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Show A NASTY SHEET. Up in Chicago, says the Catholic Union and Times, there is a monthly publication called Christian Chris-tian Cynosure. In the current number we find this: Pat. the ignorant laborer who lived in a shanty, is dead and buried, his son is tending bar and running run-ning the city government, and his granddaughter is teaching the public school. It takes all kinds of people to make up the world, including the malicious liar, to which class -Cynosure belongs. "Pat. the ignorant laborer," is dead. God rest his good soul. But why was he ignorant ? Through his own fault? Never! The tyrannous government govern-ment under which he originally lived, in its hatred of everything Irish, made it a crime for him to be learned. He realized his condition, and when he came to this land, he determined his son should not suffer as he had suffered through lack of knowledge. Pat's son is not tending bar any more than is Jonathan's or Edward's or Hans' or Pierre's. He has climbed the ladder and is now fillinnr the top places in the business world." He is the judge, the merchant prince, the builder of great undertakings everywhere, every-where, the respected professional man. the leader in finance; he is to be found among the foremost orators, the most thoughtful writers, the greatest philanthropists, the most forceful political leaders. He is the busiest man in the country today, and he does things. Pat's granddaughter is teaching school because she' has the ability to do so. She has won her place, not through any pull, but because of thoroughness thor-oughness in her own studies, her competence, her force of character, and the splendid discipline she alwavs enforces. Those of Pat's granddaughters who are not teaching are. like Pat's son, filling important im-portant and trusted positions in all walks of life. Again, many of Tat's granddaughters are mothers ,int the barren, puppy-fondling females who no doubt go to make the weazened Cynosure's coterie. They have builded homes, and, mayhap, the furrows fur-rows have begun to show just a little; perhaps the silver thread begins to streak the gold; but there thev sit, queens of their households, adored by family fam-ily beloved by all who know them. ' Christian Cynosure! What a misnomer ! Michigan Mich-igan Catholic. t |