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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13
SECClON DE CONSULTAS
Tods Ia correspondence relsdonata con ess seccion dee enr drtstda
sS- L. PfENSA -SeCCpo ue e"nSu'a~ -, .r,-o ra.,
iO n. santa Rosa ava an ANTONIO IeAas.

que Ell ellos desempenaoan y por 10
mismo hay gran demanda de campesi-
nos pues. como rs bien sabido, Sc
trata de darle a la agriculture el i'm
pulse maximo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13

D P. de R.-Houston, Texas
Con mucho gusto recibiremos Ia IN
formation que Sc sirva proporcionar-
nos sobre los asuntoS locales Y STEM
p.e cue sean de interes para los iec-
torres los haremos iiegar a ellos por
medic de LA PRENSA. En- especial,
sobre 81 caso de Ia c~olecta hecha a
bepeficio de In Graz blanca Neutral
De n Ciudad de Mexico. 10 podemoS
menes IL aprobar SIS ideas que
tienden a evitar los ab9sos Gae pue-
dan cometerse en- romhre De esq
instruction. La correspondence de
~caracter informative debe dirigirse a
Ia Reduction Y por ella lie anticipa-
mos las gracias.
e V Ciudad.-Lag es-amD.i'as 4"
ahorro, para Ia guerra 4 SIC"
..aodas nor 81 gobicrno dc este pal'
| con el objeto de fac~ilitarlcs = tod"'
l,cs Il 10 desaen. j. invivtiendo sus
rc1ueTns ahorros en- hacerle u pres
+amo al gobierno, rara los e7crmes
rastos cue demanda "a grerrT en-
| ere go halran ~emDeIados los EStados
! rridos prestamo que queda garantl-
za6o con todos los bicnes QHe tiene
la nac;6n americana : 0He !e prod"'
| owl al tenedor de IN certificado POI
va'or de cinco pesos, m. T"HueEo
;,terts 4 contar de Ia fccha Ell cue
hava sido adquirido por q Ia ma
nera de adquirirTo es sencilla. Guam
DO 50 uuieran emplear EelntlclHcc
c~a,+avos en- estamoillas De ahorro
Sc comprara una &c estas en- IA OIL
lcina de correos. estacio1es de ZERO
~carr;les, etc, : iuntam"nte O L
n~ir,era estampilla dan \ tarjetS
cue tiene lugar para Giec!ssis g
tampillas. debiendo pegarse en- ellis
IL que Sc compro Y -aS one S"ceS'N"
mente Sc vayan adqairicndo, A lie
mar Ia tarjeta con dicc;se's eStamp'
HAS. Que yalen cuatro pesos, sc ocU'
IRE q Ia oficina de coTreos. Y me-
dante unos centavos. Il variaa cor
Ia fecha en- que hagan IA compra, Il
extienden al c~omprador an cert'tira
do Dor valor de cinco pesos pagade
ros en- 1923. La diferencia entire
10 pagadc y los cinco pesos que s.
cobraran e. ano citado, es el lntere:
que producira el pequeio capita
! prestado al gobierno. Lo mismo 81
puede hacer hasta raclbir certificate.
Dor valor de Glen pesos cue Sc cam
bian por uno solo, por esta canudad
que Is el de mayor valol que hahr;
en- esta case de prestamos E@ehos q
go5ierno.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13

Adelina, e. Paso, Tex.-Nos infor-
mar en- la Liberia qae Ell precio que
Sc ha fijado a la novela que Sc pom
dra a "a venta muy Ell breve Y que
Sc titula Ell Pacto de Sangre', es &c
$1.25.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13

J. B.-Ciudad.-No tenemos notl-
cias de que esten siendc enviados a
.ranc!a muchachos para dedicarlos
ala al cultiyo de Ia TERRA, y es POGO
probable que Sc piense e. clio, "a cue
muchos de los que estaa s-endo man
dados a combatir han abandonado en-
los campos De este pals 81 trabajo
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13

f. L. Buda, TeXa.-Puede listed
usa- IN t6nico para ei c@beio ila-
mado Alba. 81 no 10 cncuentra en-
IA botica de csc pueblo, m=nde estam-
pil!a de tres ~centavos para Ia con-
,estac!0n Y le indicaremos por carta
d5nde puede conseguirlo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-03-13

(Pasa q la ga. Pag. Col. 1a.)
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-24
TRIBUTE TO CONFESSIONAL.

