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Show i , glnircl) isni)ersal ': I ' CHURCH CALENDAR. ! Jan. -!'. Sunday Fourth .after Fpi- S 'Si. Francis de Sales. J, ' ,-.ii. Monday St. Martina. I - "1. Tuesday St. Peter Xolasco. .-, 1,. , Wednesday St. Ignatius. .!. Thursday Purification of R A'. M. j-. i,. Friday First Friday. St. IM.imus. Fell. 4. Saturday Andrew Uorsini. THE NAME OF JESUS. ! -y ';" livw not for Jesus,' lives for t Wh'-n I retail that name within my .' !lii!ld ' ' :!! the vision of a Man most kind, ( ...-!, gentle, merciful; v. ho taught 3 '1 tKii'-'ss. humility; who, when be- SnllM. :v .-in repentant, could no harsh word find. i:,! didst with love conciliation bind: j-.i, God Almishty, tliUs our snulr? hat h bought. 1 1 N.iine. more sv eel than honey to tho lii'iuth, Thau music to the car, joy to the In 'art, '.'slit t" the eye that long have blind-.d blind-.d licen, , -i'Zi that bears all perfumes of the South "; barren climes. O Xante, from Thee ;i apart ? 1,. 1 naus'ht created my affection win. " . - ;":nm St. l'.ernard's Sermon on the Canticle of Canticles. ! EY SIGNS AND CEREMONIES, j Symbolism as Practiced in the Cath- olic Church. i i i r are ceremonies of our religion I .: v :i Si " cunstantly repeat without - : :.-iii to inquire the meaning of our , ;i.in. We blest-- ourselves., take holy t r, genuflect, assist at ' mass until I j, -nine makes the epformance of I f h aits if not entirely meaningless,, I . . i st half so. from the want of at- 1 v ..ii.m they receive ac? we perfunctor-: perfunctor-: po throuRh them. Starting fronij ! . :ih then, as you set out for church, j i. i us pass iui kly over :x part of the j i which you traverse every Sunday. i; ins to greet your Heavenly UnS", Hi" course, you are decked out in .ur most presentable apparel. You j r '.' wearing the best clothes your v i.rdrobe boasts because you are to 5 s.-ut yourself to the Lord who has t .veil what you possess, and who ex-i-.-its ym to show him the courtesy ; v lii. li honorable ones are tendered. To . i.pcar in hi presence attired with i in in coming dress would be a mark of I disrespect to the Lord you should j oiior. To reserve fine adornments for vnrldly use and to think of satisfying i HUnus duty with secondary wear, is s ,,,, indication that the love of fiod ii f 3, "t your strongest affection. God asks ! 5 !n outward marks of respr-ct which re- , , j n--.' his servants to come to service I 1 i the most 'decorous manner. 5 l: ing well-bred people of. the world ! ;:.d used to the niceties-of social re- ; , :;n-ments you are in time for service, ' ; n,l do not, 'therefore, disturb the wor- papers with a tardy entry. There is j tl.i' Hiicstion'of sin if the delay is con- s-.i ialle and through your own fault, j I T.ui we suppose that you are punctual j i ,nl without lingering outside you pre- i 3 iic to enter ?nd's house as soon as j -.n roac hi he temple. The holy water ! i.uil confronts you in. the vestibule of. Hi- church.' You dip your finger in the ! viiIit, signing yourself with the cross. ! on bring the sanctifying drops to- vwiid your person. Apart from the j lierent virtunr- which the water pos-... pos-... SSO!J the power, that is, to cleanse ii, .m venal sin the ceremony at the I , , or of th- church is a reminder of the 1 ;:rity of soul wlii.-h one should enjoy i.-fore asking admittance to the house i 1 1 th.. Savior. In the early days of the i i iili. Christians were obliged to pour ,it,.r over their hands and face, pray-5 pray-5 u with l'-ter that Cod would imaii-l.nif imaii-l.nif rli-aiisc their hearts. And as we supply the water to hand :. '; head wo should beg (lod to make v- worthy to appear before him. As v n.. i hn water we make the sign of 1 . i -oss. Tliat is the gesture which V io-.s o.en the door of Cod's house. T,.,. i v tji,. cross were we returned to C e kinship of Cad ofter Adam's sin ,1 mad.- us stranger. The virtue v ii. li is in that simple act of signing i. , self jiroceeds from the faith of hich it is a symbol. One who ap-vtoai-hes Cod must believe in him. says' i .oil and bv the sign of the cross we viofess our belief not only in the fx-i-'. iii e of Cod. but in the Trinity the F. it her. Son and the Holy Ghost. As v n ueh the forehead we confess that r was the Infinite Mind that evolved tie vlan of creation. As the hand de-t- .is we declare that the Infinite One v , down to the world to raise crea- f i .e, fi-om the depths into which sin 1 ...I hurled it. We bind the Father and f: m in the embrace of infinite love as c i hand cross- s over the heart. From 1 i '-.,', .mbrace the Holy Ghost proceeds .