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Show j I Of Interest' id ; &cr; KeMers 1 I t 4 N ' " J - iONE WORD. One word of heedless, idle chaff "Will bid us merry be and laugh; A single word can make us glad. .Mini her, still, depressed and sad. A little word can bring heartache, Oft, oft indeed, a heart can break. One word ofttimes cap make us see Bight through' the dire perplexity; "an o.uickly settle long- dispute," The blackest calumny, refute; One word may seal a nation's fate. Allotment change of whole estate. i A word, aye. one, can mischief brew, Cause pain and anguish to ensue; ne word can sharply criticise, Severely, bitterly chastise; ; One timely word may warning bring, ' Another plant a deathless sting. ()ne word may doubly give assurance, Unknowingly prolong endurance; i one word may lighten, cheer and bless The darkest hour of dark distress; I'rgc on the drooping, fainting soul, At any cost, to win the goal. - A word may oft estrange friends fond, of trembling slave undo the bond; one word may faith and honor kill, J (reams of a lifetime blight and chill; One whispered word may be a prayer, A sobbing cry of grief and care. A word may gently backward swing The gates of memory and bring Lear days and years when skies were : blue. And clouds afar, afar and few; A word may wondrous love confess, A thousand new-born hopes express. Kathleen Kavanagh, in New Orleans ; Picayune. j LOYALTY. ! Two friends I have, long loved and trust- i d long, j one, turning ever toward life's fairest side. And fearing lest it slip his grasp, would hide From his soul's Inward eve all sight of wrons Bring me the world's uncomprehending praise As iricndship's highest tribute; sees in shame Of mine, or willful blunder, naught to claim leep-felt repentance, but in countless ways Finds pardon for me ever and again, Because I am no worse than other men. The second, looking up toward heaven's light. Vet works in stifling fog and close-drawn close-drawn fray. '-Mid want, doubt, selfish greed, where men must pray As. groping, they seek out lost gleams of right; Scanning my life with love's clear eyes, !: sees My llimsy talents, old mistakes, low ends. And when I wear earth's laurels, but commends "With stern "Thou canst do better things than these." O keen soul-reader, judge me of these two; Which think you is the false friend, which the true? Ruth Huntington Sessions, in Century. BABY'S PRETTY CURLS. Pulled Them Off in a Car and Embarrassed Embar-rassed Her Mamma. Philadelphia Times.) A well-dressed, woman with a beautiful beau-tiful baby in her arms attracted ' the attention of all the passengers on a German town car. Kvery one was fascinated fas-cinated by the baby's pretty and smiling smil-ing face and particularly by two golden curls which hung down her cheeks. ! After a while the child became nerv- i "us and began to tug'at one of the ! curls' which protruded from her hood. The woman, presumably her mother, t quickly stopped her, but a few moments i later she looked out of the window. ! No soiiuer was her face turned than i the child seized her bonnet with both hands and pulled it off. It offered little i resistance, but to the astonishment of every one on the car the curls came with it, and the supposed golden-haired baby showed that in reality its head I was without the semblance of a hair. I The child swung the bonnet to and fro and laughingly held it up for the inspection of the other passengers. It was almost a minute before the woman turned around. When she Vaw what the baby had done, her face flushed, and without a word she picked up the child and walked sedately out of the car. "When last seen she was trudging down Spring Garden street with the .baby tucked under her arm like a sack f oats, hut still holding tightly to the bonnet and cooning, "Pee my pooty hair?" No Vacation For Catholics. This is the season of the year when the difference between the character ' the Catholic and the non-Catholic churches become most manifest. The preachers are c losing up their churches during the hot months of the summer ;md hieing themselves away to pleasant pleas-ant places to spend the heated season. "We do not blame people for doing this whose estimate of their business is that it can wait. But our own priests, who do not believe that the business of Christ may wait at any time, are not betaking themselves to the woods and the seashore in any great numbers. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the northerly boundary of the country to the shores which are lapped by the Gulf of Mexico one can find no Catholic church which is shut up because be-cause of the heated season or because the pastor thereof must needs have rest. Our priests, and to their honor J be it said, recognize that their day of ; rest is not of the kingdom of this earth, and consequently they work and Avork and work, with only occasional intermissions, inter-missions, until the end comes with its completeness of rest. The devil is none the less busy in the heated season than in the cooler no. For ourselves, we sometimes incline in-cline to the theory that he is a Jittle more so. There is no less pressing necessity of worship and instruction during that season than during any other. Therefore, there is as much need of church services as at any other time during the year. At that time, more ihan any other, there is a tendency toward laxity in the performance of religious re-ligious duties. It would ill become the I church to show favor to the weakness of her children in this direction by consenting con-senting to their absence from divine worship at the stated times and places prescribed by her rule. Therefore, the summer vacation is a thing unknown to our people and properly so. and the absence-of it becomes more marked and more noteworthy by the contrast with those ho differ from us. Mary is the . stem of that beautiful flower on which the Holy Spirit rests with all His gifts; therefore, he who wishes to obtain the Seven Gifts of this Holy Spirit should seek the flower of iho Holy Spirit on its stem. We go to I'-sns by Mary, and by Jesus we find the grace of the Holy Spirit. St. Bon.'i-Ycnture. Bon.'i-Ycnture. t I A Fortunate Attribute. I Lucky, indeed, is the woman who . has the happy knack of doing little things. Far be it from me to say that the woman of great talent and genius should not be just as much appreciated. appreci-ated. This is not addressed to the woman wo-man of great talent and genius. She has such a full world of her own. We bow and we should before her great achievements. 