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New-York tribune., 1918-04-14
HE ORNAMENTAL VEGETABLE GARDEN =:

tant part, we'll as the "plain CLOTH" in tho
garment of life-even the strenuous life of
the present time.
This year vegetables are our "must
have" l heard last winter. the statement
made in lecture that it would be "wicked'
to grow nasturtium during the coming sea-
son in a place where vegetable might be
raised. But thoughtful arrangement of the
vegetable garden may make it also "thing of
beauty" delghting the eye and the spirit as
we'll as ministering to the needs of the body
There two ways of making the vegeta-
bic garden ORNAMENTAL" One is the planting
of flowers among the regular crops" This is
especially desirable in case The flower garden
is temporarily discontinued, or where there is
none. The other is to give sufficient thought
and care in planting to make the vegetables
alone supply the element of beauty. The old
English Kitchen garden" surrounded with it's
"wall fruit goldening in the sun, its grass
walks bordered with Towering currant, goose
berry or lavender, and incosing trim beds Of
succulent vegetables and it's fragrant corners
of spicy and aromatic herbs and "smpes"
has been made familiar even to stay-at-homes
by the English novel.
Tho French, in happier days, went further
Still and often planted their hles and roses
against background of feathery gooseberry,
and set groups of golden -blossomed and ruby
fruited currants neighbors to aristocratic
roses and Towering shrubs. Let us, if we
cannot "better their instruction." at least take
leaf fron-"$ieir lesson book.
First, as to the general "layout' 1t must
not, of course, be too elaborate. Beauty and
utility are combined by running broad path
Iowa the centre Of the garden. This may be
New-York tribune., 1918-04-14
China and the Philippines Knit
and Sell Bonds

"Betcherlife! We made the Chinese tight
wads give up for the bonds all rightn'
"You see," continued Mary, 81 am going
to be an American business woman I gradu-
ated from high school last year and now l
go to business college. l love my America,
and so 1 shall do my best to sell the bonds
so that the war will soon be over. Ny mother
doesn't understand She would like me to
stay in always, like herself, but am Amer-
can; l was born here and I do not like the
Chinese ways for women
left that tenement house with real
glow of affection in my heart for the little
daughter of China" and called upon
woman who has been sort of godmother to
the society, and told her Of my interview
with Mary Day.
"Dear little girl" was her comment. "Sell-
ing those Liberty Bonds will be the last ser
vice that she render her beloved
America. She is to be taken to China the first
of May to be married to Chinese bow whom
she has never seen. The whole family is going.
though the father hasn't told them as vet He
is going now, because if he waits Mary will
soon be eighteen years of age and can do
as she pleases. Who knows, after all, but
New-York tribune., 1918-04-14

dem is best attained by simple means, plan
well thought out but simple, and regularity
and balance in planting. Neatness as well as
luxurlance, is a necessary attribute of the
ornamental garden,
The world needs harvest Of joy and in
splration this spring quite as much as it does
vegetables and an honorable compromise with
both needs will be met by an ornamental gar
den of the practical kind
New-York tribune., 1918-04-14
Cy FLORENCE SPRING

THE practical, rather than the ornamen-
tal seems to be demanded by the ext
gencics of the present time in garden
ing as we'll as along other lines. 1t is per-
iecty possible, however, to combine the two
within certain limits, and it is truism that,
cooked at broadly, the "frlls" play an impor-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-14
Pour Out Your Gold

|7'HE great transports sail quietly,
Nobody no whent they
But sometimes dropping down the
With little yellow light
\ACRIFICE and hardship, hearfbreak and loneliness
Is that what they the in the night
Carrying In silence the
Carrying the boys i0ve the fight?
N1Q! thousand nes No! We have timef0 weeping-
Blood and tears only of what to give:
We must keep them sailing, the transports,
Keep them sailing If Freedom is
elizabeth Porter Wyckof
New-York tribune., 1918-04-14
BY ELENE FOSTER

