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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
MONK FIRST TO USE CORK.

The discovery of CORK for shoppers
is ascribed to the monk Don PerignOn,
who managed the cellars of the abbey
of Haul Villiers in 1875. One day he
ran short of the usual stoppering,
which was pads of hemp or cloth
STEPPED in oil, and being something Of
a botanist, he had noticed that the out
side layer of the bark of certain spe-
cies of the oak tree was of compare
lively soft wood He procured some
of this porous material and shaped it
so that it would fit into some par
TALLY fermented bottles of wine.
Later on opening the bottles he
found that the effect or the confined
carbonic acid gas which this new stop
per did not allow to escape acted on
the wine so as to make it effervesce.
From then on for long time it was
supposed this phenomenon was due
to the action of the cork on the wine,
and effervescing or Kissing wine be-
came the rage. Enterprising mer-
chants saw the possibilities of this
wood, and they introduced it for gen
eral purposes as shoppers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
SODALiTY ACADEMIES"

Who knows what an academy" is
in a sodality? Not many, perhaps,
even of the socialists themselves. The
following paragraphs from the Monthly
Talk on the Rules, throw a great deal
of light on the subject:
This name is consecrated by imme-
mortal usage in the sodality and even
before the Sodality of the Annuncia-
ton in Rome was raised by the Holy
Father, in 1898, to the rank of the head
sodality there had long existed in the
Roman College an academy composed
Of the students and called by that
name The word itself comes, of
course from the name of the grove in
Athens, where Plato taught, and it has
thence come to mean sometimes
learned society. In sOdalities, and es-
pecially Though not, be it remem-
bered, exclusively in school sodali-
ties, the activities of the academy are
those mentioned in the rule.
The subjects for the study and prac-
tice of which academies may be es-
tablished are, as the rule indicates,
extremely various and comprehensive.
Science, with its endless subdivisions;
literature, with all its aspects OF the
DRY, practice and appreciation; art,
with it's countless relations; and final
ly commerce, the professions, the
whole economy of modern life make up
the field from which academies may
draw for their studies and discussions.
One can find here material adapted to
any class of persons, any grade OF pro-
ficiency, any stage of education and
culture. An endless variety of subject
and treatment may be introduced into
the program of the academies.
1t is interesting, as one goes over
the records and reports of sodalities,
to notice how this vast field has actu-
ally been covered and surveyed by the
sodalities of the present and the past.
Thus, in the report of the sOdality of
Barcelona, Spain, we find that its acad-
emies have as their subjects of study
respectively law and sociology, medi-
cine, science and pharmacy, philoso-
ply, literature, apologetics, the fine
arts, engineering, instrumental music,
| vocal music, English, German, etc,
and that some of these academies have
a membership of eighty or ninety mem
bers, while most of them number at
least half hundred The sodality of
Valencia, Spain, is no less remarkable
for the number and success of it's
academies. And if one could take a
census of all the sodalities in the
world, he would perhaps find it true OF
| the academies, as it is of the social
and charitable sections of the sodali
ties, that they actually cover almost
the whole wide field of effort which is
theoretically given them in the rule.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03

wish to degrade her, expected to have
his comforts considered as well as her
own. She was hurt, outraged, indig-
nant at his attitude. He was hurt, out
ragged and indignant at her attitude.
Neither could see the others point
of view Yet they struggled on, learn
ing a little more of each other as the
days went by, seeing finally virtues
where they had only seen faults; at
last they entered triumphantly into
their own; but the first year was a
nightmare, as the little bride con-
feSsed.\
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
FRENCHMAN INVENTED MICRO
PHONE.

