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Show I , . ji Bottie Circle j GOD WILL UNDERSTAND. ' They brought their flowers to the altar, ! Blossoms of white and red; i Lillies and violets and roses, The sweetest of perfume shed; ! And none of the rich and mighty Who lavished their gifts that day, f Took heed of a child among them Who timidly pressed her way. She crept up close to the altar. And there 'neath a lily's crown, " : With tender, reverent fingers, ! hiie laid-her offering down; i: And said to a curious question. As the flower dropped from her hand, j "It is only a little daisy. 1 But God will understand." ! Sweet, childish faith! Oh, teach us Our little best to give, Though the works of .others are great, i Than the humble life we live; ; Antl to offer our grateful service Forever with loving hand. Safe in the blessed assurance That God will understand. Ex. , TTTl i. ! m s e i a j Somebody said she would like to get into good society. It started the question, ques-tion, What is good society? ' ' Good society is that where toadyism is frowned down upon and scandal- 'i mongers are not admitted. t . Good society is that where one earns ? one's title.of gentlewoman, not only by birth, : but'by good manners. Good society is that where men are respectful, where off-color stories are : not told, and where the women do not ; smoke cigarettes. ' ; God society is that where to understand under-stand Greek is of less importance than to understand courtesy in all its laws. J ' Good society is that which is not i ' . ' personal in its talk, but which finds sufficient topics of interest to discuss without dilating on the sins of its neighbors. Good society is that where the. art of welcoming "the coming and speeding the parting guest is graciously practiced. prac-ticed. ,. , : , . Good society is: that where women ar hot hastily judged, but once they i are believed to be untruthful, deceitful and ill-bred, they are ostracised. Good society is that which can. give l a dinner without sending a notice of it j to the newspapers, can introduce a l daughter without having her frocks ! made the subject of a paragraph, and which believes that the family and its happiness is of more importance than being counted among the Four Hundred. Hun-dred. ,- ' -; , Good society is that which, while- it recognizes the value of the conventional convention-al rules, is yet sufficiently strong to be guided occasionally by hearts, and not of necessity to follow a leader, as sheep do. Beauty of Carriage. Mere beauty of face does not avail a woman much if she has a poor car nage, tier race may De periect in its outlines, her figure may be well proportioned, pro-portioned, and she may be dressed in the very latest style and her clothing be of the finest material," and still her appearance will not be attractive if she does not. know-how to stand properly. prop-erly. Grace of carriage can be culti-t culti-t vated to a certain extent if one will only make the effort. It is the tendency ten-dency of the body to fall back heavily to the heels unless there is some exercise exer-cise to offset the action. She should stand lightly poised on her feet, with knees straight, chest well out, stomach stom-ach flat, shoulders back, and body from the waist tilted very slightly forward for-ward and the springy step and graceful grace-ful carriage will soon follow. A woman cannot stand correctly and look slovenly. If she has a graceful carriage car-riage it will give her an attractive appearance ap-pearance that no amount of fine clothes will produce. ' '. VA SON OF A PRIEST. It used to be ' the hope of every pious Catholic family to have a son a priest. For that purpose the signs of a vocation to the altar were watched for and if ' indications of their existence were given by the boy, they were assiduously as-siduously cultivated. Then sacrifices were made, if necessary, to give the lad a classical education; and, if he then himself ' began ; to aspire to the priesthood, further sacrifices were made to send him through a seminary. If all these cares, and prayers, and labors, and expenditures turned out happily and the young man was ordained, or-dained, great was the joy of his people. But in these worldly days and in this 1 semi-pagan country, where success is represented as wealth and greatness is regarded as the power to indulge in some form of the pride of life, many Catholic parents do not care to see a son of theirs a priest. .They want their boys to get on in the world. They are not willing to pay for a training that lasts about seventeen years. The dignity dig-nity of the priesthood is not appreci- j a ted by them, nor have they that pas- sion for things spiritual that makes self-denial sweet and hardships easy when endured for the love of God. They need a new baptism of fire to make them see the real values of I things in the light of eternity. Now that thousands of boys are ' about to finish their school course would be an opportune occasion for their parents to consider whether or not they had a call to the sacred ministry; min-istry; and if so, to see what can be done to enable them to make the 'ecclesiastical 'eccle-siastical studies. Pittsburg Observer. TO MY MOTHER. 'Deal gently with her. Time: these many years Of life have brought more smiles with them than tears. Lay not thy hand too harshly on her now, - Hut trace decline so slowly on her brow -That (like a sunset of the northern clime. -. Where twilight lingers in the summertime, summer-time, And fades at last into the silent night. Ere one may note the passing of the light) So mav she pass since 'tis the common lot-As lot-As one who, resting, sleeps and knows it not. John Allen Wyeth in the Century Magazine. |