HERE is nothing in the least
surprising in the fact that Miss
Priscilla Alden or Mrs. Paul
Revere or Miss Katrina Van
Rensselaer, is working for the
Red Cross or the food admin
istration or the Liberty Loan.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05

swerving up, caught himself in mid
air and came to a stop about fifteen
feet above the water. What an eve
he must have to see a fish under the
surface when going at such a pace.
He f1uttered for a moment as spar
row hawk does above his prey, and
dropped .arrow-like, completely disap-
pearing beneath the surface. The next
instant he was in the air again with
a crawfish. He wasn't wet a bit, for
his clothes were water-tight; the
water ran off his satiny plumage as if
his coat were Thoroughly oiled.
Some people advocate shooting the
kingfisher at every opportunity, and,
in some places, men have made laws
to exterminate him, claiming that he
destroys too many young trout. But
the kingfisher eats very few trout
comparatively. He lives largely on
the kinds of fish that are of little or
no value to man. What if he does
catch an occasional trout? Man who
never destroys! The kingfisher was
here long before man came; he must
have some rights, at least the right to
live secluded life along the water
ways where there are no trout"
Our Dumb Animals.
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WHAT MARY GAVE.

She gave an hour of patient care
to her little baby sister who was
cutting teeth.
She gave a string and a crooked
pin and a great deal of advice to the
three-year-old brother who wanted to
play at fishing.
She gave Ellen, the maid, a pre-.
cious hour to go and visit her sick
baby at home, for Ellen was widow
and left her child with it's grand
mother while she worked to get
bread for both. She could not have
seen them very often if our Mary had
not offered to tend the door while
she was away.
But this is not all that Mary gave.
She dressed herself SO neatly, and
looked so bright and kind and oblig-
ing that she gave her mother thrill
of pleasure whenever she caught sight
of the young, pleasant face.
She wrote a letter to her father,
who was absent on business, and gave
interested attention to a long story by
an old lady, and when it was ended,
made her happy BY "a kiss.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
THE RELTED KINGFIsHER.

The kingfsher was well named. AS
a catcher of fish he is all that his
name uggests-champio or king of
the bird fishers. But the kingfisher
once had an even more suggestive
name. 1t was name out of which
sprung most interesting legend or
superstition. His early and more
poetical name was halcyon. There is
an ancient fable which represents the
halcyon as laying it's eggs in nests
that foated gently and smoothly on
the sea, and that the brooding mother
halcyon had power to charm the
winds and waves during the period of
incubation, so that the weather was
fine and the sea calm. Hence comes
the modern expression, "halcyon
days." which are days of peace and
tranquility.
Many a poet and author has made
reference to this beautiful fable in his
writings. P1iny said of the halcyons !:
"The very seas, and they that sail
thereupon, know well when they sit
and breed and Dryden's lines in the
Death of Cromwell are expressive:
.And wars have that respect for his
Tepose
AS winds for halcyons, when they
breed at sea-"
There is another interesting legend
connected with the color of the
plumage of the kingfisher, but it ap-
plies more appropriately to the female
bird of the European species than to
any of the American varieties. Origin.
ally, so the fable goes, the kingfsher
was plain gray bird, but in its joy
at being released from Noahs ark it
scared so high as to acquire new
colors such as it has at present. The
feathers of its back assumed the hue
of the sky above it, and it's lower
plumage was scorched by the heat of
the setting sun to the rufous tints
that it now bears.
The American belted kingfsher is
one of the most interesting-to-
and picturesque birds along our river
banks and around our lake shores.
William L. Finley, in his American
Birds" gives us a vivid picture of how
this bird captures his finny prey and
what rights he has to angle for his
living:
1T is always exciting to me to watch
these birds catch fish. I enjoy it as
much as pulling them out myself. I
was sitting on the bank one day when
my old king came rattling down the
river in swift, straight flight, and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
FOR MOTHERS TO THINK ABOUT

