East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-26
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, July 26.-The little
church of st. Jean Baptist, on East
Seventy-sixth street, where the annual
novena is now held, presents a re-
markable spectacle of crutches, canes,
and other supports of defective limbs,
that have been discarded by patients
who have been cured. The walls are
lined with these discarded helps to 10
comotion, and the cured persons are
loud in praise of st. Anne, the mother
of the Blessed Virgin. From that
humble temple during the past week
and the nights also, there have been
waited incessant prayers for the inter-
cession of the saint, who is, with pref
erence. addressed as the Mother of
the Afflicted"
At the services the little church was
stepped in reverential silence, broken.
only by sobs from burdened breasts,
or the awkward dumping of crippled
feet along the reverberating aisles-
During this time thousands on whom
fate has heaped the weight of weak.
or broken. or deformed body have
flocked there to offer fervent suppli--
cations for favors from the hands OF
the saints. These seekers after health
are certainly lifted into a higher re-
ligious state. and by faith have thrown
off many ills. The novena stirs up
their energies, fills them with hope,
and by extraordinary exercise of their
faith they summon all their energies
and powers, and spring to their feet
practically regenerated
However much of a miracle, or how
little, there may be about the exer-
else, the newly regenerated individu-
al is many times the man or woman
that he or she was before they knelt
at the altar.
Messenger Boys Many Duties.
The employment of messenger boys
in odd kinds of services is beginning to
attract the attention of the public,
and it seems almost as If people, when
unable to find anybody else to do GER
tain things for them ring up mes
senger boy and he does the rest. One
boy was sent for by a woman to catch
flies for her pet lizard, which was too
sick and feeble to catch them for it,
self Another boy found, when he
entered a hotel room that the ex-
| tremely fat man who occupied 1t,
wanted him to scratch his back. He
did the job well. with the help of a
| brush.
The latest is that of woman who
rang up for boy, and when he came
she told him to hang his cap on
hook and hired him for an hour and
a half at 80 cents an hour. 1t seems
that the maid who attended to her
little five-room flat did not MATERIAL
ize and she set the boy to dusting,
clearing the table, sweeping the din
ing-room floor, busting the hall, and
other jobs of fixing up things gener-
ally. The woman was pleasantly sur
prised to find that the boy busted in
the cracks and crevices. and that
when the hour and a half ended the
flat looked as spick and span as after
a regular Saturday cleaning. She
thinks it beats servant girl hiring out
of sight. The boy rather liked it bet
ter than playing craps.
A Bridegrooms' Carving School.
There goes a woman" said the tall
girl, "who is preparing to confer a
blessed boon upon humanity. She is
going to establish a class in carving
for prospective bridegrooms. She has
a score of pupils pledged already. The
instruction will be thorough. Each
man will be required to wrestle indi-
vidually with all kinds of meat from
the Sunday morning ham to the
Thanksgiving turkey, and not until he
has learned to sever joints and slice
juicy cuts gracefully will he be
granted diploma. Fifty cents les
son is the price to be charged for this
invaluable education.
"The ultimate cost depends, of
course, upon the ingenuity of the pu-
pill. A man with a natural aptitude
for carving will probably get through
in six lessons. At that rate the edu-
cation is dirt cheap, and l intend to
urge every man in my acquaintance
to avail hims If of the opportunity to
master a difficult art. The young
man took note book out of his pock-
ct and asked for the name and ad-
dress of the carving teacher. The girl
smiled knowingly, and wanted to
know when the wedding was to be.
Happiness is the ability to mako
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