The inventor of the fundamental
principle of the microphone ON the
modern telephone is said to have been
the Able Rouselot, French phonetici-
an, born at st. Cloud (Charente) in
1886 He became vicar and curate
of Cognac and JarreZac, then assistant
of French philology at the Catholic
Institute of Paris, and two years later
he opened the first course of expert
mental phonetics ever established. In
1897 he was appointed director of the
laboratory of experimental phonetics
at the College of France, the plan for
which originated with him. He is the
inventor of phonetic instruments, the
maker of several discoveries tending
to cure deafness and suffering, and
the author of a number of works on
his specially.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
SAINTS DEVOTION TO THE SA-
CRED HEART.

After many devout souls had veneer
ated the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with
sincere devotion, in the solitude of
quiet life, as is seen in the lives of
IS. Augustine, Bernard, Bonaventure,
Thomas of Aquin Francis de Sales,
Ignatius, Clara, Gertrude, Mechtild,
Catharine of Siena, Theresa and 9TH
ers, our divine Saviour willed that His
hearts infinite love should be recog-
nized by all men, and be kindled in
cold hearts by new fire of love- For
this end He made use of a feeble, OBJ
scure instrument, that all the world
might know that the devotion to His
known, was His own work. This in
strument, disregarded by the world,
was one who shone before God in all
the radiance of the most sublime vir-
tues, the nun Margaret Alacoque of
the order of the Visitation of Mary, at
Paray, in Burgundy In the year 1875,
while she was one day in prayer be-
fore the Blessed Sacrament, our Lord
appeared to her, and pointing to His
heart which He showed to her, sur
rounded with flames, surmounted by
the Gross; encircled with a crown of
thorns, and pierced with gaping
wound, He said to her, Behold this
heart, which has loved mankind so
much, and which receives from men
only ingratitude and GOODNESS in re-
turn for its love. My desire is that
you should make reparation to Ny
heart for this ingratitude and induce
others also to make reparation." Our
Lord then designated the Friday after
the Octave of Corpus Christi as the
special day for this duty. In several
subsequent apparitions our divine Lord
repeated this injunction, and made the
most unbounded promises in favor of
all who would apply themselves to
this office of reparation to His Sacred
Heart. The following are some of His
promises:
l. will give them all the graces
necessary for their state of life.
2. | will establish peace in their
families.
3. | will console them in all their
pains and trials.
4. | will be their assured refuge in
life and especially in death.
;. will shed abundant blessings
upon all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My Heart an
infinite ocean of mercy.
Z. Lukewarm souls will be rendered
fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall rise rapidly to
greater perfection.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
LIGHTS OF SHlNAGAWA BAY.

Strange lights hover over the waters
Of Japan at various places. The burn
ing spring that appears at intervals
of several years in one of the land
locked bays is a natural phenomenon
that has attracted the attention of the
scientific world. A new and curious
spectacle made its appearance in Shi-
nagawa bay recently when myriad
of pale green lights shOne in the placid
waters and attracted thousands of spec
tators to the shore, East and West
News states.
The savants of Japan are giving
much attention to this curious freak of
nature. One college professor likened
the exhibition to the innumerable
lights off the coast of Chikusen and
Chikugo in Kyushu. The latter lights,
however, are of a yellow-red, orange
color, whereas those in Shinagawa bay
were pale green.
Dr. Kishigami of the College of Ag-
riculture in the Togo Imperial Univer-
sity collected a quantity of water from
the bay. He has declared that the
light is caused by countless animalculi.
He describes these insects as gymno-
gyniums, belonging to the class Flag
ellata. Each measures one twelve
hundredth of an inch and has an ali
mentary canal These insects must
have always been present in the waters
of that bay, but an excess of vegetable
matter in the water so fattened and
stimulated the animalculi that they
became unusually luminous. The learn
ed professor cites the appearance of
the same phenomena at Hamburg in
1880, since which time no record eX-
lists of it's recurrence until lately The
insects live at the bottom of the sea
and come to the surface on rare oc-
casions for oxygen.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
HoNORING RELICS.

