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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
HOME PICTURES.

Catholics are the inheritors of noble
traditions of art: but to look at many
of the pictures offered for sale in Cath
Ole art stores and hung on the walls of
many Catholic homes, would lead to
the belief that we were still in the rud-
imentary stage, or. rather. the barbaric
stage, where gaudiness is the test Of
value. Religious pictures should have
place in every home, and in our day
there is no excuse for these being eye
sores. A generation or so back, ohromos
may have been the only sort of pictures
within the reach of any but the wealth.
lest; but of late, new methods have
been introduced and improved upon I'M
til now works Of real artistic merit can
be purchased for a price that brings
them within the reach of every one.
Etchings and engravings, photographs
and photographers, artotypes and half
tones, these have followed one upon
another so rapidly that they have now
brought really good art within the
reach of the l1umbleSt household.
Nearly all the masterpieces of the art
world nave Deen reproduced in one or
another of these methods. and, as a
result, the great works of religious art
can be purchased in these reproductions
for mere trifle. The approaching hol-
iday season suggests a means of estab-
fishing, in a small way, a sort of relig-
ious art propaganda. There is nothing
more suitable for a token of remem-
brance than picture adjoining the wall
Of home. Catholics in all our larger
cities have good opportunity for the Sc
lection of good reproductions Of the best
things in devotional art. and when Sc
Letting a present for friends in smaller
towns where there is little opportunity
to purchase these, why not send well
chosen and suitably framed picture?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
HURRY.

Father Faber. in whom were united
Inc insight of the poet, the experience
OF the priest. and the wisdom tt at
comes with perfect detachment from
world, said somewhere long ago that
1t was a culpable thing for any person
to permit his life to become so crowd
ed with work that he has no time for
meditation. nor for that leisure which
is so necessary to growth of any kind
Ii he were among US now. he would
perhaps point out to us that Hurry has
become one of the besetting sins of the
day. 1t is the wretched Old Man of
the Sea which bestrides the American
back, and VIII not be shaken off. No
time! That is the universal cry No
one has any leisure, not even the child
rem. But the most harassed, busy and
duty-driven of all are the women.
Whether they give themselves up TO
housekeeping, society, charity, art or
religion. it is the same. Twenty four
hours no longer make a sufficient day.
1t begins to be a question for wisdom
to consider seriously. which of many
things, all apparently equally impera-
tive and enticing, shall be given up?
For giving up there must be. No
woman can respond to all the demands
made upon her and do justice to any
one of them, And the only woman who
will escape early wrinkles, and nervous
prostration, and who can hope for the
well done, good and faithful at the
end, is the woman who has learned to
her energy, who has known
how to choose, and who has firmly
given up such things as she could
If you are destined to fill a large
place in the social world you cannot
give your strength to housekeeping;
that duty must be relegated to some
one else. If you have chosen the ca
reer of the home-maker, you cannot
make a business of society, too. If you
are free to seek your satisfaction and
in literature or art, or in any
of the other engrossing professions
which the modern world lays open to |
then there can be neither |
nor society duties to dis /
sipate your energies. You must do what |
men do. Choose as wisely as you can |
and then refuse to be drawn aside. The |
man with too many irons in the fire
S the man who fails. But every wo-
nan has too many irons in the fire. Is
hat why she so seldom achieves the
brilliant success of men?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

complacent; he is too much of a re-
c1use, or he is too much given to So
cial reunion with friends; he is too
much concerned about the figure the
Church makes before outsiders, or he
is Sc. regardless of outsiders that he
recklessEy scandalizes their ignorance.
The fact of true elf-devoted life
which is often a life of daily crucifix-
ion for the sake of the highest things
does not count at all in this opinion.
These are the people who pull down
the pastors hands. There are also the
others who say nothing either in praise
or blame, and are culpable for not do
ing their best to hold UP the pastor s
hands"
A good resolution, therefore, for all
who read this article would be to de-
termine to ''hold up the pastors hands"
with all faithfulness. to keep to oneself
the word of idle criticism, to cultivate
with regard to him the beautiful vir-
tues of appreciation. gratitude and 10y
atty.
Above all, in the home circle, loyalty
to the pastor should be a household
watchword. The children and young
people should never hear word about
him that would not serve to hold UP
his hands. " The old virtue of unques-
tioning reverence does not seem to
thrive in American soil. What then is
to take its place and make it possible
for religion to do it's work for both
priest and people, if not the newer vir-
tue Of intelligent loyalty?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
MINERS AND THEIR CATHOLIC
PAPER.

