Intermountain Catholic | 1910-04-09 | Page 2 | St. Bernard's in the Alps

The Ready-Made Age. Though we, the people of the United States, boast of our individuality, we are regarded today by those who cater to our wants as an absorbent mass rather than as discriminating units. Great agencies of supply give us a range of selection, it is true. But each differentiation is the standard choice of so large a number that It becomes a class by itself. Take, for example, those commodities and needs concerning which our personal taste is naturally selective,, and we see that they are supplied sup-plied but to a million or so others as well. In foods, we are shipped trainloads of ready-to-eat, sometimes predigested breakfast foods, biscuits, meats, soups and desserts. In clothes, all of us who are not museum freaks are offered ready-to-wear, uniformly designed suits, shirts, underwear, collars, hosiery St. Bernard's In the Alps. It costs $9,000 a year to keep up the monastery of St. Bernard in the Alps. Over 30,000 persons cross the moun-tatns moun-tatns at St Bernard's every year, and were it not for the hospice hundreds jj: would be lost in the great snows which I. set in in September. Even the twen- ty-foot snow posts set to guide trav- ; elers are covered by snow and dlsap- i i pear. j