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Show - . . . . . . . j . . Woman's World : CONDUCTED BY HELEN E VALEAU. i SELENE VALEATJ'S AUSWEES. Miss Valeau will reply to all questions ques-tions anked by the feminine readers of I the lniermo-ntain Catholic. The weil - known character and authority ot her j replies need no Introduction to those f already familiar with her ability. Miss ' Valeau will take a kindly and personal I Interest in those who write to her, and will sra.-e no pains Id. seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Vrite only on one side of the ; paper. Address letters to Miss Helens Valeau. intermountaln Catholic j Rest. jjy jrci are wearied, and my hands are i tr,'d, jly s"ui oppressed i jd" I desire what I have long de- sired ilt-si 'illy rest. S i I N ( I 'Xis linrd to toil when toil is almost vnin, j. In ban-Hi ways; jis- ,;(nl to sow and never garner gr.iin. In t;;frvi-.-t days. ; TiiH burden of my days is hard to bear, ; C.od knows best; I Ai'd I have prayed but vain has been ! my prayer ' rvr jest sweet rest. "j-jj; 1;1rd to plant In spring and never f reap .; Tin- autumn yield; j ha-d to till, and 'tis tilled to weep I O'tr fruitless field. ( ; i cry a weak and human iry, ' heart oppressed; I And so I Mgh a weak and human sigh, I For rest for rest. j I My ua' nas "wound across the desert J years, I i And cares infest ? My path, and through the flowing of i hot tears, I I pine for rest. ! Twas always so; when but a child I laid i on mother's breast My wearied little head; e'en then I j ' prayed f As now for rest. I And 1 am restless still; 'twill soon be; I ocr: I For. down the West I Life's sun is settiig, and I see the f shore Where I shall rest. I Rev. Abram J. Ryan. V Grippe. Grippe was first described in England Eng-land in 1173. since when there have lpen more than 100 epidemics. It first appeared in the United States in 1627 and went all over the western hemisphere. hemis-phere. The last epidemic started in Bokhara in May, 1SS9, and reached the L'nited States in the middle of December. Decem-ber. Its rate of spread is exactly as rapid as travel. Since 18S9 there have been grippe epidemics in most American Amer-ican cities every winter just as there are many mild cases of "cholerine" f during deadly epidemics of cholera, so ! there are many eases of bad colda in I the head, or "grlpine," false influenza, when true grippe is about i . Why He Lost His Friends. : He was always wounding their feel- I Jngs. making sarcastic Or funny re- j marks at their expense. He was cold and reserved in his man-1 man-1 ner, cranky, gloomy, pessimistic. ! . He was suspicious of everybody. He never threw the doors of his heart wide open to people, or took them into his confidence. He was always ready to receive assistance as-sistance from them, but always too bupy or too stingy to assist them in their time if need. He regarded friendship as a luxury to be enjoyed, instead of an opportunity i for service. ! He never learned that implicit, gen- i erous trust is the very foundation stone ! of friendship. t He never thought it worth while to s-pend time in keeping up his friendship. He did not realize that friendship will not thrive on sentiment alone; that there must be service to nourish it. He did not know the value of thoughtfulness in little things. He borrowed money from them He was not loyal to them. I He never hesitated to sacrifice their j reputation for his advantage. !He was always saying mean things about them in their absence. He measured them by their ability to f advance him. I Petroleum As a Disinfectant, j Petroleum as a disinfectant, for s checking the spread of plague, is ad- '! vooated by some medical officers in I India. It is pointed out that during the pestilence that swept Europe long ago the oil regions of Baku were un- f touched, although in the surrounding country 50 per cent of the population perished. Lerche, who visited Baku in 1735. wrote, "It Is quite likely that the fact that the black death did not j touch Baku was due to petroleum." j Women at German Universities. I At the end of 1909 there were 52,407 students at German universities, of ! hom 1,850 were women. In 1908 the Lumber was 48,730, and ten years ago it w:'s 3,&00. There are also 3,314 men and l .''-''! women attending courses as guests iy permission of the univerity authorl-! authorl-! ' Berlin has the largest number of ! students, 9,242. Munich has 6,537; Leip- is. 4.761; Bonn. 3.652. There are 632 women at the University of Berlin, of whom 476 are in philosophy, 147 in med-f'ne, med-f'ne, six in law and three in theology. Treatment of Sprains. Sprains require prompt and thorough attention. They sometimes give rise to permanent injury. Soak the affected part in hot water for twenty to thirty vMr.utes. The water should be maln-voi-d at as high a temperature as is possible by the little addition of hot water at frequent intervals. The dura-' dura-' '! of a hot foot bath should be ten to "wnty minutes, after which an elastic "' .mdnge should be applied to the af-wted af-wted joint In such a way as to prevent pre-vent swelling on the outside of the bandage. The foot should be elevated for a few hours, until the tendency to inflammation