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Show ri ( ; : Woman's World i Conducted by Helen Valeau. i HELENE VALEATJ'S ANSWEES. f ,.MSe Valeau will reply to all ques- ' ions asked by the feminine readers or tne Intermountalc Catholic. The we'A I . Known character and authority of her t! ' rPes need no introduction to those f ' lrfa3Jr familiar with her ability. Miss - f a'eau will take a kindly and persona! - J interest in those who write to her. and spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one side of the Paper. Address letters to Miss Helena ' v aieau, Intermountain Catholic. The front pompadour is entirely , ursine ted. the hair drawn softly back. purred t the rkio ai,d back, with anv jnsrTul knot JurangrMncnt or row of Purrs at the i,atk. The idea is to arrange ar-range the hair without the artificial Pompadour, but only those who have an exceptionally larK0 amount of hair win he able to dispense with the "rat" or pompadour. PEANUT CROP COMES HIGH. ! (Xow York World. The peanut crop of this country for 3908 was valued at J12.000.000. Yet the "fioober," as it is commonly miscalled, became of commereal importance only far back as 1S70. It would be weii if peanut polit icians tould develop as rapidly and usefully. The peanut was known to some ex-lei.t ex-lei.t in colonial days and probably cam-; from tropical America. I'ntil recently American peanuts were 'grown chiefly . in Virginia. Tennessee, the Carolina I and Georgia. Now they come from all 1 the south Atlantic states, the southern 1 border and California. In a pamphlet from Ihe department of agriculture. Expert W. U. Reattie says that in the boll-weevil districts they will make frequently fre-quently a more profitable crop than' ' - cotton. ' t Mr. Her-.t tie's monograph is impros- j i H sively illustrated. In figure 16 we ob- Fei ve shells sniifrly accommodating four well-rounded kernels. And these are I Tennessee Hods, which seem thereby to ", have advantajrs over the California Vi ' double-jointed hump-backed variety of t 'he (inns vender. We read of peanuts '- plain roasted-, of peanut butter and pea nut brittle, of peanut nil. peanut meal, peanut by-products for feeding live-Hock', live-Hock', peanut hay almost equal to the i . bet clover peanut forage to take the v place of corn, peanut vines and kernels i I chopped into a balancing ration for dairy cows, and peanuts for fattening hop. N Kesides, peanuts are soil-builders anil renovator. Tn the day of an advancing advanc-ing cost of living they are among the cheap things that make good. RIGORS OF A JAP PRISON. In an interesting article descriptive of ' Ufe in a Japanese Prison." Mr. An- f drew Soutar. writing of Pugama penitentiary peni-tentiary in the May Wide World, says: i The main building is designed in the f form of a domb-bell, the two ends be- I ing divided into flve-ray stars. From i the c-futral watch-stand the warden j an see along the whole of the rays which convpr'se three hundred cells. And what cells! Think of it twenty feet high and double-windowed! The I convicts are housed in groups. In a I rll of eight mats all rooms in Japan I are measured by mats twelve convicts J are accommodated. The floor -was env- I ered with mushiro or soft matting, and on this the men's bedding is spread 5 wh'n they are ready to turn in. Every - thing was spotlessly clean. The chief warden stopped before a i door at the extreme end of the corridor I and. after trying a dozen keys, suc- reeded in throwing it open. With some misgivings I entered. The loom would 1 have gladdened the heart of any ama- teur photographer. Not a single ray J of .light penetrated its walls. It was ventilated by means of small tubes I that ran thtougli the cement in such I a way that they did not admit light. , I The warden explained the uses of the structure. I There are three forms of chobatsu punishmnt) for insubordination." he; j sa d. - The first is confinement in an 1 v " empty room, the offender being com- j 'pel led to sit on a mat without moving ( f or' speaking from morning till night. . The second form is confinement in a , t - similer room slightly darkened. The ! ': i third and most severe is confinement In 1 this totally dark room, the maximum . I punishment beng five days. I have I never known a man .wish to come here I a second time." he added, significantly. FRANCE OF TODAY. I The beatification of Joan of Arc in I St. Peter's. Rome, recently, draws the yes of Christendom to the land which .nce boasted of being the Eldest Daugh-' Daugh-' ier of the Church, for it was to save I France from England that the humble J maiden took up the sword at the diree- ' j lion of the voices from heaven. There j i nothing mythical about her work. j j Everv Incident in her careeer has been 1 carefully recorded and put beyond the power of cavil, and it is thus we find I after five hundred years that the Church