- 1 .reaiion is united with the three V;: i - on th" cross which Christ left i - ,k the emblem of salvation. Wiih dignili.-d measure we -walk up 1 ,,i.-l. and not with unseeming haste .czing about with curious glances . ! u: i -imsrii'us of the saeredness of the i ; , u.se. k to conform our bearing t . ; hallowed surroundings. Before , tin- pew we must honor with r : j.;,!,7.. the bidden Lord who. though P , .... ; . j- nevertheless watching. In f m 1 - i . up is subjects bend the knee t . . ki:m, and we ought surely do , : ;, r.e- our Heavenly Monarch, i s . ,. ,,Vet slowly bowing and j i 1 -."hi-ig the right knee to the floor I . j.. of our entire submission to t ;-: v. !,-..- throne is the altar. - ..r :hi Hei vit-c begins we may. I . , r iiae a moment to wait, j ' - f;,.'ic the tabernacled Ird who j . ; K a message to our heart. Or, j , . :i:.. stillness may cause a re- :; to steal over our trouble-j t . .' -.,-; in the organ may whisper. p ... and we may be stirred! t . v. hv the church uses music j I w.-o,-.. ii is but arother voice to j h i.i the ui of Cod. For religion! i i ,... us- .,f whatever has force ! - .mi nu towards heaven. Not j s- i. : one faculty does religion j I'i'peal. hut in r message is addressed to ; rve.-v ;,o,M.- in the soul thnt mar be j r ;...v.-,l i-, lead in e man on to salva-, !:: . As music speaks to the soul with- I ! i liur. h . b.aks her do-trine witn ! -v's -arb. that her words may ex-. a i.leasbig and vet saving influence. T".. grandeur of the organ burst, the p.h'.nviTv of harmonious chant, impress !:' hearer with a religious awe of the r, y'enes of which the services are a 'inmenioration. or perhaps the altar catches your fiance and von notice the strange for-V.aJion for-V.aJion whi.-h makes one think of those Md fashioned p.iv.bstones. In fact.. 1 bo SHar lias alwavs been shaped after the . Irshioii of tombs though the upper ip.rt is intended to serve as a tit,,p' This regulation is 1o recall the first -A Klibration of ibe eucharistic sacrifice M-i-n Jesus bless, d bread, changing the pibstance into His body, which riaced on the supj-er table for tne tpestles to eat. ere He permitted tne fi ws to force Him ir.10 the sepulcbic. l'ou remark the white cloths on tbe lHar table and vou remember tne rinding sheets in which the body Thrist was enfdded. While 5'ou watt h. ;l,. server begins to light the candles rith which the altar is adorned ana Ihe dancing flame seems to leap i pvstioning springs-asking ou wl h 'be Church bathes the altar m brini ' TJght has over. been thought to be a -hild of heaven, as darkn-ss is s UP . . , s..,l to invest the realms of turnouts. S our minds light is inscparab I , V toi iated with godliness, wtlh m t ;r,d with meritorious, condui t k attributed of. God, as when it is said 7 1 of Christ that He is the Light that il-lumineth il-lumineth every man coming into the world. After conversion we are called 'children of light." When we sin we are said to ""hate the light." So that light and God are so intimately related that men understand easily what John meant when he wrote that God 'dwells i" inaccessible light." Xow we know-that know-that God is on our altar. We adorn the altar with flowers. Xow everyone knows the language of flowers, flow-ers, and by placing the beauteous offsprings off-springs of earth in the presence of the I Lord we intend each . blossom to speak i the word love, gratitude, purity, hero- ism. sorrow, of which we make them I the symbol. In the same way. too, I these (lowers bepken the generosity v.-hiejt leads us to sacrifice all things I t.i the love of our Savior; We call the Most beautiful creatures in existence about the shrine of God to let him know that there is nothing in life we a;e not willing to relinquish when we har His voice commanding. Xow finwers are the most assuring evidences ov th? goodness of God. Everything else in the universe seems to have a necessary use. P.ut man could easily ci ntinue to exist without the floral world. Flowers do not sustain the body, neither are they required by the mind. So it seems as if God, having created the world, and having placed 1 hereon what was necessary to our existence, said I will give man something some-thing