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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12
These Tub Frocks
at SITS
Haze Just Come in
Hdue Just Come in

and they bring with
them lots of new ideas
that schoolgirls will like,
and that will appeal to
mothers, too, for they
are wholly practical as
well as blocking.
Typical of the values
offered is. the Dress pic
tured, Of plain chambray
gingham in blue, pink,
green or tan, in side
fas t ening style, with
three-quarter sleeves and
white collar edged with
rick-rack braid. Sizes 8,
IN apd 10 vaaru
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

'Eighty-five cents" sho blurted
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12
This Crepe Envelope
Chenise at $1.75
Adds Easy
laundering to its
Other Attractions

COFT white "crinkly" crepe
- is the material in this
Envelope Chemise, with very
serviceable ribbon-run lace in
sertion and edge at neck and
arm-eyes. Low priced at
$1.75.
Another, in the same ma
terial, is edged with pink
stitched hem and has pink
ribbon to adjust the full
ness at top. Price $1.75.
THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

THE much sought-after raffia trimmings
multi-color "ropes" in these new shiny" Hats
and they are not lacking in the clever plac-
ing of other favored trimmings.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10

today Nevertheless, in their time
they were truly wonders, and as such
had an incalculable effect upon the
lives of the ancients.
The hanging gardens of Babylon
doubtless represented rather medic
ere quality of landscape gardening,
but they were wonderful to the Bah
ylonians and as much a matter Of
pride to them as a 24-story building
is to Texas city today.
The colossus of Rhodes was mas
sive bronze joke, but it stirred behold
ers to awe. Those who came to sec
it did not laugh; they only rubbered.
The sight of an immense image of a
man straddling a harbor did not strike
the, tourists of those days as ccmical,
but only as great.
And the end of the mighty effigy-
what a change it was from heroic pose
to lowly dispossession, from climax to
anti-climax. The colossus of Rhodes
was dethroned by an earthquake and
sold by the thrifty townspeople to a
junk dealer.
All mans wonders perish in time.
Only the things of God endure.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
IN SENDING FLOWERS.

A young woman who is slowly con-
valescing from long illness asks
pertinent question. 1t is this: Why
do friends smother a patient with
flowers during the first week, when
she is too ill to look at bouquet,
much less endure it's fragrance? Why
do they not save them for the tedious
getting-well period, when the patient
would find enjoyment in every petal?
That is the way flowers are sent to
the sick. The moment one hears that
a friend has to undergo an operation
or is in for siege of typhoid, it's Off
to the florist one goes. This duty per-
formed there is probably not thought
of sending another bouquet, no mat
ter how long the illness may last.
1t is often the case that during the
first miserable week or so the patient
would be nauseated if flowers were
brought into the room, and so it hap
pens that the only pleasure she has
from these graceful acts of her
friends is to read later the cards of
those who bombarded the sick room
with choice floral offerings. Then dur
ing the long weeks that follow, when
the sufferer is able to enjoy flowers
and wants them so-when every kind
attention means so much to her-per-
haps only a solitary bouquet strug-
les in or maybe there is only the long
ing for one.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
CATS TELL THE TIME OF DAY.

In various parts of Turkey the watch
and the clock are extremely rare, but
the natives have an exceedingly in
genious way of approximating the time
and some of them hit it with consid-
cradle accuracy. They locate two car
dinal points Of the compass and then,
folding their hands together in such a
manner that the forefingers point up,
ward and in opposite directions, they
observe the shadow cast. In the morn
ing or the evening at certain known
hours one finger or the other will point
directly at the sun. A comparison of
the two shadows will determine the
hours between. Another system fol-
lowed in Turkey and some other coun-
tries of the Orient is to observe the
eyes of cat. Early in the morning
and evening the pupils are round. At
9 and 8 o'clock they are oval and at
noon they consist of narrow slit.
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must find fault or endeavor to inn

must find fault or endeavor to inn
prove the occasion by little moraliz-
ing; no matter in how loving spirit.
This is the hardest of all, for no one
is so anxious to help a child toward
perfection as is its parent, yet it
surely leads to an avoidance of the
moments alone together, which should
be times of happy condolences.
Don't correct the child before
others. Never mind if a well-meaning
relative does say: ''My dear, | am
surprised that you do not show more
force of character; your children are
suffering from lack of discipline"
Pass the matter over until you and
the small offender can have it out
alone If the circumstances are such
that it cannot be passed over, take
him out of the room.
Lastly, laugh often with, but never
at. your child. Make up your mind
that whatever others may say, he can
depend upon you for quick, sure I'M
derstanding, without bubble or joke
at his expense This does not mean
that he must not take his share Of
harmless fun. 1t is wholesome, and
too much sheltering would make him
oversensitive. But the mother who
lets her child know that she never
makes fun of him will be surprised at
the confidence with which he relies
upon it,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10