I places her name amongst the illustrious j list of those who may be Invoked to j pray to the great God for poor suffering If humanity. j The France of today presents a sorry j I contrast to the period in which the Maid I or Orleans led the soldiers to victory- I The priests and nuns have been ban- j ished. religion has disappeared, men and I women are steeped in immorality, mur- I der is rife and devil worship 1s common. com-mon. Ex-en with this the proletariat Is not content. It wants all form of government gov-ernment done away with and desires that chaos or socialism as it calls it-shall it-shall reign. A few Sundays ago fifteen 3 thousand Socialists resolved' In public , i meeting to overthrow the republic, and a secret committee was appointed with 1 instructions to work insistently to gain ft over the armv in favor of revolution, i.ti ru .-.-v has already been won. for ii Toulon, the naval headquarters, s a Ja hotbed of anarchy. The one thing f;f -which could save France now from de-'7 de-'7 struction is the Church, but it has been f disabled-temporarily-and is therefore f powerless. It is only a question of time J until th erepublic is made to reap the whirlwind. ' SLIGHT VARIATION. ' -I believe in an 'eye for an eye !" j shouted the wild-eyed chap with tne I long hair. , "And I believe in the tooth ror a tooth doctrine." laughed the tall man in the gold-rimmed eyeglasses. "That's a queer doctrinefriend. "Not at all. I pull one tooth out and f put another In its pjs.ee. I'm a dentist. I "Verv few of u's'realire the terrible "I ' thnes'that may result from a word I hastily spoken.' said the benevolent I woman. , "Well I realize it. answered the I vomiff tnan who sat by her on the train. I "-ty, a baseball umpire."-V ashlngton J -s,-a' I , j L , j gr ,.1 - HI"' II " WHAT SAY? Don't fume and fret. Don't squirm and sweat, And get all in .a tangle; Don't rip and tear. And dance and swear. And fill the air with jangle. Don't grump and grown. Don't scold and scowl. Don't get all in a muddle; Don't wail and weep And make a deep And pessimistic puddle. Keep steady, boy. There's much of joy And pleasantness awaits you; Let in the sun It's ten to one It's just yourself who hates you. Boston Herald. WOMAN'S PROBLEM SOLVED. . There was something about the face of the stranger who sat opposite her in the tram car that was familiar to the stern lady. "Pardon me," she said, "if I'm not mistaken, you are one of the poor underpaid un-derpaid girls whom our Emancipation society tried to benefit, or at least you were a year ago?" "That is so." said the stranger. "Then our society has evidently not been without influence, for you look prosperous now." "1 have everything I want and never was so happy in my life." "That's splendid. You must have solved the woman's problem." "1 have." "Glorious! Do tell me all about it." "I've married!" CATHOLIC SOCIETY WOMEN DISAGREE. DIS-AGREE. Litigation between Miss Margaret C. Lavelle, sister of Mgr. Lavelle, and the .supreme board of regents of the Daugh ters of Isabella was begun in the supreme su-preme court recently to determine whether Miss Lavelle shall continue to hold her position as state regent of the society or be removed on the charge of "dominating" the organization. The Daughters of Isabella is composed com-posed of upward of 100,000 women, scattered scat-tered throughout the United States, :!.500 of whom are in New York state. The president is Miss Mary L. McKer-nan McKer-nan of Ft lea. where the headquarters of the society are located. Two actions were begun before Judge i Vernon M. Davis. The first was an application ap-plication on the part of the supreme regent for an order against Miss La- j velie to show cause why she should not j he expelled from the organization. Miss j Lavelle's suit was for a permanent in- ! junction restraining the Daughters of Isabella from taking any such action. It seems from the affidavits that lust December Miss Lavelle was tried by the supreme board of regents for exceeding her authority, found guilty and fined $100. the alleged cost of the trial. This verdict carried with it a recommendation recommenda-tion that she be dethroned and further punished by losing hcrmembership in the order. Alleged interference with the work of a district "court" was the spe-office spe-office complaint. . but Miss Lavelle's friends assert that certain ambitious women in the society are jealous of her successful administration. Henry W. Herbert, counsel for Miss Lavelle contended that his client was well within her rights in settling disputes. dis-putes. Counsel, for the Daughters of Isabella took the opposite view and Judge Davis reserved decision. He issued is-sued a temporary injunction pending the final disposition of the case, which protected Miss Lavelle. The result is that Judge Dowling, in the supreme court, has granted a per-manent per-manent injunction