The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-07
ROMAN CATHOLIC NEWS
Young Wonlen's Association
in Charge of the Little
, Sisters of the Poor
ST. MARY'S ANNIVERSARY.
St. Lucy's Young Men-Conference
of the C%lergY--Other interest
ing Parish News.

Association at st. Aloysius Academy,
Grand street. conducted by the
Little Sisters of the Poor. are
now open to the evening classe:
and to the public. If there be
those sufficiently interested in such
phllanthropic work to pay a visit to the
working rooms OF this excellent organi-
cation.
This is the third year since the first
meeting of the Young Women's Associ-
alton, formed to benefit the young work
ingwomen of the city through pra ctically
free classes In stenography. typs writing,
dressmaking, millinery, plain sewing,
cooking and even elocution, vocal music
and embroidery. Besides the large
library is open for their use. during
and furnished assembly room on the
main floor Of the building affords an
excellent place for social gathering.
This room one may enter directly from
the entrance hall, or on the other side
through folding doors to the class rooms
beyond; Two low steps at the
lead to a dais placed in an alcove.
AT the opposite side of the rooms
stands a sewing machine, q number of
screens and the long table around which
the class In dressmaking takes its place.
AT Intervals long tables are placed for
the other classes: The class in dress
making will probably number about
forty me m bers. possibly more.
H TYPIST CAN TYPE.
Type-writing tables are placed along
the sides for the use of the s~tsuography
class. This was organized on Wednesday
evening. On Thursday evening the
classes In ~dressmaking. plain sewing and
button holes are held.
The Saturday evening classes are Of a
mole ornamental nature. vocal music
aud embroidery being the subjects pur-
sued. This evening has always more of
n social character. and the classes.
which are under the tuition OF the Sis
tiers, are always we'll patronizsd.
COOKING CLASSES HERE.
But going ownstairs, the visitor
comes to what comes near being the
most interesting exhibit of all-the
cooking class. Here is the kitchen, with
all the paraphernalia complete for the
regeneration Of society through the dis
gesttoDs of its members. Here Que Of
the most popular, Il certainly one Of
the most useful, classes holds forth.
The eourse is extremely practical, and
the proof Of the instruction is TO be found
in this eating of the dishes after ward.
This class is held on Thursday evening,
while upstairs, the class in elocution Is
receiving excellent training in gesture,
enuDciation and voice culture.
To all this the small ad Omission fee of
the association a nit the young work
f%ngwoman. Words are not needed to
point ont the measurable value of such
work as this, for which we must thank
the good sisters that conduct st.
devoted women Is BOUNDED neither py
race nor creed; recognizing only til 9
needs of the individual. A deserve d
tribute to thisa and similar organizations
of women In the Church was paid by
Cardinal Gibbons In his address at the
Parliament of Religions. read by Bishop
Keane, as follows:-
CARDINAL GIBBONS TRIBUTE.
""here Is no place of human misery
for which the Church does not provide
some remedy or alienation. She has es-
tablished infant asylums for the shelter
of the helpless babes who have been
cruelty abandoned by their own parents.
or bereft of them in The mysterious dis
pensatfons of Providence before they
could know and feel a mothers love.
These little waits, like the infant Moses
drifting in the turbid Nile. are rescued
from An untimely death and are tenderly
raised by the daughters of the GreAl
King, those consecrated virgins who be-
come nursing mothers to them. And I
have known more than one such mother.
less babe. who, like ~lsrael's lawgiyer in
after years, became a leader among his
people.
LAS the Church provides homes for
those yet on the threshold OF life. 20 too
does she secure retreats for those on the
threshold Of death. she has asylumns in
which the aged men and women find at
one and the same time q refuge in their
old & from the storms Of life. and a
novltiate 10 prepare them for etsrnity.
Thus from the cradle to the grave she is a
nursing mother. she rocks her children
in the cradle of infancy and she soothes
them to rest on the coach of death.
Louis XIV erected In Paris the famous
Hotel DIES Invaltdes for the veteran SOL
diers of France. who had fought in the
service of their country. Aud SO has the
Catholic religion provided for those who
have been disabled in the battle of life,
a home in which they are tenderly nursed
iu their declining years by devoted sis
ters.
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE oOR
"The Little Sisters of the Poor, whose
congregation WAS founded in 1910, have
now charge of $50 establishments in dif=
ferent parts OF the globe; the aged in
mates OF those houses numbering 30, 900,
upwards of 20. 900 having died under their
care up to 1885. To those asylums are
welcomed not only the members OF the
Catholic religion, but those also
OF every form of Christian
faith, and eyen those without any faith
at all. The sisters make no distinction
of person or nationality or color or creed:
for true charity embraces all. The only
question proposed by the sisters to the
applicant for shelter is this: Are you
oppressed by age and penuryf IL so,
eome 10 us and we win provide for you.
"Sne has orphan Rsylums where child
rem of both sexes are reared aud taught
to become useful and worthy members of
society.
PATHETIC INCIDENT.
Hospitals were unknown to the Pagan
world before the coming of Christ. Tns
copious vocabularies of Greecs and Rome
bad no word even TO express that term.
1.-The Catholic Church has hospitals for
the treatment and cure of every form OF
disease. She sends her daughters of
charity ana OF mercy to the battlefield
and to the plague-stricken city. Dur
Ing the Crimean war ] remember
10 have read OF a sister who was
struck dead by a ball while she was in
the act OF STOPPING down and bandaging
the wound of q fallen soldier. High
praise was then d~eservedly bestowed on
Florence Nightingale for her devotion to
the sick aud wounded soldiers- Her
name ~resounded In both h~emispheres.
But IN every sister you have a Florence
Nightingale, With this difference; That