Every one likes to have a keepsake
of a departed friend or relative, and
things trivial in themselves often as
sumo great value in our sight, and we
treasure a lock of hair, scrap OF
handwriting Or picture almost as II
it were sacred, renewing our sorrow
for the dead as often as we look at it,
says the Homiletic Monthly. Probab-
ly no one considers this wrong, and
there is no reason, then, for finding
fault with the Church for treating with
respect the bones and other relics of
the saints. In doing SO she desires
only to express her love and reverence
for them and to remind us of their
good example.
In honoring relics we honor the
saints themselves, and above all our
Lord Jesus Christ, offering them our
love, gratitude, prayers and invoca-
tions. We think of what they accom-
plished on earth, of their merits and
labors, of their charity towards God
and man, of their humility and pa
tience; in short, of the sanctity mani
tested by them here below and we
are impelled to do our utmost to live
as they lived.
This is the real meaning Of the ven
Grafton of relics, and it is with this
thought in our minds that we kneel
one imagine that we are wOrshiping
the relics; to kneel in prayer before
them is quite different from kneeling
in prayer before the Blessed Sacra-
ment. In the former case we testify
our respect; in the latter we offer
genuine worship to God
Holy Church approves and sanctions
the veneration of relics, since thus we
enter into relations with the saints
and dispose them to help us; we Sc
cure for ourselves their love, protec-
ton and intercession, and call to mind
their glorious example.
In this way the veneration of holy
relics may contribute to our salvation.
For instance, we see our Lady's veil, a
relic that we should value very highly,
and as we look at it and venerate it,
we ought to think of all her virtues,
her purity. humility and charity, and
the thought impels us to follow her
example and to ask for her interces-
sion, knowing it is never in vain.
Holy relics may be channels of grace.
Our Saviour Himself used outward
tokens to convey His grace and power.
For instance. He cured the sick by a
touch. The Church acts in the same
way when she administers the Sacra-
ments: and relics and holy pictures
may also be outward tokens and chan
nels Of Divine help and sanctifcation.
1t is within our SaViour's power to
employ them thus, and He has often
chosen to attach His gifts and graces
to particular places, objects and pic
lures.
Miraculous cures and conversions
have been effected in certain
churches by the touch of certain rel
les, etc. Yet we know that these
churches and relics do not possess
miraculous powers of themselves, but
that God bestows His grace and
effects cures at the intercession OF
the saints whose relics we honor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
VELDT MARKS ITS JEWELLERS.

Before the Boer war there was say
ing current among the Beers of South
Africa that you could always recog-
nize a man who had spent five years
on the veldt This was a saying no
less true then than now, for the veldt
is place of great silence and loneli
ness and it leaves it's mark on those
who dwell in it.
The veldt is the great plain of what
is now British South Africa, the limit
less, featureless stretch of prairie dot
ted with knobs of hills that the Beers
call kopjes, pierced and gashed by rain
washed gullies that run their twisting
course from horizon to horizon. The
word veldt is closely allied to the Ger
man word for world or universe, and
the relationship is something more
than mere coincidence. To the man
standing in the midst of this plain it
seems to extend in every direction to
the outermost limits of space.
The veldt is without sound or color,
without striking features to catch the
eye. A days trek among low hills
covered with gray grass, plods YEARLY
through mile after mile of the same
hills, and ends in a dry valley as like
the valley of the morning as one pea
is like another. After a few days of
this the traveller wonders if his prog
ress is not mere illusion, if he is not
returning day after day to the same
spot.
Now and again the monotony is
broken by some veldt farm, place of
exceeding loneliness for the exiles
who till it. There will be a farmhouse,
barn, kraal, a we'll and few huts
for the kaffirs. To the railroad may
be a distance of anywhere from TWEEN
ty to seventy miles. Half the year the
roads are impossible. The little com
munity must be sufficient unto itself.
Life on veldt farm is a severe test
of the inner resources of man or
woman.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIED
LIFE.

