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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1915-01-13

SObre la elecclon de lugar para
coIOcarlO.
En- la sala es ell mejor sitio,
hacienda viceversa con el de tn
ito ell sacerdote-eXclam6 Ia tia.
-Tampoco ira nal en- el des-
pacho, encima de La invasion
de los barbaros"-dijo Carlota, !
una pollita va.
-Yo Quisiera tener a papaito
encima de Ia cabecera de mi ca
ma-insinu6 Gregorin.
-Pues, por mi gusto. 20 donde
me ~encuentro mejor es en- ell tes-
tero de la derecha de gabinete-
puntualiza mi ito.
ST, pero ahi te va a dar mu-
cho ell sol, repuso, ingenuamente
mi tia.
En- fin. que tras breve deIibe-
raci6n familiar, Sc acord6 que ell
retrato Sc ~colocase en- ell gabine-
tie.
-iEa.. exclam6 mi tic, manos
a la obra.
Todos Sc ~dispusieron a ayudar-
lie.
NADIA, NADIA, quietecitos. Pa
"a colgar eI cuadro me basto 20
solo. No necasito q nadie. Is CO.
sa de un minute.
Dicho Y hecho. Mi ito Sc quito
Ia americana Y Sc Ianz6 a Ia ia
rea.
A Yer, dijo. que vsya la Pa
ca por ~escarpias a Ia ~ierreterla.
+ Al POGO ratio, detras de la criada
sal.6 una de las nihas. porque al
ITO Sc Ie divide decirle de que Ia
ma1o las Guerra: despu6s encarg6
q Garcia cue buscase IN metro, a
7 Fernandito que traiera la escale-
"a. q Gregcrin cue lie acercara
una siyla. Y. fnalmcnte. puso en-
mov;nierto 2 -odos los de Ia
casa.
Pj6i6 2 tia IN martillo Y al no.
VIC de IA mavorcita que lie hicie-
"a 81 favor de sufetarIe Ia esca.
Iara
-;panito2 D5nde osta Pnnitoq
One Jang, nsra Gra me- av1de a
s~ostanar al ruadro
Y Pon;to me as m Doco ato-
IoDdrado 81 tronieza
con "a oscaIars 900 o. cnadro al
s,7oIo soI+a a I;anzo deI bastidor
81 cris+oI 60 bsco noEvo Y mi tin
o,,a GO biara ma mano hide rar-
r,~iosor,or+o ono 10 +rsioa, arnica
IN ,o5,aIo
II =. Garcia Panito Crago-
rio 10 paca 81 novio Dc Ia MAYOR
w +odos aturdidos De
mn lado nara otro Y esto coIma IA
f,,rio IA M; sa5or tio
-.pa,o 90 nosibra ora M n
an~con+r6is2 Fl na6uelo esta en-
81 boIsiIIo de Ia americana, Y Ia
americana encima de una silla.
Y su voz rugia tonante desde
81 Sinai de su indignaci6n.
mientras le vendan la manc,
Ia criada vuelve con ,otro CRYSTAL
Y 81 ito Sc dispone a reanudar Ia
oDeraci6D.
-Vava. vavai EI marti!lo,
81. 81, Con Ia barahunda cue
se ha armada. nadie da con 6l.
Breve pausa.
III u~,r+;U;t-'rr
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1915-01-13

ION, fataidad. Ell cuadro Sc
incIina, horrorosamente hacia IN
lado: pero mi ito, para no Quedar
en- ridfculo ante ~nOsotros, dice
con ell mayor cinismO:
-iHab6is visto? Como los an
geles! Y sin kaberos molestado
a ningunO.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1915-01-13
DE CARLOS A ERNESTO.

QIerido ErnestO:-
Tengo una mala noticia que CO.
municarte. Marta, tn novia, est&
enferma de penay de amor. Aver,
hablando con ella y tratando de
inqUirir la causa de su tristezs
(poraue has de saber que desde
hace muchos dias la miro triste)
me refri6 que por largo tempo
no lie habias escrito y que tenia
la seguridad de que Ia habias e.
vidado.
70 no s. Marta esta en- 10
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
CATECHISM BY. MAIL.

