Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-21
Mother de C1antal.

hOkhCi dS
In our last issue we mentioned
the fact that Mr. and Mrs. D., Hayes
were called to West Chester, Pa, to
attend the funeral of Mr.. Hayes sister,
at that time we not knowing the prom
inent position occupied in church
work by the deceased. We copy the
following short extract from the Cath
olic Standard:
By the death on Sunday last, at
Villa Maria, West Chester, of Mother
Mary de Chantal, superior of the
Sister Servants of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, there was brought to a
close career of singular beauty and
fruitfulness, life devoted to the holy
cause of Christian education and
crowned with a measure of success
rarely attained even in the ranks of
consecrated daughters of the Church.
Mother de Chantal had been ill of
pneumonia since Christmas morning.
For few days, while confined to her
bed, she continued to direct the affairs
of her order and to dictate correspond
ence, but growing weaker, she grad
ually yielded to the disease and finally
passed away
Mother de Chantal, known in the
world as Catharine Hayes, was born at
Silver Lake, Susquehanna county, Pa
about siXty-four years ago. She was
| as remarkable as child as she was
afterwards for forty years as a Super
ior of various communities of the Con
gregation of the Immaculate Heart OF
Mary.
| For fortyf five years every moment
| of Mother de Chantal's life to the eyes
of her most intimate friends, was one
| of complete and entire submission to
the will of God. Not a moment was
devoted by her in personal recreation
or pleasures. In her position of re
| sponsibility and eminence she might
have taken for herself privileges il
the way of handing cares or duties ovel
to others, but this she never did. Al
though the head of the order in this
part of the State, she refrained no
from the minutest observance of disci
| pline, nor did she relax from stern self
obnegaton. With the care of this
great order on her heart, he mind was
ever busy with financial problems
with architectural plans, as we'll as will
the administration of her household
the loving mother to novice and Sister
How great are the responsibilities O
the motherssuperior of anEorder,
Rev. F. w. Hayes, another brother
was with his sister as she crossed the
river.
Cut it out, boys There's nothing il
it. There's whole lot of nonsense il
that "good fellow' business, says tn
Albany Times Union. You can't foo
the public very long by living beneatl
your means and keeping up appear
ances. There must be showdow
some time or other, and that means ;
loss of self-respect and many bitter ex
periences. All men will think more G
you if you hold yourself In and dom
try to live a wine existence on a bee
income. Many bright and promisin
business man has failed because he trie
to travel inltoo swift class. Whereas
had he lived within his means he Nigh
have become mighty successful mel
chant. The world doesn't give up il
treasures easily. 1t isn't in the card
for all of us to be millionaires, an
mighty few of the 'good fellows" &c
into that class. It's better to earn you
own way first and go hunting for goo
times when you have reached the poir
where you can spare both the time an
the money. Then, possibly, you
have more sense and have a differeI
notion about what goodtime is.