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Show I I Woman's- World I rj CONDUCTED BY HELEKE VALEAU. ;! gEiEKE' VALEATJ'S ANSWERS. 1 M(Cg valeau will reply to all quea- I nc'aked bv the feminine readers of 1 jntermounlaln Catholic. The well "'wn character and authority of her I rvDlies need no introduction to' those lifcady familiar with her ability. Miss 'i valeau will take a kindly and persona! lnteret In those who write to her, and m Fpare no pain? in. eein? that their I luquiri's are answered fully and care- fUy V.'rite only on one side of the J e'r. Aidress letters t o Miss iWlec ! valeau. lntermouutain Catholic. SUMMER STOllM.-- (I!v Kdward Wilbur Mason.) After joy comes grief. Long the 1,,-avt'ns bright Have known the world-wide glory nf the sun. j rut P"v the fiwm clouds gather black i V night: t.'ioon the day is done. fi-)H, i,n,.ij, t Hows in sober undertone; 1 xi)'j liivush Mts on the bough in si- Vnee drear; ' ..jj,, loses in the garden, perfect. Mown, Grow I'iile like cheeks of fear. yow tho heavens are the light nings hurled; thunders come and torrents of tlit ram. The Riant storm Is master o( the .vorld Tli.- wild winds sob in pain. yet. i sau Xnature! swift shall sorrow sor-row cloy; Thy .assion and thy anguish both ;tre brief. How s".in upon thy face shall smile the joy That follows after grief. RKillT KIXD OF CHARM. Very often very good people seem to lafi: charm so utterly that even the sensible among us find ourselves opposing op-posing the. thing they advocate, sim-jily sim-jily because they advocate it. So it's a pity m.'t to make the best of any little l'ii- of charm nature may have fcn yon. Jfs worth while fanning iji.i nurslr.sr and coddling it. Fortunately, Fortu-nately, if you begin early enough, you 'j can am uii- a pretty fair substitute fir natural charm. Probably the very lirst -step is to cultivate pleasant habits hab-its of thmipht. Not. merely agreeable f;K-h an. .manners, although these : urc linpertant, too, but the habit of i thiiikine peasant thoughts. If you I have that common habit of tearing j pvervbody's motives to pieces and jnckinp the flaw in every nice deed, resolutely consign it to your mental v.aste h:i.-krt or burn it on the ruh-i ruh-i IiIhM In-- p. whichever you like. Get i rid of it -somehow. Just ignore the possible sordidness. Motives are mixed anyway! Make a point of ee-j ee-j inc the fine things people do. Call ! auntnn to them whenever you have the chance. Do as many of the little friendly things that . hardly seem worth while, as you can. Little notes of sympathy make a lot of difference sometimes, so does a penny post card on one's birthday or other anniversary.' anniver-sary.' CRIME DECREASING IN IRELAND. In the last twenty vears ending March, 1910, owing to absence -'f crime in the country, twf've prisons have been ilosed in Ireland, namely: Downpatrick, Carrick-on-Shannon, Drogheda, Ennis, Ennisktl'cn. Mullin-gar, Mullin-gar, Grangi-gorman, Omugh, Wexford, Wicklow, Limerick ifcmai-?) and lvil-mainham. lvil-mainham. The grim monuments cf British misrule are disappaerlng as Ireland progresses in nation hood. THE CHURCH IN DENM VITK In 1849 the constitution of Den-1 mark placed the Danish Catholics on an equal footing with the Danish Lutherans. In 1S69 Fius IX raised it to a Prefecture Apostolic, with Dr. Gruder first Prefect. In 1881 when he died he left more than 3,000 Catholics Cath-olics and sixteen churches. In 190 the number of Catholics, cvcluslVe of the numerous Polish immigrants, amounted to 7,871, or 3.04 for every 1.000 of the total population of 2.5S8,-919. 2.5S8,-919. The pastoral care is divided between be-tween twenty secular and fifty-one re- J ligious priests. There are eight orders of men, with fourteen hourses an.1 124 members, and seven orders of women, with thirty-five houses and 440 members, mem-bers, engaged in various church, school and charitable work in Denmark. Den-mark. THE MOTH. Flicker-flick, Above the wick. Burned the candle flame. Through the open windjw shutter Young Moth Miller came. Straight he fluttered oward the yellow. Bright, alluring- thing. . And, alas, poor foolish fellow. Scorched his downy wlr g! Little ones, take lesson from him, Be not overbold; Stop and think that glittering things Are not always gold. THE BETTER WAY. It is always better to help others to criticise themselves than it is to criticise them. They will believe themselves; they are not likely to believe be-lieve you. The way to bring about this healthy and helpful condition of self-criticism, with its accompanying desire for improvement, is to show by our lives, silently, the better way, while resolutely refraining from urging urg-ing it on others. It was a high tribute paid to a Christian man, who Is not now living, when one who had known him intimately inti-mately said: "He never told me that I ought to do better, but I always came away from-any conversation with him wantlns- to do better" Tf we would do this for others, let us seal our Hps to criticism, and incarnate the better way in our lives. SMILE AND WAIT. One of