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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
IMMODEST WRITINGS

A Catholic writer in a Partisan
alence Of immodest plays in the
French theaters, and of Topographic
literature that is everywhere being
produced. The war seems to have
made people worse instead Of better
For some time after the opening of
the war Paris was a model Christian
city. The denizens of the demi-monde
were dispersed and forced to work at
war munitions. The theaters and
dancing cabarets were closed and
banned
Insensibly, during the war, the laws
were relaxed. The theaters were first
opened to serious and patriotic plays
and to entertainments that taught
good moral lessons. Gradually, the
old state of frivolity worked back,
under the plea that the permission
aires or soldiers ON furlough needed
pleasure and relaxation. Today things
are worse than they ever were. 1t
seems shameful that literary men are
found so abandoned that they are sat
isfied to make a living writing porno-
graphic dramas and plays.
In speaking of an American litera-
teur who would not sully his pen for
any amount of money, a writer says:
'Howells never has forgotten the
admOnition given him in his green and
salad days by Henry D. Cooke, a dis
tinguished Ohio editor: Never write
anything you would be ashamed to
read to a woman How we'll HowelIs
has needed the advice let his hundred
books attest 1t seems not to be so
now with our novelists,' he says with
characteristic point and gentleneSs;
they write many things they ought
to be ashamed to read to women, or
if they are of that sex, things they
should be ashamed to read to men.
But perhaps they are ashamed and
only hold out writing so for arts
sake; l cannot very we'll speak for
them; but l am still very Victorian in
my preference of decency.'"
1t is hard to imagine any offense so
heinous or so hateful as that of writ
ing filthy and suggestive literature.
Yet some of our greatest English writ
ers, such as Shakespeare and Byron
and Chaucer, are tainted with this
leprosy, and cannot safely be recon-
mended, except in part, for the study
of young and uniformed minds!
- -C0fhoHc Register
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14

Acts. Harvard publishes his labora-
tory musings. He thinks he has dis
covered just where Luke erred in Acts
The original of the first part of Acts,
thinks this wiseacre, was in Pales-
tinian Aramaic. Luke did not know
Palestinian Aramaic; he had not
studied at Yale; he was inspired by
the Holy Spirit, and not by the in
fallible Torrey. So Luke mistranslat-
ed his document. And for some nine
teen hundred years the Church has
never been aware of this ignorance of
Luke, and of this slipshod work that
Yale's blasphemous Baptist assigns to
the Holy Spirit. At last the world is
led true. Torrey has got back to the
original Aramaic of ST. Luke's source.
He has translated that Aramaic into
Greek. And now, if We prostitute our
| reasons down to the low grade of
Yale's School for the Dissecting of the
Gospel, we may sit back in a Morris
| chair, and blow out rings of smoke in
dainty pursuit of each other, the while
we congratulate ourselves in knowing
what Luke should have written in
Acts if he had not been misled by God,
the Author of Sacred Scripture.
I'm all the Protestant sects the lead.
ers of thought have gone the same
| way of reading all manner of stupidi-
| ties into the Bible. DR.. Sunday, Lady
| Margaret Professor of Divinity in the
| University of Oxford, Anglican Canon
of Christ Church, says that The Song
| of Songs is just an idyll of faithful
human love, and nothing more.
What are we to say of such a book
| There can be no question of inspira-
ton He admits the beautiful Can
ticle of Canticles into the canon of
Scripture merely to show that nothing
human is foreign to the Bible. He
throws out Judith and Tobias and
Esther as pure romance. And yet he
| is doing just what DR.. Dods allows any
| Protestant to do with the Bible
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
WHERE THE HOME FIRES
BURNED.
Continued from page -

