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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18

In "The Passionate Pilgrim"
poem attributed to Shakespeare, it is
said that Grabbed age and youth
cannot live together" With this SEN
timent, whether it. emanated from
Shakespeare or not, have no sym
pathy. Age is not necessarily
grabbed" nor is. youth always free
from harshness. 1t is. certainly often
crude, and age, at its best, is mellow.
The rejuvenescence of septuagena-
rians and octogenarians appears to
me nothing better than a good Joke.
We cannot put back the hands of the
clock. But why should we be such
fools as to try to put them back? We
must grow old unless we die young
and we cannot all belong to the class
whom the Greeks supposed to be loved
by the gods.
The saying that "a man is as old as
he feels and woman as old as she
looks" must have been the invention
of some elderly male fop. A woman's
age is delicate subject, but l ven
ture to say that in everything save
physical attraction a woman of fifty
is superior to a girl of twenty. Her
mind is more developed; her judg-
ment is ripper; her attitude toward
both men and women is more toler-
ant, and her affections are deeper.
Of course, we do not all live up to
our years. Some men are physically
and mentally old at twenty-five. This
may be either because they were born
with very little youthful energy or
because they spent whatever energy
they had too quickly. On the other
hand, some men are in splendid physi-
cal health at sixty and are still ad-
vancing rather than declining men
tally. These are the persons who
have not been prodigals of their de-
veloping powers. Our unhappy ten
dency is to waste natures gifts, and,
even if we husband them like misers,
we need something more, for, as Mat
thew Arnold has wisely said:
Man must begin, know this, where
nature ends;
Nature ana man can never be last
friends
Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest
her slave.
The true task of each man and
woman is to conquer nature-to bend
her to the individual will. She uses
| the feeble and the passionate as her
instruments, but the strong and the
wise dominate her as the lion tanner
! dominates the lion. 1t is not true, as
the poet l have just quoted assures
us, that youth and age have only one
thing in common-discontent The
young are generally restless and dis
satisfied, but the old, unless they are
imbeciles, are resigned to the newt
able. . =.
Disraeli was true to his own cyni-
cal character when he said: Youth
is an Illusion, manhood a struggle,
and old age a regret
The truth is that old age should be
| the browning glory of our earthly life.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
CURIOUS OLD CUSTOM IN PARTS
OF IRELAND.

