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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
The Song of the knitter
(Afcr Tennysou)


T COME from haunts of book and pen,
L I shirk business letter:
] strive for heights beyond my ken,
And start to knit sweater.
/ cast, I count, ] slip, ] stall,
With thirty hats and bitches,
And now and then | drop my ball.
And here and there some stitches.
And here and there my work | take,
To speed it as ] travel,
And many murmured count ] make
And many a ridge | ravel.
With many purl my hanks | fret,
| loiter round bunder,
And here my rows are tightly set,
And there they yawn asundcr;
And on again, crratic, slow,
plod with stern endeavor,
For fads may come and fads may go,
But | knit on forever.
CORINNE ROCKWELL SWAIN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
A Challenge to Our Fair ones

On the nicely monogrammed notepaper of
the Engineers Club comes the following stern
manifesto:
The Ladies' Auxiliary OF the Chatting
Dish are advised to read William McFee's
"On Balcony" in this months Atlantic
and ponder. Ladles-it is the handwriting
on the wall With the coming of suffrage
and the new order, the old order passeth
No longer will the best sellers extol you
in the guise of the self-sacrtfcing heroine
rlslSng all for her lover Instead a
woman's love is shown in its real garb-In-
reasoning selishness. Mac, you brave old
cynic. l doff my lid to you
Socrates, the ladies' won't stand for this
They will probably strike for McFee's re-
moval from the Dish. Vive la guerrs.
LIEUT.
We, have no desire to start a sex war I'm
the Hjsh, but we win Just point or that the
now enbittered Lieut. sprung boy u this
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Speaking of Eden Phillpotts, in his de-
lightful little book. "A Shadow Passes," he
remarks: What is the word We write most
often in our cheque books? Self "
That is unfortunately true, yet "Self'' is
rarely the ultimate destination of the
amounts SO stubbed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
Sonnet to a soiIed Glove

DEAR little glove, so lonely, yet so blessed
~ That oft her hand has lent TO you its form
And made you, like itself, alluring, warm,
Articulate! ] hold you safely pressed
Close to my heart, the while I long, tis true,
TO crush as willing captives to my lips,
For just moments breath, the tingertips
Which crstwhie gave their rosy LIE to you.
OH, PRECIOUS glove, so shapcless, now
" confess
Did you, like Raleigh, with fate ILL
starred,
Refuse to see her dear hands beauty
marred
While you retained your virgin spotessness? :?
VIJOW did / get this way? Why lands
IL above
Twas rubbing up against your own soiled
glove!"
LARK MERRILL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

One of these days we are going to handsel
humanity with a valuable volume entitled
"100l Ways of Making Life More Prac
teal" We shall include paragraph sug
costing that all lunch counter. be either
"a equipped with a rack to hold books and
parcels, or CO that the footrail be raised so
that ones knee joints viii form right angle
as one sits Cating. Nothing, we contend,
does so lower our morale as to have TO sit
with our knees hoisted into the air so as to
prevent the books and papers we carry from
sliding off.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Human beings, members of the well-known
public, have learned that tho side-door
trolleys are extremely useful during the
homeward rush hour. When the doors are
opened it is extremely amusing to lead
little foray of boarders Sometimes, by dill
gent and active work, dozen excited ladies'
climbing on may prevent one corpuent and
only moderately aggressive person from
getting out until several blocks beyond his
destination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
Desk Notices

Persian carpet or piece of Sheraton
makes distinguished end and bears itself
with dignity to the last--as aristocrats be-
fore the guillotine. But Brussels, or bit
Of mid-NiCtorian, will be found to grovel,
show its unlovely wounds and scream for
pity, EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
Hero and Martyr

