate ; ;' I, Hie speculator desper- p -dnteil. the sinner deeper ' to., much inclined "to reck- ;t '.'i!- host," In regard to the "t-. morrow," and wc dispose of : . as though it were our fas there is naught on '' ' : eenaiii as that mysteriou ': so near us in the future. Ceade illustrates this ad-' ad-' in his story of Noah Skin- " ' : .'uduient hank clerk, who ..-.itb.r states, into a slcep-' slcep-' ' - i.. the midst of his reso-,,ake reso-,,ake restitution "tomor-1 "tomor-1 -mi-liy. waking up front a ; ': " . .Noah took a last look at -,' and murmured again. ' li lake jt to Pembroke ' crrow tomorrow to-: to-: '' Tho tomorrow found him ''' d Mo- detectives dead. 1 " . -all that a happy death. 1 : ' 'atliolb- reader? It was ; - de-date, was it not, to lie ; '' ' a : y counting room, the very ' ' hi- liaudub-nt t ransict ions. f desk where he bad shoul- :' ''' ' of his life, with all its j . ' ' ' ' .larkness. misery and y '"' ' ! -elate? Ah. hideously so, ,''"' . w ii bout a friend or com- '.'' " " 'iieWT the light of H blessed , !:,,: 1he sj.rlnkllng of Holy : i ; ' i u t 'prayer, confession, or; ': urn. Yet. ii is the just j ; ' l-im who ;.uts off til! "'-tZ':'""" "'-tZ':'""" ! " e;,s.. of bis soul, the ar-"' ar-"' to j... and man. I X i. j How is it with yourself, friend? Pro- crastinating, are you not? Next Sun-j Sun-j day you will go to Mass, next month you will receive the sacraments; next , year you w ill send your children to the parochial school? Tomorrow, tomor-j tomor-j row, tomorrow : Never now, this ! hour, this instant. j Oh the presumption, the audacity, : the barefaced impudence of this unjustifiable un-justifiable claim on the morrow that lies in the palm of an aall-powerful (Hand which may chs upon it. so far jas you are concerned. Not all the I wealth of the Indies can purchase for i you .that tomorrow when once it has passed, or you have passed into eter-nity. eter-nity. MOTUKKS 1IAIK1MXS. The doorbell broke the other day. Pop couldn't make it ring; Said he, "I'll have to get a man To fix the blamed thing." My mother said. "Oh. don't do thai; Think what you'd have to pay." And then she took her hairpin out And fixed it right away. We lost the back door key last week: 'Twa: when the dour was locked. Pop fumed around and said things till The neighbors were all shocked. Then maw she got a hairpin out An' poked, an' pretty quick She had the bolt drawn in the lock The hairpin did the trick. There's nothing much that maw can't do With hairpins, seems as like; One day she'll fix a busted watch And next day my old hike. If we was poor I'll bet that she Could make hard luck take wings, A-going round the city with A hairpin fixing things. THE MILl-EXAKY OF Cl.l'NV. A thousand years have passed since, at the invitation of William the l'ious. Duke of Aquitaine. the Benedictines settled at Cluny, a little town situated in a narrow valley between twelve and fifteen miles northwest of Macon, Ma-con, in the department of the Saone et-Loire, France. Celebrations have been taking place to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of. the foundation founda-tion of the abbey, which, as Abbot Oasctuet points out, became so powerful power-ful as an institution that it held a unique place in the history of the Church. The abbey was at one time only second to Kome at a center of Christian influence, and the abbot was the head -of a vast army of subjects. Three Popes were monks In the man-astery, man-astery, and the buildings were of such an extent as to be considered in themselves them-selves a sort of city. What was it that enabled the monks to gain so much power? It was the general conviction, due to experience, that they were true pioneers of Christian civilization. "It was surely good," writes Macaulay. "that in an age of ignorance and violence there should be quiet cloisters and gardens in which the arts of peace could be safely cultivated; in which gentle ,nd contemplative natures could find an asylum; in which one brother could employ himself in transcribing tran-scribing the AEneid of Virgil and another an-other in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle; in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix; and in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make- experiments ex-periments on the properties of plants and minerals." THE MONTH OF THE KOSAKY. October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary and in all churches every day during the month the Rosary is recited during mass or during exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at Benediction. Many blessings are