There seems 70 be much difference
of opinion among wives as to the most
critical year of their married lives.
Some of them say the first year is the
hardest. Others insist that the first
year is the year of romance.
ct isn't until your trousseau begins
to wear out and your household fur
nishings need to be renewed that you
realize how prosaic married life really
is" said a clever little woman. by
that time your husband forgets occa-
sionally to kiss you when he leaves
you in the morning, and you stop
wearing dainty negligees and lace
breakfast caps
Many women are of the opinion that
the first year of marriage is the criti-
cal one. Then comes the adjustment
of the two natures which are entirely
different, and of temperaments which
have nothing in common.
A man of foreign extraction mar.
ried a girl who was above him social
ly He was thrifty, successful fellow,
with a streak of romance, but with
strongly defined ideas as to the duties
of wife. The girl he married was a
gay little thing, who on the surface
seemed frivolous, but who had really
womanly traits which only needed fos-
tering to be brought out in all their
beauty. The couple loved each other
dearly and entered upon their matri-
monial career without a doubt as to
their happiness. The honeymoon had
scarcely ended, however, when the
difference in their ideals began to
show itself
The girl had been spoiled; like most
of our American girls, she was used to
Difference and to men who waited
upon her. Her husband, without any
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
THE JOYS OF OUR BLESSED LADY.

We are all familiar with the Sor-
rows of Mary, definite reference to
each of which may be found in Cath
Ole devotional works, but have
never seen in print any enumeration
of the Joys of Our Blessed Lady AS
a matter that may be of interest to
some of your readers, | submit the
following verses which set forth the
Seven Joys of Mary The metre might
be improved upon. but l was rather
impressed by the orthodoxy of the SEN
timent expressed. Here are the lines
as | heard them from the lips of a
pious Irish Catholic
The very first joy Our Blessed Lady
had
It was the Joy of one,
It was the joy of her dear Son
When He became a man.
The very next JOY Our Blessed Lady
had,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03

No! it isn't just the spirit that will
elevate the race,
And it's not the sort of medicine to
offer in the case;
Far better to be manly, far better to
be plain,
And, stead of being a growler, try to
ease another's pain.
When every one is happy and every
one is gay,
The world don't seem so heartless,
and there's not the dell to
pay
So try to make it happy and try to
make it bright,
And some other heart will bless yOu--
and you'll know you're doing
right.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03

1t was the JOY of two.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He began to do.
The very next JOY Our Blessed Lady
had,
1t was the JOY of three.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He walked through Galilee.
The very next joy Our Blessed Lady
had,
1t was the JOY of four.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He read the Scriptures DER.
The very next JOY Our Blessed Lady
had,
1t was the joy of five.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He raised the dead to life.
The very next joy Our Blessed Lady
had,
1t was the joy of six.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He carried His crucifiX.
The very next JOY Our Blessed Lady
had,
1t was the JOY of seven.
1t was the JOY of her dear Son
When He opened the gates Of
Heaven.
-So0garth. in Catholic Record
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
MckINLEYS LITTLE ACT is LES
SON IN MANNERS.

A beautiful little story is told of the
late President and Mrs. Mckinley, who
were entertaining at dinner in the
White House, a plain old couple they
had known and loved in Ohio.
A costly fruit was passed, and in
stead of taking one piece, the old man
helped himself plentifully, his wife fol-
lowing suit A smile passed around
the guests, but the distinguished host
and his lady were equal to the occa-
sion. They helped themselves even to
a second portion of the delicacy, there
by putting their guests at ease and
teaching a lesson in tactfulness to
their less thoughtful friends.
The surest test, most probably, OF
true, innate refinement is ones con-
duct at table, and truly, if noble man
ners should at one time more than
another be cultivated, it is when one
must needs attend to natures purely
material demands.
There is a fineness and delicacy not
conned from books ON table etiquette,
not used on formal occasions, and laid
aside with party gowns but which is
practiced as strictly when eating pri-
vately as when banqueting with a
throng, that proclaims the true gentle
man and gentlewoman.
The well-bred man or woman makes
no remarks about the food, nor pre-
tends to notice how much, how little,
or in what manner others are eating.
They endeavor to put every one at
ease, and to make the meal hour one
of the most pleasant and refined OF
the day
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
HOW GIN CAME BY ITS NAME.