The late Rev. DR.. Watson, under his
pen name of Ian Maclaren," con-
tributed an article to the British
Weekly, shortly before he died. In
the course of his article he writes:
"One thing | have learned, and it
has kept me from criticizing the Ro-
man confessional with the high spirit
of many Protestant writer's. There
are certain situations where a man or
woman must confide in some person
to obtain advice or sympathy, or SIM
ply to unload the soul, and there is no
one to whom it is more becoming they
should turn than sincere and honor
able minister of Christ. For one thing
he knows more of life, if he has been
receptive person, than even a law
yer or doctor, and he is bound by
every sacred consideration to absolute
secrecy. During the course of his life
he has become the depository of many
hidden sorrows and family tragedies.
He has been with people through many
a cruel trial of winch the world knows
nothing, and has suffered with them
in ways even his nearest friend does
not suspect"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-24
THE HON E.

A happy home is a little Heaven
upon earth; an unhappy home is He'll
upon earth. There is no song more
universally popular than Home
Sweet Home" Every honest, human
heart at once responds to the senti-
ment:
BE it ever so humble, there's no
place like home"
Yet how sad is the reflection that
there are so many unhappy homes
in the world. The old adage, There
is a skeleton in every closet" is a
graphic statement of a fact too COM
mon to be denied. In view of this
really melancholy fact the question,
How to make home happy" is in
vested with degree of Importance
only second to that which attaches
to winning the happy life hereafter.
To make happy home the first
and principal requisite is to have
realizing sense of what home is for.
Nothing is more lamentable than to
witness the ignorance, the careless
ness and frivolity with which young
persons too often enter upon the
holy state of matrimony. They seem
to have no thought of it's sacredness
that it is Sacrament instituted
by God for high and holy purposes.
They have no conception that the
family and, therefore, the home, are
divine institutions. They are the
farthest possible from approaching
the dignity, the sacredness and the
really sublime honor and privilege
of parenthood, and from recognizing
that the object of the family is to
train the children for Heaven. What
wonder, then, if they fail to realize
the awful responsibility as we'll as
the high privilege of having young
immortal souls committed to their
care, to be trained to a, virtuous life
here as a preparation for life of
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ring the risk of the revival of religious
antipathies. However profoundly we
might differ from the views of the
Irish priesthood upon the question of
CONSUMPTION, we do not condemn them
if in the exercise of their powers they
did what they conceived as their duty
as leaders of their flocks. If Church
is living thing, how can it's ministers
cut themselves adrift from a great liv-
ing issue? Upon this point and the
danger of raising religious controver-
sizes at this time Of national stress and
peril, we are in hearty agreement with
that most able of Catholics, Sir Mark
Sykes, whose broad and statesmanlike
views stand out In splendid contrast
to those which would arouse senti-
ments of religious hatred and discord
in the nation. The times are in very
sooth difficult and trying. Do not, in
Heavens name, let us aggravate the
situation by barking back 20 the bad
old traditions of religious bigotry
The. war will leave many national
wounds behind; but among them let
us hope there will be no scar caused
by a revival of intolerance"
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THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, AUGUST "a, 1918

an unknown sea, where ship had never
sailed before. 1t was to spread the
Catholic faith that the sublime risk
was run. 1t was the hymn to the
Blessed Mother with which captain
and crew closed the perils of the day
and inspired with hope the morrow
1t was the holy cross, the standard of
Catholicity, that was borne from the
ships to the shore and planted on the
new-found world. 1t was the holy
sacrifice of the Mass that was the
first, and for over a hundred years the
only, Christian worship on the CONT
nent which a Catholic named America.
Why, the broad seal of the Catholic
Church is stamped forever on the four
corners of the continent. Therefore,
let us in mind, heart and soul rejoice
at the triumph of our country and
glory in our creed. The one gives us
constitutional freedom on earth, the
other if faithful in it's teachings, in
sureS an eternity in heaven.
Daniel Dohertp.
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TRAINING LITTLE CHILDREN.
The Echo.