In all parts of the intermountain
country Catholics are engaged in the
pursuit Of mining; and in every mining
camp Sunday is not differentiated from
the other days of the week. In conse-
quence of this it is impossible for Cath
olics to attend mass regularly, mas
much as employment in the mines de-
ponds upon the regularity of the work
men.
! Because of this condition. the average
| miner seldom hears a sermon or in
! struction, with the result that in a few
years he becomes rusty" in matters
of Christian doctrine, if not negligent
in his religious duties, with all the con-
seHuent unfortunate habits resulting
from such condition.
There is a safeguard against these
dangers so imminent to the miner, who
is obliged to work during the hours of
mass on Sunday, as well as a remedy
for those who may have grown luke
warm in the practices of their reli-
gion.
The safeguard and remedy are to be
found in the Catholic paper, which is
in truth a perpetual mission in every
Catholic home. The Intermountain
Catholic, its columns teemiEg with ex-
planatory articles of Catholic doctrine
and general reading matter of an ele-
waiting tone, should go into every Cath
Ollie fireside in this Western country.
Not only that, but a practice of reading
it aloud should be instituted in the
home. Such a custom will prove ben
eficial to all the family, those who hap
PLY enjoy the privilege of hearing mass
and listening to good sermons, as well
as those who are deprived of this bless
ed privilege.
Make The Intermountain Catholic
part of the home. Foster a feeling
that WITHOUT it the home is incomplete.
and much will be done for the spiritual
betterment of ali who, owing to the ex-
igency Of circumstances, are denied the
regular Sunday instruction. No better
custom can be inaugurated in any
Catholic household than to set aside |
one evening in the week during which |
the Catholic paper shall be read aloud |
TO the members of the family The In
termountain Catholic is a Catholic fam |
lily paper-it will treat always Of sub |
jects of interest to all members of the |
family of both sexes. If this custom is |
instituted it will soon become pleasant |
and desirable, and the members of the |
family will look forward to that even
ing set aside for the perusal Of the
Catholic family paper
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
RELIGIOUS JOURNALS.

Some very excellent. well meaning
people imagine they are displaying
great genius by picking flaws with our
Catholic weeklies. 1t is ever lacking
IN some point, they would have the
oapar furnish, weekly, matter editor
ally and otherwise, as if its readers
were supernatural creatures. If the
paper was published solely for the
angels 10 peruse, this might be DONE
But it would have to be managed by
these celestial beings to accomplish
this. AS it is, the paper is meant for
men; it does not live above the clouds,
but is right down here in the plane
of everyday life.
The ideal religious paper. which will
fully meet the wants and requirements
Of all its readers, giving every one the
need of entire satisfaction, has yet to
be published.
If the head Of each Catholic family
viii recognize it as his privilege and
duty to contribute towards supporting
the Catholic press by subscribing for
one or more Catholic periodicals and
keeping himself well acquainted with
the information they impart, the Cath
Ole press viii be sure to attain to its
rightful development and to accomplish
its destined mission.
We promise that each succeeding
number of The Intermpuntain Catholic
shall be an Improvement upon its pre-
decessor, until we have achieved as
near perfection as is possible for mere
human hands and brain. All that can
be done by mechanical skill, combined
with thorough research and careful
study, Will be done to place The Inter
mountain Catholic in the foremost rank
of our Catholic weeklies published in
this country, and make it an exponent
Of Catholic views and news. Those
who wish to have in their homes a
clean, Instructive and interesting Cath
Ole weekly devoted to the highest in
terests of humanity, cannot do better
than to send their name and the sub
scription price, 81 for six months. or
50 for the year.
So right here, we would respectfully
remind the large number of our sub
scribers who are in arrears that they
should remit the amounts of their in
debtedness either to the office or to the
agent when he viii call A prompt
compliance with this request will be the
best evidence Of their appreciation of
the Intermountain Catholic services.
J. z. r.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
FOLLY OF SENDING PENNILEss
SICK TO THE WEST.