restraining the national, na-tional, order of the Daughters of Isabella Isa-bella from interfering with Margaret C- Lavelle. sister of Mgr. Lavelle. in tha performance of her duties as state regent of the organization and as a member of the supreme board of directors. di-rectors. Judge Dowling decided that Miss Lavelle La-velle was within her rights in everything every-thing she had done as state regent. VETERANS OF THE HIERARCHY. Rt. Rev. William George McCloskey. D. D., Bishop of Louisville; now well on in his eighty-sixth year. Rt. Rev. John Joseph Hogan, D. D., Bishop of Kansas City; was eighty years old on May 10. Most Rev. Patrick John Ryan, D. D., Archbishop of Philadelphia; now in his seventy-ninth year. Rt. Rev. John Samuel Foley. D. D., Bishop of Detroit; now in his seventy-sixth seventy-sixth year. His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, Gib-bons, Archbishop of Baltimore; now in his seventy-fifth year. Rt. Rev. Francis Silas Chatard, D. D., Bishop of Indianapolis; now- in his seventy-fifth year. Rt. Rev. John Janssen, D. D.. Bishop of Belleville; now in his seventy-fifth year. Rt. Rev. Peter Yerdaguer. D. D.. Vicar Vic-ar Apost. of Brownsville; now in his seventy-fourth year. Rt. Rev. Henry Joseph Richter, D. D., Bishop of Grand Rapids: now in his seventy-second year. Most Rev. John Ireland. D. D., Archbishop Arch-bishop of St. Paul: now in his seventy-first seventy-first year. Rt. Rev. James Trohec. D. D.. Bishop of St. Cloud; now in his seventy-first year. Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriels, D. D., Bishop Bish-op of Ogdenburg; now in his seventy-first seventy-first year. Most Rev. John Joseph Keane. D. D., Archbishop of Dubuque; now well in his seventieth year. Rt. Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice, D. D., Bishop of Erie, now- in his seventieth year. Rt. Rev. Thomas Martin Aloysius Burke, D. D., Bishop of Albany; now in his seventieth year. IRRELIGION IS PERIL TO NATION. "The dangers that threaten a free, popular government come not from this religion or that religion, nor from any religion but from irreligion. Atheism and anarchy are sisters. Strip from man the sense of his respons bility to God, and you dissolve by the same act his sense of responsibility to man. "No republic of atheists has ever endured." en-dured." continued the governor. "We are likely to see In our time neither a universal language nor a universal religion, re-ligion, but world's congress after world's congress for the promotion of the world's comfort, the world's health, the world's peace are bringing in their trail at least the quickening sense that in reverent and universal acquiescence in the fatherhood of God is included the ever-increasing recognition of the brotherhood bro-therhood of man." Ex -Governor Guild. They who die r'ch in character leave a -real deal that 'was not here when they came, so they have something to lake with them as .well. - 1 j SONG FOR THE MAY CHILDREN. (Written for Rose Leaves.) Hail! the May of months the Queen: Earth is decked in fairest sheen. Trees put on their tend'rest green, For the Month of Mary. Ho! the promise of the Spring: Give us audience while we sing: Music hath a sweeter ring When it sounds for Mary. Hearts are solaced while we raise Voices in Our Lady's praise. Softest cadence, sweetest lays, Fit the praise of Mary. With Her colours gaily dight. Blue of Heaven, pure and bright: Vowed are Ave to walk aright In the steps of Mary. Doth our future hold in store Earthly bliss or sorrows sore, With- us, for us evermore Beats the Heart of Mary. Dolours seven have pierced Her heart. Sin alone has left no smart. In Her sorrows have a part All those named of Mary. Mrs. G. Lees. In some villages in England it is still the custom for children to come round on the first of May singing and carrying a basket filled with flowers m which lies a small doll, which may be a tradition of the effigy of the Blessed Virgin. DEVOTION TO OUR BLESSED LADY. Devotion to Mary is the intention for which w e are to pray during this month of May. How ready a response this request re-quest of our Holy Father should find in the hearts of all our Associates! After devotion to our Blessed Saviour Himself there is none dearer or closer to the Cathclic heart than devotion to His Mother. From all eternity she was chosen by God out of an infinite number num-ber of others whom lie could have selected se-lected to the dignity of the Divine Maternity. Ma-ternity. Yet Mary and not another was His choice for this peerless honor. So. too, God chose Mary to be our Mother. She is the dying gft of her dear Son to a sinful race. As she was giyen Him to be His Mother at Nazareth, so H.-bestowed H.