{"1": {"fulltext": "^eq/^/t\\ne or our\\nII\\n^1\\nr/Jl\\niry", "height": "4924", "width": "3171", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShelL.L_^.__:.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The People of Our Parish", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The\\nPeople of Our Parish\\nBeing Chronicle and Comment of\\nKatharine Fitzgerald^ Pew-Holder in the\\nChurch of St. Paul the Apostle\\nEDITED BY y\\nLELIA HARDIN BUGG\\nAuthor of **The Correct Thing for Catholics,\\nOrchids: A Novel, The Prodigal s\\nDaughter, etc.\\nBOSTON\\nMARLIER, CALLANAN, COMPANY\\n1900\\n1", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES HECEIVEO,\\nLiterary of Congr08%\\nQifioo of tilt\\nAP^ 16 1900\\nKegfsUr of Oopyrlghtsii\\nt;\\n^0\\n61041\\nCopyright^ igoo\\nBy Marlier, Callanan, Company\\nSECOND COPY,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nChapter\\nPage\\nI.\\nSunday at Noon\\nI\\nII.\\nThe Social Side\\n13\\nIII.\\nWedding Cards\\n28\\nIV.\\nAn Old Question\\n39\\nV.\\nA Grave Question\\n45\\nVI.\\nExceptions to General Rules\\n60\\nVII.\\nA Footnote to an Old Discussion\\n73\\nVIII.\\nSome Domestic Interiors\\n79\\nIX.\\nA Plea for the Children\\n92\\nX.\\nThe Bread-Winners\\nlOl\\nXL\\nThe Passing Years\\n116\\nXII.\\nCheerful Givers c\\n127\\nXIII.\\nA National Truth Society\\n140\\nXIV.\\nThe Priest of the Family\\n155\\nXV.\\nCatholic Literature\\n165\\nXVI.\\nThe School Question\\n174\\nXVII.\\nBoarding-School and College\\n187\\nXVIII.\\nA Note on Funerals\\n210", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "vi Contents\\nChapter Page\\nXIX. Instructing the Pastor 218\\nXX. Our Parish Societies 226\\nXXI. The Parish Fair 235\\nXXII. Notes from a Mission 245", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "The People of Our Parish\\nSUNDAY AT NOON\\nTHE hands of the clock in the steeple point to\\ntwelve, it may be a little before, or a few\\nminutes after, and the angelus rings sonorously in\\nthe familiar tones of the great bell.\\nHigh Mass is just over there is a stir about the\\nponderous doors of the stately edifice of Saint Paul\\nthe Apostle, and the people pour out in irregular\\nprocession.\\nFirst, of course, in their best Sunday-clothes,\\ncome the young men who have been kneeling near\\nthe door, either because they are too poor or else\\ntoo penurious to rent a seat, like self-respecting\\ngentlemen, in their parish church. Some of these\\nslipped into their places after the priest was on the\\naltar, and were out in the vestibule before the last\\ngospel, so that their estimate of their own souls\\nevidently is not high.\\nSome girls, tawdrily over-dressed, and whispering\\nvulgarly as they descend the aisles, regardless of the\\npresence of the Blessed Sacrament, hurry after the\\nyoung men.\\nMr. and Mrs. Stiles are among those who appear\\nanxious to make their escape as soon as possible.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "2 The People of Our Parish\\nMr. Stiles rises from one knee, folds away the hand-\\nkerchief on which he has been kneeling, brushes the\\ndust from his trousers, makes a little bobbing genu-\\nflection in the direction of the altar, and with his\\narms swinging at his sides, elbows his way down the\\naisle. He has not been well brought up, else he\\nwould know what to do with his hands.\\nMr. Stiles is said to be a level-headed business\\nman, but he seems incapable of realizing the fact\\nthat, since his pew is near the front, he might just as\\nwell possess his soul in peace and prayer, and let\\nthose below him get out of the way before attempt-\\ning to make his exit. He would arrive at the door\\njust as soon in the end, and avoid the wear and\\ntear on his patience and nerve tissues.\\nMrs. Stiles is a little butter-ball sort of woman,\\nwith large diamond ear-rings, which she persists in\\nwearing to church and everywhere else, in apparent\\nignorance of the fact that they are distinctly ^^bad\\nform. She trots along at her husband s side, talk-\\ning incessantly to one or another of her acquaint-\\nances corralled in the crush of the middle aisle.\\nMrs. Jones hurries, or tries to hurry, only the\\ncrowd keeps her back for she has an infidel hus-\\nband at home, and the Sunday dinner must be set\\nbefore him with that nicety of detail which only the\\nhousemother, on a limited income, can secure.\\nMrs. Bayless also hurries her sister-in-law is com-\\ning to dinner, and during Mass her thoughts have\\nbeen divided between the august Sacrifice of the\\nAltar and the probable outcome of a new sauce,\\nwhich she has intrusted to the vagaries of the cook.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Sunday at Noon 3\\nBut then Mrs. Bayless never does hear Mass, as\\nshe will tell you herself. I was at school for four\\nyears where the chapel was so badly lighted that it\\nwas impossible to read the prayers in my prayer-\\nbook, or follow the priest at the altar, and I got\\ninto the habit of just sitting there with my thoughts\\non any and every thing my lessons, boxes from\\nhome, letters and now I simply cannot pray at\\nMass.\\nShe says this airily, and without in the least real-\\nizing the deplorable state into which she has plunged\\nher poor soul. She has been physically present in\\nthe church for the hour of the Holy Sacrifice, but\\nshe has not assisted at it, and when she rises from\\nher knees and leaves the church she will not enter it\\nagain until the next Sunday, when the same empty\\nform will be repeated. Twice a year she goes to\\nthe Sacraments, and it would be interesting to know\\nwhether in these semiannual confessions she tells\\nthe priest that she has not once heard Mass during\\nthe six months since she told him a similar tale.\\nShe does not seem to understand that Mass and\\nthe Sacraments are channels of grace, the precious\\nand indispensable strength of the soul rather she\\nseems to look upon them as outward acts to be per-\\nformed in a perfunctory way and then forgotten.\\nOne shudders to think of such a spiritual condi-\\ntion\\nIt is to be hoped that at the next mission in our\\nchurch there will be a good old-fashioned sermon\\non The right Way to assist at Mass.\\nThe old crone who reads the seven penitential", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 The People of Our Parish\\npsalms, or the prayers for confession, during Mass,\\nmight profit by this sermon as well as Mrs. Bayless.