more than what is actually re-iuired. re-iuired. and He threw in flowers, the mot beautiful gift of all. as a testimony testi-mony of how good and generous and munificent a Master is our Creator. We or. our side wish to imitate his generosity gener-osity by surrounding his dwelling place with these bright treasures of the field. This that Goti may know that we are willing to give not only the service tl at He demands, but even at the sacrifice sac-rifice of pleasure we will not. refuse to nlinquish enjoyment when the surrender surren-der helps us toward salvation. The church is God's house, where His living friends may come, but where departed de-parted ones are not forgotten. For list as vour homes retain remem-btances remem-btances of friends and relatives who h;'ve died, in the form tif portraits and photographs of the departed, so God's bouse gives place to the statues and pictures of the saints who are our relatives rel-atives in religion. In consideration for us he has stripped strip-ped Himself of His luminous glory lest 'the sight of its splendor might strike u? dead as was said: "No man can g.- zp upon God and live." In gratitude 1 - God for this condescension we seek, though with feeble effort, to create with the artificial means at our command com-mand an abode of light to serve our God as a dwelling. We surrounl the tabernacle with candles and tapers whose tongues of flame whisper to God r.nd ask Him to disregard . the imperfections imper-fections in the design, but only to consider con-sider the baith which attempts to give some outward expression to the thought that the Godhead should he irvested with brightest glory. This is the central idea of adorning the altar with candles. But the presence of these lights may bear many another interpretation. In the language of symbol sym-bol light is faith and hope and love: faith, which sheds a brightness over the nwsteries of life and loads man toward"s the goal of his destiny: hope, which springs eternal in the human bteast. like a reviving flame, m spite or all quenching breezes: love, which is consumed, like the candle's wax, in tne service of a beloved one. So the lights on our altars are sym-1 sym-1 Is or signs, of the belief, the trust, the charitv which are centered in the Lord about whom the candles encircle. The heat which the flame emits is the Fident personal affection which burns i.i our soul for Christ, the loving Savior Sa-vior The substance of the candles, if wax. the distilled bea;aty,of,the flower. U the offering of. eselft-inade .to,4rtod- ly our honor.-our greatness, .our distinction- if not wax. the whitened, form tells of the virginal purity which we shall endeavor to keep unsullied for a clean -oblation to our heavenly Bridegroom. Bride-groom. As the candles weep down waxen tears we are murmuring to Gon a'ts of sorrow for the sins we have com mil ted. When the, candle is at last consumed, we are begging .the Savior to he near us at th? end when death Mews out the light of the present life and ushers the soul into, the shadowy land of the eternal future. Cod does not wish us to forget those who have gone beyond the dividing line 'twixt the present and the hereafter. Fe wishes us to remember how many trev were forced to combat agains. the" self-same foes that we are called upon to encounter. The temptations that beset our path: the discouragements discourage-ments that roughen our way; the ills and woes that strew the road with srdness, were incidents in their career a thev are occurrences in our experience experi-ence The Ixrd desires that we should know that we may overcome the ob-Uncles ob-Uncles and win the glory they now possess bv imitating their example So the Church keeps their memory fresh i.. our minds by displaying their representations rep-resentations in places of worship. If p is right to imitate tne virtues n. , these holv souls, if it is helpful to entertain en-tertain toward them a warm affection then must we preserve the memory of their deeds and create this affection ii our hearts by the same means that serve to keep other - friends alive m thought, though they may be dead in vision. As pictures, photographs statues stat-ues souvenirs, bring departed relatives near, even after the laps, of years so the statues, images, relics of the saints recall them to our presence after the passing of ages. . .d when we gaze upon these visible shapes, the thought