A Chestnut Hill man
Hero and Martyr has been fined 81 30
with the alternative of
five days in Jail because when a car was
about to pass without letting him get aboard
he pulled the trolley pole off. This was very,
very wicked of him. But if every man who
has been tempted to do the same thing were
to duff up cent there'd be no trouble about
paying his fine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
THE CHAFFING DISH

caldron some weeks ago with a poem ex-
planning that his bosom was simultaneously
tenanted by two ladies, Ann and Rita. He
seemed to be i'll some distress as to which
one to annex. 1t looks to us very sadly as
though he had crashed with both We hope
his heart is not of the nonrehlable kind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Arthur Henry, the siver-tongtied south
erner who arrived from Nashville bringing
us a volume of the poems of the Sweet Singer
of Michigan, says he suffered many out
RACES in the army, but the barber on Walnut
street who anointed him with a syrup of
cinnamon and lemon verbena humiliated him
more than any other man still living.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
The Barbary Corsetieres

Garfield has been reading the Quiz, and
was ignited with luminous idea when that
lusty department recently defined a corsair
as "A Barbary privateer.
He hastens to tell us that the modern
equivalent is corsetere
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

The New York Assembly has ousted five
Socialist members and the New York city
Board of Aldermen is contemplating simi
lar action. This seems to be very good
way to invite revolution. 80
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

has happened to their sense of proper
ton? What ails the people who suppose
that you can train the United States to
an intellectual goosestep?
If Mr.. Palmer has reason to believe
that dangerous aliens are still at large
in this country why cannot he call the
police and make his raids and arrange
for his deportations in accordance with
accepted processes of courts without cry
ing out for the establishment in America
of repressive laws modelled after those
that disgraced Russia? Is it necessary,
in order to deal with handful of un-
washed idiots, to undermine the princi-
Piles of government that all human eX-
perience has shown to be the safest, the
surest and the most indispensable?
Must we, to deal with minor nuisance,
give the country over to the rule of
bureaucrats and prepare to be servile
nation instead of free one?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
To a Love Letter About to Be Posted

uEAVEN give you wings of gold
IL Precious little letter
Guard well all the love you hold,
/ will be your debtor.
Angels guiding from above,
Hasten, stopping never,
Till you come to her I love,
Then abide forever.
Look into her lustrous eyes,
When her hands unfold you,
If in them the love light lies,
Tell her what l told you.
Say that | am very sad
Feeling very lonely;
That she'd make me very glad
If she'd only, only
Give me just a little bit
,Of her love, and never
Would / fail to cherish it
Ever and forever;
Absence makes me far more tlue
Than the skies above her,
So, dear note, I'm sending you .
To tell her that / love her.
HAROLD WIEGAND.
The joke about parlor, bedroom and bath
Bolshey,hts seeris to us misirt, because
they dcf't use hsths. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

1t is folly to say that a man may not
save time by running across tie street in
front of motortrucks. lie often gets to the
hospital five seconds earlier.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

r. Nelson Edwards the contemplative ar
chltect, when met by us in the smoking car
OF the Paoli Local, admitted that he is build
lug himself a house. We brooded over this
after leaving him, and thought morosely that
we have never heard of a colyumist building
house. or having one built for that matter
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

There are several
Careless BergdOll claimants for the credit
of capturing Bergdoll
Bergdoll, therefore, has much to answer for
If he had acted according to the precedents
he himself set there would have been no
controversy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Of course, it would be
Sweetness Unrefned rank heresy to suggest
that some of the Gu
ban sugar just arrived in port should be
sold unrefned at something less than the
eighteen cents pound, Mr.. Mccarthy
thinks, will be the retail price. But why not
he heretical once in while?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

With rabies prevalent in the city no
reasonable owner of a dog will object to a
quarantine of the animals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
Congratulations

How happy, how happy, how happy am I
I've eaten an eau de vivacious mince pie
NJ. V. n. $.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Bryan has been accused of many things,
but nobody has ever alleged that he is sut'
fering from an impediment in his speech.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

The Bar Association of New York may
have been thinking of Mr.. Palmer or Mr..
Burleson or both. In its report It says:
Through the rciI of terror or appre-
hension or unpopuiarity ,ce should still
be able to defend the principles of con-
stitutional liberty. Never more than at
present hare 7Ce needed leadership
vhich uiU not suffer these principles to
be IMPAIRED.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Yes" said one of two well dressed ladies
who had just entered the spirit realm, this
is undoubtedly hell, because the subway slot
machines have no little mirrors"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