\\nMiss Wiggins may be counted upon to be just on\\nthe border of the crush, attired in bizarre raiment\\nwhich makes the judicious grieve and the malicious\\nones derisive; for the good lady is a spinster of\\nforty who dresses after the fashion of her young\\nniece, of half that age. The middle aisle of her\\nparish church is a favorite place in which to display\\nher toilets.\\nMrs. Wallace and Mrs. Madden whisper in friendly\\nconfidence as they go down the aisle, their husbands\\njust in front of them.\\nWhen about two-thirds of the congregation are\\nbunched together in the aisles, the organist, having\\nfinished a march, breaks out into some tonal com-\\nbinations of his own, with a vigorous manipulation\\nof the pedals the soprano leans over the railing and\\nsmiles down upon a young man, who bows to her\\nimpressively, the tenor whispers something to the\\nalto, and the bass stands like a Buddha in a frock\\ncoat, surrounded by the chorus.\\nOf course Father Ryan has thundered forth\\nanathemas against those who show so little rever-\\nence for the Divine Presence in the Tabernacle as\\nto chatter in the aisles, and even in the choir. A\\nplacard at the head of the stairway leading to the\\nchoir commands SILENCE in big capitals, but no\\none seems to pay much attention to it, except when\\nthe whisper goes round, Father Ryan is looking.*\\nAnd Father O Neil, in his sweetly imploring way,\\nhas again and again spoken about this abuse. Can", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Sunday at Noon 5\\nyou not give our Blessed Lord one little hour? he\\ncries. You come here on Sunday for Mass, and\\nmany of you, in fact the most of you, never come\\nagain for even a five minutes visit before the\\nBlessed Sacrament during all the seven days of\\nthe week. And when you come you show less\\nreverence for your God than you would for an\\nearthly king if you were admitted to his presence.\\nYou would not whisper and chatter with your\\nfriends if you were leaving the audience-chamber\\nof the Queen of England, you would not dare;\\nbut no such respect restrains you before Jesus in the\\nTabernacle.\\nAnd how many in this congregation are always\\npunctual at Mass? You can be in time for your\\nbusiness, promptly on time for a train you can be\\nat the theatre before the curtain goes up, because\\nyou do not wish to miss one fraction of an evening s\\npleasure but you cannot be in time for Mass. You\\ncome straggling in after the priest is on the altar,\\nand sometimes even after the Holy Sacrifice has\\nbegun you show yourselves not only un-Christian,\\nbut also under-bred, for no well-bred person would\\nwantonly disturb a whole congregation at their de-\\nvotions by coming late.\\nAnd it is not the hard-working mechanic who\\nis guilty of this breach, nor the poor, ignorant\\ndomestic from the rich man s kitchen, nor the\\nfragile little woman who stands on her feet ten\\nhours a day in one of our big shops no, it is the\\nbanker, the lawyer, the merchant, who has been out\\nlate on pleasure bent on Saturday night, and who", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 The People of Our Parish\\nwants to sleep late on Sunday morning; it is the\\nlukewarm Catholic who dawdles over the Sunday\\npapers until the second bell rings, or the woman\\nwho has tired herself out rushing around to card\\nparties and receptions during the week, and who\\ntakes the rest cure on Sunday morning, when she\\nshould be getting her husband and children off to\\nchurch. You come late, and then you push and\\ncrowd one another in your efforts to be among the\\nfirst to leave. Shame on such Catholics One\\nlittle fraction of God s own day given grudgingly to\\nHis service, and some of you would not give that\\nwere it not a strict command of the Church you dis-\\ncredit.^\\nThen for a few Sundays there is a noticeable\\nfalling-off of the delinquents, and if any one does\\narrive late he steals in quietly, and drops into the\\nfirst vacant seat he finds. And at the end everybody\\nwaits devoutly until the priest has descended the\\naltar, said the prayers, and left the sanctuary.\\nThere is a reverential silence as the throng files\\nslowly down the aisles. The change is so edifying,\\nand the good example so inspiring, that one almost\\nwishes that the people of St. James parish could be\\npresent and profit by our beautiful conduct; but it\\nsoon wears away, the stragglers reappear, the whis-\\npers begin again, and the people again surge towards\\nthe door in their haste to leave the presence of their\\nSaviour.\\nBut there are always some faithful souls, just as\\nthere were the loving Marys to stand at the foot of\\nthe cross.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Sunday at Noon 7\\nThat saintly old aristocrat, Mrs. Chatrand, breathes\\nforth the spirit of real piety in every act; if she has\\never been late for Mass no member of the parish\\ncan recall the fact; always quietly yet elegantly\\ngowned, as befits the temple of God and her own\\nstation, she moves gently with stately dignity up the\\nmiddle aisle to her pew, and kneels like a beautiful\\nwhite-haired saint, prayer-book and rosary in hand,\\nher two blooming daughters at her side, equally\\nattentive if not quite so devout, and her handsome\\nson, six feet tall, an honor man from Georgetown\\nCollege, kneels at the end of* the pew, and cons\\ndevoutly the little prayer-book which he has used\\nsince he was a boy. The whole family are a source\\nof edification to the parish. They remain kneeling\\nfor a few moments after Mass, perhaps to say some\\nprayers for the dear ones in Calvary cemetery, or\\nfor the special intentions of the living; and they\\ngenerally pass Mrs. Stiles, who resides near them, on\\ntheir way home.\\nAnd Mr. Creighton, the millionaire banker, is\\nanother one who acts in the house of God as if he\\nloved to be there, and was in no haste to leave it.