1t has come at last! A cores
pondence course in Christian Doc
trine for children who cannot at
tend Sunday school regularly has
been inaugurated by the Rev. G,
NJ. Van AIKEN, pastor of St.
Charles Church, Whitefsh, Mon
tana. There are thousands of
children in different parts Of the
United States who are deprived
of the benefit Of catechetical in
struction, and to these such a
course will be boon if it can be
made practical. Its author main
tains that it has been tried and
found successful with q score or
more of children last year.
The advantages Of such a course
are evident. It brings the Sunday
school to the pupils home and
makes Uncle Sam the teacher; the
work is not confined to one local
ity, but may be made as general
as need be; the element of per-
sonal supervision is present III the
attention given to the individual
pupil; it means instruction not
only for the child but for the
whole family, as it requires the
cooperation of the parent or some
one else to make it successful ;
it sirnplifies the work Of instruc-
tion by parents and relieves the
anxiety of the pastor, who very
often cannot reach the child; it
emphasizes the main points Of re-
ligion' which alone, with the ex-
ception of the necessary prayers,
are to be memorized and helps the
pupil to understand his religion
it brings the country pastor into
closer contact with the child, as
he receives a monthly report on
the progress of each pupil under
instruction; the cost is nominal,
and poor children are given free
course when requested by their
pastor
The work of Father Van AIKEN
has received the approval OF the
Church authorities. and we hope
that his efforts may meet with the
success which they deserve.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
THE ITALIAN CLERGY
THEIR CONDUCT PRAISED BY
DoWAGER QUEEN
MARGHERITA.

Considering the thoroughness with
which the anti-clerical campaign has
been worked up in almost every part of
Italy in accusations of espionage, sig
mailing to the Austrians, ETC., the testi-
mony of her Majesty the Dowager
Queen of Italy on the conduct of the
Italian clergy in this crisis of their
country is particularly valuable.
Speaking to prominent clergyman
in her Castle of Stupinigi some days
ago on the subject of the Italo-Aus-
trian struggle, Queen Margherita dwelt
with special emphasis on the patri-
otism manifested by the ecclesiastics
of this country "The conduct of the
Italian clergy" said the Queen Dow
ager, lis really admirable for zeal,
self-abnegation and sacrifice" words
which were heartily echoed by a
prince of the blood who was present
at the conversation.
But with all this, the campaign or
ganised for the purpose of accusing
priests of treason shows no sign of
abating; quite recently a priest of
North Italy who is eighty-six years of
age and has been bedridden for months
was denounced on the score of max
ing signals by means of lights from
his bedroom window. There can be
no doubt Of the existence of a cleverly
organised campaign to concoct such
charges.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02

Church journal represents an un=
usual advertising prospect This
may be partial analysis Of the
reason why advertisers are dis
covering the peculiar advertising
value of the good religious me-
dunn. There can be no stronger
medium than the one which a
reader takes up with strong,
religious feeling, that gives every
word contained in it additional
force and conviction. The fact
that women are the largest buyers
and are also notably religious in
temperament, has considerable to
do with the excellent advertising
value Of a live and well-edited re-
ligious, publication. =
We respectfully commend the
foregoing to the business man
who gives no evidence Of his APP
probation of Catholic patronage
by advertising in Catholic news
papers and periodicals. He is not
as Wide-awake as he ought to be
in this age of business enterprise.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
ST. PETER IN CHAINS
CHURCH WITH THIS TITLE IN
ROME BUILT ABOUT 442
BY EUDoxIA.