has subsided. After the "first twenty-four hours very gentle rub-hlng rub-hlng of the limb may be employed. The nibbing movement should be in a direction direc-tion from the injured part toward the henrt. Family Manners. Family manners are apt' to suffer 'rnni too much candor. We speak with treat plainness in the circle of our own kindred; we express the contrary opinion opin-ion too readily and with too little cour-f cour-f sy. a slight infusion of formality ne-ver harms social intercourse, either in H. family or elsewhere. Beyond this too common mistake cf an overbluntness and brusque freedom in the manners of a household, in some of our homes there is a greater fault, pven a lack of demonstration. There is the deepest, sincerest loves in the home the brothers, and sisters would cheerfully cheer-fully die for one another if so great a sacrifice were demanded but the love is locked behind a barrier of reserve. I I Caresses are infrequent, words of affection affec-tion are seldom spoken. It may be urged with truth and some show of reason that in every home where this absence of demonstration is most marked there is complete mutual understanding under-standing and no possibility of doubt or misgiving, and, so far as it goes, this is well. But often young hearts long unspeakably un-speakably for some gentle sign of love's presence, the lingering touch of a tender ten-der hand on the head, the good-night kiss, the word of praise, the recognition recogni-tion of affection. Older hearts, too, are sometimes empty, and many of - us, younger and older, are kept on short rations ra-tions all our lives, when our right is to be fed with the finest wheat, and enough of it, too. Another suggestion which should not be overlooked is the importance of politeness po-liteness to the little ones. To snub a small laddie needlessly, to order about a child on errands here and there, instead in-stead of civilly presenting a request as one does to an older person, in each case is an invasion of the rights of childhood. The child to whom everybody every-body practices politeness will in turn be himself ready to oblige and agreeable in manner, for the stamp of the family Is as plainly to be seen in everyone as the stamp of the mint on the coin, and it is as indelible for time, and why not also. for eternity? Th 5 Angelus. To Fry Salt Bacon. The best way to prevent bacon being too salt when it is fried is to place a little water in the pan along with the paeon. Let the water come to a boil, then pour it out, and fry the bacon in the usual way. It will then not be too salt, and will also be very nice and tender. Woman's Life. Keep A-Trying. Say "I will!" and then stick to it That's the only way to do it. Don't build up a while and then Tear the whole thing down again. Fix the goal you wish to gain, Then go at it heart and brain. And, though clouds shut out the blue, Do not dim your purpose true With your sighing. Stand erect, and like a man Know "They can who think they can." j Keep a-trying. Pedro Catarenas' Charity. Pedro Catarenas, who is said to be the wealthiest man in Mexico, has just distributed more than $500,000 to the poor, most of it to the flood sufferers. Catarenas fell heir to great mining in-tere in-tere ts on the death of his father. It is said he gives away in charity annually annual-ly more than $1,000,000, and all of this is distributed in individual donations after an investigation of every case by confidential confi-dential agents in his service. Most Popular People. "The girl who thinks constantly about self is a good deal like the girl who is constantly glancing at herself in the mirror," says Anne B. McCall in Woman's Home Companion. "Have you ever noticed how by and by people turn away from such a girl to someone whose eye can meet theirs self-forget-fully, someone whose attention they can keep? So the girl is finally left alone with herself and the mirror. In the same way the girl wno falls into the habit of thinking of self is gradually gradu-ally left more and more alone, her life becomes gradually more and more isolated. iso-lated. Do you girls know what the word isolated really means? The word 'isola is the Italian for 'island.' Isolated Iso-lated means to be like an island cut off, that is, from the mainland. The life of the girl who talks and thinks about self is gradually more and more cut off from all the great wonderful mainland of human sympathy and interests. She is cut off from helping others as others are cut off from helping her. The world of joy and sorrow and interest and love goes on without her. South Africa's Proto-Martyr. In the ancient county of Monomota-pa, Monomota-pa, Rhodesia, East Africa, which was the scene of the martyrdom of Father Gonzalo-Silveira in 1560, a movement has been commenced in which Protestants Protest-ants enthusiastically join, to erect some permanent monument to the memory of the protomartyr of South Africa. Mr. Hall, the eminent archaeologist and editor of the Rhodesia Journal, published in Buluwayo, says: "On previous pre-vious occasions we have drawn public attention to the fact that there does not exist in South Africa any permanent and visible monument to the memory and life-work of Father