There is room and plenty of it in the
intermountain states for people of en-
ergy who can enter into the upbuilding
of this great country with vim and
energy.
Labor is plentiful, and the man who
is physically able to labor need not be
out of employment single day. There
is opportunity, too for the man of
means who would enter into the indus
trial development Of the country. But
| here as elsewhere labor is labor, and
| only the man who is capable of it can
hope to endure it. There is plenty of
room for the able man.
But this whole country is overrun
with people who have come from all
parts of the world in quest of health.
with little health and less means, and
who are obliged to seek some kind of
light employment to keep them from
the poorhouse.
No man in poor health who is obliged
to work that he may live, should come
to this western country 1t is a crime
to send pennilese sick to the West.
sick who have no hope but a letter of
introduction to some friend. who is
powerless to aid them to find genteeI
employment, the only kind which they
are able to DO.
In this Western country the race is
to the strong. and in the competition.
which is always keen, people suffering
from incipient pulmonary troubles will
find it difficult to survive. Scarcely a
day passes but some poor person ar
rives in Denver and Salt Lake
City with no place to go and
not enough money to pay for sus-
tenance day in advance. The desire
to live is strong, and the hope that the
health-giving climate of the West will !
soon restore the lost energy is para
mount, but what are ali such people to |
do when they are without means? They |
Immediately become the objects of So
licitude of the different charity organ |
izations of the community, and public |
charity is generally heartless and cold. |
When people in the East send friends
and relatives to the West in quest of
health, they should see to it that thew
are given sufficient means to support
them until such time as, health being
restored. they can endure hard labor.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
THE OBNOXIOUS FLAG LAW.

! Judge John Gibbons Of Chicago has
! declared unconstitutional the obnox-
ious and idiotic flag law which was
placed upon the statute books of Hi
nois by a band of ninnies who would
fain make the American people believe
that their sire was the American eagle
and their swaddling clothes the Amer1-
can flag.
The Macomb Journal which was one
of the first papers in Illinois to oppose
the idiotic law, thus speaks of Judge
Gibbons decision:
When what is commonly known as
the compulsory flag law was passed,
the Journal said. when negatively dis
cussing the need of such law. that
men could neither be made religious or
loyal through legislation; hence it ia
vored legislative hands off in both
cases. 1t said every person should be
made to obey the law which provides
for the peace and protection of all, but
the questions of religion or loyalty were
matters of education and example.
Hence the Journal was not in favor of
the compulsory raising of the American
flag on school buildings or elsewhere.
II DcIiSNSQ lildt III Tie OIlltSu ~
took no law to teach veneration for the
flag, but that wherever the occasion
was that it should be run up 500 will
ling hands were present to do the work
where there was one against it. 1t
further stated that such a law was an
insinuation that it took compulsion to
show that the American people revered
the Star Spangled banner. A Chicago
judge has recently declared the law
void that makes it crime to use the
flag for advertising purposes; in sum-
ming up the general condition, uphOlds
what this paper then said and what
was extensively criticised at. the time,
in the following language: The men
who today are being prosecuted under
this law would tomorrow leave home
and kindred and rush to the front to
defend the honor and glory of that dear
old flag. We need no flag law in the
state of Illinois to make men patriotic,
to prevent men from Decorating the
flag, Every man in all this land vies
with his neighbor in showing devotion,
loyalty and reverence to the flag, and |
it is a reflection upon the names of Illi- !
nois' patriot dead to have enacted such |
a law
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
OUR MONTANA BUREAU.

