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Show 1 re; jj i-.y'f.f-. .pfot, ! UTTER-WHITING DIRECTIONS. ; ' rite on one side ol ''paper" oniy. ' 1; Po not have letters too-long. Address all letters to. "Aunt JUusy," Ia-usmouiitain Ia-usmouiitain Catholic. TELL TO ME. . . . "Little Babe, tell me, I way, "U'hy you fame to earth tl-is day: Whv you left those realms so bright, n a hard, cold winter's night?" And the plorjouT little Child 1, 'inked at rr.e out eyes so mild: ml ne'er a word to me did speak, 5 lUit upward turned His glance so meek. iid in that FWfet look 1 read, ; Plainer than if tongue had said, j 1 came, hut 1 shall no again " When I have opened Heaven to men." . Mary A. E. Cany, In the Pilot. LETTERS AND ANSWERS.: : Kvk Springs, Wyo., Nov. IT, 1902. ' p. ar Aunt Busy: I thought 1 would write you a few lines to let you know mu I like school. I've been thinking about my studies and didn't have the time to write. I hope you will not j think I have forgotten you. We had a ? bis election here this month end some $ of the Republicans were elected and ; l tome Democrats were elected. We are poing- to have a Christmas tree in Sunday Sun-day school. My mamma is going on a . I visit to Kennnerer. Phe aid she was going to take my brother and me. My t iirother's name is Hughie. He is 11 . 1 years old, and I am going to ask him to write to you. I will be 13 in January. Janu-ary. If I am living: at Christmas I wiU try and Fend you a present. I will i close now, hoping fiy Tetter is not too long. Good-by, Aunt Busy. SARAH LAVERTY. , I Aunt Busy is, as usual, delighted to ! I hear from you. She would feel dread- I fully, indeed, iZ you should forget her. May you spend a -merry, merry time Christmas, dear little niece. Aunt Busy j appreciates-your kind thought for her, j but she wants from the children their i : love, and, of course, their letters. ; i , La Jara, Colo.. Nov. SO, 1902." ; Dear Aunt Busy: I guess that you f bave forgotten me, for I haven't writ- t ten to you for so long, but I haven't forgotten you, quite. 1 have .been, very , busy going to school since the 1st. of September. Our teacher is Mr. EJmdo- !en. We are going to build a Catholic I church in this town next spring. I had a fine time skating Thanksgiving on the : river. This is all I know to write about, : so will close. Your loving nephew, DENNIS M'CUNNIFF. ; Forgotten you! Well, no indeed. Aunt Busy never, never forgets her ' friends, and least of all, her dear nephews. Aunt Bury wants you to write to her more regularly for the fu- ture. She likes to hear from her in-it-resting nephew from La Jara. Don't ; forget to tell all about the church. I Liiamondville.Vyo., Dec. 12. 1902. I Dear Aunt Busy: I thought I would f T rite to you for I have not written to you for a long time. . We are all well I Mid hope you are the same. I go io ; school every day and am in the fifth i trade. My teacher's name is Mr. ' Moore, and he is a very nice teacher, j Nov. "4 was Morgan's birthday and the ? c hildren around school gave him a sur- i prise party. He was asking mamma f fill the time to give him a party on his birthday. Well, Aunt Busy, I guess j this is all I have to say this time, eo good-by. From vour nephew, i ARTHUR A. KAVANAUGH. I Aunt Busy is pleased as usual to hear f from you. Arthur. Of course you like I your teacher. All good boys do. Why r:id Morgan not write about his 'party? j Aunt Busy hopes that the clear fellow j had a nice time. Tell him to write soon. Aunt Busy feels neglected. Waiting For Christmas. ( Annie was. working on a doll's trous-f trous-f ;i'i for her smallest sister: Josephine ; en coarser and slightly larger garments. v ! i i made one suspect thought of the Christmas tree for poor children at the i ' iviit, and Aunt Alice was re freshing I ("' -' f her own half-worn gowns, cvi- i 5 ' ' - n 1 y for solme poor mother's Christmas j ,,f'X. Helen was embroidering a center- ; I for her mother's dining table myr- ; i .- and rosfs. We are still old-tashioned for those long mornings of sew-! sew-! -a: n famille, whose passing from ' - other homes Mrs. Whitney justly 1 :': '.red. '!'!.. Family Theologian wasn't sewi12. i the worst of needlewomui. We 1 '' ? the ripping for her. She loves to do i 1:- --avs it relieves her mind. We have I ',' c.iiuion her not to put all her super-j super-j 1! "us i nergy into it. T'"iay there whs no ripping. She waH I at a window, a little apart, looking over I ij a box of pious books of what she t enlij tn,. exclamatory order of devotion. I ' "' '(s. b ar!" she groaned, at length. ; "M.i. HVi -.Methods of Hearing Mass for f i ' "-ir-n.' 'Ktys of lb aven.' 'Gates of J "T:i 'i:se.' translations of French prayer I ' '"ks Kaloro, wii.i their scnrnle-tireedir.g ; 5 t- !' -s of sins and not one missal. Hew i i 1 'athoiios h.ie an intelli.Tnt apprc- r""ion oi iheir faith, or get the comfort ; t 1 v -,i-;lu to out of it. who bring thetn- i e ;.s vn such spiritual diet as this?" : j '"11. y can't and they don't." answered : ! J" niiii.c, lifting her eyes from a small i-Mliatul for a moment: "but 1 supiw.Ke I 11 do your iart to bring in a better 3 or,i.T j,v .listributlng your usual boxful ('! -Mis-.ils and New Testaments." I ''I wish I could afford to give away be- t s-'f a f w htimlred of 'The Catholic i '.-i h from Within.'" said Jane, "were : only for that splendid chapter on the l ;';'t:y. Think of reasonable beings, in j Krp-.