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est difficulty ; it is the only path to self respect and peace of mind.
calf, and I had to pay him a pound and a half. I bought some poison When we add to this natural law, to slay some rats, and a neighbour the desire to serve God and advance swore that it killed his cats ; and the interests of our immortal souls, rather than argue across the fence, I 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces though we may roam, we have a double motive for courBe it ever so humble, there's no place like home Paid him 25s. One night I set sailage. ing a toy balloon, and hoped :t After all, the skies are still blue, would soar till it reached the moon ; The annunciation The Brighter Side and the breeze refreshing ; the hill- but the candle fell out on a farmer's tops call us away from sadness and straw, and he said I must settle or There is a story of a quaint old (By Elizabeth Thack). Dutchman who, when some one re- each tiny flower speaks to us of the go to law. And that is the way Oh, Maiden of Israel, marked that it was "a sad world," goodness of God. Friends are still with the random shot ; it never hits With eyes so deep " Yab, dot iss so. Vel, I dear, books are comforting, work is in the proper spot ; and the joke you replied And holy. Yet in their depths helpful, and often interesting and to spring, that you think so smart, make den a leetle foolishness for Tender smiles leap, "make a leetle foolishness for our- may leave a wound in some fellow's mineself ! " And seem in their radiance, selves," and have a laugh, now and heart. The answer showed true wisdom, To hold control, and a healthy state of mind. In the then, is within reach of us all. IIV To uplift with their sweetness Let us not be like rebellious chil- KNIPE normal man or woman, laughter and CLEANING : A sin -wrecked soul. dren driven to our tasks : let us tears are not far apart. As Thou knelt in silent prayer, Get a half sheet of newspaper and bravely and as cheerfully as we can, When things are at their worst, an An angel came, in the Path in which our feet double it in half so that it is a good unerring instinct causes us to say, walk And in Thy enraptured ear are set. The difficulties and discour- thickness, then sprinkle a little knife within ourselves ; " If the situaWhispered a name ! even the sorrows we meet powder over the paper. Take your tion is so desperate, I must be able agements, Thou feared, and yet were joyful, knives need not hinder our Progress, but, ing in and forks and commence cleanto cope with it. If I dwell up( y it rather, make us What could it mean ? the same way as you would stronger. it will seem unbearable ; I will, That Thou art chosen to be our Lord has shown us the way ; do with the knife board. You will therefore divert my mind from it, as His Mother, Our Queen. find a good Polish far as I may, by relaxation, and He calls us to follow Him, even scratches such ason them and no the knife board though the path be steep and rugged such merriment, as I can bring mytalk to Girls He will give us the graces we need, sometimes leaves. This has been In the centre of the State there self to take part in." proved very successful, and it preand will help us on our journey ; This is true philosophy, and it is, serves the knives. lives a young woman who missed the and in the end, He will bring us to as well, nature's safeguard against chance of her life in a strange way. His heavenly kingdom for " none of morbid brooding, nervous breakdown RICE Also right there lives a young man. RECIPES : earth's sorrows, shall enter the gates and even insanity. who has of the City of God " abundant reasons to go Boil 6 oz. rice, until tender, fry a This instinct, strange as it may down on his knees every day and chopped onion brown, add two peeled San Francisco Monitor." thank his heavenly father for preser- seem, is the key to much that seems tomatoes, cook until soft and add to like dissipation and excess. The vation from a sorry fate. This man rice with the yolks of two eggs, a man who "goes in for a good time" Mr, Gladstone's Lessons was engaged to marry the young little salt, and i!joz. grated cheese. for Boys and Girls may differ from you and me to woman, and by appointment what true pleasure is, and heas In a contemporary we read that Mix well and serve with gravy. may went to her house one summer eventhe late W. E. Gladstone took 0. very not count the costs but underneath ing to call for her to take her SAVORY RICE PUDDING : to it all, there may be, Perhaps, the fatherly interest in the young people a show. The pleasant verandah put in a Pie-dish one teacup rice, who grew up on his great estate at tempted him, and he sat there to same motive, as that which prompts four wait for his fiancee, to come out, as our saner relations-relief from sad Hawarden. One of them remembers one chopped onions, one beaten egg, that the boys and girls of his tenantablespoonful parsley, a little memories and gloomy anticipations. she often had on similar occasions. Bake slowly. Nature ever tends toward an equil- try were required to learn the follow- salt. After twenty Presently he heard the girl's voice, ing .minutes add small Piece of butter, characterisation of drunkenness : giving forth the meanest, most in- ibrium and any excessive emotion is and more milk if necessary. These Drunkenness expels reason, sulting abuse to her mother about a followed by a corresponding relaxa are good find nutritious. Drowns the memory, blouse which the girl had put on for tion. Distempers the body, After all, why should we be sad-or the evening. It was too thin and Defaces beauty. open, and the mother spoke of that at least, more sad than necessary ? Let us not be mercenary with God. Diminishes strength, fault in it, and said the daughter If we must part, let us part bravely Let us love Him for Himself Inflames the blood, and in the steadfast hope of a reunion in would surely take cold as the even Pauses internal, external, and in- serve Him from love. Let us leave God's good time. If we stiffer, let ing grew cooler. The father all our cares and concerns took us suffer courageously, as with Him true sol- curable wounds. the part of the mother and both of for He promises to take care of us. It's a witch to the senses. diers of the Cross, knowing that our If we give let us not think of them politely advised the daughter A devil to the soul, a posto change her blouse for another, Heavenly Father will not unnecessible retina,. With what scorn k thief to the purse, our sarily afflict His children. If the Lord while the mother proffered help spoke of the conduct of the in tears will come, let them be A beggar's companion, only her so doing. But a torrent of inmercenary shepherd who fled A when wife's woe and children's sortears of patient suffering, not tears the sheep were attacked by wolves. sult and impudence came, and that of row. bitterness or rebellion. " He was all. is a hireling, and he, because It makes a man become a beast, Some one says "that he who, with When the young he is a hireling, has no care woman came to of the to the will of God, seeks and self-murderer, the verandah, she busied herself with resignation sheep." Too many of our devotions lie drinks to others' good health, to divert himself, in his sorrow will her gloves, and when quite ready, are conducted on the principle of quid And robs himself of his own. presently find himself greatly comsaid : " Aren't you going ? " pro quo. Let us romp like the And forted and will find kidq in himself great he answered, " No, I am not going and sing like the birds, leaving to RANDOM SHOTS. increase of graces." God the duty of providing for us now, and I am not going with you and There is a law of our being which I shot an arrow into the air, ever again. No girl who insults her Such confidence challenges it ours. us to do our best and be fell in the distance I knew not whert. mother as you did, a mother so kind compels the generosity of divine love.-Fathour bravest in the face of the great- till a neighbour said and gentle as she is, can ever he my it killed his er Phelan. wife," And he bade her a good evening, and left for all time." Another similar case. A young woman, not quite young, hut one still living with her mother, was promised in marriage to a wellknown man. He was, and is a "catch." He gave her up for her impertinence, her impudence, her insulting language to her mother. He did not dare risk the future with a girl who cared so little for her filial duty. In both cases the comment was & dnde, " And the mother was sweet, and lovely and made Pretty blouses for her daughter, and waited Contractors to the W.A. and Commonwealth Governments on her hard and foot." It didn't pay
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THE OUTDOOR ANGEL. Everyone, says the " Sacred Heart Review," knows the man who comes home in ray conversation with some neighbour, but whose gaiety drops from him as he parts from' his companion and opens his own front door. His good nature is rot for home consumption. His wife and children would have a better time, and things would flow more smoothly in his home, if he used his outdoor smile
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