There is curious old custom which
on St. Johns Eve. Regularly each
year, with all the solemnity worthy of
an ancient rite, when the bonfire has
burned low, and the children are
weary of their pranks, some worthy
ancient may be seen vending his way
homeward carrying a lighted coal
from the fire. This he places on the
hearthstone and rakes, so that the
seed will light the thrf-fire on the fol-
lowing morning.
What is the symbolism of this act?
Does it stretch back, through some
old longing in the blood, to the an
cient fires of Baal? Or, is it.done to
preserve continuity in some vague
way with the past, as protest against
the present that is SO quickly forget
ting the sense of the old times?
1t sets one dreaming of a Flame
that was kindled nineteen hundred
years ago on hearthstone in Naza-
reth; and Mary, and Joseph were the
guardians of the Flame. Il have come
to cast fire on the earth and what
would I but that it be enkindled"
That fire had power to warm the
hearts and souls of men, for it was
spark from the eternal love of God.
Many were the tenders and bearers
of the Flame down through the ages.
Those who felt it's glow went over
the earth enkindling the fire wherever
they went-into the big pagan cities
of Greece and Rome; North and South
and East and West; over the seas;
through forest Businesses; in the cold
and heat; amidst savage deserts. 1t
warns the home where it burns; and
men endure the burdens of life, and
the frozen heart is melted and even
the cold grave loses it's terror wher-
ever it burns; for it is the fire of faith
and hope and love from the heart
stone of Nazareth. Every missionary
is bearer of the Sacred Flame, carry
ing it in his heart. The greater the
glow in his soul, the more he will
enkindle others.
Boston Pilot.
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a Church, that refuses to art and lit
eratnre the independence they claim.
That the number of forbidden books
| is enthusiastically small does not alter
the situation. The Church's crime
| consists in refusing free and indie
pendent minds the right to dip into
| anything. that pleases them, and in
denying to such enlightened people,
as they believe themselves to be, the
right of judging for themselves Ac-
cordingly they hasten to upset ecclesi-
astical authority by selling some for
hidden work, which usually will be, by
preference, Victor Hugo's LES Mise
rabies" the thousands of sane and
| wholesome books, that lie about them,
are neglected in the mad drive for a
work, whose chief merit is that it is
| forbidden.
Britain allows attacks upon Omnip-
otence to go unchallenged, but it has
again and again, suppressed national
publications in Ireland, and literature
in it's various forms elsewhere 1t eX-
ercises it's power whenever it consid-
ers the writing seditious, or in any
way opposed to peace or to good
| morals. Then we are all familiar with
our own governments shutting the
mails against publications of low char
acter. During the war a strict CEN
sorship was exercised. No one finds
fault with this. Indeed, if good peo-
pie desire any change, it would be in
the direction of more rigorous dis
cipline.
Every library has, in letter or in
spirit, it's index. So has every school,
college and university. Indeed, when
ever there is order there also is SUI
pervision of literature, or an index.
How, then, can that great institution,
the Church, whose mission is to teach
all nations, and to guard the faith OF
it's children from contamination, be
expected to discard this protective
measure? Indeed, the Church would
fail in it's duty, if it did not exercise
a supervision over it's children's read
ing. 1t must, like a good shepherd,
lead the sheep to wholesome pasture,
and away from that which is noXious.
It must protect their faith and their
morals, and, also, must defend it's own
authority. Anything, that weakens
it's influence or prestige, is an injury
to the entire flock.
1t will be noticed that governments
are especially watchful during crises.
The nations during the war are dis
posed to censor or exercise supervi-
sion, wherever there is the slightest
suspicion. This will cease for the
nations, when the war is over. But
vigilance can never be abandoned by
the Church, for the war against it
never ends. 1t comes from known and
unknown sources, from hidden design
and confessed hostility, from wicked
men and the powers OF darkness.
Hence, it's censorship can never relax.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
ALWAYS A PLEASANT FRIEND.

Money isn't everything says the
spendthrift as he scatters his wages
to the four winds.
Then he reaches middle life, with
old age in the foreground, vainly wish
ing for the return of the misspent
coin. 80
1t may be true that money isn't
everything, but one thing is absolute
ly certain. Old Man Money, if he is
cultivated through life, will not de-
sert the friend who has cultivated
him. When every human friend has
fed Old Man Money sticks. You can
start him off with five or ten cents a
day in early life and keep feeding
him that amount all through life, and
in old age you will have on your
hands financial Frankenstein, albeit
a pleasant and highly agreeable one.
If you find the rigors of the north
ern winter too severe, you simply tap
Old Man Money on the shoulder, and
he HES you to Palm Beach; if you are
sick, another tap on the shoulder
brings you the best nurses and special
lists the world affords. He's an agree
able old man, never disputes orders
and is always ready for duty. He
makes the proverbial busy bee and
the equally Industrious ant look like
pikers, for he never rests. He's one
size when you go to sleep and larger
when you wake UP. The older he
gets the stronger he becomes. If you
are a stranger in large city, Old
Man Money opens the doors of the
best hotels and stakes you to the best
the town affords.
But money isn't everything, at that
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18

No two children are alike, not even
twin sisters. Any effort to make them
SO is wrong and wasteful. Courses
of study administered to all children
in the same way are destructive of
originality and Initiative. Uniformity
of treatment is deadly and deadening
Every normal child has possibilities
in some things. To help him to dis
cover and develop them is the great
est service society can render him
and itself Fraternize with him, as
sociate with him, be a good fellow
with him and study him. But do not
let him know you are doing this.
There is no other study so fascinat-
ing, so Accordingly interesting. He
will surprise you every day with what
he knows and can do. Really he will
teach you some things worth knowing,
that is if you are in a mood to learn.
First of all the child is little
animal. He needs food fit to eat,
clothes fit to wear and a house fit to
live in. But he is also eminently
spiritual and needs spirits fit to as
sociate with.
The child learns as naturally as he
eats or grows. Thus he needs mental
food If he does not thrive on that
found in the home or school, change
his mental diet. 1t will do him good
and may help you.
Don't try to scare him. Cultivate
his hope, faith and courage. He will
need these qualities later. The fact
that they are rare does not lessen
their value.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
THE PERFECT GUEST.