Mr. Hugh X. Ryan will have charge
of the Montana bureau of The inter-
mountain Catholic. it will be located
at Butte. Mr.. Ryan is a young man of
high personal worth and large abilities
He is highly esteemed by the faculty
and students of All Hallows College,
where he has been both student and
teacher. We bespeak for him a hearty
reception by the Catholics Of the North
Star state.
Miss Blanch McDermott of Laramie
win represent this paper in Wyoming,
and J. Fred Roth, now touring Colo
RADIO, viii continue as our general trav-
cling correspondent.
Permanent offices will be maintained
in Denver. Salt Lake City and Butte,
with correspondents in every city and
town in this section Of the country.
1t is the aim of the management TO
place The Intermountain Catholic in
every Catholic home in the intermoun-
tain states and judging from the man
ner in which new subscriptions are
pouring in we viii accomplish this re-
suit before many moons of the new
century.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

are to be laid at the door of the silly
woman. whose distinguishing character
istics are a great lack of the sense OIL pro-
portion, and of the fitness of things, She
is always recognized at first sight. You
will meet her shopping, in the morning
attired in silk and lace, over-dressed on
informal occasions, while she goes gaily
tea-gowned on the least provocation, and
in the most unexpected places-as in the
hotel dining room for instance. She gives
big receptions in Il small house, and
sumptuous dinners in a shabby dining
room. She is never original, but is al
ways trying to be some one else. she Is
herself only in being extreme.
Very often, by some prank of fortune
the silly woman finds her way into the
business world, and the result of her pres
ence there is that the entire sex is viewed
with suspicion, not to say horror by bus
mess men.
But it is in the home that the silly wom-
an is at liberty to work destruction most
freely Too often, by some mysterious
process, she rears the knavish son, or the
adventurous daughter. Her husband es-
teens the whole sex foolish, and despises
women because he gauges all by his wife.
Sometimes the silly woman takes to piety,
and the result is that her husband and
sons learn to despise even piety. At other
times. she takes to reform and immediate
ly reform seems to assume the aspect OF
the ludicrous and harmful. Also she
joins clubs because other women do)'
and she makes the club meetings bore
with her inanities, or else she takes it
into her head to run things, and grows
mulish whereupon the club goes to pieces
in short order.
Heaven defend us from the works of the
silly woman, and send as few of her
us as may be.
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could they have to free him from the
duty of obeying? Is not the church a
supernatural authority over both par
ents and child? Do not parents them
| selves call their pastor Father? And
rightly so, for I'm Christ Jesus by the
Gospel he has begotten them. Il cor.
IA: II But if he is their father. must
not parents show and teach the chiia
obedience to his commands? He ap-
points the hour and makes arrange
ments Tor Christian instruction, accord
ing to his good opinion obedient par
ents Will not permit the child to sllght
his preeepts. The child of course, reels
| happy over delyerance from duty, ana
is pleased with his parents for their
leave of absence; but let them call on
him to perform duties towards tnem-
selves. and he will be as disobedient to
their rules as they taught him to be to
the rules of the pastor. When parents
think deviations from the rules of the
pastor to be proper, they should first
consult him about it.
Say not ii is better to let the child be
free when he feels disinclined to attend
because it is not good to drive religion
into him with the rod.
Are YOU as compliant to his wishes
when he wants to .shirk secular learn
ing and school lessons? Do you then
always give way to his dfslikes? Or is
religious instruction not as important
in your estimation as secular? Certain
~, faith in the articles to be taught
and to be believed and pious sentiments
are objects on which his free will must
decide
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
LOYALTY TO THE PASTOR.

There is not perhaps parish, great
or small, in this country, where the
pastor does not sometimes long to hear
an authoritative voice urging his peo-
pie to hold up his hands, Nobody
knows so we'll as he that great Ameri-
can fact that here every man is his
neighbours judge and that in conse-
quence, public opinion is the autocrat
by whose favor every movement stands
or falls; nobody knows better than he,
either, that with US public opinion has
most emphatically the mark of half
educated opinion, in that it is more
critical than appreciative. Appreciation
is the flower Of the finest minds only,
and our American Catholic pastor.
knowing so often by sad experience
that he is as likely to be judged by the
smallest failing as by his highest viz
tue. has good reason to question
whether even the seed of that fine flow
er has been yet dropped into the aver
age American mind.
1t is not that the parish critic is so
numerous, but he is so loud He is the
outcome Of a nature which lacks the
sense of proportion, and when in the
exercise of his characteristic preroga-
tive, he proceeds to express his plain
opinion of his pastor, it generally turns
out that he has a small complaint
against an otherwise very good man.
which lies somewhere in the following
category of minor defects:
He is either poor preacher. or he is
rhetorical dude; he is a lax financier
or he puts too much of a commercial
value on everything he is too rigid in
enforcing the parochial school reguIa-
tons, OF he is too friendly to the state
schools; he is too autocratic, or too
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
THE DENVER ELECTION.