The Church of st. Peter in Chains
in Rome was built about Az by Eu-
doxia, the wife of Valentian III and
is thus also called the Basilca Eudos-
lana.
Her mother, when on pilgrimage
in Palestine, had received from the
Christians of Jerusalem the chains
that st. Peter had worn in that city.
She sent them to Rome and her
daughter Eudoxia gave them to Pope
Leo the Great, who to those joined
the chains that had bound the Apos-
tie in Rome under Nero, and Eudoxia
raised the Basilica to hold them.
Besides the Chains, the remarka-
Bile possessions of venerable Basilica,
are the tomb with the bodies of the
Maccabees under the. central altar;
a very interesting mosaic of st. Sc
bastian in the left nave, placed there
in the 7th century to commemorate
the delivery of the city from pesti-
lence; the heads of Saints Con-
stance and Emerentia and many
other precious relics. 1t is also rich
in art treasures. Among others there
is the majestic statue of Moses by
Michaelangelo and paintings by Do
menichino and Guercino.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
THE ONLY WAY TO LEAVE 1T
ALONE

DR.. Austin O'Malley writes in
america" on European Alcoholism"
Italy and France, they say, drink
wine and are sober; Germany and
Austria drink beer and are sober.
They are not sober; they are ALI
chronically picked in alcohol. France
is twice as drunken as England she
had three saloons to one bakeshop in
1911.
In Munich one hospital death in
every sixteen is from beer-drinkers
heart. No matter what Europeans
were accustomed to take in their
home countries, they cannot keep up
the habitual practice in America.
Half the crime of the civilized world
is due to alcohol.
1T is worth while to cut down this
toll to hell, no matter what braying
is on the wind, from those who
know when to leave drink alone
The only way to leave it alone is to
leave it out, as Cardinal Mercier said,
and this holds good for Germans and
Italians al well as FIR Irishmen.n
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
BOOZE IN CHICAGO.

Judge Gemmill of the Municipal
Court Of Chicago says:
II have tried an army of $4,000
human derelicts, most of whom were
booze-soaked. With faces red and
bloated, with eyes dull and languid,
with bodies weak and wasted, with
clothing foul and ragged, this vast
army is forever marching with I'm.
steady step to the graves of the
drunkard and the pauper, or to the
prison and workhouse
Il have looked into the tear-stained
faces of still larger army of fathers
and mothers, brothers and sisters,
wives and husbands, as they have
pleaded for the miserable wrecks that
booze has made. / have seen with
this army ten thousand pale-faced,
hollow-cheeked, ragged, hungry and
starving children, cursed by booze.
Il have observed that every bandit
crew that goes forth to murder, starts
from a saloon; that every panderer
has his rendezvous in a grogshop;
that every den of thieves makes its
victims drunk before it robs them;
that every house of prostitution has
it's bar or is in partnership with
booze; that every gambling den is
either in saloon or sustains close
relationship with one; that the pick
pocket trust is housed in saloon;
that the 'pay-off joint for the crook
and the crooked policeman, is in a
saloon; that the professional bonds
men and character witnesses for
thieves and holdup men are saloon
keepers or bartenders.
Booze has caused 100000 divorces
in the United States in the last 20
years and adds $4,000 more to this
number every year. 1t divides more
homes, fills more jails and empties
more churches than all other influ-
ences combined.
Judges, legislators, mayors, COVER
nors and even presidents, sit dumb or
quail in the presence of this monster"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
FIRST EDUCATOR OF
AMERICAN NEGRO
CATHOLIC CHURCH PLAYED THIS
ROLE, SAYS RECENT WORK.
GEoRGIA'S OPPOSITION SHOWN
SINCE 174o-ITS LATEST LEGIS-
LATION.

