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say, to dream of rats betokened misfortune. His poor wife could not interpret his dream. But his wise dingy look,,,it may be greatly freshfor little son became the Joseph in it 'washing by brightened ened and modern Pharaoh. "The large. this one or water and alum of a solution fat rat," he said to his father, "is made of soda and water. Do not althe saloon keeper on the corner, to the into soak to solution the low whom you carry your money, the it of surface carpet, but wash the lean rats are mother and I. two a or brush quickly using a stiff one is yourself, Fathand the blind coarse, rather heavy rag.
When the carpet is Dusty the carpet has that dusty, When
" Cleanse my heart and my lips, 0 Almighty God, who didst cleanse the er!" fun, no boy's a Sometimes to be a lips of the prophet Isaiah with one Up cheer Vor if you notice every through vouchsafe burning coal and have it said Expects a boy can get along to I'd rather fail, than Be careful not to give way Thy gracious mercy, so to purify me I won by lying or deceit And won't take nothin', ever wrong that I may worthily attend to Thy gloomy sadness. What good does it I want no laurel round my head The other folks-now, ain't this holy Gospel." do ? Sorrows will come, you can't If winning it I have to cheat. be true ?may you but keep them away, to attended be must course, short. Of able to make their stay A wise man may be provoked, but I'd rather have the public jeer And give their choice and asked Po- be cannot he angered. He will alA good Catholic has every reason And call me quitter, coward-yes, a lite, Religion is not I'd rather stand to see them sneer low nothing to take up a dwelling to be cheerful. all along get boys-'they and But bosom that he knows will yoke of terror, she is all love in his Then fraudulently gain success. right ! ' plait a thorn there. The fool cher- confidence to her children. ishes this enemy to his own destrucFor winning isn't all of life. 4r we gu visitin' some place tion. Tin Uplifting Influence Success is stamped upon the soul, where Thank God some of us know, and I'd rather falter in the strife, to enough beds got They ain't carry with us still, the strength of What art thou, 0 human life Than cunningly attain my goal. spare, and not a human influence that lifted us for Thou art the way of life -Edgar A. Guest. They fix the sofa up for me a We must traverse thee life itself. a moment, held us Poised for 'Twill do him nicely, ma says- without dwelling in thee-no one glance in us the perhaps, yet sent gee! road we but impetus of that moment far on the The great rule of moral conduct. as dwells on a great Or when we've company, likes march on through it to reach the full tide of a higher life to a glad says a wise man, is next to God, tc not These are but hu- respect Time. country beyond.-St. Columbanus. and holy goal. I'm tucked off on a wobbly cot helps, yet a human being may man Jes' anywhere that's out of sight Bide your time. There are no sitbring divine influence to poor starvSpeak no ill But boys-'they get along all that are not helped by patsuruations the with down souls beaten ed It is good to he generous in small right ' ; and none that is not injured stress and ience misunderstanding of ges things. They make up the greater of work or loneliness.-S. M. P., in by hasty action or heated expresPart of life and produce almost all Or when we drive I'm crowded in sion. Time solves many difficulties. catholic World. the AlTill I'm all squoze out good and of its sorrows and its joy s. and a forecast of the forces at work generbe afford to can one any most thinthe drift of events, a perception of Somebody's Birthday things, you do hearted in room. three open much and ous need ' You don't inevitable resultants will help the is somebody's birthday. This sunny-heartgeninlity, --in least at Roy?' to you to "learn to labour and fate as .Just as sure smile, A I nature. a boy good I'm and edness And I say, no, 'cause Silence us called "golden, ' ?Jai t. " -day, six to is Some baby little worth more like bed), and a cheery word are And at the table, (jes' largely beceuse it is an indication of And some little girl is eight. plain than gold. Many men, who now and When things don't even up, power in repose. The man who does to -day, three is boy Some little things, big do some generous then bread not say all, bath learned the great thirteen, little girl Some little spoil the effect of it, and win And butter does my appetite. diplomacy of life. two, exactly twins Some little -handed close love because they are For boys-they get along all right!' mean. I apiece, Two and mean in small things. Heights and Deeps What a difficult thing it is to keep The ba,', he draws the hardest seat, Think of the birthday presents, (i Life, thou art stretching amain ourselves from saying what is not Or hops round dodgin' people's feet, Think of the birthday cheer ; Into glorious reaches of sun, exactly sweet and kind about other You can't hurt him with lumpy Think of the birthday happiness To the asphodel -glittering plain springs people. We know that a man or a Every day in the year. Of eternity's sweetness begun. woman or a boy or a girl is not Or old cots or other things ! Every day in the year, you know, sweetness, 0 Lord, is the sight That so and be, ought to anywhere, or she in what he built to fit He's Every- day we're alive, of Thy face, we feel it cur duty to tell other peoAnd what he eats, why he don't care Some happy child is one, or two, Peace of Thy presence, the The it. It cannot, we argue, Jes' so it's fodder-not a mite Pie about Or three, or four, or five. of Thy grace. touch that sure feel right!' wrong, because we all get along be For boys-they what we say is true. 4,-.4.hild Wise A O life, thou art swinging oppressed. If thou desire the love of God and The apostle tells us to "speak evil to drink.1 working man addicted To dreary, discouraging days, man, he humble for the proud heart of no man," hut to he "gentle, ing one morning related to his wife Where sorrow's sea -moaning unrest as it loves none but itself, so it is showing all meekness unto all men." In In shivering minors delays the In another place he tells us that his dream of the previous night. folbeloved of none but by itself four rats, the Yet the deep is a -gleam with voice of humility is Cod's music, "love thinketh no evil." Jesus said, that dream he beheld the first was lovelight of Thee, kiaLthe silence of humility is God's " Why heholdest thou the mote that lowing one anotherthe next two were and fat; Draw nearer, sweet Saviour, the darrWric. Humility enforces where is in thy brother's eye, but consid- large lean, and the fourth one was ker it be ereth not the beam that is in thine very al.a.aier virtue nor strength can preThe Man was somewhat su-Carolin D. Swan, If we think on these blind. vail, nor reason. own eye ? considerathings before speaking, the word of perstitious and therefore, in " The Unfading Light." heard because disturbed, had be bly If you cannot be happy in one way scandal will surely die on our lips. This facility be haPPy in another. of disposition wants hut little ai from Philosophy, for health and good humour are almost the whole affair. Many run after felicity, like an Eta, sent-minded man hunting for his hut while it is in his hand or on his
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head. To deny one's self for a great end, to help the weak, to relieve the burdened, that is heroic. But only to sew for the idle, to take steps for the inconsiderate, to pauper vanity, and folly with endless services, to he an unPaid upper servant for inapPreciate kindred, to make one's self of no account that selfishness may prosper, that is slavish, and perpetuates tyranny.. This degrades and belittles her who ministers, reinflatirs and misleads her w ..4 tre-
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