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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29


Many wife is unsuccessful in keep
ing a hold on her husband 1t is not
an unusual case that a man who was
formerly splendid fellow takes a
downward course after marriage. The
most imprudent policy that a wife
could pursue in such case would be
to reproach him yehemently, to create
scenes, and dog his steps in public
Such conduct would needlessly agi-
tate the wife and embitter the hus-
band.
There is another secret. To most
women it is nothing new to be told
that they themselves are at fault if
their husbands feel more at home
elsewhere than in the bosom of the
family. They do not know how to
make home life so attractive that
their husbands will not be tempted to
seek diversion elsewhere. And for a
woman who really loves her husband
it is by no means difficult to surround
him with such comforts that he finds
the home atmosphere more congenial
than the smoke-filled air of the club
or tavern. That is accomplished by
presenting cheerful countenance
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
THE TIME WHEN ToPSY STAYED.


Little Myrtle was having hard
time, she thought. Anyway, she
WASN'T happy, for who could be 'feel-
ing NICE she said to her mother,
when folks had to stay in the house
just because it was all wetty outdoors
and the wind was ALLOWING"
And mother answered. why, dear,
you've got SO many dolls and other
playthings-I should think that any
child Whitehall that you have could be
happy"
well, can't" pouted Myrtle. IF
only Dorothy would come, or wasn't
SO tired of everything, I,might.'
There's Topsy,' said mother look.
ing out of the window, she's bringing
back the waists that her mother has
been laundering. Go to the door
dear, and tell her to come in and get
warm
''Topsy," said mother, as the little
girl was standing before the fire, "do
you think you could be happy to have
to stay in this room for one afternoon
and play with eleven dolls, a doll bed
buggy, dishes and ever so many
toys?"
Topsy showed her white teeth
4 Fes'm, I'd like it mighty well,' she
laughed.
but you'd get SO tired you
wouldn't know what to do next said
Myrtle.
Il could make a big, big house with
those blocks, and put nice big chin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
FLAG SIZES.

The United States army regulations,
1914, declare the garrison, post and
storm flags to be national flags. They
are to be made OF bunting, and the
union of each shall be one-third the
area of the flag. ''The garrison flag
will have thirty-six feet fly and twenty
feet hoist; thus the length is proper.
toned to the breadth as nine is to
five. This flag is furnished only to
posts designated in orders from time
to time and is to be hoisted on holi-
days and important occasions.
"The post flag will have twenty feet
fly and ten feet hoist" It is furnished
to all garrison posts for hosting in
pleasant weather.
4sThe storm flag will have eight feet
fly and four feet two inches hoist
All occupied posts fly it in stormy
weather, and it is also furnished to
national cemeteries and recruiting sta
lions.
The blue field holding the stars
should extend to the bottom OF tho
fourth red stripe from the top.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29

''I'm very sorry, my dear But your
friend won't do
ooh, father, don't decide SO quickly.
She really is such a good scholar.
Professor Brakeman used to think she
would make a success as a writer"
There are very few prospective
literary lights in high-school class.
But there is not single pupil in such
a class who will not need to know
how to write good letter. With all
due respect to your friends talents,
She does not seem to have mastered
the art of letter-writing herself. 1t is
impossible for me to believe that any
person who would send out a letter SO
faulty in construction, without proper
punctuation, and with >misspelled
words, will be a suitable teacher of
high-school English. In fact, she would
never secure a position in any school
where | had a deciding vote"
Estelle's recommendations came
, back soon, with polite note, saying
that the vacancy had been filed. And
| she never knew how her letter to her
old friend had made the recommends
lions of her college professors worth
less than the paper on which they
were written.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
AERoPLANE SPECIAL DELIVERY.

l do not think the aeroplane will
supplant the steamship and railroad
as mail carrier because it will be
too expensive. 1t would take very
large number of flying machines, per-
haps hundred, to carry as much
mail as we now get into mail car.
You can easily figure how this would
increase the expense. 1t will have the
same advantage in carrying mails as
in carrying passengers, and that is
speed. This statement also needs
some qualification, for. when it comes
to quick communication the aeroplane
can never supplant the telegraph and
the telephone But we shall probably
have special rapid mail service by
aeroplane, for which we shall pay a
higher price and buy a special stamp.
The flying machine will give ten
hour service between New York and
Chicago and a two-day service from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
FOR BROTHER BIRD.