Gonzalo-Silveira, South Africa's Protomartyr, who met his death at the N. Pande Kraal of the Monomotapa. the king of the Karunga nation. That he was the first Christian martyr of South Africa, and that his martyrdom took place in Southern Rhodesia, are sufficient to warrant some steps being taken by RhodesTans to commemorate his death. Here died on the 11th of August, 1561, a hero whose name, devotion, childlike spirit. Christian enthusiasm and self-sacrifice self-sacrifice will live for ages in the warm appreciation of the world's historians." Unwise Comforters. I have listened helplessly for hours while two women talked over a death in the family. No pang was negletted, no misery passed over. It was a thorough thor-ough recapitulation of woe. It must have done them good, for otherwise I do not understand how two human beings could spend so much time on the harrowing har-rowing details of dissolution. But I devoutly de-voutly hope that I may be spared this relentless comforting In time of trouble trou-ble and that when I am gone inquisitive acquaintances will hold upon my memory mem-ory no such psychological autopsies. But still the prospect of it, as was said of Campbell's Lives xt the Judges, adds a new terror to death. Comfort is the absence of uneasiness. True comforting strives to remove un easiness. Sometimes It is fruitless; No one can comfort bereft old people. They have lost the power of reaction. Their sorrow travels around in an endless chain. But it is otherwise with the young and those in the prime of life. They may be Influenced to look on the brighter side of things. It is natural and fitting that bereavement should leave us disconsolate for a while, as a man sits desolate before the ruins of his burned home. Now no wise man will talk to him of the beauty of the house that Is gone, its comfortable rooms, its well remembered furniture. Rather will he strive to turn the other's mind to the building of a new house. So when death lays its cold finger upon some loved one of our little circle it is of little use to talk to him about the bitterness of the loss no one knows it better than he, or the sadness of the passing he will never forget it. or the gap It has left no one is indispensable. But there is much in the life of one who has met duty honestly and fulfilled well the purpose of being, to console and strengthen those who are left Why do they haul out the worn old platitudes as the undertaker brings his battered folding fold-ing chairs! We are all egotists when invested with the pomp of woe. The crepe that swings at hundreds of sad doorknobs, door-knobs, that grim decoration so clairvoyant clair-voyant of the scene within, has made small impression upon us in the past. Death and destruction daily stalk before be-fore us, a pageant of horror, in the journals. But when the crepe is hung at our door, how different! It seems the first Instance in history, a tragedy. Friends do what they can to comfort the forlorn, but after all there is but one Comforter. God help those who have not Him to lean upon in the hour of bitter need! Only the saint can rise supreme above the bereavement, but when faith Is strong, the habit of a lifetime, life-time, It comes forth at the crisis as a consolation, whose place nothing else can take. This Is often the blessing of the poor. Their daily misery makes them live near to God. Death levels all distinctions, but they who have had no friend but God all their lives feel His friendship at the time of death. A Looker-on in the Pilot. Sour People. Sour people not only have a hard time in getting through the world themselves, them-selves, but they make it hard for other people. The more sour people profess to have religion, the harder they make it for the Lord to reach those who have much to do with them. Sour people who claim to be Christians Chris-tians make sinners think that the Lord is opposed to anybody having a very good time lu this worla. Sometimes people are sour because they have just enough religion to make them miserable, misera-ble, and have not enough to make them happy. Sour people are very often made more so by brooding over their I troubles, and thinking only of themselves them-selves and their disappointments, instead in-stead of meditating upon the goodness of God and His unfailing kindness. Sour people ought to remember that "a' merry heart doeth good like a medicine; medi-cine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Principal Points of Religion. To pray to God continually; To learn to know Him rightfully; To honor God in Trinity; The Trinity in unity. The Father in His majesty; The Son in His humanity; The Holy Ghost's benignity; Three persons one in Deity; To serve Him always holily; To ask Him all things needfully; To praise Him always worthily; To love Him always steadfastly; To dread Him always fearfully; To ask Him mercy heartily; To trust Him always faithfully; To obey Him always willingly; To abide Him always patiently; To thank Him always thankfully; To live here always virtuously; To use thy neighbor honestly; To look for death still presently; To help the poor in misery; To hope for heaven's felicity; To count this life but vanity Be points of Christianity. Catholic Transcript. |