within its is snrred i recaP the actions which made the crigiuals worthy of honor. We are ,vmlded of the bliss they now. enjoy and we are spurred on to emu at? their example .If we pray before the statue of the saint it is not io cu.u -printed wood we address Our T"'' ! a- some o' our non-Catholic fnends f dselv imagine. Tf I kiss the paper on v iieh m mother's face is dr.wn. my affection" is not lavished on the rags hat make up the paper's substance The portrait returns her to my mmd ! and 1 seek to pour out my love o her cv when the Una?' brings hack the s unt we speak to him. knowing he , r' ! hear and ask him to help us from j o "hiS in he struggle from which. he r.me . forth a victor. On this account. , tnerefote. we find our churches tenan -"g statues and pictures-th, sensible rVnresentatives of former men. and women wo-men who. as saints now in heaven, can i Vsten to our urayers when we are led bv these visible symbols to address : them -Edw ard Flannery in Catholic Tianscript. ! Young Men. Attention. During the last few days several sig- j mricant sermons have been ..reached . by Catholic priests of this country.. , Thev have been directed at Catholic , vouiig men. and it is . time the latter, Neame aware that they are being chit- ; icied. If the charges are untrue they ; should sneak, out: if true, they should , nroceed to reform. Briefly it is charged that m every! 1-Mge city there are hundreds of Cath- , ohc voung men who would marry who "are able to keep a wife-yet who d i not marry. They are not even con-Rdering con-Rdering it their duty to marry. They ccntinue living with their parents, or j dwelling in hotels, or boarding m pri- vate lodging houses, and earn good j v aires hut never seem to think it their i ciutv as Catholics or Amreican citizens i to marry and found homes for them- selves. . ' There are Catholic young men. according ac-cording to 'statement, who work six days in a week, go to mass .Sunday j morning and spend the evening at stag parties in club or lodge rooms. This , vear in apd year out. They r.ever visit ".-nod Catholic girls in their homes, 'ihey seldom meet them abroad.- lt-is-j ro wonder such young fellows do not marry. Their lives are selfish; their arsociations chiefly masculine. They have not thought of helping either church or state by founding homes and families. Nowaday it is often asserted by Catholic Cath-olic young men that our Catholic societies so-cieties themselves make for the promo-t:on promo-t:on of old bachelors because upright Catholic girls are forbidden membership member-ship in them. There is something in this charge, we admit, but do those societies so-cieties forbid young men to call on young girls in their homes? We do not think they do. In any case, the evil complained of seems to be growing. Catholic young people are not marrying a: thev "ought to do, and fifty even twentv-five years hence the Church will be the loser. Is the young generation gene-ration becoming one of cowards? AN AMERICAN IN FRANCE. I went to France doubly prepared to love the country and its people, for it was the home of my ancestors, and has been the eldest daughter of the church for more than a thousand years. I have s.en the French in every erudition of life, in city and country, a: home and abroad: in church, cafes, at the theater, on the boulevards, the Elois. etc. As th" result of what I have seen, heard, and know, I declara that, deep down in the heart of the French people the spirit of Catholic faith still lives; and it is something more than a name: The French ore essentially a religious people, a pious people, a people devot-ej devot-ej to the religion of their ancestors. The present government of France does not represent the great body of the people, anv more than the revolutionary revolution-ary government of Robespierre represented repre-sented the majority of the people in 1S93. The so-called French republic was, tan established by a majority of the people, hut it was the creation of an ii responsible Parisian mob maddened by the surrender of Sedan and the disgrace dis-grace biough upon France by the Franco-Prussian war. The government is un-Chrislian, infidel, atheistical. It hates with a diabolical hatred the truth, the beauty and the goodness of the Catholic church. Fntaught by the h'story of two thousand years and bl'nded by a wicked bigotry, the present pres-ent rulers of France are trying to