Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-01-16
MoyASTIC LIFE
ROUTINE AT cHARTREuss FROM
MORNING TO NIGHT.

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Peep % . carthasian Monks Abeae.
FurnIture Of the Bsrest Description.
One Meal . Day--yow OF siienoe--Ths |
Rules Relaxed.
After breakfast guests are conducted
round the monastery, and even ladies--who
are not allowed TO stay over night within the
walls, but get shelter at tho old hospital near,
which rs superintendent by tho Sisters OF
Mercy may, If armed with papal license,
come across and have peep at tho arrange
ments OF this misogynist household The
Chartreuse has no architectural glories and
/ would never make picturesque ruin. In
| deed the churches which the Carthusians
| have generously built in the neighboring vii
lagos are far richer in decoration and more
elaborate In style than their own chnpels-
There is, however, plenty to interest IL you
care TO take a look round.
THE cARTHusIAS's ABODE
Each pere has two little rooms with q
workshop and garden attached, all in enc
place, so that, unlike the usual nonastic
arrangements, the Carthusian's abode is self
contained, Every Carthusian is, in fact,
practically hermit, with just a little more
accommodation than the traditional hermit
usually had. That may help TO account for
the remarkable fact that this order was
about the only one which never degenerated
40 far from the primitive type as TO need
reformation. Dormitory gossip, drawing
room scandal mongering, hanging about the
pantry doors, quarreling, swearing and steal
ing pastry were not possible under such social
conditions. The furniture Ii of the barest de-
sciption. 1t consists OF a wooden bed;
, That wooden bed,
} Which shall their coffin be- when dead.
7 a chair, writing and dining table, joiner's
. bench, a plain bookcase, the usual helps to
I devotion, ''the suffering Son Of Man upon the
wall, and few religious pictures.
!, A monks food consists Of one meal a day.
o This is pushed in by a sliding grating in the
= cloister wall so that he never secs the person
y who brings ii. 1t Is made up OF soup, fish
and vegetables ON ordinary days, and on Fri,
a DAYS and during Lent of simple bread and
8 water, though this prison fare was in stricteI
q times, the rule for three days in each week
l. The silent fathers are now allowed the grea
10 luxury of a fire In cold weather, though tina
b is a worldly concession 10 modern ideas o.
B. comfort The severity OF the old fireless rul
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