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Show J ri(-TrRKSIN-CAT I j lWt:1!1tUni Made Sad Mi.t.k- j. ' "liil d Jcmis Out of tho r ," ;'' ) Am..ri?luraihoH,.,,t-orthe m,"..',....': ; W'"-,u l' "li,.r. to their ub'fii.u!" j'r 'r' ' fMV'iu :!1 '' '' ;l '';rL b,,:;,, ;;V '- i ; of Madonnas , it, s;1ys tho I'ib.t. B,r oln- home. u, of,,,,. ,i. 11(.n.(1 !-:c.. ""l unoeamiful. and rebated U, !i J ': ' f be hove ,lt by ,hi, ,,,1 V : f We may. hmvevr-r. b- near ,,, . . f tide ,,, this manor. V,,U W(, ,, , ,;. -. " of the aend-arr tudic f .(,., I tiire's ,ake ami ,j ,... " .'-.:. j Kapbacis Madonna of t!. .,, ( i)t.; 1 in the Mosfon public M-in,N ,l(.rj,'.j., thought nf.our long-m-l,, j,,.... . ' 1 ; Pine photographs of ii. . . phod, Mun'Ilo. Loo, Kirdn fj,( Vi,:, ;. ;;:,,, i;, '," ; rrgio. Rubens, Titian and tb- ; ,..,',,'.'' !' ' ' "; at any art stores worthy of the .,'',' " ' crate prices: so then- is n. :., u, ' , expense, or homes bare of then,. i,r ,',,,. "j,. , the gaudy and inartistic Iitho-rn,.i,- ,jt:i. ; ' o mu"h to discredit pious pi, iUll . ' ' '": " Hut: .Mune Catholic bouse nc.ri:, I dinary ideas r.s to the fitness ..f , ,. '; '' j pictures. Yonder Protestant m.-iiro,. j ., , ' Sistine Madonna over the mantel in ,, ; ; iog room. But her Catholic in-ichbor M , ". ;'( j pieturo up to her bedroom, and puts -J) , j ,.:',' j Maid.' (..; ;) J a panes landscape in th,- . ..' .' I honor downstairs. It mav be s;.i.l tl,:,t r estant the Madonna has only an artisfi. j js a mere ornament. Ai' the action of ii. he may be defended on the ground of re-, " j and extreme itiid scrupulous realization of , i J crodness of the subjects. It was once said to a Catholic who had i ,-a I and splendid engraving of Leonard., da V "Last Supper" and several other notable sa.-.v tures in. her drawing room: "I should think they would be a con-tr,ii:,- i;;, , you: that you would not laugh and enjoy r,.,, ;.-before ;.-before them." . The objector was also a Catholic, and h ; oi view was strange to the stronger faith of j. friend. 'T never had that thought about them." ,e av j swered. "We can't get out of the sight of ( ;,-,.. ; we laugh and amuse ourselves, nevertheless. vr-i vr-i haps, with something to remind us of Ilim and s j claims, there may be not a constraint but a r. j straint that we will he glad to remember after." j But there are Catholics so full of human rope; and so narrow and uncultured, withal!, that th.J exclude sacred pictures from prominence in the;':-houses, the;':-houses, lest they be reckoned among the devoir. .r annoy the non-Catholic or infidel guest. They',!,, not fear to offend pure eyes with dangerously mis:- I gestive pagan pictures; nor refined tasteswith th; 1 banalities of some Heeting fashion in art. Thpv I have not sufficient common sense nor fineness of I feeling to understand that they are shutting our. of h their lives and those of their children in banishing the Blessed Mother and the Divine Child. Wherever the pictures of the Divine Redeemer and His Blessed Mother and the saints alound in the household, faith is strong, and the sinful mortal though as the poet says he trip and fall, yet he shall not blind his soul with clav. The veneration of the Russian?, schismatics though they arc, for their icons, or holy pictures, is so great that among the lofty and lowly alike thev have the place of honor in the most frequented part of the house. It is said that if a Russian is bent on an evil act, he first covers his icons, as if thus to shut out the idea of the Divine Presence of which they too forcibly remind him. An eminent non-Catholic once said in the writ- cr'.s hearing before a large gathering of women, also non-Catholic for the most part: "What a sad mistake Protestantism made when it put the Chill Jesus' out of the nurserv!"' - . " X i |