Killarney roses in her cheeks and mid.
night in her hair.
And l can hear her whisper now-O
Lord! the years between;
"Agrah. I'm slippin' out awhile along
the old boreen.'
And then, in my white pinafore,
She'd leave me, lonesome, by the door.
Twas off to Mass she went maybe with
me too young for taking,
Or maybe to the market town or to a
neighbours waking;
But oh, the time was sad and slow and
-. empty was. the door
And many a stain was on the snow Of
my white pinafore,
Until along the old boreen
She came again, my mothereen.
I mind the humming of a bee, the CLINT
of sudden rain,
That morning when she slipped from
me who could not come again.
l had no word to lure her back, no
prayer to bid her stay,
Whose soul had known that heavenly
track for many an earthly day
l only knew the old boreen
Would see no more my mothereen.
Oh long and sad the years go by and
lonesome is the door,
And many stain is on the snow OF
my souls pinafore;
For JOY and grief are one with God
and love and fear and hate
Are but the growing pain of souls that
strive toward Heavens gate;
But like as when weeshy child
wait to see her there,
Killarney roses in her cheeks and mid
night in her hair.
AS down along Gods own boreen
She came for me, my mothereen.
Teresa B10pon
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
AN OLD FABLE.

Of all fables, that of the fox and
the crow is perhaps the most widely
known; there being versions of it in
almost every language, ancient and
modern. OF rhymed versions in Eng.
fish, the following was favorite
with our great-grandparents
"A crow upon his perch was MUNICH.
ing cheese,
When sly fox, by arguments like
these,
To, suit herself, beguiled him of his
prize:
Fair are thy plumes, good crow,
and bright thine eyes,
Charming thy neck, an eagles breast
thou hast,
In talons thou art by no brute sur.
passed.
IT'S strange that dumb should be a
bird so smart
The flattered crow became elate in
heart,
And, cawing. from his mouth the
cheese let fall;
This Reynard snatched, and taunt-
ingly did call,
'Tis true thou vast not dumb, for
thou canst speak;
Yet, spite of all thou hast, thy mind
is weak" .-
The moral of this fable is summed
up in a couplet translated from the
Spanish:
who praises you for what you've not
Seeks to deprive you of what you've
got"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
THE MATTER WITH AMERICA.

What's the matter with America,
these days?
Too many diamonds and not enough
alarm clocks.
Too many silk shirts and not enough
blue flannel ones.
Too many pointed-toed shoes and
not enough square-toed ones.
Too many serge suits and not
enough overalls.
Too many decollette and not enough
aprons.
Too many satin-upholstered limou-
sines and not enough cows.
z Too many consumers and not
enough producers.
Too much oil stock and not enough
savings accounts.
Too much envy of the results of
hard work, and too little desire to
emulate it.
Too many desiring short cuts to
wealth and too few willing to pay the
price.
Too much of the spirit of "get while
the getting is good and not enough
old fashioned Christianity
Too much class consciousness and
too little common democracy and love
VI humanity. -Erchdnls.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
THE DOVES OF ST. DOMINIC.