Is there a tree in your yard? Then
try this plan to attract the birds. 1t
will be fun to watch them respond to
your invitation to call at your tree,
and by watching them you will learn
more about them than a month of
nature study at school would teach
you. This plan was originally con-
tributed to Our Dumb Animals by a
correspondent who wrote:
81 am a great lover of birds, and for
a number of years, although I have
lived in different localities, have al
ways tried to provide food for them in
winter, when it is almost impossible
for them to secure it for themselves,
and lodging at all seasons.
can old colored man who at one time
worked on my fathers home farm
gave me the idea, and since that time
I have fed and sheltered hundreds of
sparrows, the bird which we are today
trying to protect.
81 buy a number of cocOanuts, cut
off the end (like taking the top off an
egg), put string through it, knot it.
and then hang the cocoanut from a
tree limb. The birds at once will flock
to eat the cocoanut, and when they
have eaten enough away to make sit
ting room, will nestle there at night.
Thus for few cents food can be pro-
vided for many birds for months. |
have even known them to build their
nests in the empty shell in the spring
and there raise their young.
'In the most severe weather this
food is always available, and one may
remain away from home for several
days and know the birds are provided
for.
II pass on this idea, that others who
have the welfare of our little birds at
heart may use this Or some other
means to protect them. q As well as
being beneficial to the birds, | have
also found this Il pleasing and inter
esting pastime.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
MYSTERY OF BIRD FLIGHT.

A curious fact concerning birds is
that the tip of the wing moves at prac-
tically the same speed in every spe-
cies. This is $50 feet per minute, or
nearly seven and half miles per
hour Whether it is the tiny wren or
the huge stork, the rule holds good,
and even the bee comes within it..
Thus the bee has wing only quar-
ter of an inch long, the sparrow's
wing is four inches and the stork' S
twenty-seven. But the bees wing
beats 11,400 times in minute, the
sparrow's 720 and the stork's only los
times. If you multiply together the
length of the wing and the number OF
beats you will get almost exactly the
same result in the three cases-name
ly, stork, 1885; bee, 1850; sparrow
$3.50. But if ever a machine is made
to fly like bird it will have to develop
for more energy than these figures
stand for. A birds energy of fiigh
is not SO great as is supposed. al
though such skillful fliers when .aloft
many birds cannot rise from leye
ground.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
MILK AS A FABRIC.

Although any one will concede that
man cannot live by bread alone, it has
been thought possible to get along
rather nicely if milk were added to the
diet. But it remained for two French
chemists, Francois Lebreil and Raoul
Desgeorge, to conceive an idea where
by milk may also be made to yield a
fabric which may be converted into
clothing and ornaments.
The curds of the milk are subjected
to chemical treatment by means Of
which the mass is converted into a
plastic substance which may be rolled
into sheets resembling celluloid, from
which buttons and other articles such
as combs, umbrella handles, bric-a-
brac and even imitation leather may be
made, all of which are of attractive ap-
pearance and of excellent wearing
qualities.
The milk is first robbed of its fat,
after which it is warmed with rennet
so as to form curds. 1t is then par
boiled and exposed to the air, and then
is treated with acetone to give it the
required hardness, elasticity and trans
parency. The product may. be made so
soft that it can be used as a substitute
Tor silk in the manufacture of fine
underwear, or it may be made solid
enough to serve as good imitation of
ivory.
-P0DuiaY Science MOnfhlp
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29

