The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-01
St. Patrick's Fair.

St. Patrieks Fair.
Last Friday evening this fair, which prom
ises to be ono of the most brilliant and sue
cessfuf OF the season, was opened in Odd
Fellows Hall. For months past the most
infiue entail ladies of the parish, assisted by
many from adjoining parishes, have been en-
gagged in preparations for this entertainment,
and that they have met with fatterng sue
cess in their labors, will be at once admitted
by even the most indifferent observer. The
tables are fairly loaded down with beautiful
works Of art, jewelry, trinkots, vases, flowers,
etc.; many of the articles exhibited giving
incontestible proof of the industry and skill
of the young ladies of our city. Neither time
nor labor has been spared by these young Ia
dies in their efforts to equal If not to surpass
the works of regular artists; and we think
that simple Justice demands of visitors that
they bestow their favors with q liberal hand
in encouragement of such well directed zeal.
In the advertisement on the fifth page of
this paper will be seen the names of the several
tables and of the ladies who have assumed the
task of dispensing the inequalities of each. A
full list is also contained therein of the con-
tests which form distinguishing feature at
this Fair. Among these are several which
have already created considerable excitement
in the community and which bid fair to at
tract to the hall hundreds of people from all
parts of The city. These are: for the horse
and buggy, Mayor Wiltz VS.. District Attorney
McPhelin; for the gold watch, Gen. Badger,
Chief of Police, VS.. John o'Neil, leading
member of the Hibernian Association silver
pun ch-bowl, contestants, William Conway,
Hugh Cassidy and S. McNamara.
The Fair will continue till the 9th inst, and
as it is held for the laudable purpose of paying
off the debt incurred in making the grand old
Church of st. Patrick what it should be, an
honor to our city and monument to the faith
of our people, we trust that each and everyone
of our citizens will give it an earnest support
Matter for the Consideration Of Heads Of Fam
lilies.
from Father McGlynn's Great Lecture in New York.
"See here, sonny, what is the matter
Where is your father Z" ''Father's dead"
How old was your father when he died 2"
"'bout forty" About forty and with his
Irish constitution he should have lived
twenty to forty years more: Only forty !;
member, my friends, the stupid old song
| about the man who was being "waked 2"
| But before quote it as an illustration,
will tell you what think about a awake"
| What sacrilege it is-to call it by its
proper name-this outrage upon the sacred
presence of death-this messenger of God!
| that should teach men more forcibly than
any other preacher, to be better, nobler,
purer. What other preacher can tell, in a
voice so terrible, of the nothingness Of
time, of the all-importance of eternity, of
the presence of God and of his dreadful
judgment There is the Angel of God !;
and there are the friends of the dead man
enjoying themselves and in many cases
getting drunk, fighting and rioting, and
talking obscenely, making night hideous,
and making virtue and modesty hide their
| faces in the presence of the messenger of
! God, of sacred death
Well in the stupid old song, which use
| for an illustration, man was dead, "stone
Dead" and his friends were gathered about
him at the "wake." They had some hot
whiskey-the smell of it was very good,
and the story, goes on to say, the dead
doing. And says he: "When such good
| stuff as that is going round, do you think
I'd be such fool as to be dead Z" And
| 80 say now of the father Of this imagin-
airy boy, he has no business to be dead.
He is worse than "fool" to be dead. He
is criminal to be dead. He is thief for
being dead, and a murderer besides, He
has killed himself long before his time
| he com omitted suicide, a murderer. He
was thief and q robber for he robbed
this boy of what he has a right to. He
had right to good training and educa-
ton -; he had right to good example,
and his father has robbed him of all this
by destroying himself. He ought to be
working for his child, keeping him and
clothing him by word and example he
should be teaching him faith and morality.
He should be giving him an education by
keeping him at school, and sending him to
church. He should be bringing him up
an honest member of the church and of
| society but in place of that he by being
dead robbed him of all.
That man had perhaps twenty years of
life before him, and. by drinking he has
| died by his own hand and left that boy to
be burden upon society, to prey upon it
"a curse to himself and others. And this
is not unfrequently the crime of the simple
moderate drinker," who has yet commit
ted suicide, by dying long before his time,
and who perhaps chad never been drunk
in his life" Let us call up another 7ag-
rant-"What is the matter with you Z
where is your father Z" 81 don't know"