1t was suggested to charming
mother that the companionship of
other children would help to prevent
selfishness in her only son. "Oh," she
said, II won't allow him to become
selfish; that l will prevent above
everything else!" A few days later
this boy was asked to give up the
front seat in the automobile to little
cousin who was visiting him. With
look of sullen determination he re-
fused. Tears filled the eyes of the
other little fellow, who stood waiting
in the road, but when the mother
started the car, as if to leave him, he
jumped in, glad to take the back seat
rather than have no ride at all. This
was good training for him, but what
of the first boy, sitting in selfish en-
joyment of the priced place? His
mothers naturally kind heart caused
her to question what she had done
81 must see that he takes the back
seat sometimes" she said under her
breath, with a serious look. But the
time to give him power over himself
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to hear confessions. Why should the
Church have so insisted on the reg
ular performance of this irksome
duty? 1t is largely because the
Church would like to have us clean;
and the only way to keep people
clean is the Sacramento. Sins of the
flesh are deeds of darkness. Confess
sion drags them to light. Putrid Sec
tons of large cities were rid of their
dens and resorts of crime and sin
when first electric light was intro
duced into them. The Church turns
the searchlight of the confessional on
the deeds of darkness. Catholics who
sin know that sooner or later, they
must go show themselves to the
priests. Paganism taught the worship
of the flesh. Christianity teaches the
repression of f1eshly desires; and the
confessional is the great means of
spiritual sanitation, next to the
Blessed Eucharist, which must, in case
grave sin exists, be approached
through the confessional Moral dirt
is death to the SOUL as surely as ma
terial dirt is death to the body.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for
they shall see God"
The CdsksG
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FIRST MODERN MISSIONARY

The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate
(Methodist) pays the following trib-
ute to the founder of the Jesuits:
1T is true that Protestant Britain
gave us z. Macauley and David Liv-
ingstone, that our own country has
sent forth a Thorburn, a Bashford,
and a Headland to work nightly for
the Gospel; yet it was Catholic
Spain that gave birth to the first real
modern missionary. This was Igna-
thus LOyola, man with world vision.
ut was the Jesuit priest who first
broke down the barrier of seclusion
in China and Japan and gave to a
wondering posterity its first authen-
tic news of these distant lands; it was
the Jesuit priest in the days of French
dominion in the valleys of the St.
Lawrence and Mississippi, who bore
with him the story of the Cross to
the Indians, and who nurtured the
soul life of the hardy French settlers
in lower Canada; it was the Jesuit
missionary who first planted educa-
tion among his fellowmen, wherever
the armies of Europe planted the
flag of conquest and dominion. We
owe debts to Ignatius Loyola-the
splendid ideal of universal mission
airy enterprise, and the union of a doc
trinal loyalty and an efficient educa-
tional scheme"
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SOME FACTS TO REMEMBER.

Our grand old Church is the pro-
tector of learning. She it was who
rescued the inestimable jewels OF
classic lore from the ruins Of the
Roman empire, previously preserved
them through the commissions of
thousand years, and gave them to the
printers art to enrich the learning,
elevate the style and adorn the litera-
ture of every language to the end OF
time. She is the pioneer OF c1Vlllza-
ton. She was the founder OF states,
the Trainer of laws, the conservator OF
order, the champion of the people
agains. the encroachments of tyrants.
She it was that struck the chains from
the white serfs of the old world. She
it is that beholds, kneeling around her
affairs, the black and the white, the
rich and the poor, the savage of the
forest, the royalty of the palaces, and
statesman of the cabinet and the phil
osopher of the school. She is the pa
tron of art and the theme of the poet.
1t is the Catholic Church that guards
the home, sanctities marriage, elevates
woman and places the Blessed Mother
nearest the Saviour.
Professionalism was unknown when
America was discovered. Let the stu
dents, the scholars, poets, historians,
search the archives of Spain, the
libraries of Europe, and the deeper
they search the more glory will
adorn the brow of Catholicity. 1t was
a pious Catholic who conceived the
mighty thought. 1t was when footsore
and downhearted at the porch of a
monastery hope dawned on him. 1t
was monk who first encouraged him.
1t was cardinal who interceded with
the sovereigns of Spain. 1t was a
Catholic king who fitted out the ships
and Catholic queen who offered her
jewels as a pledge. 1t was the Catho-
lie Columbus, with Catholic crew,
who sailed away out for months upon
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-24
MARYS PART.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Rev. p. J. McCahe.)