\\nAnd far down near the rear of the side aisle can\\nusually be found a little old woman who walks with a\\ncrutch, and who has worked since she was fifteen in\\na factory. Sunday is a holy day as well as a holi-\\nday with her. Near her, in blooming contrast, is Miss\\nHammersly, a handsome young woman who has\\ncharge of a department in a shop under Mr. Stiles\\nshe, too, is given to lingering for a little visit before\\nthe Tabernacle after the crowd has gone. Several", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 The People of Our Parish\\nyouths would like to walk home with her, but she\\nprefers the society of Granny Byrnes, and the\\nheartfelt God bless you, my child, at parting.\\nAnd she knows that in the afternoon the young\\nmen will find their way to her mother s flat.\\nAnd among others who are seen to leave the\\nchurch last are the devout Sodality girls, with a tiny\\npin of the Sacred Heart somewhere visible about\\ntheir persons; Mrs. McMahon, the happy mother of\\na priest and two nuns; and Mrs. Burke, a widow,\\nwho tries to imitate the virtues of her patron, Saint\\nPetronilla. And gently on his way goes a serene\\nold man, once given up for dead on the battle-field,\\nwho breathes his gratitude in Holy Communion\\nevery Sunday morning for many favors. Close\\nbehind these come Mrs. McGrath and her cousin, a\\nclever woman who teaches, earnestly discussing the\\nsermon.\\nIn the crowd ahead of them is the young man who\\nnever listens to the sermon, and who could not even\\ngive a synopsis of the gospel of the day ten minutes\\nafter he has left the church and the old man who\\nreads his prayer-book when the priest is preaching\\nand the woman who studies the fashions during that\\nprecious harvest-time.\\nFather Ryan is so prosy, and he says the same\\nthings over and over again, things that I have\\nknown since I was a child, said a young woman to\\na beautiful elderly one and she ought to have been\\ncrushed by the quiet answer I have been hearing\\nsermons on nearly every Sunday of my life for fifty\\nyears, and never yet have I heard one that did not", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Sunday at Noon 9\\ncontain something edifying, something that I had\\nnot known, or some point worthy of serious thought.\\nI always try to fancy that it is one of the Apostles\\nstanding before me and is not every priest a suc-\\ncessor of the inspired twelve? Whatever may be\\nthe manner of a priest, or his oratory or diction, the\\nmatter is sure to be the teaching of our Saviour; he\\npreaches the gospel, or some truth of religion, not\\nas he himself might look at it, but as the great theo-\\nlogians and doctors of the Church have elucidated\\nand made plain the meaning. Father Ryan to-day\\npreaches the same gospel that Saint Ambrose thun-\\ndered forth in Milan so many centuries ago, and\\nwhich touched the stubborn soul of the worldly, im-\\npious Augustine, and started him on the road to\\nbeing a saint himself. In conversation one may\\nsometimes find reason to dissent from a priest, but\\nwhen he ascends the pulpit he is there as the\\nauthorized teacher. I have never yet found one\\nwho could not teach me.\\nThe provocation excused this rather stinging\\nreproof.\\nWhilst on the subject of sermons it might be well\\nto remember that psychologists claim there is\\nnothing so pernicious to the mind as to hear, with-\\nout heeding, a sermon or lecture. They declare that\\nif the habit of letting the mind wander away from\\nthe discourse, coming back fitfully, taking in a word\\nor sentence here and there, if persisted in, will in\\ntime weaken the intellect and impair the memory.\\nFar better, they declare, not to be present at all, if\\none cannot compel the mind to follow the chain of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "I o The People of Our Parish\\nargument. Hence, if regard for one s own soul is\\nnot strong enough to secure close attention to the\\nsermon, consideration for one s mind and memory-\\nmay have more weight.\\nMrs. MilHson objects to her pastor s denuncia-\\ntions of dancing, as being old-fashioned and uncalled-\\nfor, and Miss Miilison shudders at his flat s, and\\nhis accent, and Mr. Miilison dislikes the sermons\\nbecause they are too long, and thinks that the\\nbishop ought to forbid his priests to preach longer\\nthan fifteen minutes on any subject; for the Milli-\\nsons are a contentious race.\\nBut there is little Miss Armstrong, who drinks in\\nevery word, and goes home to enter the most strik-\\ning points of the discourse in her note-book and she\\ncan give you a resume of the sermons she heard ten\\nyears ago. Her practice is the dear delight of\\npsychologists who claim that it is the infallible way\\nto be mentally strong; but she does not do it for\\nthat purpose. And the heart that has had its Cal-\\nvary finds something inexpressibly sweet in the\\nwords of the priest; the man of the world wakes\\nto a bitter sense of the nothingness of the aims that\\nhave ruled his life; and his wife, who has struggled\\nup the social ladder, wonders if the game after all\\nhas been quite worth the candle.\\nIt is the old story, as old as the gospel, and as\\ntrue to-day of the people who go to St. Paul s as it\\nwas of the multitude assembled to listen to the\\ngreatest Teacher of all When a great crowd was\\ngathered together, and they hastened to Him out of\\nthe cities, He spake by a similitude The sower", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Sunday at Noon 1 1\\nwent out to sow his seed. As he sowed some fell\\nby the wayside, and it was trodden down, and the\\nbirds of the air ate it up. And some fell on the\\nrock, and as soon as it had sprung up, it withered\\naway because it had no moisture. And some fell\\namong thorns, and the thorns, growing up with it,\\nchoked it. And some fell on good ground and\\nsprang up, and yielded fruit a hundredfold. Say-\\ning these things He cried out: He who hath ears\\nto hear let him hear. And His disciples asked Him\\nwhat this parable might be? And He said to them\\nTo you it is given to know the mystery of the King-\\ndom of God but to the rest in parables, that seeing,\\nthey may not see, and hearing they may not under-\\nstand. Now the parable is this The seed is the\\nword of God. And those by the wayside are\\nthey who hear; then the devil cometh and taketh\\nthe word out of their hearts, lest believing they\\nshould be saved. Now those upon the rock are\\nthey who, when they hear, receive the word with joy;\\nand these have no root for they believe for a while,\\nand in time of temptation they fall away. And that\\nwhich fell among the thorns are they who, when\\nthey have heard go forth and are choked with cares\\nand riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to\\nmaturity. But that on the good ground are they\\nwho in good and excellent heart, hearing the word\\nof God, retain it, and bring forth fruit in patience.