The Irish standard., 1918-08-10

district.
Coffee Jim to Rescue.-A Midnight
Lunch man, who ran a lunch car on
wheels such az we see at city corners,
really started Henry Ford, the auto
mobile millionaire. When he was
poor, Ford would go to this midnight
lunch" wagon every evening and eat
sandwich and drink coup of coffee.
He struck up friendship with the
proprietor, Coffee jim" To him Ford
told his dreams, and when no one
would finance his first car, Ford told
him and Coffee Jim" came to the res
cue, gave him the money to build his
first two-cylinder car, and started him
Oh the road to fortune.
Kept the SchooI.-A dancer died in
New York recently, and when she was
buried from the Italian church of st.
Joseph, New Rochelle, it became
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ochial school of that parish, in which
three hundred children are educated,
was for years almost entirely support
cd by her. She was the wife OF the
well-known comedian, Eddie Foy.
Hit by SheIl.-Rt. Rev. Msgr. Luigi
Giuseppe D'Augineli, So years old, and
the last member of an illustrious
noble family of Italy, we'll known in
the United States, where, as simple
Father Luigi, he taught in universities
and seminaries several years ago, has
been, together with his neice, fatally
wounded by an Austrian shell, while
aiding troops on the battle front
Jesuits in War Work.-Members of
the Society of Jesus are to the front
in war work in America, as in France
At their college in Washington they
have opened, at the request of the
Government, a school of aviation, and
the Rev. Walter G. Summers, S. j.,
Professor of Physics in the Catholic
University, is in charge. Another
Father, of Loyola University, Chicago,
has discovered new chemical for
mula which is expediting the manu-.
facture of high explosives.
Home of Old CIergy.-By the will OF
the late Johne Hanlon, who died at his
| farm home near Ogdensburg, NJ Y.
the bulk Of his estate is left to estab
fish a home for aged and infrm Cath
| olics clergymen Of the diocese Of Og
| densburg. The farm on which he
lived is to be the site of the proposed
home.
Deserved Honor.-The Grand Coun
Gil Of the knights Of Malta, which is
historically the noblest and most in
! fluential Of all the knightly orders Of
Europe, in order to show it's apprecia
ton of the work of Sister Maurice
Superioress-General of the Sisters OF
Charity, in the Hospital of S. Martha
Rome, nominated this nun an honor
airy members of the order Only scions
of the most ancient families are ad
mitted as members Of the Sovereign
Order of the Knights of Malta. An
English duke, very generous Of his
! wealth to every good purpose, was
not considered ancient and noble
enough to gain admittance to this or
der
Patriotic Nuns.-Patriotism and the
desire to do son ething that will aid
in winning the war have led the
Sisters of the Ursuline Convent, al
Alton, Illinois, to offer their entire
convent as home for mutton work
| ers. Housing facilities in Alton have
been very poor this year and it has
been almost impossible to provide
homes enough to care for the many
workers needed in order to fill Gov
| eminent contracts.
The convent contains fifty large
| rooms, which may easily be converted
into twice the number. If the Offer
is accepted the Sisters will remove to
the Ursuline Novitiate, north of Alton
for the present at least.
Supplying Books.-Books are being
provided for sick and convalescent
boys in the service by the Catholic
Women's Club of Rogers Park, Chica.
60. A chaplain of regiment stationed
in the South sent a request to the
knights of Columbus club asking for
magazines as we'll as books. MANY