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Show f ..Our Boys and dirl$ ?. Edited by Aunt Busy, ' BOYS WANTED. I I Boys of spirit, boys of will, Boys of muscle, brain and power, 1 j ' Fit to cope with anything 1- 1 J These are wanted every hour. I Not the weak and whining: drones, Who all troubles magnify; j Not the watchword of "I can't," j But the nobler one, "I'll try." i f f m Do vhate'or you have to do " With a true and earnest zeal; r i Bend your sinews to the task. f Tut your shoulder to the wheel. r 1 Though your duty may le hard, ) , Look not oh it a.s an ill; 1 I v 11 il DO an honest task, J 1)0 il a" honest will. 1 ! . : I In the workshop, on the farm, j At the desk, where'er you be, 1 j . From your future efforts, boye, i " . Conies a nation's destiny. I . Younp Catholic Messenger. 1 ' , i AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY.. I . i ' Dear Xiooe.s and Xephcws: Aunt Busy is anx- . iously waiting1 to hear reports from the children in I regard to their club work. ' . Christmas is very near, and Aunt Buy wants "the dear young people to bring eheor to many hearts during the beautiful Christmastidc. Aunt Busy's Sunbeams must ho "really truly' ; sunbeams or they will not deserve their pretty club j . name. f Each week the reports from the "Sunbeams" will j be printed, and Aunt Busy hopes, .that. each, niece i and nephew will have some "sunshine" work to re- ? . port to old AUNT Bl'SY. i I - - I AUNT BUSY'S SUNBEAMS. f ' I The St. Lawrence branch, consisting of tive ; nieces, report sending 12 cents to the Thanksgiving dinner given by the Salvation Army. Ten little Denver girls are each dressing a doll I to be given to ten poor children for Christmas. J The Buds and Blossoms' branch, consisting of fix little girls, am framing pictures to -.be presented to old ladies at the poorhouse for Chrii-tnias. I . ' I Four .dear girls are planning to each send a Ptory book costing 25 cents to the Kearns St. Ann's I orphanage. . ? A family consisting of three girls and two boys I each send a penny a week to the St. Anthony guild established here in Salt Lake. . . Reports received up to Dec. 12 are very en-l en-l ecu raging. I Three Salt Lake nephews are planning a Christ- ' mas tree for two motherless little boys, who live in their neighborhood. Aunt Busy is invited to at tend, and she hopes to be present. Two very wee girls intend to give their last f year's dolls to some less fortunate little friends. I Perhaps this may not appear much, but it is quite ; a wrench to give up the dollies, even if they are a year old, and Aunt Busy would love to give the sweet, wee mothers a good big hug. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Ogden, Xov. 17, 190". I Dear Aunt Busy: I go to the St. Joseph's fehool and I like it very much. I heard you were getting up a club, and I think ''St.' Agnes' ' is a pretty name for it. I am getting along fine in school. I hope one of us in St. Joseph's school will ! get the prize. Well, good-bye. Your loving niece, j ELLA ALLARD. You are very welcome, little Ogden niece, and I Aunt Busy hopes to hear from you very often. St. I Agnes was a dear saint, and the name would have been appropriate, but "Aunt Busy's Sunbeams"' is the selected name. Ogden, Xov. 18. Dear Aunt Busy: I hear you have started a new club and you are trying to find a name for ii. I think "St. Joseph's Willing Workers" would f a nice name, and I hope you will make a great success with your club. I guess this is all for this I time. JAMES SETCHELL. ! Aunt. Busy is grateful for the kind wishes from Tames Setehell. "St. Joseph's Willing Workers" is a very clever name, James. What a good name i it. will be for the Ogden "Sunbeam Club" when it start ! A Ogden. Xov. 17. My Dear Aunt Busy: I agree, with my brother that your club should be called "St. Patrick's Busy f lub." My very name demands that I should be ' proud of the .patron' of the Emerald Isle. All honor to her sons and daughters. My parents just returned from a Irip to California, and I had a woeful time while they were away. If the edi tor of the Herald could have heard the j-eriTx.n Father Cushnahan preached last Sunday, Sun-day, about lhe Cross of Christ having been raised in every country and in every clime by the sons of lhe Emerald Isle, he, too. would .agree and say it must, be named "St. Patrick's Busy Club." Don't you think so? I thank you for the many words of praise you gave me in your papers. Do you think I deserve it all? I hope I do. Love from all ithe boys and girls. Your niece. TERESA O'COXXOR. Yes, Teresa, Aunt Busy always thinks and says: "All Hail to St. Patrick," the great, glorious apostle of Ireland. Dear Father Cushnahan's sermons are always grand, but he certainly seems inspired when ' talking about St. Patrick. Aunt Busy deeply re- grcts that the editor of the Salt Lake Herald is not an Irishman, but he is really a very nice sort of man, nevertheless. ; Ogden, Xov. 17. Dear Aunt Busy: As all the girls arc writing to you, I will also write. I go to the St. Joseph's school and w-e all have a good time together. I ! think that club you are getting up for the poor is real nice. I hope it will be a success. I have a long distance to come to