the hardest, and yet one of the most useful lessons we can ever learn is to smile and wait -after we have done our very best. - It is a finely trained mind that can struggle with energy and cheerfulness cheerful-ness toward the goal which he cannot see. But he is not a great philosopher who has not learned the secret of smiling and waiting. A great many people can smile at difficulties who cannot wait, who lack patience; but the man who can both smile and wait, if he has that tenacity of purpose which never turns back, will surely win. The fact is, large things can only be done by optimists. Little successes suc-cesses are left to pessimietic people who cannot set their teeth, clench their fists, and smile at hardships or misfortunes and patiently wait. Smile and wait there are whole volumes in this sentence. It " is so much earsier for most people to work than to wait. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. When is a doctor most annoyed? When he is out of patients. Why is a man's face shaved" in winter win-ter like a celebrated fur? Because it is a chinchilly. What is the center of gravity? The letter V. What is the end of doom? The letter M. Why is a policeman like a rainbow? rain-bow? He appears when the storm is over. What is the best form for a soldier? Uniform. When does a cat become larger and smaller? When let out at night an.l taken In in the morning. THE OTHER PERSON'S WAY. It is a funny thing that most people peo-ple at times are filled with a strong conviction that the rest of the world are all wrong and that they alone are right. Most of us are apt to be hard on people who don't do just what we think they ought to, forgetting that every person is born different, grows up different, and probably remains different all through life. It is easy to criticise, but we must not forget that to other people we may be making mak-ing almost as great a mess in a different dif-ferent way, perhaps of our own lives. So, instead of talking over other people's strayings from the path and expecting them to do impossibilities, im-possibilities, it would surely be better to try to appreciate our friends as they are and believe the Tightness of their motives, however things may go awry. THE JOY OF LIFE. Life is not enjoyable if there be no duty, no work, no occupation, no serious se-rious employment Life's highest ideals, noblest pleasures, sweetest enjoyments en-joyments are missed by the idle, who are often dragged down into the lowest low-est currents. In food and play, slumber slum-ber and holiday, the industrious and laborious experience the keenest zest and deepest joy, while tp the idle i these are .spiritless and tasteless. It were net the best aim in life assuredly assured-ly to do without work not the noblest no-blest to pose for admiration or to waste the precious moments in pursuit pur-suit of dreams for pleasure. The most miserable are they who have nothing to do. They are miserable themselves and render all around them miserable. KEEP. STILL.. Keep still! When trouble is brewing, brew-ing, keep still! When slander is getting get-ting on its legs, keep still! When your feelings are hurt, keep still till you recover your excitement at any rate. Things look different to an un-agltated un-agltated eye. In a commotion once I wrote a letter and sent it, and I wished now that I had not In my later years I had another commotion, , and wrote a long letter; but life rubber a little sense into me, and I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I could look it over without agitation and without tears. I was glad that I did. Less and less it seeemed necessary to send it. I was not sure it would do any harm, but in my doubtfulness I leaned to reticence, reti-cence, and eventually It was destroyed. de-stroyed. Time works wonders. Wait till you can speak calmly, and then you will not need to speak, maybe. Silence is the most massive thing conceivable sometimes. It is strength in very grandeur. It is like a regiment ordered or-dered to stand still in the mad fury of battle. PRIEST DIES IN PULPIT. At Marseilles, Fance, recently Father Michel celebrated the sixteith anniversary of his ordination. At the celebration on that day he ascended the pulpit to thank his parishioners. He had just said the words: "Today is the greatest day of my life," when he suddenly collapsed and a few moments mo-ments later died. REDMOND'S DAUGHTER A PLAY-. PLAY-. WRIGHT. While the great Irish statesman John Redmond, is playing the title role in Irish politics, his daughter is winning her way to fame by the production pro-duction of her pen. A one-act play by Miss Johanna Redmond will be produced at the Palace theatre soon. This will not be the first time a piece by Miss Redmond has been performed, per-formed, though she has not yet had a play staged in a public theatre. A couple of years ago, a short piece written by her, dealing with an Irish subject and disclosing "considerable ability was produced before the Irish Literary society. A QUEER BIRD, The secretary bird is in several respects re-spects a queer