The Chicago Herald quotes a
Frenchman thus:
Il regret to say it, but you Ameri-
cans are succumbing to a sinister and
seductive influence in your lives.
regret to be critical of a great and
generous people, but the truth of your
danger comes to me so clearly upon
seeing you now after seven years of
absence that | cannot withhold my
opinion.
''Rag-time is degrading you. 1t is
profaning your ideas of love; it is
filling your divorce courts; it is max
ing your young women vulgar and
your young men purposeless.
''You have laws now which control
the sale of your alcohol, but l say
that rag-time, because it is becoming
a national ideal, is more dangerous
than liquor, and that in time you will
have laws to restrict this wholesale
cultivation of low passions.
why have you SO many painted
faces on your streets? Why do young
girls, who should be innocent and
sweet, whiten their skin and crimson
their lips as do actresses, of whom
such Identification is demanded?
why do they stamp out tender re-
finement in themselves? It is be-
cause they have absorbed something
of the vulgar rhythm of rag-time into
their characters.
IF | had a son who danced in your
cabaret halls every afternoon | would
shut him up in monastery. Your
young men by idolatry of this illu-
sionary pseudo art are losing what
ever of graciousness and generous i'm
pulses they had. They are becoming
nervous, f1ighty, fidgety race.
1T has been said and truly that the
best and the worst in a nations life
comes from its women. When a ma
ton of women surrender themselves
to the irresponsible philosophy of rag
time they become sensation hungry,
they want excitement and change of
amusement. They make love vul-
gar thing. They lose the spirituality
that admiration of the beautiful and
truly artistic brings. So insist that
if women were to rise sternly and
militantly against this constant mall
forming of love, this illegitimatizing
of sentiment, your music and your
morals would rise above the rag-time
level.
What has your enlightened and
cultivated America done with this
amplitied and adapted rhythm? 1t has
made it the director of new form of
dancing in which the utmost of famil-
iarity is sanctioned between partners
of opposite sex. 1t purposely exag-
gerates human frailties; it sends fire
into the finder that the amorous dance
positions have already heaped. 1t
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called dreams and 'poems,' but
know I almost got to dread the assur-
ance that the particular piece of meat
was carving was the most delicious
of any that Jessica had ever tasted.
am glad when those who sit around
my table enjoy the food, but the piling
up of adjectiyes in praise gets little
tiresome."
why, now, papa"
at was the same way with any
little pleasure you had planned for
her." Claire's father continued relent-
lessly. Your picnic to Willow Grove
was very nice, jolly affair, / haven't
doubt. But it was not necessary for
Jessica to refer to the scenery as
gorgeous and wonderful and to de-
clare that the other young folks in
vited were the most agreeable boys
and girls she had ever met, and end
by saying that she had never had such
a good time in her life, and would
never forget it as long as she lived
Don't you see what ] mean? We all
like appreciation, but sometimes APP
probation reaches such point of cx-
travagance that it fails to give pleas
ure. You feel that it cannot all be
true, and you probably discount it
more than you should"
After ALL said Claire's mother
with decision, "Jessica is erring on
the right side. 1t is better to be too
appreciative than not appreciative
enough. And / can stand having my
dessert called poem very much bet.
ter than having some one eat it with.
out any Indication of satisfaction
But Claire listened thoughtfully.
She had been given lesson which
every girl with youths tendency to
extravaganza would do well to take to
heart. To over-emphasize even so adj
mirable a thing as appreciation may
be as bad as to leave something I'M
said.
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ABOLISH Fahrenheit.

There is a growing crusade against
the Fahrenheit thermometer used in
all English speaking countries, and the
plea is made that the Centigrade Their
mometer he employed in its place.
The centigrade is used for nearly all
scientific purposes and is decidedly
superior to the Fahrenheit, but the
latter is in familiar use among the
great mass of people who use heat
measuring instruments.
Practically all English speaking
people use the Fahrenheit scale, even
with all it's Inconvenience, and people
who imagine that they can effect a
change by an act of congress reckon
without authority. Nothing is more
difficult than to change the established
habits of a people, truth which will
slowly dawn upon the enthusiast who
undertakes to change the meteorology
of nation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
NEW METHOD OF TAKING YOUR
PICTURE.

In the ordinary method of portrait
photography the sitter is first made
to feel as uncomfortable and ill at
ease as possible and then photo
graphed. Little wonder that he and
his family are apt to find fault with
the likeness. A more promising
plan, certainly more comfortable for
the subject, is described by a con-
tributor to the Scientific American.
By this method, the invention of
Mr.. G. Brettini, of New York, a
motion-picture is taken of the sitter,
who does not really "sit" at all, but
moves about naturally, talking and
doing anything that occurs to him.
In this way about five hundred ex-
posures are made and from these
the customer selects what suits him
for subsequent enlargement, much as
Luther Burbank picks out the de-
sired variety from a host of expert
mental plant-breeds. The failures
are strapped in the true Burbank
fashion.
-LfteraTp Digest.
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VARY THE TEMPERATURE.