The election held in Denver last
week resulted. among other things, in
! the election of Miss Emma Herey TO
the office of Superintendent of Public
instruction.
Miss Herey is a most estimable young
lady, who will fulfill the duties of her
Office to the satisfaction of the people
of Arapahoe county; she is in every
way qualified, by education and ex-
perience, TO administer the Office to the
entire satisfaction of the people.
The fears expressed in some quarters
that Miss Herey, because of her re-
ligious belief, would not properly ad
minister her duties as Superintendent
of Public instruction, are as groundless
as the fears of those who wished her TO
retire from the ticket before the cleo
ton simply because she was a Catholic,
and might therefore jeopardize the sue
cess of TIN, whole ticket on which she
was a candidate. She recognized, how
ever, that a principle was at stake and
firmly and intelligently expressed the
opinion that she sought the suffrages
of the people as a Democrat and not as
a Catholic. The result was her tri-
umphant election-a victory for princi-
pie over expediency-of true womanly
bravery over arrant cowardice.
Miss HeTey, The Intermountain Cath
Ollie says: Bravo! To the people of Ar
apahoe county who elected her, we say:
Well done; you have placed a fitting
finale to the wave of fanaticism and
bigotry which a few years ago swept
over the Queen City of the Plains.
Experience will show that no mistake
has been made in trusting the public
schools of Denver to the care of a Gull
tured. educated and intelligent young
woman, even though she be a Roman
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE
SILLY WOMAN.

Dld you ever stop to think what a
regular Bosom of destruction the sidv
woman is, and always has been in this
world! The bad woman has no doubt
been terrible success in her chosen field
OF deliberate evil-doing, but, as she is
comparatively scarce, her influence is pro-
portionately feeble when compared with
me influence Of women in general. But
what wrecks strew the path of the sill,,
woman in her progress through This
"orla' how sadly are all good move
ileiits impeded, or brought to a complete
standstill because of her! With what mis-
sivinss must the pastor, the teacher the
reformer always take account of the silly
woman in considering the outcome of
their efforts.
rake her, for example. where she is
most plainly in evidence-in society. All
the extremes that make society what it is
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
"THY NEIGHBoR AS THYsELF. ),

Thy neighbor as thyself." Nor flower
nor book,
He loves; for evil doth he ever look.
Where goodness is; doth foul for fair
mistake.
And sneereth shallowly where truer
hearts would break
Thy neighbor as myself" Jesu. not SO.
Across my lifted paths this groveler
may not go.
Thy neighbor as thyselfl' How griev-
Have | misread thy words, dear Master!
The plying love. yearn for. yet I rail
pride leaps to veil
me beam of lack of love that marks my
A pitiless Pharisee's. Jesu. make me love
NJ JOHN ACTION.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

ture poison abounds. Indiscriminate
reading drains and enervates the mind,
uniting 1t for solid food, while in no
way conducive 10 cultivation. No
young personeshould be allowed to have
free access to books until they are at
least 16 years OF age.
Interest yourselves, fathers and
mothers, in the leisure hours of your
boys and girls, since upon wise selec-
ton of amusement largely depend their
after actions.
Try by gentle counsel to lead them
to appreciate pure literature. Neglect
ing this, you will realize too late the
results of indifference. There are many
Catholic parents who allow their chill
dren to devour indiscriminately what
ever trash comes to hand. 1t is like
permitting them to eat poison.
J. Il z.