EMPIRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR
Rises Above all Others.
RECO RD
The West AUSTRALIAN
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912
Depot The Catholic Art and Book opposite King Edward Hostel. 531 Hay-street, next door Celtic Club Miss M. J. McDERMOTT.. Proprietress
Little Sisters of the Poor
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celebrate their Golden Jubilee in Glasgow
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SOME INTERESTING FACTS.
general work of the Order of the Little Sisters. That Order had been inladies in the semi -centenary of their establish- itiated by three charitable humble ment in Glasgow last month. Fifty Brittany in 1839. From this grown, unyears ago, nine members of the Or- beginning the Order had day it was repreder, on the invitation of the then til at the present cities of the DURING DECEMBER. Bishop of Glasgow, Bishop Murdock, sented in all the great ATTENTION. world. There were now 5,679 Little COUNTRY ORDERS RECEI VE PROMPT were sent from the parent house, serthe to life their devoting Sisters estabto Brittany, near Rennes in They had lish in Glasgow the good work which vice of God and His poor. only Power against which the new aged the for homes 305 established in had been so successfully initiated Greet navy is likely to be used is Great sere people old 50,000 which in poor, France. They first established themBritain. To this danger Englishmen home of comfosts the all enjoying selves in a humble residence in Wilhave recently become thoroughly Sisters II. Little WILLIAM the of KAISER life The life. son -street, Glasgow, but here their aroused, fur it is not merely that and prayer continual of one was The "Chautauquan" for September England would lose prestige in an 114commodation was very limited, and a indeed was Theirs work. good by contains a sketch of William 1I, they could admit only a very few unsuccessful naval war, but that her vocation. Women be- Arthur E. Bestor. He says destitute old people. At that period high and holy whole Imperial policy, add even her had society of ranks all to "l'he most striking figure in the very existence, is dependent upon her Catholicism was in a very backw:ird longing serand --mistresses Order the modern political world is William II. state in Glasgow. Anti-Catholic pre- entered and the poor, but all with his frank self-assurance, his mastery of the sea. It is surprising judice was acute, and the Little Sis- vants, the rich how many men in Europe itself tesof spirit same the by strenuous energy, his political gen- tify to their belief that war between ers were the first members of a re- were animated bound them together which Charity that of one will, reindomitable their his wear ius, to ligious community sisterhood and de- great family of rulers who have the two countries is inevitable and ligious garb in the public street. Na- in the bonds of and made them made Prussia the strongest Power on near at hand. The subject is dispoor the to votion a good turally they at first attracted cussed not with bitterness, but with There were no family. one religious work the continent of Europe, and have a sort of finality which is far more deal of attention, hut, as their Order. the in rank of gradations great of the one now made Germany became known, curiosity was chaagThere was one good mother who di- nations of the world. He is com- significant." ed into admiration, and Protestants community, of the labours the rected -in-chief, and he has used evas well as Catholics readily recognisthere mander all the others were Sisters ery means to bind the army to himed the truly Christian sentiments at ere no lay Sisters and no servants. self. It is said that he knows perwhich animated them, and contribuof the Home were sonally one-half of the 25,000 mili- CALL TENDERS FOR SPLENDID ted willingly to aid them in their All the labours thei, and Sisters, the NEW BUILDING. tary officers. No one has a greater work. After continuing their labours carried on by life. of necessaries too, provided the knowledge of the German navy, infor about eighteen months in the A.C.B. Society in Hibernian The evkitchen, the deed of the navies of the world. But, very restricted sphere of action per- In the infirmary, in with the times. is moving Sydney they the Home after all, the real source of his stren- Some time ago the society purchased mitted by their Wilson-street prem- erywhere throughout always active and gth is to he found in the belief which a valuable block of land in Elizaises, the Sisters were. through the were unceasingly Through the the people have in him. Personally and hopeful. the Central good offices of Bishop Murdoek, suc- cheerful the city they went he is the embodiment of all the driv- beth-street, opposite to called tencessful in securing the building at busy ways of railway station, and has for necessary was which that seeking He -day. to life hitherto ing forces of German Garngad Hill which had ders for the erection of a splendid the humble wants of the institution fires the imagination, he sounds the been occupied by the Sisters of Mernew building to be used as the somight They alike. poor and rich from lines. all along keynote for advance cy. Here they were able to accomciety's new premises. the for sufficient than more not have the It is this ability to make himself modate about forty old people. By The society offices will be situated had they but requirements, day's enleader of the German nation that degrees the scope of their labour exon the first floor, and will be come the for provide would faith that God ables him to impose his will upon panded, and additional buildings office, no anxiety for the Empire. He is one of the most prised of general secretary's arose to meet their growing require- morrow. They had 17ft 6in x 15ft, with strongroom 12ft the in gathered they versatile of men. It is true that the x 6ft off same assistant -secretary's ments. At the