school, but I have not been i absent yet. I will be 11 years old Thanksgiving. I think a good name for your club would be "Con- -3 fraternity Club." We have a nice lot of altar boys here. Well I will write a longer letter next time. Your loving niece, ESTHER GRAVES. Aunt Busy always has a warm welcome for a new niece, and a very earnest . welcome .for an Ogden niece. Aunt Busy thinks the Ogden altar ; boys are among the finest in America. Why, the largest churches in Chicago have not as many servers serv-ers as the pretty little city of Ogden. ' Aunt Busy thinks that Ogden and the people in Ogden are al most perfect, particularly the dear young people PATRON OF ALTAR BOYS. I On the last day of August, says the Paulist cal- endar, the Church celebrates a feast of a staunch I little hero, St. Dominic Val, who suffered martry- I dom at an early age. He was born in Saragossa, j Spain, in the year 1243, about ten years after the , canonization of the great St. Dominic de Guzman, I and in whose honor he was named. He was re markable for the devout manner in which he served at the altar, and hence he is venerated as the spe-cinl spe-cinl patron of altar boys and choristers. On Holy Ibursday of the year 1250 little Dominic was pass- , ing from out the cathedral of his native city when he was seized by an infuriated mob and was nailed to the very walls of the cathedral. His heart was pierced with a dagger, and the poor little martyr expired, as did his Master, amid the jeers of the frenzied mob. The body was taken down and cast into the River Ebro. Au unusual splendor played on the water, and thus was 'marked the spot where the body lay. Many miracles were wrought by his intercession. A GAME FOR BOYS. One boy sits down on the floor with his knees up. and another sits down in the same manner, each boy sitting on the other's toes. Then each holds on to the upper part of the other's ami. Xow rock to and fro, and you will find you can go quite a long distance across the floor. It is rather funny to have two or three couples all doing it at the same time, and see who gets to the other side of the room first. Of course, this game should be played in the. bouse, and even then it's hard on clothe. MOST LOVEABLE SORT OF GIRL. Certainly hc is not the blue-stocking crammed with information in an undigested form, neglectful of her person, sallow of skin, contemptuous of those graces which arc to womanhood what the scent is to the lily or lhe color to the rose. It you could induce her for forget how clever she v.;;. or lose sight of it yourself, for half a minute, ho might le loveable; but the clever woman wo-man is always insisting upon her cleverness at least, the so-called clever woman of today, who 'is j really the most stupid woman of all time. . Xot the beauty, because hansomc is as handsome hand-some does, and the prettiest girls are often the shallowest and the vainest. Xot the society girl, always in a whirl, the devo- j tee of balls and private theatricals, thristing for j publicity, rushing wildly from one thing to an- J other, depending for happiness upon excitement. Xot the meek, colorless girl who says "Yes. I dear," to everything, and is only too ready to make a footstool of herself for a man to put his feet on. Xot the Martha-like maiden, harassed about household affairs, whose burning ambition is to live in a large house, and who regards a husband more or less an adjunct to it. Xot the rapid girl, with her dogs, her chums and her cigarettes. Xot the exacting girl, quick and passionate of temper, jealous of every other woman, suspicious to an insane degree, always fancying some neglect and resenting it. Xot the sharp-tongued girl, with the quick repartee rep-artee and the witty sarcasm. Xot the smart girl, with her frequent changes of costume, her inordinate extravagance and iht devotion to fashion. The most lovable typo of girl is lhe old-fashioned. The girl who thinks in many things as her great-grandmother did before her; the girl who is glad of a man's protection, his arm across a street, his help over a stile, his assistance in carrying parcels, par-cels, his escort to the theatre The girl who could stand alone, if she had to do it, but who greatly prefers to be spared the necessity. ! The girl who can spend a month at home, stay in every night, without once being dull or bored. The girl who can darn socks, fix buttons, and. at a pinch, adjust a patch. The girl who can see good in every tiling, who has a large heart and a kindly, amiable nature. The girl who will be .hnv to anger and quick to forgive, who will trust a man; go through thick-and thick-and thin for a man. and scold him well when he deserves it. She may be dark or fair, slender or well developed, de-veloped, grave or gay. tall or short for there is no special mark which distinguishes the most lov- ' able type of a girl: the only way in which she may be known is by the multitude of those who love her. i When you find a girl who has kept the friends i she made at her first school, for whom other wo- j men would do almost anything, the sunshine of home and the delight of old people and children, i you may be sure you have found the most lovable i type of girl. McCall's Magazine. |