-bestowed her upon us from His cross. Such a gift, immeasurably precious at any time, becomes infinitely more so at such a time. The privilege of loving our Creator with all our heart, and all our mind and all our strength, is a command from the lips of the l'ving Christ. In like manner the privilege of loving His Mother is a precept from His dying lips. In every Catholic heart these two loves are ever found the love of .Testis and the hue of Maty. When the Mag! came on their journey over sandy desert, des-ert, from the East, the gospel tells us "they found the Child and His Mother." Moth-er." In the devotions and prayers oi the Church the Son and the Mother art ever intimately linked. How closely knitted together are the thoughts of them :n the Rosary and the Way of tht Cross! In all christian art it is the image of the Child and the Mother which has captivated the fancy, won the heart and held the mind and hand of the artist. So. too, in the souls of th children of the Chureli. these two Images Im-ages are painted, and $he example of their daily-lives copied. To copy Mary and Jesus is to .be truly devoted tc. them. Selected. SOUTH CAROLINA'S NOBLE EXAMPLE. EX-AMPLE. T'nitcd States Senator Benjamin F. Tillman Indirectly paid a tribute to the Catholic position on the divorce question ques-tion in the course of a speech recently delivered before the New York Society of South Carolinians, says the Irish World. Shaking of a distinguishing and commendable trait of his fellow South Carolinians, he said "I have traveled ay around th s country, and thete is ortfc thing about a South Carolinian Caro-linian that distinguishes him from the citizens of the rest of the country. And that is this, that he has just one girl and when she grows old he doesn't loo!; around for a younger woman, and go to some judge, and for some trivial cause frequently trumped up. get rid of the girl who has been with him all his l!fe " South Carolina is the only state in the union in which a divorce cannot be obtained ob-tained for any reason, and in which the solemn pledge man and wife gave when they piighted their faith to each other remains in force until death annuls it. If the noble example set by South Carolina in th's matter were followed by all the other states of the union, or even by one-half of them, how much misery and heart-breaking experience-millions experience-millions of American men and women would be saved. How many famjlie. that are now broken up and scattered would be living in peace and harmony: what a menace to society would be removed re-moved by the consequent diminution oi divorces which decade after decade arc 'ncreasing in number with frightful rapidity ra-pidity until now, as statistics inform us. the proportion of divorces to marriages Is one to twelve. The laxity of the marriage mar-riage ties indicated by this proportion is big with danger to the country, show-;ng show-;ng as it does, that the family, which, in very truth is the cornerstone of the-nation, the-nation, is being sapped continually. In doing her part to put a stop to this sapping. South Carolina is deserving oi all praise. Her sons and daughters have good reason to be proud of the boast of the loyalty to the marriage ties South Carolinians display, which is '!n marked contrast to the way matrimony is viewed in other states of the union. Let us hope that the day will never come when South Carolina will lower the standard of morality In the matter of the sacredness of marriage which she proudly holds aloft over against the unchristian un-christian and demoralizing views ot matrimony which unfortunately arc so prevalent In the United States. CATHOLIC LAYMAN ADDRESSES PROTESTANT CONGREGATION The unusual event of a Catholic layman lay-man addressing a Protestant congregation congrega-tion took place in the First Christian ; Church, Fall River, Mass., on the evening even-ing of Sunday, April 18, when Judge John J. McDonald spoke to a large audience on "The Religious Side of Jur isprudence." He explained to his audience audi-ence that next to theology, of all sciences. sci-ences. Jurisprudence is the nearest to religion, because it is the first-born child of religion. From the beginning of Christianity until over one . hundred years after the Norman conquest, there were no lawyers in England, because law or jurisprudence was a part of the theology, and was construed and administered ad-ministered by members of the clergy in ecclesiastical courts. Judge McDonough then traced the gradual process of the 1 conscious separation of law from theology, the-ology, and the evolution of the former into a distinct science. Even today, ' law, like medicine. Is everywhere in civilized civ-ilized lands .very large built upon the old Catholic foundation.. The man who prefers to live- a quirl life, doing his daily duty faithfully, i? more truly successful and hapoy thar he who aspires to reach the heights of fame and riches, but fails to see that a man's l'fe consisteth not in the abundance abund-ance of the things which he posscsseth. |