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Show RARE ADVANTAGES. Our schools and colleges were opened during the week. The reopening should be a reminder to every Catholic family of their duty to their children. In the diocese of Salt Lake provision is made for parents par-ents to have their children thoroughly instructed in the principles of their faith. The third plenary council of Baltimore lays down the law for pastors and their people, urging the former to provide schools and obliging the latter to avail themselves of the opportunity of giving their children a "Christian "Chris-tian education. Catholic parents do not always realize re-alize their obligation, and often fail to appreciate the advantages which non-Catholics are quick to see and avail themselves of. In the Philadelphia Xorth American Leigh Mitchel Hodges writes of Catholic schools: 'During the last decade each succeeding year has witnessed a notable increase in the number of such institutions and marked advances in the courses prescribed pre-scribed and the facilities afforded. ''Hence, it is only a statement of fact to say that the advantages offered by this branch of the Church's activity are on a par with those obtainable at the foremost secular institutions ; while none who has made close study of the matter will dispute their supremacy as moral mentors. ''The convent-bred girl has long been accepted as a model of sweet, useful womanhood, possessed of refinements and accomplishments which add a distinct dis-tinct charm to her natural attractions, snd it is a consideration of the first importance that the development devel-opment of her domestic traits is singularly complete. "The convent-bred girl, while well grounded in the classics and mentally cultivated in every way that may be of service to self or fellow-beings, is primarily a home-maker, and in this age of increas-ingcommon increas-ingcommon sense, we are coming to a right realization realiza-tion of woman's place and power in this, her highest high-est estate." . . |