\\nOh, yes, there are many pious souls in our parish\\nelse where would be the consolation of the zealous\\npriests who are in charge?", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 2 The People of Our Parish\\nThe crowds melt away, some going swiftly in\\nluxurious carriages, for the admirable English cus-\\ntom of walking to church, no matter how many car-\\nriages at one s command, does not obtain here; the\\ndwellers in Mayfair Park walk leisurely in the direc-\\ntion of that aristocratic thoroughfare, and the\\ndwellers in Strawberry Lane go the opposite w^ay.\\nThe rich, the moderately well-off, the comfortably\\npoor, the hard-working poor, the abjectly poor, are\\ngrouped together in the vestibule of the edifice, but\\npart at the corner.\\nFor our parish is in a transition stage, and the\\ntransit has lasted for a quarter of a century. When\\nthe church was dedicated it was in the aristocratic\\nsuburb of the city, and Maple Place was the fau-\\nbourg of fashion. Ten years later the mansions\\nwere boarding-houses, and now trade has invaded\\nthem, and one can buy salt herring in the very room\\nin which Mrs. Chatrand w^as married. The limits\\nof the parish held no poor people then they hold\\nany number of them now. We have all classes in\\nour parish, and in that it is typical of the Church\\nitself.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "II\\nTHE SOCIAL SIDE\\nONAKES in Ireland promptly interrupts the\\n1^ Old Member of the parish. Catholics\\nseem to delight in holding aloof from one another\\nin social matters as a sort of variety from holding\\ntogether in matters of faith.\\nAre n t you a little severe? answered Mrs.\\nDriscoll, gently taking the cudgels from less able\\nhands. I have known instances of very delight-\\nful social circles made up almost exclusively of\\nCatholics.\\nNot in this parish, was the ready and peppery\\nanswer.\\nThe question is rather too big to be kept in\\nparish limits besides, there is nothing to cavil\\nat in social exclusiveness if it is founded on the\\nright principles. The Church is the great ship in\\nwhich we get to heaven, prince and peasant, mil-\\nlionaire and pauper alike; it is not a social organi-\\nzation intended for the furtherance of pink teas\\nand afternoon receptions. The Church is universal,\\nand being so you cannot amalgamate its members\\ninto one social body using social in its society\\nsense, and not as a writer on political economy\\nwould use it unless you do away with the different\\ngrades of society. And to argue this point is get-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 The People of Our Parish\\nting into an entirely different field. Marie Antoi-\\nnette and the maid who brushed her hair were both\\nCatholics, but that was hardly a reason why the\\nqueen should ask the maid to dine with her.\\nOh, that is going to the extreme, the reductio\\nad absurdunty as the Latinists would say. All that\\nI contend for is a little kindly recognition from\\nCatholics of other Catholics in their own neighbor-\\nhood. A Catholic family might move into this par-\\nish, take a pew, and live here five years, the woman\\na nice, pious, refined little body, and never get to\\nknow the woman whose pew is immediately in front\\nof hers. But let that same woman, or one just like\\nher, join Dr. Harvey s church, for instance, and\\nin less than six months she has made a very pleas-\\nant circle of acquaintances the minister s wife has\\nbeen to call on her, and the wives of some of the\\nprominent members she has been invited to after-\\nnoon receptions, where she gets to know other\\nwomen, and before six months are over she is prob-\\nably giving receptions of her own.\\nI grant all that. Dr. Harvey himself gave the\\nkey to the social side in his church. He boasted,\\nif one may use that swelling term in speaking of\\na minister, asserted with self-satisfied compla-\\ncency, that he had only the best people in his\\nchurch. We don t cater to any other class. I\\nheard him use those very words. It hampers the\\nwork of the church to mix classes. Now what do\\nyou think of that on the lips of a man who claims\\nto be the disciple of the dear Saviour who was born\\nin a stable, and who cast His lot among the poor", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 1 5\\nand the lowly? Fancy Father Ryan s saying We\\ndon t want any but the best people in St. Paul s.\\nLet the working classes and the very poor go down\\nto the Bethel Mission They ruin our carpets with\\ntheir dirty shoes, and their personal habits are offen-\\nsive to delicately bred senses.\\n**That is hardly fair. You are getting beyond\\nanything that I meant, answered the Old Mem-\\nber. No Catholic wants that sort of exclusive-\\nness, and no one expects the Bank president s wife\\nto ask to her home the wife of her butcher, her\\nbaker, or her candlestick-maker, simply because\\nthey kneel at the same altar. But why should Mrs.\\nPresident hold aloof from Mrs. Cashier, and Mrs.\\nCashier look askance at Mrs. Teller, waiting for\\nsome other woman to give the cachet to the stranger?\\nA cultured, educated woman can hardly be ex-\\npected to take up socially a woman who is neither,\\nbut where the two are apparently on the same plane\\nwhat is the object in waiting?\\nI concede that there is a lack of the kindly\\nsocial spirit among Catholics, said Mrs. Driscoll.\\nThere are many causes which go to produce this\\neffect. In the United States we are in a sad\\nminority\\nThat depends on how you look at it, responded\\nthe Old Member, ^f you divide the population\\naccording to religions, Catholics, Methodists, Pres-\\nbyterians, Jews, we are in a tremendous majority.