| Show THE MONKS living in silence amid the snow baties of the order the rigia vows good words each pere has two little rooms with a workshop and garden at tacked all in on 0 e piece of two stories so that unlike the usual monastic arrangement the cartau abode is self contained I 1 E very i in fact practically a hermit wi ith just a little more ac than the traditional hermit usually bad that may help to account for tha rem fact that this order was about the only one which never degenerated so far from the primitive type as to need reformation dormitory goo sip room scandal monger edg hanging about the pantry doors quarreling swearing and stealing patry were not possible under such The furniture is of the barest description it con bitts ofa wooden bed a chair a writing and binim table a joinery beach a plain the usual helps to the suffering sou upon the wall and a few religious picture pic A bouka food cousins of one meal a day this is pushed in by a sliding grating in the cloister wall so that he never e the person who brings it it is made out of soup fish and ve ge tables on ordinary days and on fridays and during lent simple bread and water though this prison fare was in stricter times the rule of three days in each week the bi cut fat tiera are now allowed the luxury of a fire in cold weather though thai is a worldly concession to modern ideas of comfort we severity of flie old fireless rule may be imagined when it is remembered that tire monastery is over four thousand feet up and is buried in a great aart of the year there is a pathetic story of filth er be the other great carthue ran house in sunnier calabria Oa who when elected to the highest arthus carthus C ian dignity of prior of the parent monastery willingly came but ca e sever knotig for certain that the ity of the climate would speedily kill lim it was a call from the lord not to a better living ii 0 obeyed it and in a few months be lay d own silence the great characteristic of the was easily kept by the self contained arrangement just even on festival days when they ate in common this iule was strictly observed it bus been so far relaxed in modern times that the fathers are allowed to walk out together once a week and conevera e with one another or even 10 others when spoken to the milne ey have to spare from the office wh I 1 h are particularly lengthy 19 aiken up with reading meditation jo illery gardening and cleaning these fathers are mostly aristocrats of various nationalities the y r a present about forty in nu abe r the entrance fee is large the no vitiate long and severe the great at fearful rigidity the horsehair ebirt and laneil rules admit of no exception |
