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Show 5 ! Rome Circle, j ' THE OLD MAN HAS A IxtEAM. I never (nits much stock in dreams, Es some folks alius do; 1 don't believe, es Cynthy used, Tiet sometimes they come true. lln vet I dreamt the night 'fore last (I'm gray these twenty years) Tliet mother was alive asMin, Kn smilin' thro' her tears. I thought 'tu-us nearin' bed-time, Ks she set me on her knee. En' took my ol' red picter-book. En' turner the leaves fer me: Till we saw that same old picter Of the good Lord en' His sheep, A totin' high the wand'rin' lamb Jes' 'fore I went ter sleep. , En" then she sang thet same ol' song Of thet Shepherd good en' kind. Who left the ninety-nine alone The wand'rin' one ter find. En' oh her song was jes- as sweet Es in the days long dead. llpr kiss was .ies' es warm wi love, When she carried me ter bed. My eves were wet when I awoke A dream it could not be. It seemed thet mother surely came. En' wus whisperin' ter me Of one las' rlav when rest'd come, Kn she d ne es oi oiu. When thet good Lord would leave tne rett Ter lead me to His fold. j. Francis Dunne in Catholic World. HIDE MONEY IN QUEER PLACES. Experiences Show That Banks Are a Pretty Safe Place For Cash. It may not be entirely sanitary .or perfectly convenient to wear the same petticoat eleven years without ever taking it off, but there are probably many people who would do it for $1,700. That is what Mrs. Lee of Jersey City did, and now her son William, who found the money after she died, is trying try-ing by law to get it back from the man he loaned it to. If he had followed his mother's example, and worn the petticoat, he would have his money still. It is not on record that the possession of the money did Mrs. Lee any good. She saved her earnings while employed as a nurse in a hospital in Baltimore, and when she left she put the money in a chamois bag and sewed it Into her petticoat. There she kept it continually, con-tinually, night and day, for the next eleven years, and when she was dying she took the petticoat off, handed it to her son, and said: "Here, William, is your heritage. Search it well. It Is worth more tnan you think." x William searched accordingly and found the funds, out a wny man goi them away from him, and now he Is poor again. William's mother had a somewhat unusual method of preserving her savings, sav-ings, but she was only following a tendency ten-dency which crops out. in strange wayB in many people. There is something of the squirrel in half of humanity. A squirrel in a park will catch a peanut from the hand of a bystander, run a few steps, and hide it in the ground so secure! that the man who saw it hiddden cannot find the place where It was put. So these squirrel people will take odd coins and hide them so that not the bystander nor that professional finder, the burglar sometimes not the hider himself can find them. Harvey B. MacLean, who lived In Wheeling. W. Va., for many years, was one of- those who cannot find the hiding hid-ing place again themselves. For the first time in his life he was to leave town. For some reason he could never explain he feared that his bank would fail w hile he was gone, so he took .the money he had saved out of it and hid it. That was the last time he ever saw the money, though he broke down from worry due to his search for it and died a year later. He had not been in his grave two days when his son's wife began house cleaning. She.found some old shoes in a closet and had her husband hus-band try them on before throwing them away, and in the toe of one he found an obstruction. Sure enough, there was the lost money $826.18 rolled up tight and securely concealed. SALT AND PEPPER. ' j Many Think They Are Only of Value in Seasoning Food. Salt and pepper, as generally considered, consid-ered, are of value- m bringing out the n-n-r.,. nf tnr,A in whieli thpv are added. That they have any value from a health standpoint is not so generally recognized. You may know that a lump of salt is good for a horse, but you do not stop to consider how important salt is for your own well-being. In eastern countries the condiments, such as pepper, pep-per, are used to profusion in all foods. Gastric troubles, common enough in other countries, are conspicuously conspic-uously absent, and the free use of pepper has much to do with that fact. Salt and pepper work against fermentation. ferment-ation. When the stomach is out of order, or-der, ' or, as the common saying js, upset, it is in a state of fermentation. A certain very wise physician who has advanced to the point where drugs seem the unimportant thing and common sense the important in making the sick well, is advocating the use of pepper and salt even in a glass of milk, it improves the flavor to a remarkable degree, a fact you can prove to your own satisfaction by taking two glasses of milk, one in its original simplicity, the other changed by the addition of a pinch of salt and a dash of pepper, then sip a little of each. The chances are that you will prefer the .seasoned milk. Besides improving the flavor and overcoming the tendency toward fermentation, fer-mentation, the pepper will practically disable any microbes that may be floating float-ing in the fluids. Thus the gastric juices will perform their perfect work of changing microbes to food. One of the best remedies for a disturbed dis-turbed digestion is hot water to which have been added salt and paprika. If t-jbon'n 41,11 V. , . .. AHJ , m.i. a iu.i nuui miu nan oetore breakfast, a cupful of this very palatable palat-able drink will completely cleanse