\\nFor social purposes the division is between\\nCatholic and non-Catholic, everything being fish\\nthat goes into the other net. Starting with the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 6 The People of Our Parish\\nnumerical minority, we are in even a more pro-\\nnounced social minority. There never has been\\na time nor a community where there were not\\nprominent Catholics, but the preponderance of cul-\\nture in the United States has been on the side of\\nnon-Cathohcs. Protestant churches as a rule, like\\nDr. Harvey s, do not number the poor among their\\nfold. This being so, it follows that the highest\\nsociety has a Protestant tone, and Catholics with\\nsocial ambitions are not slow to recognize this\\nfact. In a few cities Catholics lead, Baltimore,\\nSt. Louis, New Orleans, for example; but in the\\nmany they only follow. Again, the Catholic matron,\\nwith social aspirations, wishes to be considered\\nbroad-minded, and liberal, and she makes a\\nshow of her liberality by cutting adrift from\\nCatholic surroundings, Really, I hardly know any\\nCatholics. I see them at church, of course, but\\nour friends are mostly among Protestants, she says,\\nas if the fact were to her credit.\\nI don t see why a question of religion should\\nbe taken into consideration in society, said young\\nMrs. Shoreham. We go into society to enjoy\\nourselves, to mingle with those congenial to us. If\\na man can dance well my pleasure in dancing with\\nhim would not be increased by the knowledge that\\nhe had been to Mass on Sunday. If a woman has a\\nbeautiful home and gives charming entertainments,\\nI shall not question what her creed may be if she is\\ngracious enough to ask me to her parties. Her re-\\nligion IS her affair, just as mine is no concern of\\nhers.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 17\\nUp to a certain point, I grant your argument\\nis sound, admitted Mrs. DriscoU. But there is\\nanother side; if CathoHc young people have no\\nchance to meet other CathoHcs they will inevitably\\nmarry non-Catholics, and that is a very positive evil,\\nas even the most frivolous-minded will admit;\\nagain, a constant non-Catholic, and often irreligious\\natmosphere will, in time, take off the fine edge of\\nfaith, chill the ardor of devotion, cast a pall over its\\nmost beautiful practices.\\nWe have been in the minority so long that we\\nhave become accustomed to taking a subordinate\\nplace, relegating everything Catholic to obscurity,\\nand we do not assert ourselves where we could do\\nso with credit. Catholic writers, painters, musi-\\ncians, receive no recognition from Catholics until\\ntheir genius has been heralded by the outside\\nworld. Catholic periodicals are not adequately\\nsupported. A Methodist or a Presbyterian sub-\\nscribes for his denominational paper, and is not\\nslow to quote from its columns, but the lukewarm\\nCatholic is contented to get the distorted and\\nmeagre news of his church as given in the daily\\npress.\\nThe truth is that we Catholics here in the\\nUnited States are a body of snobs, put in Adele\\nNorrison, a young lady of much independence of\\ncharacter, and a pronounced independence of\\ntongue. The majority are descended from immi-\\ngrants of too recent importation to have become\\nthe aristocrats. There are exceptions, of course,\\neverywhere, of the well-born, the well-bred, the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "i8 The People of Our Parish\\nhereditarily wealthy; but the mass of our rich\\nmen are self-made, or the sons of self-made fathers.\\nWe are human just like the rest of the world, and\\nsnobbishness is a very human trait.\\nOh, as for that, the American aristocracy gen-\\nerally is very new, murmured Mrs. Driscoll, her-\\nself the great-great-granddaughter of a Catholic\\nofficer in the Revolution, whose father was a\\nyounger son of a Domesday-book family which\\nhad kept the old faith amidst centuries of persecu-\\ntion. She can afford to be humble.\\nThe social minority of Catholics here is an\\naccident of geography. In Europe the aristocracy\\nis Catholic, said Mrs. Shoreham.\\nMy dear child, said Mrs. Driscoll, *the poor,\\nthe hard-working, the ignorant, are the majority\\nthe world over, without regard to religion. It is\\nour glory, and not our shame, that these find\\nspiritual haven in the Universal Church.\\nIn the United States, Catholics are ten millions in\\na population of seventy millions, or one in seven, let\\nus say. Granting that progress has been equal\\namong Catholics and non-Catholics, there would be\\nin the dominant circle of a community but one\\nCathoHc magnate to seven of other creeds or no\\ncreed, not quite sixty in the glorious Four Hun-\\ndred and sixty are hardly a match in power for the\\nremaining three hundred and forty.\\nFor my part, I think that the most reasonable\\nplan is the one we have adopted, to bury the\\nquestion of religion when it comes to society,\\nchirped Mrs. Shoreham.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 19\\nBut that does not dispose of my original plea\\nthat Catholics of position might be a little kinder to\\nother Catholics, following in this respect the ex-\\nample of their fellow-Protestants/* answered the Old\\nMember.\\nNow, there is Mrs. Armand Dale. Everybody\\nlooked interested at the mention of this name,\\nfor Mrs. Dale is the Jersey cream of aristocracy.\\nSome few years ago Father Dugan suggested to\\nher to call on Mrs. Richard Marsden with a view to\\nenlisting the Marsden aid in a charity just then the\\nfad among fashionable Catholics. She is rich and\\ngenerous, and could do a great deal for you if so\\ndisposed, explained the priest. But the great Mrs.\\nDale, who could afford to be frank, said, Father,\\nyou know I can t call on her, or recognize her\\nsocially. She may be a very worthy person, but\\nnobody knows her, and one cannot force people\\nlike that on one s friends. She did not call, and St.\\nLeo s hospital was a thousand dollars the worse off.\\nBut the Marsdens had money, and they were con-\\nstantly getting more money at an enormous rate;\\nthey also had children, and these children went East\\nto school, and to Europe, and they were speedily\\ndeveloping into the fine flower of American aris-\\ntocracy. Before long Mrs. Luther Torrington, whose\\nhusband had business dealings with Mr. Marsden,\\nand who is quite as big a magnate as Mrs. Dale, in-\\nvited Mrs. Marsden to head the list of the ladies\\nassisting her at a large reception. Mr. and Mrs.