You nave all nearG OF Venice, the
the shores of the sea, but really built
upon the sea itself; city the streets
of which are canals, and about which
people go in boats. You have all
heard. too. of the Doves of st.
Marks" which come at a regular
hour every day for their food to the
great cathedral.
But did you ever hear of the doves
Of St. Dominic, the beautiful white
birds that marked the spot where the
first convent of the order of St. Dom
inic was built? Let me tell you the
story.
There IVES a little church in Ven
ice dedicated to st. Daniel. Once the
Doge. the ruler OF the city. Giacorno
Tiepolo, had dream about it. He
saw the holy place adorned with love-
ly flowers, fresh and bright in their
own growing life as in garden. In
his dream he stood looking at them
and wondering at their beauty. Soon
a company of angels descended
swinging censers among the flowers,
and the perfume they gave forth was
exquisite.
And now came into the midst of the
beautiful place flight of doves, snow
white, with crosses of gold upon their
heads. The .Doee looked on. filled
every moment with increased wonder
Iv,,ir nd 1x, Ho hno pI n
voice which made Gods will oh! so
clear to him. a voice which declared
that God wished to be served in that
place by a company of white-robed
preachers.
Now the white-robed st. Dominic
and some Of his companions had al
ready visited Venice. When the Doge
aWoke from his dream he summoned
his band of councillors, called the Sig
noria, and made it all known to them.
and besought them to tell him what
it all meant. All with one voice de-
clared that the little church, and the
ground which surrounded it, should
be given to st. Dominic, that there
he might found house where his
white-robed friars would serve God
by prayer and labor for the salvation
of their brother men. And so it was
DONE
The good Doge so loved the spot
and so cherished the memory of his
beautiful dream, that there he chose
to be buried. And he gave orders
that when he was laid to rest there.
his tomb might be adorned with a
representation of a flower garden, in
which should appear angels with
golden censers and snow white doves
with crosses of gold.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
A OZARK HORSE"

Many years ago there lived in Ten
nessee man named Samuel Flynn.
Sam was very fond of horses and had
the reputation of being remarkably
good Judge of horse flesh. In those
days the frontiersmen amused them
selves with frequent horse races
which the men for miles around at
tended. At one time Mr.. Flynn had a
dark horse called Dusky Jim. Dusky
Jim was unusually fleet of foot and
won many races. One day Mr.. Flynn,
hearing of a race which was to take
place some distance from his home,
rode over and entered his horse. He
took pains to have Dusky Jim look
like any ordinary horse, and no one
suspected his possibilities and conse-
quently paid little attention to him.
But just as the race was about to
start Judge McMinamee, who was to
act as judge of the race, recognized
Mr.. Flynn and the horse he had en-
tered. Turning to group of men,
who stood near specializing about the
outcome of the race, he said: Gen
tlemen. there is dark horse in this
race that will make some of you sick
before night. The judges prophecy
was fulfilled. Dusky Jim proved to be
the fastest horse there and carried off
all the honors.
From this incident sprang the term
dark horse" used to describe COM
-
ward at the last moment by his polit-
ical party for nomination to an i'm
portant Office.
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AS TO RELATIVES.

I'VE must love everybody, our enc
mics, our friends and our relatives"
When the preacher spoke these words
from the pulpit a few Sundays ago
some of the congregation laughed to
think that relatives should be includ-
ed in our charity. That some were
moved to laughter shows that this
fact is true, that many persons have
love and kindness for strangers but
not for relatives, those that are
closely related to them. not for those
to whom they owe love and gratitude.
We are polite to our enemies, con-
siderate towards strangers. but for
those near and dear to us?-"Why,
that's only my wife,-thats only my
brother"
The following incident will illus
trate:
Tom and Will coming home from
school one day meet woman known
to both. Tom raises his hat when
the woman greets them, but Will does
not. why did you not raise your
hat to that woman when she spoke to
u.s." asked Tom of Will afterwards"
Why exclaimed Will, that's my
neither Just as if his mother was
the only woman to whom he should
not show respect.
Do not many sisters and brothers
treat one another thus? Husbands
and wives, kind and thoughtful of
everybody except of one another.
Children polite to strangers but not
to their fathers and mothers.
Charity should begin at home, -
kindness and consideration also.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
NAMES NEW DRESS.