And then, happening to remember
that this same city was the home of
one of her college friends, she sat
down and wrote her, telling of her
hopes. 1t was very hasty letter, so
hasty that she had no time for the
punctuation, and once or twice she
rushed the formality of using a CAPT.
tai. Her letter was full of slang. She
had always been one of the slangy
girls in college She did not even take
time to re-read the communication
after she had finished it, or she might
have discovered some of its flaws, but
she thrust it into an envelope, and
sent it on its way.
The girl who received the letter was
pleased with the idea offhaving an old
college friend resident of the city.
AS soon as her father came home, she
preached the subject. Father, there's
friend of mine, an awfully smart
girl, who wants to get a position here
to teach"
is her name Little?"
"Why, yes. How did you know"
''She has applied for high-school
position. How did you know she
wanted to teach here?"
'She wrote me. The letter just
came today
Let me see it,
The young woman hesitated. She
had read her friends letter hastily,
:,,@o 81 oil in ifc MIR nnrt III n
it's form. But now it began to occur
to her that it was not exactly the sort
of letter to show the president of a
School Board, even though he hap
pened to be her father.
"It-wny, you know it was just a
personal letter.
Certainly, / know it. And that's
why want to see it."
She brought it out reluctantly. He
spread it open on his. knee and began
to peruse it. In a minute he arched
his brows.
"a little weak in punctuation, it
seems
Il suppose she was in hurry
Another silence.
.Hm! On this first page are two
sentences beginning with small let
tiers"
sEstelle was really brilliant in col
lege, father. There was only one other
girl whose themes could compare with
hers.
He turned page and read a
sentence aloud.
what does that mean?''
The daughter Blushed. ooh, that's
the latest slang. Estelle always had
an affinity for slang when we were in
school,
He read on through the letter with
out further comment. folded it, and
J shook his head.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29

when he returns home, by having the
children neat and tidy, and by serving
tasty meal. She must know how to
loosen his tongue and induce him to
recount the experiences of the day.
She must sense his sorrows and dis
appointments. She must learn how to
keep her own personality, her own
thoughts in the background She
must realize the striking truth of the
words: Laugh, and the world laughs
with you; weep, and you weep alone"
The woman who seeks to endear
herself to her husband must always
be disposed to smile or sympathize
with him in his joys and sorrows,
without indicating, in any way that
her burden is heavier than she can
bear. If she has tears to shed, she
must shed them alone. The pleasant
things of life she must dwell upon,
and the disagreeable things she must
shut out.
A woman should be witty, cheerful,
give the husband the impression that
he is superior being, that she is de-
pendent ON his judgment as well as on
his support.
She should also be her husbands
pal, his intellectual and spiritual COM
panion Her immediate task is the
management of the household, but she
should also be interested in her hus.
bands business, professional and so
cial affairs. ~
The higher the education and so
cial standing of the husband is, the
greater the demands on the wife.
The wife of such husband may have
servants to perform the household
work, but one thing she can not
leave to others-the care Of her hus.
band.
Even though the household tasks be
performed by hired help, the matter
of her husbands veal or woe cannot
be delegated to other persons. That
is the duty of the wife. What the
poorest wage-earner enjoys, the high
salaried man may also expect. I'm
fortunately the wives of the latter
not infrequently reveal themselves as
mere fashion plates.
The Echo
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
ARE YOU BACKING THE RIGHT
HORSE?

Have you a young genius in your
family?" asks the editor of the Amer
lean Magazine. do the rest of you
scrimp and save in order to provide
the best of everything for him? Do
you make sacrifices SO that he can go
away to be educated-so that he can
have all the opportunities in the world
to develop his powers?
IF this interesting situation does
not exist in your home it exists in
some other home on your street. Any
way, you have seen a case of it and
wondered about it. You have won
dered about the right and wrong of it,
the wisdom or the folly of it. You
have thought sometimes that no
human being, however brilliant, has a
right to accept SO much from Others.
Then there is often the question as to
whether the favored one in such a
family is really the most gifted one
after ALL 1t is quite possible-if only
one can go-that:William should come
home from his musical studies in New
York and let Mary go on with her art
There is no such thing as being sure
that you have picked out the right
genius to back.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
LONDON THROUGH THE AGES.

The occupation of the site of London
dates back much farther than most
readers are aware. The city that
julius Caesar found occupied site
which had been inhabited for unnum-
bered thousands of years. 1t is now
known that during paleolithic and
neolithic times-the two great divi-
sions of the stone age-man dwelt on
the site of London, but it first became
the settlement of community at the
opening of the historic age, when it
was a stronghold of the Celts. The
remains of it's Roman period are the
finest of the kind in Great Britain.
The Anglo-SaXon and Danish periods
are finely represented, and even later
periods, such as the Tudor, furnish
relics that have been buried by that
strange process of superintendent
growth which makes the soil under a
great city resemble the fossiliferous
strata of geology.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
WHAT A BILLION MEANS.