extinguish ex-tinguish the religion which all the pow- , or of the Roman empire failed to put down. It has closed Christian schools, and driven Christian teachers into exile; ex-ile; it has ceased the homes of the ioaeeful and industrial monks, and turned them adrift: it has driven good, devoted and helpless nuns from the shelter of their cloisters into the cold. r.cartless. pitiless world, in iaci. i nest-Is nest-Is a new reign of terror in France, but tl.e people are not quietly submitting '.o its tyranny as they did In 1793. It is impossible to see what more the people can do, unless they only revolt, and that would be a bad policy. Over all France and In Corsica everywhere, apparently, where there has been an expulsion, the people have gathered in great crowds for the impossible task of resisting the military. The religious houses have been barricaded, the bells rung, blood has been shed, the people have been dispersed at the point of the bavonet. That 3S.O00.000 people, mostly Catholics, Catho-lics, would submit to be persecuted by a tyrannical minority, is a proposition tlat nn American cannot understand, especially as we know how brave, high-spirited, and fiery Frenchmen are. Yet. these infamous persecutions in the name of the law have been going on for five years, getting worse an1 worse each year. .- ' Tn traveling through France, from P'.eppe to Marseilles. I sw many stately cathedrals which stand as the endurinjr monuments to Catholic faith. The generosity and piety of the French people is not dead, but living, as I -have seen. . Upon Mont mart re's loftiest height a stately church in honor, of the Sacred Heart has been erected in atonement for the outrages and sacrileges sacri-leges committed there by the commune com-mune . in the spring of 1S71. At Lourdes a beautiful basilica has been built over the grotto where the Blessed Virgin appeared to Hernadette. I was present there at midnight mass on Chirstmas eve.. Never ha vie I seen a church more crowded with devout worshippers. wor-shippers. It was a striking congregationthe congrega-tionthe southern French peasants in their picturesque costumes, people from tne neignnormg towns anq villages, visitors from the more distant narts of France, 'a few pilgrims from England, Canada and the United States, together togeth-er with the inhabitants of Lourdes. Few strangers go to Lourdes in win-, ttr. but. even at that season, I never visited the grotto, day or night, without with-out seeing people kneeling before the shrine. 4 When in Tours I heard mass in the house of Leon Dupont, whose saintly life won for him the name of the Holy Man of Tours. He was a beautiful example of the piety of. France in these days of rampant infidelity which has made the world think that the land of St. Louis, of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Cure D'rs has lost the faith that has been its brightest jewel from the early days when St., Ttemy trld Clovis to "burn what he had revered re-vered and revere what he had burned." M Dupont's drawing room has been transformed into the Chanel of the Holy Face, where mass is said every cay by the priests of that order. At the gospel side of the altar hangs the copy of the Holy Face which .was im-piessd im-piessd upon Veronica's handkerchief. During my stay in Marseilles I visited vis-ited the Church of Xotre Dame da la Garde, which is built upon the too of a high rock commanding a splendid view of the Mediterranean and the surrounding sur-rounding country. This church is the first sight that creMs the voyager retiming re-timing from distant and dangerous s-as; and it was. to this sa'cred shrine that perhnns his last visit was paid before sailing for home. To t.iis same snot -the -wives, mot hers- andj' sweethearts sweet-hearts of the'absent; onps come- to pray for their safe return. Here. also. T saw the simple votive offerings of sail- nr on.l tral-olors wVio 1-icol honit ctirul from the dangers, of the sea; the clutches of the lame who have come as nilgrims to this holy spot and been restored to health by prayer and faith: and here, as I heard the sweet sound of th? angelus and saw the kneeling crowds- praying before the different shrines, I knew that the pietv of the French peoole had not changed in spite ! of the insidious attacks of infidelity j and the scoffs of th - irreligious. In the center of the brilliancy, wealth and gaiety of Paris the- beautiful