She answered by return post,
The invitation of her host;
She caught the train she said she
would,
And changed at functions as she
should;
She brought a small and lightish box,
And keys belonging to the locks.
Foods, rare and rich, she did not beg,
But ate the boiled, or scrambled egg;
When offered lukewarm tea, she drank
it,
And did not crave an extra blanket,
Nor extra pillows for, the head;
She seemed to like the spare room
bed
She brought her own self-filling pen,
And always went to bed at ten.
She left no little things behind,
But stories new and gossip kind
-yo1Ion CDorfo$or
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
Christianity Alone
Can Save Society

4 Nezv Sbirif Of Justice is a Vital Need
From the report on 'Socal Reconstruction A Cen
eral Review of the Problems and Survey Of Remedies"
issued by the National Catholic War Council
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
AVE EccLEsiA.
(By a convert.)

Time-hallowed Church, whose truth
divine
Endures unchanged from age to age,
What joy to feel that we are thine,
Nor lost our priceless heritage,
How sweet now to devoutly kneel
Where oft our feet SO lightly trod,
And in her lamp-lit shrines to feel
The presence of the Son of God.
To hear her immemorial prayers,
Unaltered, in that ancient tongue,
Whose sense each kneeling suppliant
shares,
To find in Christian art a spell
That only those who love her know,
New tenderness in Raphael
New strength in Michael Angelo!
New splendor in those works sublime
Which bear Christ's emblem
towards the sky,
And lift the soul from things of time
To visions of eternity!
What joy, amid the irised light
That floods those miracles in stone,
To walk by faith as well as sight
The faith those builders made their
own!
AS ships which angry pillows toss
Seek shelter from the stormy blast
So meath the standard of the Cross
We, too, have reached the port at
last.
Dear Mother Church, with grateful
tears
We find the blessed fold of Rome,
Sad from the long past's wasted years,
But thankful to have reached our
home
j L. Stodddrd.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
THE HISTORY OF NURSING.

"To the feminine mind there has
always been sort of romantic fasci-
nation about any calling involving
certain amount of self-sacrifice, and on
this ground nursing appeals strongly
to women, and it is the most charac-
teristic of womanly occupations" said
Father Flanagan, speaking in London.
"In the remote past" he continued,
nursing was regarded largely as an
act of devotion. For Is centuries nurs-
ing was almost entirely in the hands
of religious. ST. Paul recognized
woman's fitness for this occupation,
and appointed deaconesses to look
after the sick and distressed, the ear.
Hest Visiting Nurses Association, and
an early Christian form of district
nursing.
st. Paula, fourth century Roman
lady, was the first trained nurse, and
established the first training school
for nurses of which we have any rec.
ord. In her own city she devoted her
self and her fortune to the service of
the unfortunate. Pagan Rome had
for this effort, and she went to Beth
lehem, in Judea, where she built a
small hospital for the sick poor of
the district, and for pilgrims over
taken by disease while travelling in
Palestine. Here also she trained her
band of women in the care of the sick.
Later she built and equipped hospice
on the road to Jerusalem, for pilgrims
who had met with accident and i'll
health on the way. st. Paula and her
nurses we're not clustered nurses, but
from this band developed the nursing
sisterhoods which fiourished in the
succeeding centuries.
when the Reformation rolled it's
wave of intellectual confusion and
moral chaos across Europe, this splen-
did hospital system was destroyed,
and for a considerable period the sick
poor died in their novels, or on the
streets, or dragged themselves from
door to door seeking aid. Even the
well-to-do were forced to content
themselves with the well-meant but
bungling efforts of amateurs.
Eventually hospitals were opened
under lay governors, and nursing be-
came a lay vocation. At first rules
were closely patterned after those of
the nursing Sistershood, but there
were no standards either of training
or efficiency, and with the substitution
of mercenary for spiritual motives,
the intellectual and the capable, who
had been the glory of nursing, di-
rected their energies in other chan
nels. Nursing gradually passed into
the hands of the degraded and igno-
rant, conditions gradually went from
bad to worse, until the quarrelsome,
avaricious, besotted Mrs. Camp be-
came the accepted type of nurse.
Early in the 18th century, ST.. Vim
cent de Paul, assisted, by many noble
ladies of France, founded the Sisters
of Charity, an organization !, which
spread throughout the world, and has
established numberless institutions for
the relief of the sick and needy. The
Sisters went out to minister to the
sick and helpless wherever they were
to be found. They nursed in palaces
of royalty, and in the novels of pow
erty, in hospitals and prisons They
cared for the wounded on the battle
field and in the military and naval
hospitals. Wherever there was hui
man woe. there also were the Sisters
of Charity"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18