If railway train proceeding at|the
rate of a mile minute had been at
the dawn of the Christian era started
around the earth on straight track,
it's object being to run 1,OO0,OOO,OOO
miles without stop, it would have been
necessary for that train to circle the
earth 10000 times, and it would not
have come to the end of its journey
until nearly New Years eve, 1923, six
teen centuries after Christ was born.
During it's frantic flight it would have
seen the Saviour live and die; Rome
rise, flourish and decay; Britain dis
covered and yanquished by the Roman
legions, and London and Paris built.
1t would have proceeded on it's jour
ney throughout the dark ages, 1t
would have witnessed the birth of Co
lumbus, the discovery of America and
have a couple of hundred years yet to
continue
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
THE cHILDREN'S HOUR.
MUST BE CULTIVATED.

Ground which has never been
ploughed deeply enough is soon ex-
hausted and produces but scanty
crops. It is the same if a mine is
carelessly worked; the precious and
useful minerals will soon be at an
end. So it is, if we never seriously
examine into the state OF our souls;
only remain on the surface, here and
there pull out a small weed, but leave
the roots in the ground. Our good
qualities, the precious gifts and the
blessings we have received from God
serve only to deceive ourselves and
others as to the fertility and fruits
of our souls. How soon habitual
supericiality takes the place of real
deep spirituality.
Rep. Sebastian Van Ger. o S. B.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
CHINA AND THE, TARTARs.

The Manchu Tartars, who conquered
the early Chinese, have left the i'm
press of their former manner of life
upon many styles seen today in Chi
nese fashions of clothing. For in
stance, the official coats, as seen in
China at the present time, are made
with very peculiar sleeves, shaped
like horses leg and ending in what
is an unmistakable hoof, completely
covering the hand. These are known
as horseshoe sleeves. This is owing
to the intense love of the early Tar
tars for horses, from whom they were
practically inseparable during their
generations of wild wandering before
settling down in China proper. The
old cue is also said to have been worn
| in imitation of the horses tail, and
also as a useful halter to tie about
the horse when the Tartar curled III
beside his beloved dumb friend for
/ sleep.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
HOW kAFFIRS SMOKE.
Popular Science MontI,lp.

The natives of South Africa are in
veterate smokers, but some of them
indulge in the habit in a distinctly
queer fashion. The natives of Har-
rismith, in the Orange River Colony,
smoke in the following novel man.
ner: a pipe" is made by thrusting
two sticks into the ground SO as to
meet at an angle: when they are with
drawn two tunnels are left behind. A
hollow reed is stuck in one hole and
the tobacco placed in the other and
lighted. Before beginning operations
the native fills his mouth with water,
drawing in the smoke with a gurgling
sound and blowing out the water and
smoke through second reed. 1t
seems mighty poor way of smoking
to white man, says writer in the
Wide World Magazine, but the Kaffirs
are very fond of it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
ALASkA'S "PUPMoBILE."

The 'pupmobile" is passenger
train drawn over a regular railroad
track by dog power. 1t carries pas
sengers from Nome, Alaska, across
the level land near that town into the
mountains.
The track is a narrow gauge rail-
road built in 1900. A high tax was
placed on railroads in Alaska soon
after that, and as there was not
enough traffic over the road to justify
the expense of operating locomotives,
the regular train service was discon-
tinued. Then the ''pupmobile' was
instituted. The accommodation for
passengers consists of platform on
which are two seats. To this from
seven to fifteen dogs are harnessed,
and the rate at which they travel COM
pares favorably with much of our
rapid transit"
-P0DuIoy Science MOnthfU
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-29
GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE.

A study of the relative growth of
the leading languages in the last hun
dred years shows that English has
risen from fifth to first place. In 1900
it was spoken by about one-eighth of
the inhabitants of the civilized world;
today it is the language of about one
third.
Besides this, English has taken the
place that French occupied much less
than 100 years ago as the interna-
tional language. It's speech is ever be-
coming wider, for the inhabitants OF
all India are finding it necessary; it is
now a required study i'll the high
schools of Japan, and those of China
are teaching it to millions of students
Would it be too rash to predict that
by the year 1000 English will be the
language of all the world and other
tongues will have become merely loca.
in their use?