Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-03-25
CHURCH LADIES
OBSERVE DAY OF
PATRON SAINT

The Catholic ladies gave their
annual silver tea st. Patrick's day,
at the library club rooms. A very
enjoyable program of music, under
the direction off Mrs. Ellen Jones
was given. Tom Grayson and Norm
Davidson, banjo and guitar, Delma
and Maurine Macdonald piano
duet, Bud Akers, step dance. Mrs.
Brown, vocal solo, Eddie Trathen,
Lambert Cannon and Delma Mac
| Donald, orchestra selection, Bess
Faraday vocal solo, Lambert Can
non violin solo, Mrs. Ellen Jones
vocal solo. Mrs. O'Niell and Mrs
Nellie McGrath gave their Irish jig,
and which everybody went home and
tried to initiate The room was ap-
lpropriately decorated in shamgocks
and the usual st. Patrcks decora-
tions. A talk by General Utter as
follows:
Friends, today the world over,
men and women are congregated t.
do honor to the memory of the holy
st. Patrick. st. Patrick had a diff
ferent view of life than doctor
friend of mine, who when man
came to his Office one day and ad
vised him he was forty years old
and wished to live for forty years
longer, and he believed that he was
entirely sound but wanted an ex-
animation to find out IL there were
any hidden illnesses.
After giving him a thorough ex-
animation the doctor found him al
right. He then asked him, do you
use Intoxicating liquor?' and he an
swered mo" "Do you use tobacco
In any form such as smoking, chew
ing or snuff" and he again an
swered "No" Have you any other
bad habits?" mo" "Then what
in hell do you wish I'd live forty
years longer for?' asked the doctor.
Now st. Patrick wished to live
that he might labor in the vineyard
of his father. And long after the
great generals, statesmen, fnanciers,
from the joys and pleasurers have
gone, nay, after all nations have ris-
en-, fourished and fallen and our
memory is but myth in the cycles
of the universe he will live live like
one of the bright stars of the canopy
of heaven that light the golden
stairs and leads to the throne.
After st. Patrick's time good men
and true have braved the tropical
jungles and waste places where Ar
tic winds sweeps the ice and snow OF
the desert places, and the mountains
where live venturious savages that
they might heal the WOUNDS anu
teach them the way to God.
The beautiful Queen Isabella gave
her gold and pledged her jewels that
the world mikht know of salvation.
And Columbus left home and friends
and sailed unchartered seas with
naught but faith and hope to pit
against the worlds philosophy.
You and | will leave our gold and
Jewels when we enter the great un-
known and let US today while we
have met to do honor to the memory
OF our patron saint hook into our
own hearts and see III we have
clothed our golden days with kindly
acts and thoughts and fused our
Jewels in the cruciable OF love.
Every man and woman who is
honestly and earnestly striving to
live better and purer life is en-
titled to our aid, no matter what |
their creed. | will tell you story |
to illustrate.
In a little village the entire popu-
Iation turned out one night at |
meeting in the village hall for the
purpose of devising ways and means
10 better the local conditions. After
a temporary organization had been
perfected one of the citizens arose
and moved that the temporary or
yanization be made permanent. But
before the chair could put the mo-
ion a man staggered to his feet In
! drunken condition and said, "Mg,
Chairman / move that this tempor-
'ry organization be made temper
ary." "A neighbor sitting by his
,ide grabbed him by the coat tail
md jerked him to his seat saying
John, you poor drunken lout, you
ion't know the difference between
temporary and permanent" "Oh
res, I do" said the drunken man.
I'm drunk but that is only tenn
)orary, you are dam fool and that
8 permanent"
Now we are all inclined to believe
hat those who differ with us in the