of service. The capitalist must like
wise get new viewpoint. He needs
to learn the long forgotten truth that
wealth is stewardship, that profit
making is not the basic justification
of business enterprise, and that there
are such things as fair profits, fair
interest and fair prices.
Humanity Must be Considered
First
Above and Before all, he must cul-
tivate and strengthen within his
mind the truth which many Of Els
class have begun to grasp for the first
time during the present war; namely,
that the laborer is human being,
not merely an instrument Of produc-
ton; and that the laborer's right to
decent livelihood is the first moral
charge upon industry. The employer
has right to get a reasonable living
out Of his business, but he has no
right to interest on his investment
until his employees have obtained at
least living wages. This is the human
and Christian, in contrast to the
purely commercial and pagan, ethics
Of industry
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18

Let the minds of old men and old
women who repine at the thought that
their pilgrimage on earth is nearing
its end be invigorated by the splendid
words of Browning:
Youth ended, | shall try
My gain or loss thereby:
Leave the .fire-ashes, what survives is
gold;
And / shall weigh the same,
Give life it's praise or blame:
Young. all lay in dispute; I shall
know, being old.
AS it was better youth
Should strive through acts uncouth,
Toward making than repose on aught
found made.
So better age, exempt
From strife, should know than tempt
Further. Thou wasted age: wait
death, nor be afraid!
Byron, after a misspent youth, de-
sired "a soldiers grave in 1.-The land
of honorable death" Far better
would it have been if he had resolved
to live down the errors Of his early
life, and to build up a future which
would have redeemed the follies of
the past.
When our own evil deeds have not
soured our existence and when we
have faith in that eternal justice
which sees in the soul of man some
thing greater than nature that will
outlive her transitory laws, we shall
welcome old age as the portal through
which we must pass to live life ever
lasting.
Rochester Post Express
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
WHEN LIFE is At IT'S BEST.

If it be asked, What is the best
period of life?" l will answer, "Old
age" In taking this view l know l
am challenging conventional ideas and
the extrayagant rhapsodies of mascu-
line poets. But I am convinced that
am right, and | am not afraid to
find myself in antagonism to the great
army of sentimentaiists and instinc-
twists who never think because they
are governed by mere emotion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
FORBIDDEN BOOKS.

There is no phase of Church dis
cipline that the pseudo-litterateur
hates more than that. which is
summed up in the word index" The
high school girl. who thinks she has
an expansive soul; the amateur teach
er, who regards his outlook upon life
as the sanest ever; the young profes-
sional man, who. views his own ac-
quirements through inagnifying lenses,
all join in a chorus Of denNnciation Of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
STUDY YOUR CHILD.