Church of the Madeleine has been erected erect-ed at a cost of $3,000,000. I have been piesent there during a wedding, when all was bright and joyful: while lingering linger-ing in the church, after the marriage ceremony, a funeral procession entered, and a coffin was borne to the front of the altar, -where, a few minutes before, a happy bride had stood. The black robcfi of the priests and the solemn Do Pro-fundis Pro-fundis were a -striking contrast to the gay music, bright flowers; and , joyful tout ensemble of the wedding. After the funeral procession passed slowly out of the church. T stood before Signers Sig-ners masterpiece of the "Death of Magdalen." Mag-dalen." While I was studying the exquisite ex-quisite face of the dying, penitent I heard an infant's cry, and, turning in the direction of the baptistry. I saw a priest pouring the regenerating watens Of baptism upon the head of an infant. These thre different ceremonies witnessed wit-nessed in the same church on the same day recalled Chateaubriand's striking ' thought:"Ueligion has rocked us in the cradle of life, and her maternal hand shall close our eyes while her holiest melodies soothe us to rest in the cradle of death." Standing beneath the masmificant dome of the Tnvalldes and looking down upon the splendid sarcophagus that contains the ashes of the first, greatest and most ambitious Of the P.napartes. my thoughts reverted to the closing i scenes of that restless life fr from Paris, far from France, far from the Fench people whom ho claimed to love ; so tenderly to the distant island where the fierce eagle was chained, and made ' JJ to eat his heart out. j 9 He, too, remembering his happy and Is innocent childhood, said he wished to ft die in the communion of the church, in 1 which he had always believed, but ,1 whose teachings he had not always obeyed. The same pope whom he had J imprisoned cent him an Italian priest i H to hear his confession of thirty-five l years of sin, and blood, and selfish am- j: bition. The dying emperor becomes a j child again, and makes, let us hope, a, ( contrite confession, forgives his ener jj mies, receives the last sacraments, and i dies ' with all the . consolation of reli- j gion. i t'nlike so many of the priests and 5 bishops in England during the refortna- tion, the French clergy, in the present R unhappy attack upon religion, have shown themselves the worthy succes- ft sors of Fenelon, Bossuet, Darboy, La- ftj cordaire and Belsunce, the heroic bish- f$ op of Marseilles, whose statute I saw 3 in one of the public squares of that city. jg He spent days and nights with sick and dying when the plague visited the city r in 1720, and, finally, by public prayers jrj and processions, obtained from heaven 3 a cessation of the pestilence. It was I of this holy bishop' that Pope wrote: gi "Why drew Marseilles- good bishop uj purer breath, j When nature sickened and each gale was death?" Kg The same spirit of self-devotion and 3 noble charity still prevails among the H hirihops and clergy of France, as well M as among the holy religious men and women who have been so cruelly and f, unjustly driven . .from France by the fcj present, despotic government. F On a fine granite column, in one of the public squares of. Marseilles. I saw the R figure of the Genius of Health, raising Ej with one hand the almost extinguished j liame of life, and with the other crown- t ing the names of those who distin- I giiirihed themselves in the plague men- tioned above, among whom 1 felt a per- ? sonal pride in seeing that of my an- fci cestor, Didier, a physician of Montpe- p lier of great celebrity, who, after the PS death of almost all the physicians of y the stricken city, volunteered, with j Chicoineaii and Verni, to go to the as- H sistance of the people of Marseilles. The M exertions of these heroic physicians M were so active and disinterested, that N Lycretelle, in his "History of the Eight- y eenth Century," says they "deserve to K be written on the same page with those g of the benefactors of humanity, whom r we never "mention without profound veneration." ' t When I think of the religious perse- k cut ion that id now afflicting the faith- U ful Catholic of France, 1 feel that thu unhappy country wants today the eloquent elo-quent voice of a Montalembert to arouse the minds and hearts of the yi ung men to an appreciation of their ' gh rious birth-right as children of