The theory of the po-
The Anchors litical canvass is that
Weighed there shall be wind
enough TO belly the
sails. There is usually wind enough. But
there isn't always a worth while cargo in
the hold
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Judge Jimmy Briggs sailed into port
at last with flag flying and IA cargo of good
deeds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

1t is inevitable that
Get the Hook! the census man busily
engaged in counting
,oses should occasionally get a snub.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
People Of
No Importance

tee know that what they want is direct
citizenship they want an abrogation of the
laws which make woman follow the flag
of the man she marries. This is a kind of
direct action that even conservative men
may applaud. But. Thus day by day
do husbands grow less and less important.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

What commends Hoover to the thought
full mind is his ability to puncture the bubble
oe geperalities with the pin of fact.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Bergdoll will now have chance TO get
little rest after all the excitement he has
had.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
The Az and
the Ring

a cord for wood. while the Topeka fair price
committee thought 81 was enough. He was
exonerated when it was found that the com
mittee had erred. Willard would have had
no such trial if he had been able to keep in
the fighting game. Instead of getting $3.50
cord his price would have been in the
neighborhood of $40, 900 punch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

The flow Of soul at the Jackson Da,
dinner had a hit Of . kick p iY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
Social Chat

Tho a, m. train for New York left Broad
street at Z a, III. recently
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Mr.. Bryan Is again understanding Mr.,
Irkis, ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
CONGRESSMAN Henry w. Watson. o,

CONGRESSMAN Henry w. Watson, of
" the Eighth congressional district, com
prising Bucks and Montgomery counties,
may be the heir in Congress to the mantle of
J. Hampton Moore as champion of Penn
sylvana's interests in inland waterways.
The western part of the state is greatly
interested in all waterways projects, because
it means for them the ultimate completion
of Lake Eric to the Ohio river barge canal.
Congressman Watson, part of whose dis
trict lies along the Delaware, has just been
commended in the official Chamber of Com
merce Bulletin of Pittsburgh for his ac-
tivity in favor of these great public i'm =
provements.
Mayor Moore's influence all along the At
Iantic seaboard as president of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association has been
greatly enhanced by his election as Mayor
Of Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Women from fourteen
mid western stat c S
have let the Repub
lican national commit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09

Jess Willard recently
had to face a charge of
profiteering. 1t was al
legged he charged S.. 30
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
CzECH0-SL0vAK|A
POPE SENDS MESSAGE RECoGNIZ
ING THE NEW REPUBLIC.

The complete text of the message
handed to the Minister of Foreign At
fairs of Czecho-Slovakia by the Papal
Nuncio, containing official recognition
of the new republic by the Pope, and
recently received here was as follows
"Excellency! 1t is great pleasure
to me to inform your EXcellency, and
through your kind offices, the Presi-
dent of the Republic, that l was
charged by Pope Benedict XIV upon
my arrival in Prague to recognize Of
ficially and in his name the Czecho.
Slovak republic as a sovereign and in
dependent state. l feel certain that
the government and the noble Czecho-
Slovak nation will see in this action
fresh evidence of the interest felt by
His Holiness in the citizens and the
religious welfare of the young repub
lie, TO which he presents his best
wishes. l permit myself to add my
own best wishes to this lofty senti
ment, and l ask your eXcellency to &C
cept the assurance of my highest re-
spect.''-Theodore Valfre De Bono
Archbishop of Trebizond and Apos
tolic Nuncio.
The message was received with
great rejoicing by the Catholics OF
Prague.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
DIED At ALTAR
FATHER CLARKE, OF COLUMBUS,
SUDDENLY STRICkEN-FOUND
ED CATHOLIC COLUMBIAN IN
1875.