\\nMarsden were met at other exclusive houses, and it\\nwas not long until Mrs. Dale was very glad to know", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 The People of Our Parish\\nthem. But the golden opportunity had been lost.\\nThe Marsdens had come into their kingdom through\\nProtestant influence, when the old Catholic circle\\nwould have none of them, and Protestant their circle\\nremained. To-day they are, socially, far ahead of\\nMrs. Dale, but their friends are principally among\\nthe great ones beyond the pale of their own faith/\\nIt is never well to be too quick to take up new\\npeople, said Mrs. Shoreham.\\nNo, nor is it ever well to be too slow about tak-\\ning them up, answered Miss Norrison.\\nIt is a mistake to expect a woman just on the\\nborder-land of good society to help another woman\\njust outside the border. She would let the stars fall\\nfirst. It is a good plan to ask no social favors of\\nany one, but if you must, always go to the woman\\nwho is so well-placed that she can do as she pleases\\nwithout stopping to think how any other woman\\nmight regard her act. An example in point: At\\nNewport a few seasons ago, there was a young girl,\\na Catholic, with a glorious voice and great personal\\nbeauty. She was desirous of gaining a footing as a\\nconcert singer, and her pastor, who knew many of\\nthe cottage set, tried to enlist a prominent Catholic\\nmatron in behalf of his protegee. I can t take up a\\ngirl like that, she said rather impatiently. But Mrs.\\nMortimore, an Episcopalian, thought that she could\\ntake up whom she pleased; and all society, in-\\ncluding the exclusive Catholic, came together in her\\ndrawing-room to hear the young singer. Not only\\nthat, but so charmed was she with the girl that a\\ngreat manager was summoned to her house in New", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 21\\nYork to try the voice of the candidate, with the\\nresult that the girl is now earning something like\\nten thousand dollars a year; and rumor has it that\\nshe has only to say the word to become a very great\\npersonage on her own account as the wife of one of\\nthe jeu7tesse doree of Gotham.\\nThat reminds me of a rather amusing experience\\nof a friend of mine, said Mrs. Shoreham. My\\nheroine is a writer who is fast gaining an honorable\\nplace in literature, a girl who belongs to a nice\\nfamily, and who received a convent education. She\\nwas asked by the editor of a Catholic magazine to\\nsend him something for his periodical. Happening\\nsoon after to go to a city where a reading circle had\\njust been established under the wing of a prominent\\nconvent, and being an enthusiastic believer in the\\nwork of reading-circles, it occurred to her that an\\narticle on the one just started would be timely and\\ninteresting. She called on the superior of the con-\\nvent, known to a relative of hers, and explained her\\nidea. She received a cordial invitation to be present\\nat the next meeting of the circle, and to be intro-\\nduced to the leader, and get some further infor-\\nmation. The girl happened to be late, and was\\nescorted by the superior to the door of the assem-\\nbly room after the exercises had begun. She met\\nthe reception of the uninvited intruder, not one\\nwoman present so much as speaking to her, and the\\nleader, whom she was prepared to herald to the\\nworld as a great intellectual force in the city, hur-\\nried away without even a nod. The article was not\\nwritten.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 The People of Our Parish\\nIt IS the little things like those that cool\\none s ardor in a good cause, commented the Old\\nMember.\\nNow, of course every woman has the right to\\nbe as exclusive as she wishes, or as exclusive as she\\ncan, not always the same thing it is her privilege\\nto select her friends where she likes, and among\\nthose most congenial to her tastes. No sensible\\nperson expects the well-born, well-bred, well-placed\\nwoman to make a friend of one who is none of these\\nthings.\\nBut the problem I should really like to see solved\\nis this how is a woman who possesses these qual-\\nities in a greater or a less degree, who comes a\\nstranger into a city, to get to know other women of\\nthe same kind?\\nShe rents a pew in her parish church, but her\\nsister Catholics do not trouble themselves to call\\nuntil she has established herself socially then they\\nare glad enough to recognize her as belonging to\\nthem. If she joins any of the parish societies she\\ndoes not meet the people of her own class, and she\\ndoes not care for social intercourse with the wives\\nof saloon-keepers or policemen.\\nYou are too severe again. You forget that Mrs.\\nDale is the president of our altar society.\\nThe altar society is an exception, I admit. The\\nsocial leaders do belong to it, but that is only be-\\ncause there is no social intercourse among its mem-\\nbers. You might belong to the St. Paul s altar\\nsociety ninety-nine years, and never be asked to\\nMrs. Dale s receptions. She will use your fingers,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 23\\nand your brains if you have any, but you must look\\nto Heaven and not to Mrs. Dale to reward you/\\nIf a woman joins because she wants any reward\\nfrom Mrs. Dale her low motive deserves to be\\npunished.\\nThat is not the question. We are getting at\\nfacts. In the various sodalities do you find any of\\nthe upper classes of the parish represented? In\\nthe Married Women s, the Young Ladies the\\nYoung Men s? Do you?\\nSo much the worse, then, for the married\\nwomen, the girls and their brothers. I can t see\\nwhy it is beneath their budding importance to be-\\nlong to the societies of their parish, any more than\\nto go to Mass with the people of their parish. If\\nthey want to be consistent they should build and\\nendow a little marble chapel with gilt trimmings\\nand Russian-leather missals for their private use,\\nwith a priest who has the Oxford brogue to cele-\\nbrate Mass for them.\\nMrs. Dale says, You can t expect me to belong\\nto a sodality with my own cook as a member, and\\nwho might be elected my superior officer; and\\nyoung Robert Dale says, I can t be expected to\\njoin the society, you know, with the sons of my\\nfather s workmen for companions.\\n**What about the Reading Circle? queried the\\nvoice of the Old Member.