What JOY to think of beauty deified-
A beauty touching earth and heav-
ems throne:
There is but one whom God thus
magnified.
She's heavens Queen and, yet, she
is our own.
Her soul so pure it could not purer
Immaculate in body, love and mind
Predestined Mother, from eternity,
Of God Himself, Redeemer of man
kind
Did Angels hear the pray'r the Virgin
said,
That moved her God to look into
her heart
And choose her beauty for Himself
to we'd?
That in redemption she might set a
part.
Her pray'r went up, oh yes, her soul
went too.
Her pure humility was gift so rare
1t pleased the Father, knowing it was
true.
Then Spouse and Mother, Mary was
made there.
A change, we can not comprehend,
took place.
Creator now created seemed to be,
And creatures crowned above created
place.
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CONDEMNS BlGoTRY.

The following protest against anti
Catholic bigotry is taken from the
Jewish Chronicle:
1.-The Jew, both as Jew and as citi-
zen, is keenly interested and affected
by the grave controversy now rag
ing. AS citizen he is profoundly
anxious for the military strength of
these islands at the present critical
juncture, and for the preservation of
internal harmony in the Empire; and
as such he must hope that way will
be found out of a controversy which
threatens injury to both. AS Jew,
he cannot but support the Irish people
in all it's legitimate struggles for ma
tional self-assertion and sympathiZe
with a race whose record of persecu-
ton and cruelty and wrong is second
only to that of it's own. We look with
intense misgivings upon any obtrusion
of religious prejudice into the political
life of the nation. We believe such
thing might well be deeply injurious
to the national interest at this time
of national struggle, and we are con-
WINGED that a No Popery' campaign
would be cruelty unjust and sin
against the light of modern ideals and
progress.
ANY citizen-and one being in
spiritual charge not less, but perhaps
more-ought to be able to take a
definite political line without incur
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PETRIFIED BODY OF MISSIONARY

A correspondent of an Eastern
paper gives this account of the find,
ing of the petrified body of a Catholic
missionary on the bank of the Arkan-
sas Tin 1S90):
THE laborers on a farm near this
place exhumed yesterday the petritied
body of man clothed in the habit of a
Roman Catholic priest. The dress and
shoes and hose had also become stone,
and the figure might have passed for
the cunning handiwork of some great
master of sculpture. The two hands
were clasped about an ivory crucitiX,
which hung from a rosary suspended
about the neck, while the head of an
arrow still protruding from the breast
told the story of how the worthy
Father met his death; and the fact,
so plain to be seen, that the body was
hastily buried without coffin, apd the
grave unmarked by the smallest
token, showed that he and his breth-
rem, or some faithful friend, were
fleeing from the Indians when he was
killed. The petrified body was re-
moved to the church, where it is now
being visited by crowds and whence
it will shortly be given burial in con-
secrated ground. The face is that of
a young man of refined and intellec-
tual features, and the hands and feet
are of elegant proportions. Those
who profess to know declare that his
shoes are of a fashion worn in the
latter part of the seventeenth CEN
fury"
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FIRST NUNS IN AMERICA.