attached to the Rosary and rich indulgences may be gained by those who are faithful to the conditions, as the saying of the beads, the attendance at the services, confession and communion and some prl.yers for the Holy Father's inten-I inten-I tions. j The following poem by Father Ryan is opportune: My Heads. Sweet blessed beads. I would not part With one of you for richest gem That gleams in kingly diadem: Ye know the mystery of my heart. For I have told you every grief In all the days of twenty years. And 1 have moistened you with tears; And in your decades found relief. Ahl tint" has fled and friends have failed And joys have died; but in my needs Ye were my friends! my blessed beads! And yo consoled me when 1 waned. For many and many a time in grief. My weary fingers wandered round Thy circled chain, and always found In some Hail Mary sweet relief. How many a story yon might tell j Of inner life to all unknown I trusted you and you alone But ah! ye keep my secrets well. I ye are the only chain 1 wear, j A s-ign that. I am but the slave f in life, in death, beyond the grave, jof Jesus and His Mother, fair. I M(Tl RE HAXGIXt;. Pictures should be hung from two hooks and not from one hook with the wire forming a triangle, as was formerly done. The lines of the room are straight and the picture wires should follow the same lines to be harmonious. Th's is for large pic- It tires only, the smaller ones looking better with invisible supports. HOW THE .TAPAXESE llSE 1VM-BOO. 1VM-BOO. The word 'bamboo suggests to most ! Americans a faithful fishing rod or a jdaintv fan. To the Japanese and Chi-jnose.'who Chi-jnose.'who are the most practicnl agn-'culttirists agn-'culttirists In the world, it is as indis-! indis-! pen-abb as the white pine to the American -farmer. They are not omy 'dependent unon it for much of their, building material.' but make their I ,-opes mats, kitchen utensils and m-j m-j numerable other articles out of it. There are many varieties o, the bamboo plant, from the species which j woven into mats to the tall bamboo (tree which the Chinaman uses for the mast of his large boat. One variety is 'cultivated as a vegetable and the i voting shoots eaten like asparagus, or they may b" salted, pickled - r pre- The5 rapidity of growth of the bamboo bam-boo i perhaos its most wonderful Hiaracteristic. There are actual rec- of a bamboo growing three feet i, single day. or at the rate of one and a half inehes an hour. Yar.et.es . J bamboo are found everywhere in Japan, even where there are heavy falls of snow in winter. It is a popular misconception that bamboos grow only in the tropics. Japan is a land of bamboos, and yet where these plants grow it is not so warm in winter as it is in California. THE BEST EXTILATOK. An open fireplace is one of the best means of ventilation, particularly for a bedroom. In times of illness it is invaluable in-valuable as a ventilator, and when there is a lighted tire it supplies cheerfulness for the invalid, also. . FEASTED 2.000: FEW AT BI EH. Only four carriages followed the hearse which took Mrs. Nina Tour-ville Tour-ville to her grave in East St. Louis. Mo., September -2. Among the mourners were none of the I'.Oint men and women who only two years ago siie entertained at the feast of food and drink which she prepared when she married a second time a month after her first husband's death. j Mrs. Tourville always would be re-j membered in East St. Louis as the j woman who spent $6.ono in one day. j To Tourville as a wedding gift she gave $3(10 worth of clothing and $i.-."iaa $i.-."iaa worth of jewelry. She hired the j Lame Goose saloon outright. Including I a hall on the second floor, and issued a general invitation to "everybody in Fast St. Louis" to help her celebrate the marriage. I XI EHSITY STFDEXT AT Tib Mrs. vA. D. Winshin, w ho last year became a student at Ohio university at the age of Tfl and creditably completed com-pleted her freshman year, has returned to begin the second year of her collegiate col-legiate work. She attended summer school at Tower Hill. Mich. Mrs. Winship has expressed her intention of continuing her studies and completing com-pleting a special course. Her major work is in the department of psychology. psychol-ogy. She has many merits to her credit, and at Tower Hill won a prize for excellence in her studies. CIiriU H OX MOFXT OF oliyes. A dispatch from London says that advices from Jerusalem are to the effect ef-fect that recent excavations on tho summit of the Mount of Olives resulted result-ed in the discovery of the remains of a Christian church dating from about; the year 