The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-02

~ delegate from Oklahoma. has a
daughter named Dorothy Blanton and
that she is going to be married in
Washington by an Episcopal minister
Why did not Denis change his name
when he changed his religion West
ern Waterman
1t is very much to be regretted that
everything boy knows about his
physical nature usually comes to him
through unclean channels. Fathers
have an important duty in this respect
| toward their growing boys which they
usually neglect utterly.-Catholic CO.
| lumbar.
1t is announced that the offensive
play which evoked a storm sof omelette
from irate Hibernians in New York
and Philadelphia has been amended by
the removal of insulting features.
Irishmen who formerly withheld their
patronage from motives of self-respect
ought to continue to do so now in de-
tense Of good taste.-Monitor
o.
If some mothers would devote as
much time and attention to UNDER
standing and inStructing their daugh-
tiers as they do to learning the ms and
outs of neighborhood gossip and scan
dai there would be fewer young women
going down the broad road that leads
to hell.-Catholic Columbian.
o
Church unity" Is once again to be
conferred about and discussed this
week by Protestant bodies-Presbyter
Ians and Methodists-in New York and
P1ttsburg. OF course the result will be
as usual; and how could it be otherwise
with every man that will be at the con-
ferences free to think and judge for
himself on all matters of religion,
which is the fundamental principle of
Professionalism New York Freeman's
Journal.
DR.. Parkhurst is credited with having
said the other day in New York that
the poor man was a fool to marry
and bigger fool if married to have
any children" 1t is hard to believe
that any such sentiment ever escaped
from the lips of a Christian minister
1t is so at variance with the spirit of
the gospel that we are sure no sect can
think of tolerating such a spokesman.
1t may be, however, that Mr.. Park
hursts co-religionists are averse to do
ing him the honor of taking him seri-
ously. He has talked so much of late,
on all sorts of subjects, that hardly
anyone stops to measure the effect of
his words. Still, he has his pulpit and
probably receives a good round salary
for delivering his weekly messages
Catholic Transcript.
As usual. the newspapers have dis
covered heart romance behind a well
known young Washington society wo-
mans retirement to convent to as
sumo the life of religious. To escape |
the attentions of a sutton. the Young |
nPrCnn &c e-oiI
nounced the world. Our non-Catholic |
friends, as rule, appear incapable of |
grasplng the higher motive which |
prompts men and women who volun- |
tarily consecrate their lives to the serv-
ice of God, in religion. They generally |
beat about for some natural cause. the |
only sort they conceive to be possible, !
for such self-sacrifice, and usually pitch
upon secret romance, disappointed |
affection, blighted love or something
else in that line, to explain the fact. |
This happens particularly in the case
of young and beautiful women who
choose the better part" and vet the
Catholic religious orders of women
number in their ranks thousands of
devoted members who cheerfully turned |
heir backs upon social position and the
pleasures and honors which the world
prizes, for the obscurity of the con-
vent cell, and from the highest and
loliest of motives of which the human
heart is capable, love of God and desire
o serve Him unselfishly by ministering
% His creatures. No doubt the young
about whose choice of life i'm
lginative scribes are weaving such ro-
mantle inventions is impelled exclus-
vely by the pious aspiration which has
Influenced so many other we'll born and
accomplished women who have pre-
eded her in the slIDreme act of renIn- |
iation.-The Monitor.