For long time Sylvia had been
cousin Mamie about her dress. For
NAMES taste is very open to criti-
cism from Sylvia's standpoint Ma
mic loves fussy things. She would a
thousand times rather go to school
in a soiled silk dress with a mussy
lace collar than appear in a plain,
fresh bingham. Her hats are always
overturned. She wears good
many rings for a schoolgirl, some of
them set with imitation stones. And
how Sylvia has wanted to tell her
better! But for long time she was
held back by the certainty that Ma
ME would never ask her what she
thought and that she would be any
thing but pleased to have good coun-
sci thrust upon her.
When the solution occurred to her
it must be admitted that Sylvia made
a wry face. The idea did not appeal
to her. For Sylvia has a very poor
opinion of NAMES judgment and u
very good opinion of her own. And
yet it was impossible to brush the
idea aside. 1t really seemed to her
that, by sacrificing her pride little
it might be possible to help Mamie.
That was the way it happened that
few days later, at the close Of
school, Mamie was approached by
very determined looking cousin.
Haven't anything special to do,
have you. Mamie?' asked Sylvia.
Because if you haven't, l wish you
would go down town with me. There
is a sewing-woman at the house and
mamma is too busy to help me pick
out some plaid silk for waist, so I
wish you'd go along"
! Mamie agreed with alacrity. AS a
matter of fact, she was immensely
| f1attered. And her good opinion Of
her own judgment grew every time
| Sylvia appealed to her. Don't you
think that plaid is little snowy, Ma
mie?" Sylvia would inquire. Il like
quiet things better for school, don't
you?"
And Mamie generally discovered
that she did, and answered in the af-
| frmative
| 1t was not very long after this that
! Mamie returned the compliment.
! 81 want a new dress for school,"
she told Sylvia. Mamma thinks a
serge would be nice
They do make splendid school
dresses Sylvia interrupted. "They
are so neat and suitable, and yet so
smart, and they wear splendidly,
too"
| DO you think you'd like it better
than satin with georgette Sleeves
asked Mamie, and Sylvias yes was
so emphatic that it carried the day.
| A few days later Mamie appeared
at school looking surprisingly we'll
dressed in a neat blue serge.
1T was little hard on my pride"
Sylvia told herself, ''but it worked out
all right
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familiar visitor 1T tti- oFce, where
she was Iece we'd with respect, and
dismissed with kindly promises of
help. >
This morning, seeing that the law
yer was aiready occupied with other
she seated herself to await his leis
ure. Unfortunately the chair she Sc
lected was broken and had been set
aside as useless. The result was that
she fell in rather awkward manner
scattering her papers about the floor
The lawyer looked with a quick eye
at the boys before moving himself, to
see what they would do.
Charley Hart, after an amused sur.
vey of the fall, turned to hide a
laugh he could not control. Henry
Strong sprang to the woman's side
and lifted her to her feet. Then,
! carefully gathering up her papers, he
! politely handed them to her. Her
profuse and rambling thanks only
served to increase Charles amuse.
ment. After the lady had told her
customary story. to which the lawyer
listened with every appearance of at
tention, he escorted her to the door
and she departed.
| Then he turned to the boys and
after expressing pleasure at having
formed their acquaintance, he dis
. missed them. The next day the
teacher was informed of the occur
renee, and told that the scholarship
would be given to Henry Strong, with
! the remark: mo one SO we'll de
serves to be benefited as he who feels
it his duty to help the humble ant
! the lowliest"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
LUCK.

A little bit of effort, little bit Of
thought,
A little bit of daring and of pluck
A little bit of courage in the fight
that's being fought,
All this is often looked up as luck.
A little bit of vision, and of faith a
little, too,
A bit of stern resistance When
you're struck,
A little bit of purpose in the work
you have to do,
All this is in the masonry of luck.
A little bit of wisdom, and the magic
of smile,
Some real determination when
you're. stuck,
The grit to keep on going till you
make another mile.
Are catalogued and labeled under
luck.
The wish to travel pathways that
were never trod before,
To hold the lines against the foes
that buck,
To keep the spirit beating when the
flesh is weak and sore,
All this is in the parentage of luck.
To do the right when wrong would
seem to all your purse with
gold
To cling to truth, nor fear the devil s
muck,
To play your part unselfishly, be ever
brave and bold,
Herein you find the mystery of luck
Detroit Free Press
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
HOW HE WON A SCHOLARSHIP.