The first body of nuns to establish
themselves in America were the Ur-
sulines, who, under the superiorshlp
of Madame de la Peltrie, established
the Hotel Dieu at Quebec in May OF
the year 1889. The first body OF re-
ligious women to establish a convent
in the United States was also the Ur-
sulines, at New Orleans, in 1927.
The royal patent authorizing the
Ursulines to establish a convent in
Louisiana was issued September IL,
1926, by King Louis XIV. Mother
Marie Tranchepain de st. Augustine,
with seven protested nuns from
Rouen, LIE Havre, Vannes, Ploermel,
Hennebon and Elbouf, and a novice,
Madeline blanchard, and two seculars.
met at the infirmary at Hennebon, and
on January IL, 1927, accompanied by
Fathers Tartarin and Doutreleau, set
sail for Louisiana. They were over
six months at sea, and 1t was not
until August 6, 1927, that they reached
the embryo city of New Orleans. They
we're received with every honor by
Bienville, who gave up his own home
to them as a temporary residence,
pending the erection of their convent.
On August 7, 1927, the Ursulines be-
gan in Louisiana the great work OF
education, which has continued with
out interruption to the present day.
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was then. She had let the oppor-
tunity pass, and with each postpone
ment the struggle for unselfish sur
render would become more difficult.
81 want my child to love me-" pro-
tested a father, refusing to check
wrongdoing in his son. And later,
when the test of love came the child
failed because of an undeveloped,
weak and selfish will
A mother, feeling the necessity of
teaching her child to take care of his
toys, was very severe when she found
that a playmate had broken some of
them. You should not have allowed
him to play with your toys!" she said
reprovingly, not realizing that she
was missing splendid opportunity to
encourage the love that forgives free
ly, and could have emphasized care
of toys at some other time.
Could such an attitude be adhered
to without marring childs cnarac-
ter? If it had been the other child S
mother who had acted in such a man
ner would she not have been cSnsid-
cred unkind? And if a great many
mothers were like that would it be
we'll for the social whole?
These and many other questions a
mother must ponder. Some things
children do she must forbid alto
gether, as unproductive of good; other
activities she will permit because of
their value as steps in growth even
though they annoy her. Yet she should
not permit them simply because the
child likes to do them. Because lit
tie boys like to act like monkeys is
no reason that they should act like
monkeys; monkeys are only beasts !;
they are boys" remarked Kingsley.
The wise mother carefully elimi-
mates the coarse and debasing in pic.
lures, choosing to set before her child
ideals commensurate with the seri-
Gus matter of living. An unwise
mother gave her children a book illus
trated with grotesque caricatures of a
little colored boy. She also told them
the story which was offensive to good
taste.
They like it," was her comment.
81 wouldn't be without it for any
thing. Whenever they misbehave
can always control them with this
book"
Il control my children with
pictures of chivalry," said another
mother. They like them better than
anything else; and no matter how
restless they may be they soon become
manageable, trying to be knights. "
1t has been pointed out by Froebel
in his Mother Play Book that chill
dren grow along lines that are made
attractive to them. The first mother
was encouraging buffoonery and ridi'
Guile; the second self-control and
thoughtfulness for others. The first
had failed to rise, as did the second
to spiritual motherhood for the device
of the moment satisfied her, simply
because it was an easy form of enter
tainment.
-Frch0n0c
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eternal blessedness I'M the world to

eternal blessedness ins the world to
come.
Alas! Where are the silly, thought
less, sometimes giddy young people
thinking of when they are contem-
plating marriage? They are thinking
of love-of love in a cottage" per-
haps, and indulging in vague dreams
of happiness without any definite
purpose or plan or any serious un-
derstanding of the duties and respon-
sibilities of married life.
Of course, they are doomed to dis
appointment. 1t could not be other
wise. When the honeymoon is passed,
they begin to discover that mar
ried life is a very serious thing and
that to be truly happy requires
something more than billing and
cooling and love in a cottage" The
unreal dreams of courtship vanish
and then come the real test and trial
of married life.
Ten chances to one, disappoint-
ment ends in strife and mutual
recrimination. There are a thousand
things that require mutual conces-
sion and mutual forbearance in or
der to make the domestic machinery
run smoothly, and to avoid friction,
misunderstanding and hard feeling.
The husband. perhaps, is disap-
pointed in finding that his wife,
whom he thought perfection, is not a
skilled housekeeper, and he becomes
exacting and faultfinding. The wife
is disappointed in finding that the
husband, whom she had imagined
clothed with all noble and praise
worthy qualities, is so testy, so dis
agreeable and faultfnding. She re-
sents his unkind criticisms, and the
dove of domestic peace and happi-
ness takes it's flight, and that home
which, at distance, seemed to
promise so much real pleasure and
happiness becomes scene of domes-
tic broils, which too often end in all
the untold evils Of separation. The
man takes to drink, neglects his work,
loses his position and becomes a
vagabond; while the wife and children
are left to struggle with poverty and
too often become charges upon the
town
This is no fancy picture. Would
to God there were not so many mel
ancholy instances of it's reality!
Need we discuss the remedy? The
end itself is the best suggestion of
the appropriate and only efficient
remedy. In the first place, our young
people must be instructed and made
to realize more than they do the
serious and sacred nature of marri
age. They must be made to under
stand that it is not mere 'love in a
cottage" and all that-the realiza
ton of pleasant dreams of the
imagination-but the fulfilling of a
great, divine purpose, the accomplish
ment of which is necessarily attended
with more or less trial and trouble
involving the necessity of frequent
self-sacrifice and self-denial. Mutual
giving way and mutual forbearance
there is the whole secret of domes
! tic happiness.