Medical authorities now claim that
variations in temperature represent
one of the best tonics provided by
nature. Too large variations of daily
temperature may be overtrying for
delicate persons, but, as a rule, a def
mite drop in temperature during the
night, so that the morning air is dis
tinctly bracing by contrast with the
midday temperature, is source of
stimulation.
To remain in a room of definite IN
modified temperature for three or
four hours produces a jaded feeling
and loss of appetite. Even a brief
walk or ride in the open air of Win
ter's day will restore good feeling,
arouse appetite and stimulate diges-
ton better, perhaps, than any other
measure.
Recent Investigations on yentila-
ton indicate that the problem of heat
diffusion is more important for, COM
fort and general good feeling than the
question of perfect chemical purity of
the air. Even though the air in a
room is free from chemical and bio
logic impurities, and yet is quite still,
one becomes uncomfortable if the
temperature remains equable.
Movement of the air by fan,
without change in the temperature,
lessons the discomfort, stimulates
person to mental activity, and pro-
duces a better feeling. The introduce
ton of cool fresh air from without
is stimulating not so much because of
it's purity as because it leads to the
dissipation of heat which has been
accommodating in the body, gradually
producing an unbearable sense of dis
comfort.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
HEARTY LAUGHTER.

"Mr. Lincoln's laugh stood in a class
by itself" writes an old-timer. THE
neigh of wild horse on his native
prairie was not more undisguised and
hearty.
"a group of gentlemen, including a
number of his friends, were one day
conversing in the passage of his office,
waiting for admission. A congress
sional delegation had just preceded
them, and presently an unmistakable
voice was heard through the partition,
in burst of mirth. One of his friends
remarked as the sound died away:
That laugh has been the President s
life presever.'
1t was hearty laugh, as disti-
guished from the short metallic cackle
which carries no real merriment.
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DOCTORS IN EARLY DAYS.
-Exch0n0e.

The Greek physicians in Rome prac-
ticed one kind of medicine and the
Romans themselyes-tha is, the ma
jOrity of them-practiced their own
folk medicine which, according to a
writer in the Druggists Circular, was
a combination of some specific applied
or taken with little magic-what
George Eliot called 1.-THE medicine
given with a blessing" For instance,
the roasted liver Of goat was sup
posed to be good for failing sight, the
patient holding his head in such a
position that the steam flowed around
his eyes. And when mixed with honey
the same organ was supposed to be a
fine remedy for dropsy; mixed with
bran it was supposed to cure dysen-
terry. The sufferer from govt was ~ad-
yised to follow an elaborate treat
ment. First he was supposed to kill
a field mouse according to prescrib-
ed method and to extract from it a
TOOTH The tooth was then stitched
to the skin of a freshly slain lion,
and if the govt was in the left hand,
the skin and tooth were bound to the
left leg and the pain was supposed to
cease. Another cure for govt was to
bind to the afflicted member the first
hair cut from an infants head.
The bite of a dog was supposed to
be cured by application of a mixture
of stale axle grease and horehound.
Scrofula was treated by the following
method: Trace a circle around a
ounce root, pull it with the left hand,
state for what and for whom, pull and
wear as charm And for scrofulous
sores the following treatment was re
sorted to: Bite off knot from fig
tree without being seen by any one,
then wear it in a leather bag sus-
pended on a string about the neck. y
A treatment supposed to prevent mala-
dies of the eyes for year consisted
of plucking off the calyx of blossoms
of pomegranate with the thumb and
fourth finger, rubbing it on the eyes
and swallowing it without touching
the teeth. Crocodile hearts wrapped
in black wool and worn on the per-
son were supposed to ward off attacks
of quartian fever, and two bugs
wrapped in a piece of stolen wool
were recommended as charm against
night fever. Tongue grass, if beaten
with axle grease and rubbed on by
the three persons of three nations,
was supposed to cure tumors. Epilep-
sy was treated by giving the patient
meat from a wild beast killed with a
weapon that had slain a man.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
WHEN ON THE SICK LIST.

