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Show j The Family Library. I Parents are exhorted time and again to procure good literature for their chll- dren. Yet how many households ran boast of a library? Even In families of means the reading material consists of a few flashy magazines, the daily newsoapers, and these Sundiv prints that leave a trail of dirt from New York to Canada. We need not expect to breed intelligent Catholic in this pabulum. It is not true that these things that can be read with one eye shut and the other not half open conduce to indifference and irreflection the children of ignorance. igno-rance. How many people cap give an intelligent exposition of their belief and how many can- separate the good from the bad in the numerous articles that are scattered broadcast over the country? coun-try? And how much good might be effected ef-fected by men who know their faith? The opportunities are numerous. A layman should nail a lie wherever he sees it. His loyalty should make him resent any calumny against the church. His weapons can be had in the inexpensive inex-pensive publication of our Catholic Truth societies. Our separated brethren know the value of printer's ink. If, however, parents pa-rents took some pains in the matter of reading for, the family, and exercised some supervision over the magazines and papers coming into the household, we should not have so many empty-headed empty-headed men and .women. The Record. |