Rev. Dennis A. Clarke, pastor of
Holy Family Church, Columbus, Ohio,
fell back dead Monday morning, May
II, just after he had re-ascended to
the altar of his church, following the
administration of Communion to the
teaching Sisters of his parochial
school, and to the members of his
congregation.
Father Clarke wos born in Column
bus December Is, 1850, and received
his primary education in St. Patrick S
parochial school, that city. He was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor
of Science at NOtre Dame University,
Notre Dame, Ind, in 1870, and taught
at that institution for four years He
founded the Catholic Columbian in
1875, and was it's editor for five years.
He was ordained in 1879, and served
as chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary
until 1883. He completed the erection
OF Holy Family Church, which had
been begun by his predecessor, and
built the splendid parochial school.
At the time of his death he was Dean
of the Columbus Diocese, promoter of
the Priests Eucharistic League, and
director of the Infirm Priests Fund.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
SISTER MARY B0RG|A
PROVINCIAL OF SISTERS OF
NOTRE DAME OF NAMUR,
DIES.

Sister Mary Borgia, Provincial of the
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, aged
II, died Tuesday morning, May IS, at
the Eastern Novitiate, Waltham, Mass
Sister Mary Borgia, well-known for
her untiring efforts in furthering Cath
olic education, was a protested Sister
of Notre Dame for 43 years. During
her life time, she spent thirty years at
Notre Dame Convent, Cincinnati, func-
tioning there as mistress of novices
and superior of the convent
Since 1911, she has been Provincial
of the order, with headquarters at
Waltham. Last February, when about
to take a long-postponed trip to
Namur, Belgium, Sister Borgia became
ill, and suffered for some time from an
affection of the heart Her relapse oc-
Ecurred three weeks ago.
The latest undertaking of Sister
Mary Borgia was the founding and
opening of Emmanuel College, Boston,
last year Although not directly con-
nected with the founding of Trinity
College, Washington, D. c., Sister
Borgia was closely associated in the
plans for erection with Sister Superior
Julia
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
AMERICAN DEAD ABROAD
TO BE HONORED MEMORIAL DAY
*. OF c. INFORMATION b.
REAU IN PARIS.

The Knights of Columbus announce
that their European commissioner Ed
ward l.. Hearn, has made arrange
ments for decorating graves of Ameri-
can soldiers in France on Memorial
Day. Mr.. Hearn last year directed
similar activities for the K of c. In
some places arrangements are being
made for French school children to
visit the American cemeteries and lay
flowers on the graves, and churches
in the former battle-zones will hold
memorial Masses.
Commissioner Hearn recently &C
CURED new headquarters for the K of
c., at IA Boulevard des Italiens, Paris,
where large information bureau and
rest parlors will be maintained for
visiting relatives of American hero
dead. The Knights will provide direc-
lions for locating graves and assist
inquirers to reach the various GENE
teries.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
DIOCESAN CELEBRATION
CHURCH IN ARGENTINE OBJ
SERVES THREE HUNDREDTH
ANNIVERSARY OF ESTABLISH
MENT OF DIOCESE,

The Argentinischer Volksfreund of
Buenos Aires, Argentine, reports the
following:
This diocese celebrated it's three
hundredth anniversary on Easter Sun
day, a beautiful day. A big public
procession, in which representative of
the government and the city partici-
pated, took place in the grand old
cathedral Pontifical High Mass was
celebrated by the convalescent arch
bishop. The auxiliary bishop, Mgr.
Alberti, preached a masterful sermon
on the duties of clergy and people.
Pope Paul V created the Diocese of
Holy Trinity on May 80, 1920. The
new bishop, the Spanish Carmelite
monk, Pedro de Carranza, arrived
when the city was undergoing siege
of the cholera. Therefore the enthron-
ization ceremonies at the great cathe-
dral took place September Is, 1921.
The sanity and scholarly bishop died
after lingering sickness August Is,
1928.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
CATHOLIC PUBLIC|ST DEAD
FATHER JAMES L. MEAGHER WAS
THE FOUNDER OF THE CHRIS
TAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.