\\nThat is of too recent origin to have taken a\\ndefinite place. Naturally the people belonging to\\nthat must have some little culture, or they could not\\nkeep up with the work. But I venture to say that", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 The People of Our Parish\\nHelen Dale s name is not on the list of membership,\\nnor Mrs. Dale s, nor Robert Dale s/\\nOh, hang the Dales interrupted Mrs. DriscoU s\\nyoung nephew, who had just come in from St.\\nXavier s College.\\nWe have indulged in a lot of talk, but what have\\nwe proved, or what have we tried to prove? asked\\nMrs. Shoreham. We admit that the majority of\\nthe people belonging to the Church are socially not\\ndesirable, because the great body of humanity are\\nnot so. A hundred years from now, it is safe to say,\\nthe ruling class will be Catholic, but we still have\\nthat intervening hundred years before us.\\nCandor/ answered Mrs. Driscoll, compels one\\nto admit that many of the Catholics we meet casually\\nat watering-places and at church festivals, when we\\ncondescend to go to festivals, are people we should\\nnot care espcially to know. They have vulgar man-\\nners, are ignorant, ill-bred, just as others are who\\nhave come up from the ranks, and have not suc-\\nceeded in coming very far. It is not a matter of\\ntheir religion, but of themselves personally.\\nBut I do not admit, interrupted Miss Norrison,\\nthat Catholic society is one whit inferior to Protes-\\ntant society, taken in numerical proportion. If you\\nwant to put the question of society on a religious\\nbasis, where distinctly it does not belong. Catholic\\nsociety is, and has always been, the best in the\\nworld. For a thousand years there was no other\\nkind in Europe. And to-day you find Catholic\\nrepresentatives in all circles; the aristocracy of\\nAustria, France, Italy, and Spain, of Brazil, Chili,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 25\\nMexico, and the rest of the Spanish-American\\ncountries, about which we knew so httle until Mr.\\nRichard Harding Davis taught us a great deal, is\\nexclusively Catholic.\\nIn Germany a Catholic is prime minister, and\\na number of the old noble families are Catholic\\nin England Catholics are found in all ranks, from\\ndukes down, and they are not among British\\nroyalty only because the British Constitution for-\\nbids it. In New York you find Catholics among\\nthe leaders of that magical (or mythical) Four\\nHundred the same is true of Washington, and\\neven of Quaker Philadelphia. You cannot show a\\nsingle city of importance in the United States where\\nthere are not Catholics of wealth, position, and\\nculture.\\nAnd every day we are receiving additions from\\nthe flower of Protestant aristocracy people of\\nthe highest intelligence and culture join the Catholic\\nChurch, often at a sacrifice of all earthly prospects.\\nThirty thousand converts were officially reported\\nlast year. And England is keeping pace with\\nus. Two weeks ago the London Tablet gave\\nthe names of three noblemen who went over to\\nRome in a single week, and were among those con-\\nfirmed by the English Cardinal. And yet people\\ntalk about the lack of culture among Catholics\\nJust look at the prominent and historic Ameri-\\ncan families that have given converts to the\\nChurch. Among the number are immediate mem-\\nbers or near connections of the families of Presidents\\nMadison, Monroe, Van Buren, Tyler, Grant; of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 The People of Our Parish\\nDaniel Webster, Henry Clay, General Winfield\\nScott, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gen-\\neral Newton, Admiral Dahlgren, Jefferson Davis\\nwhy, there was a list of converts covering eight pages\\nin the Catholic Quarterly Review, compiled by the\\nHonorable Richard H. Clark, and it did not pretend\\nto be exhaustive; it included bishops, rectors of\\nrich parishes, representative names of the army,\\nnavy, law, literature, medicine, science, society,\\nfinance.\\nWhen people of that stamp become Catholic,\\nand usually, if not always, at a great personal\\nsacrifice, it ought to make intelligent non-Catholics\\ngravely thoughtful. And the more so since they\\ncannot recall a parallel among Catholics who have\\nbecome Protestant. Their converts from us are\\nwomen who gave up their faith to marry men\\nthat do not care enough for them to take them with-\\nout this sacrifice; unfortunate priests who have\\nbeen degraded and removed from their parishes;\\nand poorly instructed, nominal Catholics who see a\\nchance for worldly prosperity in embracing a popu-\\nlar creed.\\nIt is not necessary to be so complacent about\\nit, said the Old Member.\\nIt is the grace of God and not the exertions of\\nindividual Catholics that brings about this result.\\nWe do little enough to make converts, and we treat\\nthem shamefully after their conversion. Their old\\nfriends turn against them, and Catholics pay them\\nlittle attention, unless for some special reason, so\\nthey usually have rather a sad time. I knew a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "The Social Side 27\\nprominent minister who became a Catholic, relin-\\nquishing a fine position, and his own wife and chil-\\ndren deserted him. Another young clergyman was\\ndisinherited by his father but it is a pathetic tale\\nto the end.\\nHowever Catholics may treat one another in the\\nway of a letting alone, surely common decency and\\nhonor, to say nothing of charity, ought to make\\nthem extend a helping hand to converts.\\nBrotherly Love is one of the gifts of the Holy\\nGhost received in Confirmation it seems to be the\\none we part with the most readily.\\nA Catholic woman will spend the entire day in\\nrelieving the wants of a poverty-stricken family .in a\\ntenement, and in the evening at a party freeze\\nanother woman with a Klondike stare. If she had\\nreal kindliness in her heart she would not begrudge\\nthe pleasant word, the bright smile, that might be\\ngratefully received by the lonely stranger; and if\\nshe were sure of her own title to recognition she\\nwould have no need to dole out courtesy as if it\\nwere South African diamonds.\\nThe Old Member was evidently reminiscent. The\\nstabs had left little scars. We have much to learn.\\nIn the meanwhile we are but sixty to three hundred\\nand forty.