The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-04-24
FATHER CASEY HEALS BREACH IN
PARISH CHOIR

The high contracting parties, or
their plenipotentiaries, sitting at the
peace table had child's play COM
pared with Father Casey, for he was
called upon to heal a breach in the
parish choir.
1t all came about because Miss
Burke, the organist, in planning her
program for the Easter Mass, had
failed to assign to Dolores and Estelle
certain Alleluas for which they knew
they were fitted by nature and to
which they believed they had an in
alicnable right by custom.
That the dear reader may. know
and appreciate to what a serious pass
matters had gone, here set down
fragments of a conversation overheard
by a little bird that had insomnia as
the worthy young ladies went up the
walk leading to Father Casey's house
believe me, Dolly said Estelle
Father Casey sees that no amount
of coaXing will make us line up with
the warblers again as long as that
hateful thing is organist."
Hell be up against it, all right, tC
get some one else to thump the keys,
returned Dolores, but he ought tC
have told her where to get off at Just
think, Stell, she comes up to me las
Sunday night after Benediction, anC
she says in her oily. fashion: DO
lores, she says, you know it's very
wrong to talk in church while tn,
| Blessed Sacrament is exposed Nov
what do you know about that"
You'd think she built the church
| the way she tries to run everything
| that goes on there. She makes MI
| good and sick!"
| Say, Stell, suppose Father Case,
| can't get new organist by next Sun
| day; won't that bunch make a show
| of themselves trying to sing withou
u.s.
"Worse'n the Kilkenny CATS
| laughed Estelle with savage glee.
"There'll be some sadly disappoint
ed people, too. | know for fact tina
it's the singing that brings a lot o
| >. L
way for Father Casey He'll b,
| peeved when he sees the attendant,
falling Off
Serves him right" snapped Els
telle. He lets Miss Burke wind hin
around her little finger Wheneve
we have complaint to make, he al
ways sides with her"
| But don't you think, Stell, winel
he sees we are detcrmined--if h
cant get anybody to take Miss Burke
place right away, if he makes he
beg pardon publicly before the Choir
don't you think we could sing for
little longer, just to help him gu
while he is looking for a new organ
| ist?"
| Dolly, I would have to study tha
proposition carefully before | SHOULD
be prepared to give an answer" Els
telle spoke with all the calmness an
deliberatiOn of an unbiased judge
She was not angry-Oh, no. not in tn
least-merely actuated by the mer
love of JUSTICE
| IL h'Sll LllHC loI MISS DUNE L
be put where she belongs! she ha
been playing kaiser long enough
Won't it take the wind out of he
sails if she has to beg pardon of Il
before the bunch!
eyes. especially after all her col
temptible hints about not doing thi
or that in the choir, when everybod
knew she meant u.s."
did you notice her new lavende
i. silk dress? Amt it the limit?'
"rll say it is! I'll bet anything
was remnant and she had to cut
, according to that outlandish patter
| SO it would reach. l have to laug
, to see the desperate efforts she make
5 to look young and you can see til
crows feet on her face block away
, 'Twere vain to conjecture how lon
! they could have gone on before tn
$ absorbing topic-or they themselves
} would be exhausted. Howbeit, the