The commonwealth of Georgia has
further blackened it's hitherto not too
immaculate record by piece of legis-
lation which prohibits the teaching of
negroes by people OF white color,
aimed directly at the work of the Cath
Ollie priests and Sisters among the
black men of the South. In this ac-
ton, Georgia is in complete accord
with her past, which has been one
continued struggle against the educa-
ton of the blacks and against the eff
forts of Catholics in particular in that
direction. AS early as 1740 the teach
ing of negroes has been forbidden by
that state, and this has been supple
mented at other times by further legis-
lation. (See Digest of the Laws Of
the state of Georgia" by Marbury and
Crawford, p. 1881
This hatred of the negroes and the
Catholics has in it fatal logic, for it
is influenced by the memory of the
past, which shows the Catholics to
have been the first in this country to
people from their state of degradation
to some stage of enlightenment. In
the recently published interesting
book by DR.. G. G. Woodson on "The
Education of the Negro Prior to 1867
C. p. Putnam's Sons, 1879, we have
the record of this fact, and also the
testimony that the Catholic Church
ever consistently continued in this
course, even in the face of violent race
persecution.
THE Spanish and French mission.
aries" we read in the Introduction,
set an example which Influenced the
education of the Negroes throughout
America. Being anxious to see
the Negroes enlightened and brought
into the Church, they courageously
directed their attention to the teach
ing of their slaves provided for the
instruction of the numerous mixed
breed offspring, and granted freedmen
the educational privileges of the high
est classes. Put to shame by this
noble example of the Catholics, the
English colonists had to find way TO
overcome the objections of those who
granting the enlightenment of the
slaves might not lead to servile insur.
rection, nevertheless feared their con.
version might work manunission =
(p. 81 1t was not until the French
provided that masters should take
their slaves to church and have them
fnd0ctrinated in the Catholic faith
that the proposition was seriously con
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

In how many Catholic dioceses is
total abstinence teaching part of the
parish school work? This question
comes to mind from perusal of the
following article in the Temperance
Outlook, the temperance paper of the
Pittsburgh diocese.
Another year has ended in the
work of the Catholic schools of the
Pittsburgh Diocese, and it is pleas
ing to note that earnest efforts have
been made in many localities to inn
part to the children the true principles
with regard to the evils of drink.
1t is all important that our children be
started rightly on the road to higher
manhood and womanhood and the
worn-out silence and indifference
against the dangers of drink be a
thing of the past. Thousands of our
children are each year pledged to
total abstinence from all intoxicating
liquors but this simple pledge is not
sufficient There must be some posi-
tive and constant teaching upon which
to base a reason for the continued
existence of that self-denial. And the
influences of the liquor interests, the
enticements of evil companions, the
attractions held out by the saloons,
the false ideas and often vitiated
tastes of parents, must be over
thrown by the active warfare that is
carried on during the school years.
Each year our Catholic schools are
sending into the world children who
are our boast and our pride. The
thorough training which our Cath
olic system of educating imparts fits
them to meet any demands that may
be made on them. They have intel
ligence and have been developed
carefully and thoroughly. And yet
with all their endowments, all their
careful training, the danger is always
present under our present system of
dealing with the liquor question, that
they may fall, and fail to realize the
bright hopes of the Church, their
educators and their parents.
Whilst we are cursed with the
open seductions of the saloon, the
pOlIIlCd1 pOWSI VI Iu6 lluuOE luISI6SLS,
the Indifference oftentimes of the
authorities to guard and shield our
youth, the school, the Catholic school,
must become the bitter antagonist of
the evils that may destroy our youth.
'Much has been done in this direc-
ton, and the results are most crafty
ing. But much remains to be done.
1t is crusade against vice, debauch,
evil influences and degrading tenden-
cies, and our teaching bodies are the
leaders in this crusade, the captains
at the head of their little armies from
each Catholic school, never growing
weary in their warfare, constantly en-
couraging and stimulating their little
soldiers, supplying them with power
full ammunitiOns, and pointing out to
them the many snares and pitfalls of
the enemy.
MAY the coming school year be
even more successful in this most
necessary warfare!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF
CHILDREN.

His Holiness, Benedict XIV, has
recommended the spiritual well
fare of the children as the general
intention for October to the men,
bers of the Apostleship of Prayer.
Though there are many agen-
cies throughout the world work
ing for the welfare Of children, we
fear that their zeal is too often
confined to the bodily and mental
welfare of the little ones to the
neglect of what is most important,
the care of their souls. We know
that from the age of reason the
child, as being endowed with
free will, is responsible for its eter-
nal destiny. 1t has the power of
rejecting God and of wrecking its
soul and on its free choice de-
ponds its eternal happiness.
Alas, how often this is forgot
ten by those whose first concern
should be to safeguard the inno-
cel1ce of children! How unmind-
full many parents are of the influ-
ences for evil that surround boys
and girls in the streets of our
large cities where so many of them
are forced to seek recreation
How often even the home becomes
a source of danger and invites the
curse of God on those who scan
dalize these little ones -
Sometimes, too, negligent par
ents disregard the orders Of Holy
Church and keep their children
from the reception of Holy Com
munion. They do nothing to en-
courage frequent Communion,
which is so necessary a protection
against the poison of sin and I'M
doubtedly the best means Of keep
ing the spirit of Christ alive in
their hearts.
Not merely at home should this
care be exercised. It is the
Church : conviction that the whole
life Of the child be spent IN a re-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
WILL THEY REMAIN CATHO.
Lies?