the stomach and leave it in good condition. condi-tion. Out of a hundred persons selected select-ed at random it is no exaggeration to say that eighty eat too much and also that these same eighty fail of proper mastication. Weakened digestions are, of course, the direct result of overeating over-eating and insufficient mastication, and weakened digestions means undermined systems. At the extremes of life, youth and old age. it is wisdom to make the diet much the same. A child's nourishment nourish-ment should be very simple, so in old age it should grow plainer and plainer. plain-er. Chicago Tribune. A Vocation For a Lay-woman. Eliza Allen Starr is-made the subject of an interesting biographical sketch in the Catholic World Magazine for February by W'illiam Stetson Merrill of the Newberry library in Chicago He. endeavors to bring out the salient features of her character, and to state something of her long years of good work. She came into the Church when she was but a young woman of 26 years, and during a long life time she was devoted to art and literature. It Js not so much the personal characteristics characteris-tics of Miss Starr that interest us now as it is her entire career, amounting to a real vocation, that interests tne Catholic public. The tact that a woman of education and talent may have a special vocation in our day is not so often hinted at, but it is, nevertheless, true that such may be the case. It is a mistake to imagine that true vocations voca-tions are found only in the cloister. There are men and women working and striving In the every-day life about us who are doing God's work as well, and as much under the Spirit of God as as if they were clothed with the hauit j of religion. While Tliza Allen Starr, in her modesty during life, never hinted hint-ed at such a vocation, yet she did as truly a God-given work and left the impress of her talents on the Catholic people as if she had been the founder of hospitals or the creator of schools. . It is good to studs' a ehaiaeter like Miss Starr's and to realize that one with talent may work out a career for herself may do a great work while she lives, and may go down to her grave with the blessings of thousands. Own Your Home. They are a wise young man and woman who start out in their married life in a home of their own in some place where they will have green grass about their hou-se, even if it is only a few feet. It makes no difference how-humble how-humble or how modest the house may be. The smallest box of a house with a plot of green is a temple of common sense compared to the finest "flat" or "boarding house" in the city. If there is anything appropriate in this life it Is that young people should live somewhere each day they can see their own unfolding lives reflected in the unfolding un-folding works of nature. There is no beginning in the same sense to a young married life so true, so wise, so lasting last-ing and so satisfactory as that. No life in a city is comparable with that which is lived in a small house with green things growing over and around it, where God's pure sunshine bathes and sweetens every side of the house I auring ine.uay, aim nutiv. .- ..v,.. life-giving odors that God gives to his children the odors of soil and growing things are blown into the house while we sleep. The Slave of a Habit. A writer in the Catholic Union and Times credits an old Irish rector with the following: "I well remember an old parishioner of mine who had contracted the habit of saying 'Begob' when he needed, or, rather, thought he needed a swear word. I undertook to try and break him of the bad habit, but found I had overestimated my ability. " 'Do you know. Pat.' I said one day. 'the way you swear sometimes is something some-thing awful?' " 'No, an' I don't, yer riverence. How's that?' " 'Why. you say "begob" upon the least provocation, and you might as well use the name of the Lord outright as to use a substitute. Don't you know you are swearing when you say that?' " 'L don't, begob.' " "There you go again.' " 'Faith, that's right, begob. "I then proceeded to lecture him thoroughly and made use of some fine phrases, and when I had finished he looked at me in admiration, and in a long drawl said: " 'Well, by Gawb.'." Books on BookKeeping1. ivriar l-.ucas ae rsurge puonsnea in Venice (1495) the first known work on bookkeeping. The first in the English language was published by John Gowgne, in 1543. introducing the three books, memorial, journal and ledger. Several other works followed at different differ-ent dates until we" reach 1801, when Dr. Kelly publishedhis "Elements of Bookkkeeplng." Dr. Kelly seems to have acquired his information from the customs of the merchants of his day. and for some time his work was used as a text beek in the schools. How Big We Are. The correct stature of the human figure fig-ure is said to be six ftimes the length of the feet. Whether-, the form is slender slen-der or plump, the rule is supposed to hold good. "The face," says an authority,.- "from the highest point of the forehead to the chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature. The hand, from the wrist to the middle finger, is the same. From the top of . the .chest to the highest point of the, forehead is a seventh. If the face from the roots of the hair-to the chin be divided into three equal parts, the first determines the place ' where the eyebrows meet, and the second the place of the nostrils. nos-trils. The height from the feet to the top of the head is the distance from the extremity of the fingers when the arms are extended." |