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Show THE QUEEN'S DAUGHTERS. The name sounds aristocratic, and perhaps the society would be aristocratic were it made up of other than Catholic ladies. Xot that Catholics are entirely immune from Ihe pride of caste, but those of them who devote a part of their lives to God's work in a sense sanctify all of their time. If there be aristocracy in the Queen's Daughters it is of that kind which yields veneration dnd love to Joseph Jo-seph the Carpenter of Xazarcth, even as He did Avho Avas "subject" to Mary ami Joseph after the finding of the Child in the temple. Those who read our Denver correspondence and Avho among . the .cultivated does not? have gathered enough information to form some general gen-eral idea of the .Queen's : Daughters, their objects and the Avay they set about to attain them. It is not a society Avhere talk gets an unequal percentage over teacups and saucers, though this is neither rebuking talk nor decrying teacups. Talk and teacups tea-cups are as natural to Avoman as courting and the lender passion. So imagine a score or more of la- dies meeting at the home of another lady, and ; while they talk they seAv and stitch and stitch and plan, for all this" talk amounts to a good deal to poor families. Imagine this, and probably you gcC an idea of the Queen's Daughters, and it may be the real one. But it may mean more than this, and avc think it does.i And our conviction is strengthened through' knowledge-of the personnel Avhich names indicate. In some way these have the sound of the cultivated and religious Avoman. And having such sound, Avhat is there in fields other than charity for such women to do ? Xot. to drop the charitable feature of the society, but to unite it with a benevolent benevo-lent design. For example .to look after the social Avelfarc of Avorking girls, those Avithout homes or parents and therefore compelled to "rustle" for a living. Xobody knows better than a woman the temptations of the girl earning a slender salary. How best to expend that salary so as to save a little lit-tle of it every Aveek, is a problem that the Queen's Daughters ought to solve for the girl. We can reach it through a Catholic Girl's Home, where Avholesome food and comfortable shelter may be 'procured for $3 per Aveek. It can be done; it has been done in Xcav York for even $2 ier Aveek. X'ot many girls in stores earn over $5 per Aveek. Then there is the public library. Go there in daytime and you find ten women to one man. o-men o-men haAe more time to read books than men haAe, more time to examine what is on the shelves, more leisure to cull the good from the bad. There are books distributed to patrons Avhose contents Avould sha me the devil. One such furnished a sen- I sation for a Salt Lake ncAVspaper the other day. There are twenty books Avritten by Protestant authors au-thors to one written by a Catholic. Some public libraries are Avithout any histories or worksj of fic-lion fic-lion by Catholic Avriters. 'fdic fault is our own. not 1. the librarian's. Library trustees are seldom bigots. Who will start this reform in the public libra- . lies? Who better suited by education and love for good literature than the Queen's Daughters? |