Under this heading America"
has the following timely and per-
tinent editorial which is worthy
of careful perusal by our readers.
We commend it especially to Cath
olic parents whose children have
entered non-C Catholic educational
institutions.
"0nce again Catholics are
crowding into Harvard and
Princeton and Yale; and daugh-
tiers of the Church who ought to
be saints, are unblushingly enter
ing the widespread doors Of We'll
lesley and Vassar and Smith.
Preparatory and finishing schools
of every description, with little in
common except that they are fash
ionable and non-C Catholic, are
reckoning the unwary into their
dangerous halls; and tender chill
dren, who now are as pure as
angels, are marching with unsus-
pecting confidence into the class
rooms Of schools where religion is
ignored Our boys are turning
their backs on the colleges which
gave to their fathers all the train
ing and power they possess; and
our girls are glancing with dis
.dain at the academies in which
their mothers acquired the gentle
ness, piety, culture and love Of
God and man, that made them
models for their children and a
consolation to their Church. And
the next generation of Catholics?
The poor we shall always have
with us, their faith will continue
to burn bright, and to guide them
to the tabernacle and the altar
rail. But what Of the rich? What
of the children who are now learn
ing skepticism, if not worse, from
the lectures Of men and women
who know not Christ, and who
laugh, if not openly, at least in
their hearts, at the tenets and
practices of Catholicism? Who,
think you, will claim them for his
own, when they have come into
their manhood or their woman
hood, the Prince Of Peace or the
Prince Of this world. One shrinks
from the answer. Bitter, indeed,
will be the death-bed Of parents
who have yielded, in spite of their
own better Judgment and their
pastors protests, to the foolish
wishes Of their dazzled children,
to the extent of permitting them
to set their innocent feet in the
way of destruction and death
What stewardship will be
theirs to account for and what a
reckoning! Christ's little ones
were scandalized. +"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
FATHER JOHNS MEDICINE A
FAKE.

The United States Government
has just brought to a successful
termination more than a half a
hundred prosecutions against the
manufacturers Of patent medi-
cines who made false and fraudu-
lent statements about the cura-
tive effects of their nostrums.
Legal action was taken under the
provisions of the Sherley amend
ment to the Food and Drug Act,
which prohibits the making of
false claims about the therapeutic
value Of drugs or medicines. As
a result the government has de-
clared that Sc proprietary medi-
cines are falsely labeled.
Among these is one that has
been extensively advertised in the
daily and weekly press. Not a
few Catholic publications have
helped to bring Father Johns
Medicine" to the notice Of the
public. Despite it's name, Father
Johns Medicine has been de-
clared a fake" The picture of
the venerable but fictitious Father
John is familiar to all and many
and attractive were the published
testimonials to the superlative
curative properties Of the medi-
cine to which it called attention.
1t will be interesting to note
whether, in view Of the govern
ment's action, ''Father John S
Medicine" will disappear from
the advertising columns of Cath
Ollie publications. We hope it will
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02

passes without bringing to the
Reverend Clergy and to- Catholic
institutions circulars from wine
merchants calling attention to the
merits of their special brands and
recommending a trial. 1t is not
advisable to experiment in such
eases, especially if the firms do
not deal in altar wines exclusive
ly, but carry stock Of other
wines and liquors. In such cases
there is always the possibility that
a mistake may be made in the
shipment and that would be dis
astrous, The safest way is to buy
Mass wine only from authorized
dealers. Il