(IOul from pdSe &J
ness struck at Mrs. Carr's tender
heart Knowing Mrs. Hogans fond
ness for tea she set about preparing a
steaming cup, praying desperately for
help as she worked, for she knew the
fight for the other woman's sanity was
before her as f.,.,E...>.
ct isn't true" the bereaved mother
cried suddenly, ''it isn't true. They
lie. I won't believe it-no. till they
bring him home, not till they bring
him home"
Her eyes were bright and dry, her
cheeks and lips burning. Mrs. Carr
thought of Dicks grave, some place
behind the lines in that far-off land,
and words failed ner. b.
The rumble of the towns life went
on without, the life of which Dick was
so recently a part. There was the
sound of the beating of drum and a
band broke in the strains of "Over
There 1t was another group of en-
listed men leaving for the training
camp.
Mrs. Hogan sat up and listened
''They played that when he marched
away" she said, she told me he'd be
back-he told me he would" She
looked at Mrs. Carr defiantly.
'It's a great thing they're doing, Mrs.
Hogan, a brave, wonderful thing
Mrs. Carr said musingly. Our boys
are going out there to help bring back
to the world some things that were
slipping out of it altogether. We
didn't realize it, it was so subtle, so
insidious, the creeping soul death that
threatened
She sat down beside the couch, see
ing that she had caught Mrs. Hogan's
attention.
denominations. Never days paper
why, do you know she went on,
sit has occurred to me lately, what: a
change has come over the world since
you and were girls? Things that we
thought it a sin to have cross our
thoughts are paraded openly now.
Awhile back, could one pick up a pa
per without having the eyes fall upon
something that brought a gasp of hor-
ror or blush of shame? | don't
mean war horrors; the peace that we
had had its horrors, too; divorce, and
race suicide and all that train Of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
SAINT soPHIA's LEGENDS.

Every Greek Catholic and the great
majority of Roman Catholics in all
countries are acquainted with the le-
gend of the Mass interrupted in Saint
Sophia on the day when the Turks
captured Constantinople. The officiat
ing priest, carrying the Blessed Sacra.
ment, disappeared through a wall
which the Turks vainly attempted to
piece with the object of capturing him
and his sacred burden. According to
the tradition, that wall will, on the
day of the establishment of the
lica, used as a mosque since 1853, open
of itself and give passage to the same
priest, who will finish the celebration
of his interrupted Mass. There are
numerous other legends which have
been grated on this initial tradition
Amongst them is one concerning an
angel who appeared during that in
terrupted Mass on June II, 1853. He
announced the catastrophe and coun
selled the removal, on three vessels
of the cross, the holy Gospels, and
the holy table to a place of safety
out of the reach of the infdels. The
ship carrying the holy table was
wrecked in the Euxine Sea. Since
then the spot where the vessel foun
dered is recognized by seafarers by
the alleged fact that the water is al
ways calm there, even while a tenn
pest is raging all around it. The cur
rents are, it is believed, nevertheless
slowly drifting the relic towards the
shore; and the day which will find il
on the beach will be that on which the
Greeks will reoccupy Constantinople
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
CONCERNING "JUNE BRIDES"

The June bride" is already with
us again. Of course, bride presup-
poses a groom, but the latter seems
to be regarded negligible quantity at
all wedding ceremonies. There is
something fiippant about the eXclu-
siveness of the term June bride" 1t
suggests roses and sunshine, but in
real life. marriage brings with it
thorns and clouds as WE'LL 1t is,
therefore, in order to say a serious
word about marriage to counterfeit the
sentimental and frivolous view that
seems to prevail at this season of the
year. The Western Waterman gives
good sound counsel in the following:
Many a marriage is doomed to
failure from the very start, especially
if it be merely a matter of the senses,
of the fancy, entered upon without
counsel or reflection, hastily and pas
sionately, and not infrequently with
a background of deception and total
unfitneSS on one side or both. The
preliminary dangers and the precau-
lions against them form topic often
discussed by those who are charged
with the spiritual interests of the peo-
pie, discussed sometimes sanely and
occasionally not quite so. But even
when marriage has been contracted
under the most promising conditions,
society is sometimes startled at the
news that one more domestic disaster
has been added to the long list and
that another crime against the social
order and the law of God has been
committed.
"The misfortune is that in too many
cases the marriage ceremony is looked
upon as the goal instead of the be-
ginning, as the GROWING of selfish
ambition instead of the Inauguration
of years of generous devotion. The
wedding is looked upon as an i'm
mutable fact, a defnitive solution of
all life's problems, with no clear
thought of it's consequences and re-
sponsibilities, no attempt to establish
and promote a sympathetic under
standing and partnership. Outwardly,
husband and wife live together in
apparent union and peace, but intel
lectually and morally they are sep
arated and alone Life, instead of eX-
panding, becomes a petty, restricted
thing, the wife absorbed in domestic
details, the husband concerned only
about affairs beyond the home. Life
flows along in effortless existence,
spiritually they are asleep, the inner
bond that unites minds and hearts is
loosened and finally broken. To the
observer no marked change may be
noticed, and the evidences of peace
and union may continue for a while,
but inevitably there comes crisis
for which one or both are wholly un-
prepared, and disaster follows quick
ly, to the establishment of their
friends and even sometimes of them
selves. The real union has long
since ceased to exist and only a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
a REMEDY AGAINST THE MIXED
MARRIAGE EVIL.