33a. The floor of the nave is still buried. That of the transepts is entirely exposed. It is of mosaic, and is perfectly preserved. There is baptismal pool in the south transept. aie lomiisione nas oeen round Hearing Hear-ing the inscription in Greek, which i.s quite legible. In the chancel there are two separate mosaic floors of different designs, one thirty inches above the other. The lower i.s considered to be a floor of St. Helena's church, dating from 330. while the upper floor is i; restoration by the Crusaders. OYEKIIAI L POPE'S THA1X. The Pope's special train, consisting of three cars, is being averhauled, but not because the Hoiy Father intends, to travel. The train is to be exhibited at the Rome exposition of 1911. This train was the gift of Napoleon HI to the Pope, but arrived in Italy at the time when the papal slates were menaced men-aced by Garibaldi. It was therefore decided to store it in Florence, where it has remained ever since. Of course, only the body of the cars would be of any use now. the mechanical apparatus ap-paratus having become obsolete in forty years or more. The main carriage car-riage intended for the Pope is very richly decorated and furnished. The two .other carriages are intended for the Pope's suite. CFKE FOB LEPROSY PROBABLE. Leprosy, the unconquered scourge of the ages, i.s making what is believed be-lieved to be its last stand against science. From Molokai. the coral island prison pris-on for the plague-stricken in the Hawaiian Ha-waiian groupe. a few words have been flashed to Washington telling of an achievement accounted second only to the discovery of the lepra bacillus by Hansen in 1879. Thre surgeons of the United States service, after months of unremitting toil, have grown lepra bacilli in pure culture outside the human body, and in thin glass tubes in the laboratory the loathsome, germs are now growing in their third generation. Four times the scientists have taken the infection from the body of a leper lep-er and artificially propagated the bacillus bac-illus in beef broth, egg or the amoeba of the intestines of a guinea pig. The work of Dr. Moses T. Clegg. who declared de-clared less than a year ago at Manila that he had found that the bacillus could be cultivated outside the human body, is verified and extended. Dr. Clegg has been rushed from the Manila scientific station to Molokai to assist in the experiments. This achievement is the first stop in the production of a vaccine or a serum for the cure or prevention of leprosy. Precisely the same ground has been covered by the men who evolved the diphtheria antitoxin and the serum for tetanus. In each of those cases the growing of the ge-m in pure culture has been the stepping stone to the cure. Dr. Clegg has found that by feeding feed-ing the bacillus of cholera to the amoeba am-oeba the lepra bacillus did better. That was supplemented by gelatine, beef extract and eggs, and within three weeks the sea rollers were re warded again with a living germ. Dr. Currie obtained a pure culture, which means he has eliminated the amoeba and the cholera bacillus and. now has the lepra, bacillus propagating of itself. The uhers have been grown through the ten generations. Aside from the hopes of evolving a serum or a vaccine for a prevention or the cure, the investigators mav find a leprosine which, like tuberculin, would detect the disease in its li-st stages. Brinkerholff. who made some of the cultures at Molokai. has just left the i vice to become professor of pathology' 'in the Harvard medical school. Dr. ! Clegg. the original propagator of the i bacillus, takes his place. ! MINISTERS OFT OF PROPORTION, j i We have-no fault to 'find with other j religious bodies for their comparatively compara-tively large number of ministers. As the world is going at present we would prefer to see their number on the increase in-crease rather than otherwise. But. we submit that they should be more care- jful, not to say more charitable, whenever when-ever they feel inclined to describe the Catholic Church as groaning under a J monstrous incubus of ecclesasticism. It is a favorite metaphor of godless demagogues which, repeated by them, will react to their own discredit and confusion. We venture in conclusion to assert that neither Spain nor Italy exceeds, if it at all equals, the proportion pro-portion of priests to the Catholic population pop-ulation which we witness in the case of Protestant bodies and their ministers minis-ters in the United! States. America. 'I he ress-o why mee. who mind thtir own b.;-- if .-s silm ed ic be-:ausc thtre s so li.i.ic eompe'i'.ion. |