the church; to answer infidelity by the i mouth of Tertullian and the gentle F Fenelon, "You have nothing to fear K from us. but we do not fear you;" to, j; say to those' who would deprive the ,. church of her immemorial rights, "We will not be Helots in the midst of a frea ( people. We are. the successors of the f martyrs, and we do not tremble before the successors ,of Julian the Apostate. We are the sons, of the Crusaders, and f. we will not draw back before the sons of Voltaire' -. i ... Cheerfulness. One finds very often that one's zeal to do good and attempt to amuse are t bare of result. And it's, mean; this j, very present, never ending, continually up-'obbing knowledge that we have missed our aim. li spells not failure which is bad, but out of placeness, which is worse, yet we can solace our- selves in the.knolede that so many . of our acquaintances, good men, have failed, and have stiil been called good, f Anxiously we Ijsteu to suggestions, m the hope that an indulgent critic will l give us the thread which guides faith- j fully from a labrinth of langorr. And having thus begun, we will pro-. ? iceed....We hope ne have begun well. r ' Prohably not so barren, will be the ) discussion asked for. At least a per- i son who asks us to talk on "Cheerful- ness" -.will read out what we have to . .say for something to say we surely have. But how to say it: and why, ; just at this time? Well, there's no espe- ' cial reason except that just now ap- I preaches "the winter of our diseon tent." And lest we forget, a clerical ( friend of our said something of his own j on the subject the other day, which was suggestive. 'W'ay back in the days w hen Avon's bard - reasoned in rhvme he taiked about the necessity of "fair face hiding what false heart doth -know." To be frank, one of the j pressing needs of young men iSthe art , of keeping troubles to themselves. You 6 may think it exaggerated, but I offer ; as an absolute fact an experience which a young fellow in cue of the big executive execu-tive offices in this city went through. The fellow was of normal intelli- pence, but of abnormal ambition, and i that meant much to the office. He found things often out of sorts: you can't help it in a world of work and worry. He complained bitterly and complained loud. Things were distressing, distress-ing, he said: one couldn't be expected to do good work under such conditions. He looked for trouble, and. strange to say. he found what he looked for. Then he portrayed his sentiments in the glare with which he greeted everybody every-body scow-led. muttered things to himself and all that, with the result that people took him as they thought he wished they would. When he scowled they didn't run away; they didn't even get nervous of him. but they kept away from him and he lived for awhile in as triumphant a loneliness loneli-ness as De Foe's York mariner did, without the necessity, of a barren island. is-land. His life' was one continue! growl, until one day the manager of the office of-fice happened to be in his presence when he happened to spit out his spite-fui spite-fui spleen, and saw him go through lus antics. The effect was marvelous. You've seen a rubber, ball thrown vig- orously against a stone wall rebound: well the growling of the chap struck a stone, wall in the shape of the manager. ' and when it rebounded, it never went back. The chronic kicker thought he'd : better kick less, and he did. He reformed re-formed just in time to save himself. God Bless the Girl Who Works. God bless the girl who works! She is brave and true and noble. She is not too pr.iud to earn her own living jor ashamed to be caught at her daily i task. She smiles at you from behind the desk' or counter or printer's case. ; There is a memory of her sewed up in j th: silent govi:. She is like a brave I mountaineer, already far up the preei- pice climbing, struggling, rejoicing. (The sight should be an inspiration to !us all. It is an honor to know this girl jand be worthy of 'her esteem. Lift your I hat to her, young man.' as she passes by. Her hand may be stained by dish i washing, sweeping, factory grea.-e or pi inter's ink, but it is an honest hand, a helping hand. It stays misfortune from home; it supports an invalid Icved one, maybe: is a loving, potent shield that protects many a family fiom the almshouse. All honor to the b:ave toiler. God bless and protect the girl who. works! |