The recent statement in The Echo
that one thousand dispensations for
mixed marriages had been granted
within four months by the Chancery
of diocese in New York state
seemed incredible to many, yet the
report was based upon the records of
the diocesan authorities. The "epi-
demic of mixed marriages is, how
ever, by no means confined to the
East. In the oldest Catholic Church
OF Milwaukee, for instance, thirty-six
marriages took place during the year
1918. Nineteen, or a majority, of
these marriages were mixed mar
riages. The parish has a thriving
parochial school, a good high school
and a splendid auditorium for social
activities. The Church does it's share;
but why these results?
Obviously, some effort to counter
act tendency to enter mixed mar
riages must be made by the laymen
themselves. Perhaps the plan for
"a National Catholic Acquaintance
League" proposed by the Catholic
Universe of Cleveland, would prove
effective.
Parish affairs our contemporary
says, are primarily for the purpose
of raising funds for the support of
the parish. The social feature is
secondary, and good many parishes
do not encourage parish meetings, eX-
cept perhaps the League of the Sa-
cred Heart or some other local ia
Vorite.
There are a few fortunate families
who remain all their lives among the
same circle of friends and acquaint-
ances; even these families would find
it we'll for the young folks to make
new friends under proper patronage.
But think of this: Cleveland has
grown from 100000 to 100000 popu-
lation since young people now in their
twenties were born, and of the 300,.
600 most Of the families have moved
to strange parishes in that period
perhaps more than once. Similar
growth and movement take place in
every city.
Because the few permanently sit
uated families have an established &C
quaintance they forget the needs OF
the shifting majority of the popula
ton.
There are so many reasons why
Catholic young men and women
should be made acquainted with each
other, and so many reasons why and
evidences of the fact that, in increas
ingly large numbers, their friends are
matters of chance only, that this
question should be taken seriously by
some of the existing Catholic organi
cations, or some other means found
for promoting it's advancement"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
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JDocTRiNA aEsa eSa(eg Ef7UReicaI:l
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! & told him to pray for the grace of
God, for the gift of faith. He was
willing enough to do that also; but
he said he did not know how to pray,
he had never prayed to God in his
| life. handed him printed copy of
| the Our Father" and told him to
go home, to lock himself in his room
for little while, then to kneel down
and attentively read that prayer,
taught us by Our Lord Himself He
willingly promised to do so.
When he called on me the next day,
| asked him whether he had kept his
promise and prayed to God. He said
yes; he had done so; but that it had
been the greatest mental effort he
had ever made, to try to realize that,
when he had thus put himself in per-
| feet solitude, there was still present
to him an unseen being that under
stood his words and listened to his
requests.
And thus estrangement from the
great good God is carried to such an
| extent in the midst of our material
civilization that there are many per
sons who never pray, who are as total
strangers to the Saviour's loving invi-
! tation: Come to me, all you that
| labor and are burdened, and | will
refresh you," as if these words had
| been uttered by Confucius in China or
Zoroaster on the Persian plains. The
gentleman of whom | have spoken
soon reaped the fruit of prayer and
was received into the Church. How
many there are who have grown up
| like him in total neglect of prayer no
one can tell. But considering that at
least one-third of the population OF
this country belong to no church or
| ganiZation, and make no profession in
worshipping God in any manner, their
number may amount to many mil
| lions.
| And even of those who claim to be
members of some religious denomina
ton vast multitudes appear to be SC
wrapped up in merely temporal cares
or carried away by the current OF
pleasure seeking, as habitually to turn
a deaf ear to the loving invitation OF
the Redeemer, while He keeps on urg
ing them with the words: Come tc
me, all you that labor and are bur
dened and l will refresh YOU"
But our thoughts become more
practical for ourselves, when we APP
ply our reflections to our own habit
ual way of turning to prayer whenever
we are in any trouble or special need
of Gods assistance. No one of us but
is sometimes distressed, sometimes in
difficulty or perpleXity. Then we turn
perhaps to right and left, and seek
for aid from every creature, or aban
don ourselves to dependency and la
mentation. 1t is well to try to hell
ourselves, or to appeal for human aiC
as far as reason approves; but it is
not well to ignore the Divine assist
ance, and to turn deaf ear to the
| loving accents of our Lord; and yet
do we not too often neglect that one
best of all helps, and forget when We
need most to remember the generous
promise: Come to me, all you who
labor and are burdened, and | will re
fresh you?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
MUSIC IN THE ORIENTAL
CHURCH.