The principal of school in which
boys were prepared for college one,
day received message from a law
ing him to call at his Office, as he
wished to have talk with him. Ar
irving at the office, the lawyer stated
that he had in his gift scholarship
emitting boy to four years course
in college and that he wished to
bestow it where it would be best
used.
Therefore" he continued, Il have
concluded to let you decide which boy
of your school most deserves. it."
This is hard question to decide"
replied the teacher, thoughtfully.
Two of my pupils-Charles Hart and
Henry Strong-will complete the
course of study in my school this
year. Both desire a collegiate educa.
ton, and neither is able to attain it
without assistance. They are SO
nearly equal that l cannot tell which
is the better scholar T
WELL" said the lawyer, "if at the
end of the year one boy has not gone
ahead of the other, send them to me,
and 1 will decide between them
AS before, at the closing examina-
ton, the boys stood equal in attain
ments. They were directed to the
lawyers office, no information being
given as to the object of the visit
Two intelligent, well-bred boys they
seemed, and the lawyer was begin
ming to wonder greatly how he should
make a decision between them. Just
then the door opened and an elderly
lady of peculiar appearance entered.
She was wellknown as being of un-
settled mind and possessed Of the
idea that she had been deprived OF a
large fortune which was justly hers.
As a consequence she was in the habit
Of visiti,-g lawyers Offices, carrying in
S = package Of papers. which
She wished examined, She was a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
WHY HE cLINGs TO LIFE.

Mr.. Joe Holbrook, gifted editor Of
the Dresden (Tenn.) Enterprise, sent
a subscriber a statement of account.
Here is the reply:
For the following reason l am un-
able to send you the check asked for:
81 have been held up, held down,
sandbagged, walked on, sat on, flat
tened out, and squeezed.
First by the United States Gov
eminent for Federal war tax, the er
cess profits tax, the Liberty Bond
Loans, Thrift Stamps, capital stock.
merchants license and auto tax, and
by every society and organization that
the inventive mind of man can invent
to extract what l may or may not
have in my possession.
From the Society of St. John the
Baptist, the G. A. r., the Woman's Re-
lief, the Navy League, the Red Cross,
the Black Cross, the Purple Cross, the
Double Cross, the Children's Homo,
the Dorcus Society. the Y. M. G.. A.,
the Y. w. c. A., the Boy Scouts, the
Jewish Relief, the Belgian Relief, the
Salvation Army, and every hospital in
town.
''The Government has so governed
my business that I don't know who
owns it. / am inspected, suspected,
examined and re-examined, informed.
required and commanded so / don't
know who I am, or why I am here.
All that l know is that am supposed
to be an inexhaustible supply of money
for every known need, desire or hope
Of the human race, and because will
not sell all l have and go out and beg,
borrow or steal money to give away
am cussed, discussed, boycotted,
held up, hung up, robbed and nearly
ruined, and the only reason am cling
ing to life is to see what the deuce is
coming next"
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"BETTER ENGLISH" AT ST.
PAUL'S, GREEN RIDGE.

The members of the Freshman Glass
of st. Paul's High School, Green Ridge,
Pa, presented a very interesting pro-
gram recently in their auditorium fea-
turing the rules of Better English.
The following original rules were
presented by members; of the freshman
class: 49, ff1'''.
Remember that catch is sounded like
'~>-&@. latch: 80 a -'~5'H ~t-'s'-'. ~
The man is a wretch who would dare
call it ketch.
Thomas Koran.
Remember that any rhymes with Miss
Jenny; :.
He is only ninny who rhymes it with
Minnie
Daniel O'Connell.
Remember that girl is sounded like
pearl; :"
He is only a churl who would rhyme
it with curl.
Francis Warwick.
Remember that for is sounded like or;
Don't sound it like bur, for that
rhymes with fur.
John Flynn.
Remember that get is sounded like
jet;
The boy should be hit who dares to
say git.
John Kelly.
Say Il don't see and he doesn't know"
And you will be welcome wherever
you go.
Margaret Kelly.
Don't be so unkind as to ever say
amt:
Because if you do good English will
faint.
Mary Clarke.
Remember that just is sounded like
must;
He is only a pest who pronounces it
jest.
Anna McDermott.
Of isn't Nv,
For isn't fur,
With isn't wit,
And sir isn't sur.
Mary McDermott.
Now don't use done or seen,
Without have, has or had
To say "He seen or done IT,
Is really very bad
Irene Price.
The boy who says ITS limits her."
Is sure to hurt the school;
He should be punished every time
He violates the rule.
Eleanor Judge.