fellow. ,He gets his name from the' tufts " of feathers which grow on either side of his head, and look exactly like a bunch of pens stuck behind a clerk's ear. This bird has long legs, with which it can run very fast; and large wings, with which it can ascend to a great height. Some one has said that it can run like a horse and fly like a balloon. It j builds a strong nest in a tree, and lives in it year after year, subsisting on small animals and snakes, but preferring pre-ferring the latter. SHE WHO MAKES FRIENDS. The girl who makes friends where-ever where-ever she goes is delightful. She comes into a room like a sea breeeze fresh laughing, nodding right and left with happy impartiality. She is ready for anything, and never throws cold water wa-ter on your plans. She generally sees the funny side of things, and she has such a wholehearted whole-hearted way of describing them that you feel as If you had seen them yourself. She does not recall gossip, though; and she does not think how to be spiteful, or sarcastic, or bitter, and she never exaggerates to produce an Impression. She knows how to -be clever and funny without being unkind, un-kind, or untruthful, or coarse. She likes everybody, not considering consider-ing it to be her duty to suspect any one of evil until they have proved good. She prefers to" consider the world good and honest until it proves itself otherwise. She always gets along for 6he has friends everywhere. Her heart is big enough to contain everybody, every-body, and she never forgets her friends, or is forgotten by them. OATHS IN DIFFERENT LANDS. (From the Green Bag.) The ceremony of taking the oath has been .known since earliest history. The only changes in form which have come in thousands of years have been due to the Introduction of the Bible and the cross by Christian nations. As administered in most of the English Eng-lish law courts the form of the oath Is practically the same as that in the United States, though rather perhaps the simplest. A crucifix above the judge's seat is supposed to obviate the necessity of the witness handling either the cross or the Eible. "You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" asks the judge. And the witness, raising his right hand, an-hwers, an-hwers, "I swear it." In Austria a Christian witness Is sworn before a crucifix placed between be-tween two lighted candles. Holding up his right hand the witness says: '"I swear by God, the Almighty and All-Wise, that I will speak the pure and full truth In answer to anything I may be asked by the court." If the witness Is of the Jewish race he uses the same words, but places his hand on a Bible opened at the page on which appears the third commandment, command-ment, and the crucifix is removed. In a Belgian court the witness says: "I will speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God and all the saints." No Bible Is required in the administering of this oath. The Italian witness generally takes the oath In a dramatic manner. "Resting "Rest-ing his hand on an open Bible, he explains: ex-plains: "I will swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth!" More ceremony attends the administering admin-istering of an oath in a Spanish court. The witness kneels on his right knee and places his right hand on the sacred sa-cred book. The judge then asks: "Will you swear to God and by those holy gospels to speak the truth to all you may be asked?" The witness replies: "Yes; I swear." to which the judge rejoins: re-joins: "Then if thus you do God will reward you and if not will require of you." In a few districts this form is varied va-ried by the witness placing the middle mid-dle of his thumb on the middle of his forefinger, kissing his thumb and declaring, de-claring, "By this cross I swear." It is to be hoped that the Norwegian Norwe-gian witness Is properly impressed with his obligation to speak the truth or considerable energy is wasted. He is required to raise his thumb, forefinger fore-finger and middle finger, these signify the Trinity. Before the oath is actually ac-tually taken a long exhortation is delivered, de-livered, running in part: "Whatever person Is so ungodly, corrupt or hostile to himself as to swear a false oath or not to keep the oath sworn sins in such a manner as if he were to say: 'If I swear falsely, then may God the Father. God the Son and God the Holy Ghost punish me. so that God the Father who created me and all mankind In His image, and His fatherly goodness, grace and mercy, mer-cy, may not profit me, but that I as a perverse and obstinate transgressor and sinner may be punished eternally in hell. If I swear falsely, then may all I have and own In this world be cursed; cursed be my land, field and meadow, so that I may never enjoy any fruit or yield from them; cursed be my cattle, my beasts, my sheep, so that after this day they may never thrive or benefit me; year, cursed may I be and everything I possess." I And sometimes all that and all the rest of it in the matter of a suit brought to collect for a pair of boots, perhaps. |
