The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-07-26

settled out of the way of others on
the veranda of the summer hotel. She
certainly is plain-looking, but she
hasn't allowed her ugliness to mar her
happiness, and that is saying good
deal for a young girl with such
handicap. She came here with a lot
of Dresden-C China cousins, whose pref
tiness emphasized the ugly girls
swarthy skin and coarse features. But
somehow before week was over most
of us had forgotten about her plain
face. She was so unselfish and CHEEKY
and helpful that she became popular
at once. One rainy evening when the
others had gone off to function she
came out here where l was sitting
alone watching the rain drip off the
piazza caves She dropped down on a
chair beside me, and by and by /
heard her sigh, oh, how envy pretty
girls!' There was something in her
voice that told me she was putting up
hard fight against the discomfort
that such handicap breeds. Please
don't tell me that beauty is only skin
deep! | know better. 1t is no easy
matter to keep down the evil spirit
when l watch pretty girls winning love
and esteem without any effort by the
mere power of beauty. / know it my
self, too she cried. 1T is the pretty
child that attracts me rather than the
unfortunate, ugly one. 1t is human
nature, l suppose. We can't very well
help it.
There was no gainsaying the truth
of her assertion. But you are having
your innings, too said. You are
quite as popular as the pretty girls;
you are in all the good times; and
more than that, you help along the old
and the diffident souls who hover on
the edge of the good times
Perhaps So she admitted, but
I've worked so hard and have had so
many discouragements.'
"'You must count that work as a
God-given privilege accorded to you,
along with the chance to be unselfsh
and courteous and kind, and with it
the opportunity to write the beauty
of His spirit into the plain features
which He bestowed upon you. Don't
worry about your plain face, child;
His beauty is growing there"
At the close of the vaction, the
Judge said to his son, well, William,
are you going to college this YEAR,"
Have no money father" "But / gave
you a thousand dollars to graduate
on" ut is all gone, father" Very
well, my son; it was all could give
you; you can't stay here; you must
now pay your own way in the world =
A new light broke in upon the vision
of the young man. He accommodated
himself to the situation-again left
home; made his way through college,
graduated at the head of his class,
studied law, became governor of the
state of New York, entered the cabinet
of the president of the United States,
and made record that will not soon
liam H. Seward.
Our dead! Our beloved dead! Loved
even more strongly because they are
near to God How consoling the doc
trine that assures us that we can pray
for them, and we should pray for
them! Are they in suffering? We
know not; but love bids us pray for
them, and pray for them ever, that
the hand of the Lord be not laid
heavily upon them. Pray for your
dead. Never forget your dead! They
love you and they plead for our pray
ers. Pray for the dead that eternal
rest may come to them, and that per-
petual light may shine upon them.