London Spectator.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18

"'society,' said Pope Leo XIII, can
be healed in no other way than by a
return to Christian life and Christian
institutions.
The truth Of these words is more
widely perceived today than when
they were written, more than twenty
seven years ago. Changes in our
economic and political systems will
have only partial and feeble eff
cheney if they be not reinforced by
the Christian view ofwork and wealth.
Neither the moderate reforms advo-
Gated in the National Catholic War
Council Pamphlet, nor any other
program Of betterrnent or recon-
struction will prove reasonably efec-
tive without reform in the spirit
of both labor and capital.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
Capital and Labor Must
Both Reform

The laborer must come to realize
that he owes his employer and So
ciety an honest days work in return
for fair wage, and that conditions
cannot be substantially improved
until he roots out the desire to get
maximum of return for minimum
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-18
OUR LADY or THE ROSARY.

s2szta 2 E
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Nina.)
IT'S thy month again, oh, Mother,
Month of the Holy Rosary,
And accept oh, most sweet Mother,
The mystic roses we bring to thee.
Gone are the summer roses, Mother,
Yet we hasten to thy. shrine,
With roses of love, oh, Mother
Which we one by one entwine.
And in the twilight, Mother,
We lay them at thy feet:
Protect and guide US. Mother,
We, thy children entreat
All virtues lie in the power of deny.
ing our desires when reason does not
authorize them,
Evening journal., 1919-06-06
TORE DRESS OFF To
TRY TO SAVE SON
Harry Schwendt. II Years
Old, Dies Result
of Burns
THREW GASOLINE
ON TOY STOVE

Enveloped in flames at his home late
yesterday afternoon, when a can Of
gasoline ne was pouring on a toy stove.
In which he had kindled a FIRE, exploded.
Harry SchwendL aged Il years. son OF
Henry A. Schwendt, OF No. lt9 Madison
street, was fatally burned. The little
fellow died at the Homeopathic Hospital
this morning.
The child was alone in the yard OF his
home. when he kindled a small ilre.
Finding that it would not draw, he Sc
cured the can Of gasoline and poured
this on the fire. There was an eXpl0-
sion and the child was thrown TO the
ground and his clothing ignitcd.
The screams Of the child brought
his mother and father from their home,
and while the father flushed back into
the house for blankets 10 smother out
the flames, Mrs. Schwendt tore her
dress and underskirts or and wrapped
them about her son. The flames had
burned the chllds clothing from his
body. He was taken 30 The hospital
in The police patrol.
Evening journal., 1919-06-06
DRUGGISTS APPROVE
new NARCOTIC LAW
Pharmaceutical Members
Will Welcome Prohibition
on July |
WILLIAM B. JESTER
ELECTED PRESIDENT

William u. Jester was elected prcsi-
dent OF the Delaware Pharmaceutical
Association. az The annual meeting IN
The Hotel DUPONT yesterday other
officers elected were. Roberl II New
som. secretary; james r.. challenger,
treasurer; board OF directors. William
n. Chambers. William g. lester, Erd-
man Hoffman. Frank O.. Uanone and
oscar e.. Draper. e-prcsident, George
W. Rhodes for New Castle county
Howard r.. Jones. for Kent county, uhd
iE. j. Elliott for SusscX county.
Members of The society spoke of the
comlug of prohibition July 4 AS wei
rome measure 10 remove the present
tendency OF some people TO regard
drug stores as secondary saloon.
Under The present law, ethyl or pure
alcohol o1n only be sold 10 manufac-
turcrs and others under heavy bond
Tor commercial and scientific purposes.
small retail sales are made In thr
form of medicaicd alcohol treated Wiih
carbolic acid which makes % danger
Gus for beverage purposes.
The new federal law respecting the
sale of narcotics was also approved
by The association While definite in
slruclions have not yet been received
from the government respecting the reg
ulaiion OF the traiilc in narcotics. 10
was reported that Che members have
adopted "a system Of dispensing which
viii keep an sales a matter OF record
and give invaluable aid in organizing
The record of sales after Instructions
have been issued Under the present
system. the name and address Of all
customers who buy drug or patent
medicine which contains a narcotic
drug in any form viii be taken and
Kept In the shop.
by This means an inspector viii be
able by comparison Of the sales sheets
IN the different drug stores 10 md ont
ihe people who get a sufficient guam
iity of drug for their purposes hy buy
lng it In small quantities at a time. IN
different stores. 10 lull suspicion For
merly drug addicis were able 10 buy a
little here and little there and get
cnough for their purposes without cX-
citing comment