The name of gin is a corruption of
Geneva, which is taken, not from the
Swiss city or lake of that name, but
from the French word, "genievre," or
juniper, with the berries of which
plant the gin is favored. The earliest
allusion to it is in Massinger's Duke
of Milan" produced in 1928 In Act 1,
Scene /, Graccho, pointing to drunk
ard EXPLAINS:
Bid him sleep;
'Tis sign he has taen his liquor,
and if you meet
An officer preaching for sobriety,
Unless he read it in Geneva print,
Lay him by the heels.
In this extract the word is played
upon; Geneva suggesting both the
habit of spirit drinking and the Cal
whistle doctrines
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03

But this did not content her zeal; al
though opposition continued, she strove
to fulfill the command of Jesus, who
assisted her by at last changing the
hardened hearts of the nuns and in
flaming them with the same love of
His Sacred Heart. This devotion soon
spread from the convent through the
adjoining dioceses, where confraterni-
ties in honor of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus arose, and Pope Clement XIII,
after causing the strictest investiga-
ton to be made, commanded the Fes-
tival of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to
be observed throughout the Catholic
Church, on the first Friday after the
Octave of Corpus Christi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, AUGUST 8, 1918

8. will bless those houses where
the image of My Heart shall be ex-
posed and honored.
10. I will give to priests the gift of
moving the hardest hearts.
II. Persons who propagate this de-
votion shall have their names inscrib-
ed on My Heart, never to be effaced
from it.
Margaret obeyed, but found every
where the greatest opposition, actual
sneers and persecution, even from her
Sisters in religion, until finally, with
the aid of her Divine Spouse, she sue
ceeded as mistress of novices, in bring
ing her young charges to the venera-
ton of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
EXCELSIOR.
Written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson.

When everything is peaceable and
everything is right,
When the world is not a-frowning and
your neighbours acting white,
There seems a pile of pleasure just
in trying to exist.
When the world is bright and cheerful
and
Your cares are all dismissed.
'Tis grimmy sort of comfort when
we smoker at some pain
That's another fellows portion, and
it's going 'gainst his grain;
And tho he grins and bears it like a
hero, like man.
We are churls enough to boot him,
and to nag him all We can.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
CEDAR FOREST AT GREAT HEIGHT

In his book, "The Real Algeria, z
M D. Scott describes his journey
through cedar forest THE program
was to cross the mountains through a
fine forest of cedars by the Col de
Telmet, at an altitude of 5000 feet .
Mr.. Scott says. Il came across a
most curious piece of hillside. Bare
rock as steep and smooth as house
roof ran straight from the hilltop to
the bottom Of the valley with q strike
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-16
THE CARE OF CHILDREN

Things every mother know the Nation to meet the
health children indicated by the draft and still
Their revealed by the weighing and measuring made available
today by the Cdrs Bureau of the T. s. Department of Labor
in its bulletin Child Care prepared by Mrs Max West
third of the examined for military in the first
draft found to have steal defects which rendered them
fit Many of these defects might have been they had
been recognized and dealt with early chdhood the period be
when defects make their
appearance Chd Care has been in the hope that
would enable mothers understand recognize symptoms which
indicate the need of special and also mothers the better
understanding of the simple laws of hygiene through which
be possible to the development of such defects at all 1t will
be especially useful mothers who learned by
the weighing and measuring of defects and weakness their
children which need particular attention.
"Chid Care deals with children from two to six old
and the third the which began with Parental Care
and Infant Care 1t contains simple rules of health and hygiene
including carefully compiled deconh proper food suitable
clothing suggestions for play and exercise for discipline and train
ing 1t gives simple young children. list of books
child and training is added.