1t is a custom in some places in
the United States that the organ is
dispensed with at public services dur
time in Oriental churches, both Cath
Ollie and Schismatic, where instru-
mental music is unknown, the human
voice being the only musical element
in the singing of the divine liturgy.
For one accustomed to the Western
culture this seems very strange, but
the celebration of the Holy Mysteries
in an Oriental Church according to
the ancient liturgy accompanied only
by the singing of well trained choir
makes a very deep impression.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-14
DO NOT KNOW HOW TO PRAY.

Years ago a mighty educated gen
tleman had himself introduced to me-
writes Father Coppens. He was an
able physician, lecturer in a medical
college, and had been induced by a
Catholic friend to look into the all
important matter of religion, of which
till then he had been in total igno-
rance.
The gentleman listened attentively
to my explanations. and frequently
returned to receive further instruc-
ton. He said he was DESTROYS to be-
lieve our doctrine, because he knows
that his friend was constantly bene-
flied in his moral conduct by the
faithful practice of his religion. But
he could not make UP his mind to be
tieve the truths proposed.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-17

POr misteriosa association de
ideas remotas sc me impone hoy
una Erase usada pOr Amado Ner-
vo, ALA en- su bello libro sobre la
mejicana Juana de Asbaje, llama
da "Decima Musa" en- ell mundo
de las letras y Sor Juana Ines de
la Cruz en- ell de SUI vida monas-
tica.
"Yo no quiero olvidar iamas
cierta nOche. :" Tai la Erase de
NervO aludiendO a cuando una ave
ria de la locomotora 10 oblig0 a
convertirse durante tres horas
en- ell mOpje Alec, aquel que oyera
al ruiseilor celeste.
Da Ell que sc sorprenda ell cora
z0n, ESQ de q. un incidente de meca
Mica haya obligado a Nervo per-
manecer tres horas en- Nepantla.
ALI donde entire dos volcanes, "el
uno que Sc liquidaba en- arroyos
de ORC y ell otro que Sc vertla Ell
rios de plata, Sc meciera Ia cuna
de la aristocratica poesfa.
"YO no quiero olvidar iamas.
cierta nOche. E" de Paris, ALA por
la epoca de la eXpocisi0n de 900,
cuando en- pleno bulevar y en- tor
no cierta mesa llrica del restau-
rant kalisaya, nos encontrabamos
reunidos Ruben Darfo, ell poeta
Jean Moreas, ell ingles Oscar Will
tde, ell viZcOnde Austin du CrOzze,
el novelista Ernest LajaneuSse, ell
colombianO Guillermo Valencia,
nuestro hoy bienvenido poeta ANA
do Nervo y yo.
Para limitarme al episOGio, no
detallo sinO sugiero Ia calidad de
conversation que ALI tuve il opor
tunidad de escuchar de esOs in
geniOs. El casi Immediate rriun-
TO de Nuestra Sonora la Belleza,
era nuestra suprema Illusion. :.
/ Que distinto ese moment0 apoli-
neo y chispeante, de los amos en-
lutados que nos reservaba cl des-
tinO. -!
Alleg6se de repente a nuestra
mesa un caballero frances, de por
te aristOcraticO, no tantO por Ia
Orquidea en- la solapa Y la manera
de portar ell moRocle, cuando por
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-17
|Un Episode de Amado Nervo.

ltalamos en- ell por entonces suntuo
so Cafe Richie, donde logramos
que ell coraz6n de Nervo cambiara
la palpitaci6n volcanica de la re-
beldfa nacional, pOr ell melcdioso
| v dulce ritmO del mas evangelico
de nuestros poetas que, a Dios
gracias, ha sido, es y sera.
Mientras algunos lores ingleses
serbian su "whisky and soda" en-
una mesa Immediate, recuerdO que
Ell la nuestra florecieron varios
versOs.
No creo engaGarme al asegurar
que la emoci6n de aquella noche
Sc condens6 en- aquel soneto de Da
rio a Amado Nervo que te"mina
asf:
No busques en- mis- gestos ell
(alma de mi faZ,
quiere 10 que Sc aquieta, busca 10
(que reposa
y ten como una joya la perla de la
(Paz.
Muy de prop6sito deliberate he
preferidO este episodio entire 10
tanto bueno que tengo que .decir
de Amado Nervo, pues me sirve
para combatir una vez mas ell ezra
do concepto p1blicO de que un poe
ta debe ser algo f1ebil, lacrimOso
~ desmayadO.
Ign6rase que la poesfa debe ser
I'm fen0meno de superabundancia,
de mobiles fuerzas, algo asl como
lel lirio sustentado y emblanque
cidO por los calcinados huesos de
la raza.
A1n los mas fervOrOsos admi-
radOres de NervO Sc les antoja que
este ha de ser un monte macilento,
81 muy sabio y en- los misterios del
coraz6n adolorido, muy lego en-
Ell ejercicio de las heroicas ener-
gfas.
Y por ESQ, ''yo no quiero olvidar
iamas cierta noche. =" Cuando
assist a uno de esos fen0menos ex-
traflos, en- que una raza, un pals,
un continente Sc condensan Y CHS
pean en- ell verso o Ell la mirada o
en- ell puflo de un pOeta verdadera-
mente representative como 10 es
Amado Nervo.
Eduardo TaIero.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-17

