The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-03

| ihey,were passing between Sieg warts house
ana salingen, when they beheld Angela, at a
| Instance, coming toward them. She carried a
| httie basket on her arm, and on her head she
! wore straw hat with broad ffutteripg rib
oons' hicha I'd fixed his eyesEattentively on
her. TINS time, also. she did not wear hoops,
out dress OF modest colors lie admired her
| light, graceful movement aud charming figure.
The clustering doctor moderated his steps and
went slower the nearer he came to Angela,
ana considered s her 9th surprise. Frank
greeted her, touching his hat She did not
.nank MN, as before, with friendly greet az,
put ny scarcely perceptible inclination of her
ueaa nor did she smile as before, but on this
| account seemed to him more charming and
ethereal than ever. She only glanced at him,
| her cheeks.
mans We're engrossing the
say, :" Evidently the Angel OF Saliugen.D
| WHO ~ said Richard in SURPRISE
The Angel of Salingen. returned Klingen-
is it not well-merited 2"
| MY surprise increases, doctor for exag-
seration Is not your fashion,"
49,, But she deserves Acknowledgements. Let
me explain. The maiden is the daughter of
| tne proprietor Siegwart, and her name is An
| gela. She Is o model Of every virtue. She is,
IN the female world, what ar image of the
Virgin, by one of the old masters, would be
among the hoped gentry of the present AS
| you are aware, have been often called to the
CABINS OF the sick poor, and there the quiet,
upoooSaooeAouS laDOTS OF UDlS maiden have be-
come known to me. Angela prepares suitable
| fopd Tor the sick, and generally takes it to
| them herself The basket on her arm does
| service in this way. There are many poor per-
| sons who would not recover unless they had
| proper, nourshing food. To these Angela is a
great benefactor. For this reason she has a
great influence over the minds of the sick, and
| the state of the mind greatly facilitates or i'm
| pedes their recovery.
81 have often entered just after she had de-
parted, and the beneficial influence of her
presence could be still seen in the counten-
| ances of the poor. Her presence diffuses resie-
nation, peace, contentment and q peculiar
cheerfnlness in the mesnest and most wretch
ed novels OF poverty, where she enters without
SO young creature. She rejoices the hearts
OF the children by giving them clothes, some
times made by herself, or pictures and the like.
Her whole object appears to be to reconcile and
make all happy. l have just her for the
hrst time; her beauty is remarkable, aud
might well adorn an angel. The common peo-
E PIE wish cs1 6 only = Germanze Angela when
angel of heaven to the poor aud needy" =.
Frank said nothing. He moved on in silence
toward the weather-cross.
.u"t l have accidentally discovered singular
custom OF your angel doctor. There is at |
the weather-cross q Madonna of stone. Angela |
has imposed upon herself the singular task of
a1orning this Madonna daily with fresh how-
You are a profane fellow, Richard. You
should not speak in such derisive tone of &C
lions which are the out-fowings of pious sem
timent"
Every one has his hobby. What will not
people do through ambition 1 know ladies
VINO torture piano for half the night in |
order to catch the tone of the prima- donna at
the opera. l know women who undergo ALI
posi- BILE privations to be able to wear as fine
clothes, as costly furs, as others with whom
they are in rivalry. This exhaustive night
singing, these deprivations, are submitted to
through foolish vanity. Perhaps Angela ia not
less ambitious and vain than others of her seq |
AS she cannot dazzle these country folks with
nrs or toilette, she dazzles their religious sen.
tIment by ostentatious piety."
Radically false, said the doctor. .sCharity
AND Vrtne are recognized and honored NOT
only IN the country, but also in the cities.
why 40 not your coquettes strive for this an
prevail Because they want Angela's nobility
OF soul And again, why should Angela wish
to gain the admiration of the peasants9 She
Is the daughter of the wealthiest man in tho
nelghborhood. If such was her object she |
could crafty her ambition in a very different
Then Angela is riddle to me,v said Rich.
actions" o'''es Vi hef
Which are natural. The maiden fol-
lows Inc impulses of her own noble natnre |
ana these Impulses are developed and directed
ny CHRISTIAN culture and convent edncation |
angela was long time with the nuns. and
'nly returned home two years ago Here Won |
amily P" VIZ oieS"arI
No; what know of Angela learned from I
he people of Salingen."
ITO be continued) Ia