present time they the future depended enEmperor has been accused of being room, 15ft 6in x 13ft, with counter accommodate 265 old people-men and nianna each day. They God of Providence a kingly dabbler in everything and oft a public vestibule stock and rewomen. Quite a number of the old tirely on the endowments accept no master in nothing. Bismarck .har- cord rooms, 14ft x 10ft and male people have passed their ninetieth they would no poor, for the maintenance of the acterised the Emperor in this lanyear and one old woman is now in female lavatory accommodation. annuities, no secure regular revenue. guage in 1891: "r pity the young and her one hundred and fourth year. The second floor will be devoted to faith their was security only Their -hound fox founa young originally like is man he Of the Sisters who by 28ft 6in. had never failed that harks at everything, that a large board room 40ft ded the Glasgow institution, only one in Gnd, and He The society's offices are entered dithem. by at ends that touches everything, and now remains in the community rect from Elizabeth -street by a large continuing, the preacher described causing complete disorder in the entrance vestibule with tiled floor Garngad-Sister Marie .1oseph, who of life matter the room in which he is, no some time ago celebrated the jubilee in eloquent terms the home and walls and swing doors and woodof her religious profession, and who the. institution. The aged, who would how large it may he." Nothing is work of polished maple. From this still, notwithstanding her eighty rather die in misery than enter a too large for his investigation, no- vestibule is the stair leading up to summers, takes an active part in workhouse or poorhouse, gladly ac- thing too small for his attention. the first floor. The ground floor is the work of the Home. She is a na- cepted the helping-hand offered them Every scientific discovery, every new devoted to two shops with rooms at 1. tive of Germany. They would invention, every cfiange in educatio- rear, also lavatory accommodation. by the Little Sisters. nal theory, every new development in Electric light will be installed. The The sermon at the religious cele- rather receive a crust from the warm brations, presided over by Arch- hand of Christ in His Church than a art or literature, receives his atten- facade to Elizabeth -street will be of bishop Mackintosh, was preached by rift from the cold and callous hand tion. He is everywhere seeking new a pleasing design in red brick tuckVery Rev. Canon Ritchie. The prea- of aesar. In conclusion, he tender- ways of doing things which may be- pointed with cement dressing, and cher briefly recapitulated the prin- ed to the Little Sisters the congra- come useful for the development of tile facing. A feature will be the cipal features of interest in connec- tulations of their Graces the Arch- German influence or culture. The Em- large bay windows with copper dressof many in Little bishop and Coadjutor-Archbishop tion with the history of the peror has been described ings. Special attention has been Sisters in Glasgow. They had not (iles;!ow, and of the clergy and laity different ways, hut the characterisa- paid to the lighting and ventilation. met there, he pointed out, the same of the Archdiocese, on the completion tion of the late William T. Stead, On the balance of the site there will oaposition as was directed against of fifty years of good work among himself one of the world's great be erected an up-to-date three -storey journalists, is unique and interesting. building, to be let as a store, facthe labours of the Order in London the aired poor of Glasgow. It :nay be mentioned that the Sis- He calls the Kaiser a " latter-day tory, or printing establishment. Elecand Edinburgh. Only sues li td anything untoward happened to the Sis- ters make no religious distinction journalist born to the purple." He tric light and goods lift will be inters in Glasgow. In 1879 two of when accepting applications for ad - certainly has the journalistic crav- stalled. The architects for the buildthen; were Inistltal in the street by a ::;fission to the Home, and in the ing for novelty and picturesqueness; ing are Messrs. Buchanan and Mcbigoted mob. They were arrested on Garnefol institution there are a non - he likes to he continually before the Kay, Pendenn's Chambers, 375 George a charge of begging, but their re- her of Protestants. No attempt is public; he has the ability to say Street, Sydney. lease was ordered by the presiding mile to interfere with the religiaus striking things." The writer describes William II. magistrate, who pointed out that the csrivictions of these, and they are at & laws against mendicity were not di- liberty to attend or alistOn from. as distinctly a modern man, who The only qualitiaa- makes use of all the machinery of rected against the charitable work th' '.evotions. Valuators, and Comare modern civilisation. But with all Auctioneers, carried on by the Sisters. The no- tisns necessary for admission mission Agents. toriety of that case only helped to tSr: the candidates must have at- his modern ideas the Emperor is ESPERANCE, WESTERN AUSincrease the sympathy of the Catho- tsineol the age of sixty and he en - more than any other man of his time TRALIA. v lestitute. a mediaevalist in his ideas of the lic community for those who were T Managers of the Standard Salt Oe. kingship. One would have to go hack carrying on such a sidendid work at to find a Ltd. Garnsail Hill and to increase the sr,ber of scholars were asked to to Charles I. of England Esperance Land Co. Ltd.. aO in the contributions strongly so believed who amount of eharitable sfsis the meaning of the term man Dijon Theatre. The On the naval received. sisters kings. of s, ilk+ the ,ef indignation,'" and one divine right Agents The Melbourne Steamship wrote "Being angry question the writer observes BRIEF HTSTORIcAL SKETCH. 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