The Rev. James Luke Meagher, D.
D., founder and president of the
Christian Press Association Publish
ing Company and of the Christian Lit
erary Union, died on May Is of a gen
eral breakdown at the age of seventy.
one at his residence in Long Island
City, N. Y. Although not in charge
of any parish in recent years, Dr.
Meagher was accustomed to preach
and officiate in many different church.
es and maintained a private chapel at
his residence.
He was born at Dranggan, Upper.
airy, Ireland, and came to this coun.
try as a boy. After graduating from
the Montreal Seminary he was or
dained in 1875. For sixteen years he
was assistant and then pastor at Caz
enovia, N. Y, only leaving there in
1894, when summoned by Cardinal
Satolli to establish a society for the
publication and dissemination of re-
ligious literature. He was himself the
author of a score of religious works
including Truth Teaching by Signs
and Ceremonies" (sixty editions)
"The Religions of the World" THE
Seven Gates of Heaven" "The Prot
estant Churches"
DR., Meagher was remarkable lin
guist and had travelled widely in the
course OF his official duties. In 1908
the title of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred upon him by Cardinal Sa
TOLL by order of Pope Leo XIII in St
John Lateran, at Rome.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
POPE RECEIVES FRENCH
THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS ADMIT.
TED TO AUDlENCE-6OO
FRENCH PRIESTS.

French pilgrims who came to Rome
for the canonization of st. Joan of
Arc were received by Pope Benedict
in st. Peters on May II. 1t had been
planned to hold the reception in the
Vatican, but no hall in that edifice
was large enough to accommodate the
throng, which numbered approximate
ly 10000.
Among the cardinals present were
Annette of Paris, Lucon of Rheims
Dubois of Rouen, Andrieu of Bordeaux
Maurice of Lyons and Begin CT Que
bee. There were, in addition French
archbishops, bishops, senators and dep
uties. Monsignor Touchet, Bishop of
Orleans, thanked the Pope for the can
onizatfOn in the name of the entire
French nation, the Pontiff answering
his address.
Pope Plus X" he said, "decreed the
beatlticatiOn of Joan of Arc. | am
glad the Almighty allowed me to sane,
tify her, but | regret this honor was
not reserved to Pope Plus X"
The Pontiff ended by invoking the
benediction on France, especially her
senators, deputies and civil authori
ties. Cardinal Andrieu presented Gen
eral Castlenau to the Pope, who
warmly congratulated him.
The same afternoon the Pope re
ceived in the Vatican museum six hun
dred French priests, headed by Mon
stgnor Touchet This occasion was q
new manifestation of rejoicing for tbs
canonization.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29

has been blessed for the use of Chris
tians. This water having been rem
dered sacred through the prayers OF
the Church is considered of great use
in also inducing pious attitude oil
mind in the one who uses it. The
custom of blessing water for the use
of Christians is found in the early
ages of the Church. At first cleric
stood before the entrance of the
church and sprinkled each person with
holy water as he entered the sacred
edifice. Later on the custom arose
whereby each person took holy water
and blessed himself with it.
Is it necessary to genufiect on enter
ing the church and again before enter
ing the pew?
A Catholic on entering the church
takes holy water and blesses himself
He then goes to his pew and makes a
genuflection towards the Blessed
Sacrament before entering the pew
One genufiection is sufficient.
If a Catholic girl is married to .
Protestant before a judge may their
children be baptized by priest?
The first thing for such a girl to do
is to consult priest and have the ap,
parent marriage rectified, for she is
not married at all in the eyes of her
Church. The children may be bap-
tized.
If person wilfuIIy conceaIs a NOR
tai sin in confession, and is after
wards confirmed without confessing
that sin, is it necessary to receive
confirmation again?
Confirmation can be received but
once. If the person is in state of
mortal sin when he is confirmed, he
receives the sacrament but he com
mits a serious sin of sacrilege.
Is it sin not to be churched?
The churching of women is a rite
instituted by the Catholic Church for
the spiritual benefit of woman who
has recently given birth to q child.
Every good Catholic mother avails
herself of this privilege, but it is not a
sin to omit it.