1 am only particularly calling attention at-tention to the woman who has a happy knack in little things, because we usually usu-ally take her so much as a matter of course, and are apt to neglect to give her full measure of the praise s'.ie deserves. de-serves. There are women who have the knack of making a room look bright and cheery, though its furnishings furnish-ings are the poorest and plainest. Such v. one knows just where to place the lamp so its light is made the most of, how to arrange the chairs so , IIIWHIIIIHIIII WIIIW WIIIBIW IIIIMIHIIHI "I "Tl M they will look as though inviting you to be seated and rest a while. She knows how to put the cups and saucers on the table and how to put a flower and a bunch of green in a vase in the center of the'table. Oh, if you think .the understanding of these little things do not count for much, look about you and find how you miss them when they are not heeded heed-ed by the hornemaker. Worldliness. "VVhy have so many or our Catholic People become so thoroughly worldly? they have been baptized Catholics, have had the good example of pious parents, and even the advantage of attending at-tending Catholic schools. Do vou seek an answer? Ask that young man over-eager over-eager for worldly fame, riches and high position. Ask that dreamy, thoughtless novel reade;, who can find no lime to : pray or perform religious duties. Ask ' that father whose simples piety and tender devotion of former years are buried under the success which the work of years have brought him. Ask tnat mother wholly absorbed in new costumes for herself or daughters, or in forming ambitious projects for her sons, permitting her children to attend godless schools, and feeling no erlef that some of her children have married outside the church, and that others have grown up most ignorant of their religion. 'And if they all sneak the truth they will answer that the spirit of the age has led them awav from the pictcuce or tneir religion and led them to think slightly of the high principles it inculcates. The chilling atmosphere of worldliness and mundane ambition have wilted the beautiful flowers of faith and pious conduct which the bracing brac-ing atmosphere of stanch Catholicity would have caused to bloom into fruits of virtue for eternal life. For the Housekeeper. It is claimed that many housekeepers do not know how to plan the daily bill of fare so. that dishes that are M not alone appetizing, but which will give strength to all the different parts of the body shall be selected. Food which best supplies muscular waste is termed nitrogenous, that- which is heating and fat-forming, carbonaceous, and brain-rorming, brain-rorming, phosphatic. Every meal should be served with a variety of food that will give heat, muscle and brain food to the body. Among vegetable foods and cereals, oats supplies the largest proportion of muscle-forming food-beans food-beans supply 23 per cent of the muscle-forming muscle-forming principle, while peas supply twenty-three and four-tenths parts; apples supply 16 per cent of muscle-giving muscle-giving food; oysters ten parts: fish give about 14 per cent ,of muscle-forming food; chicken supplies twenty parts; beef, fat and lean, about 15 per cent of muscle-forming food; veaj, ten and five-tenths; mutton, twelve and five-tenths; five-tenths; pork, ten parts of muscle food. Scrap Baskets. There should be a scrap-basket in every room of the house. For bedrooms, sewing rooms and play rooms a homemade home-made scrap basket is easily provided. Take a. clean half bushel fruit basket if you have none any grocer will provide pro-vide one for 5 cents and cover it inside in-side and outside with chintz or cretoh to match the room you desire1 to use it In. It will prove delightfully steady and capacious. The chintz may be arranged ar-ranged to remove for an -occasional washing. Tomato Puree. Tomato puree is a soup too often spoiled in the making. After having cooked and strained the tomatoes and added the milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg should be rubbed into a tablespoon of flour, and the two put on the stove and cooked together a few minutes before the mixture is added to the soup and stirred in slowly to prevent pre-vent lumps. Add also a littie Worcestershire Worces-tershire sauce, a suspicion of red pepper and either a little parsley out up fine or a little summer savory. Any bits of cold fricasseed chicken with gravy make a valuable addition to this soup, the chicken to be taken out, of course, before serving. Woman's Charm at Forty. At a literary salon in Paris. Balzac was once asked by a pretty little girl of seventeen why it was he liked worn- en she would call passe. "Why, monsieur, even whey they are as old as forty, you seem to em'ov their society." Balzac looked at her earnestly for a second and laughed heartily. Then he remarked in a serious voice, as though weighing every word he said: "Perhaps the secret lies in the simple sim-ple fact that the woman of twenty must be pleased, while the woman of forty tries to please, and the older woman's power consists, not as has been often said, in understanding' and making the most of her own charms, but in comprehending, and with happy tact, calling out and making the most of the good qualities of the man whose favor she seeks." Kindly Actions. "It has been a revelation to me," said one friend to another, " in my visit to this house, to . observe the kindly acts of neighborly courtesy which.are. incessant,. .Nobody, seems ever forgotten. If a daughter, is "going on an errand, she steps in t6 inquire for a. sick friend or to leave flowers. Delicate iellies and nutritious soups are carried to the shut-ins. When books and periodicals have been read at home they are passed on or sent to some one at a distance. The home has many little pathways reaching out to other and less favored people j and making them happy." Quietness. "Studs'- to be quiet," that is, study to dismiss all bustle and worry out of vour inward life. Study also to "do your own business of other people. A creat deal of "creaturely activity" is expended in trying to do other people's business. It is often very hard to "sit still" when we see our friends, according accord-ing to our ideas, mismanaging matters snd making such dreadful blunders. But the divine order, as it is also the best human order as well, is for each one of us to do our own business, and to refrain from meddling with the business of any cne else. ---- A Child's Timidity. See .how' timid- a little' child is;- see how1 he sees, even in a strange face, an object which terrifies him! How shall that child lose that timidity? Not by shutting him in a room, where he. will never see -anybody. Fear is generated by letting him -face, unknown objects, and presently he begins to understand them until out of constant experience fear is eliminated, and strength and courage take its place. |