Try not to lose your interest in
everyday matters, though you may be
cut off from them for time by ILL
ness. Sick people are apt to get a
little out of date, their horizon is for
the time bounded by the walls of one
room, and they let this influence them
too much. But those who come to
them fresh from the outer world, and
full of all sorts of plans and excite
ments, will not readily understand
their lack of interest in these things.
If, when you are on the sick list, you
can take a real hearty interest in
your friends new hat or latest tri-
umph, you will not only crafty her,
but you will do yourself good, for the
change of thought will be as refresh
ing to you as a change of air.
, -Frcbon0o
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OVERRIDING 1T.

Jessica was gone, and after her long
visit the house seemed empty without
her, Claire thought mournfully. She
brought a sober face to the table the
first meal after Jessicas departure
and her mother looked at her sympa-
thetically. But as her father began
carving, something in his manner be.
tokened relief.
Claire noticed that peculiar air OF
relief and it Vexed her. Its awfully
lonely without Jessica," she lamented.
"Of course" said her mother sooth.
ingly, and exchanged glances with her
husband. Something in those glances
galvanized Claire into closer atten.
tion
"You look SO queer" she flashed
out, "both of you. Almost as if you
were glad"
Before Claire's mother could answer
her father had spoken. His kind voice
had a decisive ring which told that he
meant just what he said.
'Jessica is nice little girl, Claire.
She is a very pleasant guest in many
ways. If she learns not to overdo the
matter of appreciation, she will make
a charming visitor"
"Overdo appreciation gasped
Claire. why, don't see
you don't see how it is possible, /
suppose, and that is just what ails
Jessica. | don't know whether your
mother is tired Of having her desserts
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PREPAREDNESS AND HOPE.

once heard an irritable and prob.
ably tired mother say to her boy, a
bothersome child of dozen years:
well, what will you do next? No
matter what it is, it will be some
thing worse than you did last, and ]
might as well prepare for it now!"
That is the way it is with too many
people. They are always living in a
state of preparedness for the worst
that may happen and not in state
of happy expectation of the best.
The young person who falls into this
habit should have danger signal set
before him or her. There is always
danger in forming any bad habit.
! once received long letter from
a girl who was taking a journey and
stopping here and there on the way
with her parents TO visit friends and
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APTITUDE.

My observation i'll, life leads me to
believe that nearly every human be-
ing has an aptitude; that is, there is
something that he or she can do bet
ter than all other things. One in a
hundred, again, has a remarkable apti-
tude, and in one in thousand this ap-
titude is developed into something ex-
traordinary. 1t then amounts to
natural insight and constitutes genius.
Now, perfect system of education,
if it could be devised, would be one
which, while developing TO the fullest
extent all the faculties, would allow
free play to the special aptitude
But this is just what our American
school system fails to do, and does
not aim at.
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HOW HOUSES EXPLODE.

The most remarkable phenomenon
connected with tornadoes is the ex-
plosion of houses, which literally
burst, scattering their fragments in
all directions. Sometimes substantial
dwellings are carried high into the air
and then explode.
1t is now understood that this is due
to the fact that the funnel cloud IRE
volving at rate of at least 500 miles
an hour has vacuum inside. Thus
it sucks up everything in it's path,
even emptying wells. 1t sucks all the
air from around a house over which
it passes, and the house Ca vacuum
being thus created outside of it,
promptly explodes, owing to the pres.
sure of the air, at thirty pounds to
the square inch, from within.
The house, in word, is transformed
into bomb.
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HIGH AND LOW TREASON.

Why high" treason? Because at
one time there were two kinds of
treason-high and low. Certain types
of murders were considered more hor-
rible and reprehensible than others.
For instance, if a man killed his wife
or wife her husband, if master
was murdered by his servant or a
prelate by one of his subordinates,
the crime was looked upon as being
particularly outrageous because of the
specially intimate relations between
slayer and slain and was called
petit treason" But if a man killed
or tried to kill the head, not of a
family, but of the state-the "pater
patriae"-he was guilty of high
treason"