lsu desenvoltura y arrogancia.
Su nombre no hace al case, Pc
ro baste decir que era un linaju-
do de la vieja aristocracia fran
cesa.
Habiala atraido a nuestrO cir
culO su admiration por el gran
poeta Moreas, quien con el enfa-
sis de gran senor, del que hi ann
Ell ell mas miserrimo cabaret sc
despojaba, hizo dar presentacio-
nes de estilo, mencionand0 la ca
lidad mental y nacionalidad de
cada presentadO.
Cort6s fu6 ell conde con DariO,
Icon -Velencia y cOnmigO; perO
cuando le TOGO estrechar Ia manO
del poeta mejicano, medit6 un ra-
to, afirm0se nerviosamente ell mo-
nocle v con fruncido ceno largo
ironias amargas sObre ell fusila-
miento del emperador Maximilia-
no Y los 'suavages" de por ALA.
Todo fu6 unO: la sOnrisa sarcas
tica del conde y la. transfiguraci0n
de la placida Y sOnriente fisOno-
mia de Nervo ell un rostro palidO
e iluminado por ell destello metali
co de una mirada irresistible, full
minosa y energica.
La mano de Nervo tan suave
para los galantes rasos del amor,
como sutil para escarmenar en- al
hos versOs ell vell0n mas finO del
Divine Cordero suspendiase vi
brante sobre el rostro del cOnde
|atrabilario.
No fu6 ell pulo de un pOeta mis-
tico, sinO ell de una raza miIenaria
~ her0ica, ell que a.duras penas de
tuvimOs Ell ell aire.
Y puestO que para ell aristOcra-
tico MOreas siempre vali6 mas un
poeta que cualquier emperador,
prOpdsose atenuar ell incidente, lie
vandoSe al conde a otro departa-
nento del restaurant Y pidiendo-
nos Ruben y mi que nos lleva-
semOs Il NervO. DurO trance fue
para nOSOtros sOmeter a ese dina
mo. Basic decir que Ruben tuvo
que improvisar eXtraflas fuerzas
|musculares para dOminariO por
un brazo, hasta que al fin nos ins-
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-17
SIVA listed A MONTAR SU OFICINA. ].

! traordinario, han crea-
10 estOs muebles de WA
BASH que no tienen ri
val, porque suman a 10
elegante, 10 duraderO y
10 practice.
ST quiere usted con-
vencerse de este, visite
la installation de CAN
TERO, FERNANDEZ
& Co., Inc, y encOntra-
ra ustcd ell mejOr mode
10 para mOntar su Ofici-
ma de tai modO. que ella
sea el primer factor de
SUI negOciO.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-17

No es possible hacer
un mueble s6lido, ele-
gante Y durader0 sinO
Sc dispone de buen ma
terial.
POr ESQ THE WA
BASH CABINET CO.,
antes de lamar al mer-
cadO del mundO sus ad-
mirables equip0s para
Oficinas, adquiri6 bOs-
ques extensisimOs en- los
que crecen las mas ri
cas- Inaderas.
La materia prima in
superable, el mOdelO SUI
prerno y ell artifce ex-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-01
Evening Chat
they're stu With Us.

Our two Hui" and "Uh" men are
still with US. This doesn't sound very
funny on paper but If you happen to
know these men you'll appreciate this
story. They close every sentence with
either Huh" or "Uh." One of them
prefers the first and the other likes
the second. One of them says, Nov
don't say said so--Uh, but there may
be something happening in this office
some day. The government takes its
time, Uhl" The Uh in this case comes
as a sudden stop like period. The
other follow uses his Huh" as an in
terrogatlon mark. He says: "Don't
you know 1t isn't what you say any
more that counts, it's the way you say
1t, huh? What does anyone care
whether story is true or no, huh
Make it sound well, say, huh?
1t takes all kinds Of people to make
a world, doesn't it-and no two peo-
pie in Fairmont are so distinctly and
personally original as these two.