-t health, unable to stay through j a' ' nifice of the church but r. low Mass: ; t fi1r,i whom the successive seasons of ; j J. '' Christian yea- have far li ss meaning t r.;.,i the visible chances of nature. Why. I'u-ng aside the spiritual advartage. v I ' " '" amy of the Liturgy in Advent, ior j X:l!l;!'I''. should make a poet of any- ; on'1." f 1 .,, 1 w;s thinking," said Aunt Alice, j : ""w rearvelously these antlnms and !, V1-)' rs. 1'1 ,luni;,n needs at all times. i' " " Christmas we approach a mystery , v""'i human eras). Outside" the ; chur.b. men are dav bv lav enlarging J ;" ;r ' iii.il of Christ, and-without the I '"'"ftan what does Christn-as mean? f ; -J-1".' '"llcKt, Kirl i.rietirs v,itn f, vftats ! ! 'oil -whys ; when Divine Revelation is j ' "'i'tione.1; a)1(j ,ne pelf-asserted 'intel- r i ,h ' lUy ,,s '"t0r Catholics. But the - , "fens her New Year, just as she ; , OKi in the a:;es of- Faith, with the awful )h,rn "f (he 'Uast Judgment; onlv now trr ., a ,1PW meaning in the words : ln(;m, thf' Psalms at the IntroiL .'Let me 1 a,,.i' !lKham 'd: neither let my' enemi'.s on Ti at for n"ne of them that wait I " a nee shall be confounded. Show me. h: Thy ways, and teach me Thy paths. " -"As to laughing. I have a strong conviction con-viction that the 1-clitvrs will laugh" last," replied Jan", grimly. "I also believe that a good de-il of "oung collece girl doubt or disbelief is mere bravado. I'd like to see iier in a big thunderstorm, or with an attack of acute palpitation - of the heart. But here's another loely thing about the Advent pravers. We' are in the dark of the year, so to socak. Hard times and personal troubles are more grievous. f th.-re's a sicrn that anvthing evr prew, it's the autumn leaves drifted into the fence corners in the country. Short days and long nights, rain and sleet ' and row.-and yet St. l':ail speaks across nearly 2,YK) years to us: "It is now the hour for us to rise from sleep, -for now our salvation is nearer than we believed. be-lieved. The night is passed and the day is at hand; let us. tnercfore, cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. And the promise to keep up our courage: 'The Lord will give goodness good-ness and our earth shall yield her fruit." .These are watchwords for the day, for the week even, which Catholics cannot have who don't take the trouble to know their taith intimatelv." "Advent is expectation," said Josephine, "the sweetest thing in the world. The snirkual jovs of the First Christmas will be renewed, and we'll have all our temporal tem-poral Christmas pleasures the clear home-comings and children's joys, the gifts, the love and friendship, because o that firt Christmas." "Expectation grows into longing. Pcr-hays' Pcr-hays' it doesn't quite fit but you know James Russell Lowell's poem: 'Of all the myriad moods of mind " That through the soul come thronging, Which one was e'er so dear, so kind, So beautiful as Longing? Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving, We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But would we learn the heart's full scope Which we are hourly wronging. Our lives must climb hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah! let tis hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread His ways, But when the spirit beckons, . That some Flight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction. When we are simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. "That much" of it fits, anyway," said Aunt Alice. The Pilot. " "" Tor Boys To. Think About. ' It is easier to keep out of jail than to break-out, 'provided you begin in time. It is easier to avoid forming a bad habit than it is to break away from a bad habit . - The d611ar you earn and spend is only a dollar: the dollar you earn and save is two dollars. He who makes it his rule always to earn his dollar before he spends it, will never be a beggar or a slave to debt. " It is easier to avoid beginning to tamper tam-per with tobacco and strong drink than it is to free yourself from the appetite If it be once acquired. Povertv mav keep a boy down for a time, but if he has in him the true mettle, met-tle, he will rise. Jay Gould was a poverty-stricken surveyor. George W. Childs was a booksiller's errand boy at a salary of four dollars a month. John ana-maker ana-maker started on a salary of a dollar and a quarter a week. Andrew Carnegie began be-gan life on a weekly salary of three dollars. dol-lars. Abraham Lincoln was a miserably poot farmer's son. Andrew Johnson was a tailor's apprentice boy. and learned to read -after he was married. James A. Garfield was a poor widow's son, and as a barefooted boy drove mules on the tow-path of an Ohio canal. Exchange. Facts Concerning Yourself. Each ear has four bones. The bodv has about 500 muscles. . The human skull contains thirty bones. The lower limbs contain thirty bones each. - . Every hair, has two oil glanos at its base. - - . ,. . . The sense "of touch . Is uudest on tne back. ' . - The globe of the eye is moved by six j muscles. " ,; .,','' I The. wrist contains eisht bones, tne palm five, the fingers fourteen. . The roots of the hair penetrate the tkiT about one-twelfth of an inch. Hair is very strong. A single hair win bear a weisht of about l.loO grains. j The enamel of the teeth contains over ninetlv-five per cent calcareous matter. Stra'icht hairs are nearly cylindrical, ; curlv hairc are clludral or flat., Tho weight of the average man is iw pounds; of a woman, Il" pounds. ' The brain is supposed to contain oer W OKHKiO cells,- in which thought works out pfoblsms. Christian Advocate. . - |