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Show THE CATHOLIC MOTHER. (San Francisco Monotor.) .Mother! The very word means home, consolation, sympathy. As children she kisses our hurts and our tears away; as grovn-ups, she cheers us. When we come to her with the dust of Vanity Fair upon us; when we can go to few others or rather to no others we can turn to our two mothers the one who has sung U3 to rest on her faithful breast, and she whose heart was once pierced for us. The one will tell my boy or girl "that when the night is dark the stars come out," the other will "turn to Jesus and plead your' cause with Him." "Mother!" The soldier has thought of her by the campfire, the sailor ?n ie crow's nest, the hospital patient on his bed of wain. Those who have seen a bright -nd happy Catholic home know we the high place mother holds in it. Christianity, as represented! by the Catholic Church, was the first to. take woman by the hand: to say to her: "Not slave, but partner, helper, comforter." com-forter." ' In it Aspasia became Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the Magdalene became a saint. The good Catholic, |