The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
Home Mode Saints
are some saints who are not of
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By DK. FRANK CRANE

THERE are some saints who are not of
 the calendar
 They perform no miracles but the miracles of love and gentleness, for which the world is ahungered and athirst.
 Their shrines are not in the proud cathe- drals but in human hearts; happy thoughts are the candles burning before their altars; tender memories are the votive offerings made there, and shame for our littleness and re- solves to be nobler are the incense that fills the air of the place.
 There is St. Jim, the Sunny; he doesn't amount to much, but we could spare lot of useful people rather than him, with his stub born good humor.
 And St. Lizzie, who sweeps in the corners
 And St. Carrie, who picks up after every body.
 And St. Ted, who, though he is but nine years old, is careful of his mother, cleans the snow from the back porch for her, brings in wood and water and looks after her in. all ways. &
 And St. Sally, the grandmother, who has the heavens gift of smoothing out misunder- standings, untangling family knots, and mAk- ing crooked tempers work together.
 And St. Bill, the whistler, who carries the evening paper and pipes cheer into many a listener.
 And St. Mary Jane, who makes hot biscuit and wonderful bendy sugar cookiesr and laughs when the children rob her.
 And St. Gertrude, who will not drive her husband into the back yard to smoke, but sets him by the fire in her best room and says she likes the smell of a pipe (and like as with my Uncle Toby, when he hears this little fib, the recording angel always coughs and pretends he did not hear). And St. Henry, who really thinks his wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, and the sweetest of angels, although she is a most distressing person. | And St. Ralph, who never comes home with out something peanuts or gum drops or a red apple-in his pocket for the small house bandits to pillage.
 And St. Walter, who is bullet proof to "the slings and arrows of outrageous for tune" and takes all the buffets of fate upon hih shield of Never Mind.' And St. Charlie, who gives his wife an allowance, so that she will never have to ask for money.
 And St. John, who, though he be a bearded father, plays marbles of nights with the boys upon the dining room floor and goes fishing with them in summer
 And St. Martha, who dresses for her hus- band and household as carefully as for com pany.
 And St. Bess, who has a dozen babies, is glad because of every one of them and would rather mother them than wear diamonds at 
 the opera.
 And St. Alice, who is endowed by fate with the marvellous faculty of getting along with everybody.
 And St. Lie, whom every one imposes upon, and who likes it, and seems to seek for opportunities to do everything for every body.
 And St. May, who is an invalid, but whom no one has ever heard complain.
 And St. Ella, who never repeats scandal.
 And St. Tom, who never speaks of other folks business, nor tells any one of the many secrets he knows.
 And St. Mike, the tramp, the same who was once discovered helping lame dog over stile."
 And St. Cicely, the old maid, who, having no babies of her own, mothered the children of her seven sisters, and having no man to love her, became the sweetheart of the world.
 All whom may God bless, and their mum Der increasei