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nWEDDING CARDS\\nPHIL CARLETON was married this morning.\\nThe wedding itself, in dear old St. Paul s, was\\nat ten o clock, or not much after that, but the\\nfestivities extended so far into the afternoon that\\none feels it is not worth while to begin anything\\nof importance in the small piece of the day that is\\nleft.. Besides, weddings are rather fatiguing, and\\nthis was no exception.\\nIt might be courtesy to state that he married\\nAnnie Powers, but that is a mere detail the thing of\\nreal importance is that Phil himself is at last married.\\nIt is like the morning of a lottery at least, there is\\nto be no more anxious expectancy; the fortunate\\nprize-winner, happy with the prize, is known, and the\\nlosers, relieved of all uncertainty, can put their minds\\nto other matters. One feels rather sorry for the\\nhalf-dozen the exact number does not matter\\nsweet, pretty girls any one of whom Phil might have\\nmarried. In his own secret soul he must have\\nrealized this fact and have been egregiously con-\\nceited. There is no denying that there are many\\nreasons why a nice girl would be very glad to marry\\nPhil, granting that she consciously or unconsciously\\nwanted to marry anybody. He is upright and\\nhonorable, really, and not merely as a flattering", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Wedding Cards 29\\nphrase which journaHsts, in the role of biographers,\\nare wont to apply indiscriminatery. He is college-\\nbred, cultured, good-looking, frank, amiable, witty,\\nand, not the least quality to be considered in a\\nmaterial world, rich. Indeed, not a few mothers, in\\ncasting their longing eyes on Phil in behalf of a\\ndaughter, have put this qualification first. Phil is\\nthe junior member of a large shoe-factory, his\\nfather being the senior member, and Phil is an only\\nson. Besides tKeir money the Carletons are socially\\nquite as important as the best of the city. Family\\nportraits of dead and gone ancestors line the walls\\nof their beautiful mansion in Warwick Place, and\\nevery student of human nature knows that one does\\nnot care to be daily reminded of an ancestor unless\\nhe is quite worth remembering.\\nAnd Mrs. Carleton herself must feel relieved.\\nShe may have reservations as to the entire worthi-\\nness of Annie Powers to be the wife of her son but\\nshe has the comforting assurance that, taking all\\nthings into consideration, Annie has no superiors\\nand few equals among the maidens of her set. No\\none, except her guardian angel, will ever know just\\nhow many girls Madame Mere kept out of the\\nhonor which was conferred by a Bishop, and three\\nassistants in gorgeous vestments, on blushing Annie.\\nThe engagement was something of a surprise to\\nthe gay world, for little Miss Powers of all the girls\\nin society seemed to care the least about handsome\\nPhil. Perhaps that was the very reason why she\\nwon him; her indifference may have whetted his\\ndesire of possession. This is not a new theory, and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 The People of Our Parish\\nin some cases I should be inclined to doubt its\\nentire trustworthiness. Some men are repelled by\\nindifference, it hurts their vanity; and vanity is the\\nstrongest weak point in the masculine armor. That\\nis intended neither as a paradox nor a pun.\\nMarion Chase w^as at the wedding, looking very\\nbeautiful in a Reilly gown of blue cloth trimmed\\nin sable. When one is near her it is easy to detect\\nthe network of fine wrinkles which are doing their\\ndeadly work to her marvellous complexion, and\\nthere is a weary droop about the mouth when she\\nthinks no one is looking. I confess to a curious\\ndesire to know her feelings when Phil slipped the\\nwedding-ring on another woman s finger. She must\\nhave known that two-thirds of the people present\\nwere wondering as to her sentiments. She certainly\\ntried hard enough to win Phil; that sounds brutal,\\nfor truth is not always courteous but it is hard to\\nsay whether her heart or only her ambition was\\nengaged in the pursuit. Maud Carleton, without\\nmeaning it, gave the key to the failure. She said,\\nin my hearing, at the races, that Marion always\\nmade her think of a woman without a soul. That\\ngirl would die a willing martyr to appearances, she\\nexclaimed, not maliciously, but thoughtlessly. I\\nam afraid that we all agreed that her judgment was\\nnot unjust.\\nThree summers ago all the gossips at Narragan-\\nsett Pier were sure that Phil and Lucy Morris would\\nannounce their engagement before the season was\\nover. And I think that the young man really was\\nattracted in that quarter; but a fond mother had", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Wedding Cards 31\\nused her eyes and her ears, and a word dropped\\nnow and then, without any apparent object over and\\nabove mere gossip, in the privacy of the family,\\nmade Phil pause and consider. There was nothing\\nabsolutely reprehensible in Lucy s conduct, but she\\nwas what is described as larky. For instance, she\\nwent to Point Judith one moonlight night on a hay-\\nride, and Maud Carleton, who was along without her\\nmother s consent, declared that a Mr. Bertrand\\nfrom Providence had put his arm around Lucy s\\nwaist during the ride home. Then she was not in\\nthe least particular about the young men who were\\nintroduced to her. Almost any man, if he could\\ndance well, and had decent manners and a dress-coat,\\ncould get to know Lucy. Her bathing-suits were\\nalways the most conspicuous on the beach, and they\\nshowed rather more of arms and neck than a\\nmodest girl would like to expose to gaping crowds\\nwatching from Sherry s pavilion. And she was\\nrather given to tete-a-tetes in secluded corners, with\\nthe various young men sojourning at the big hotel\\nwhich sheltered the Morrises and she went driving\\nalone with these same young men, in the very faces\\nof matrons who believed in the chaperon as firmly\\nas they believed in the Ten Commandments. In a\\nfoolish moment she admitted, rather boastingly\\nsome thought, that she had been engaged once and\\nhad refused four men. A girl of really fine feeling\\nwill not let a man come to the proposing point if\\nshe does not mean to accept what he offers. And\\nthere were other things in the air about Lucy;\\nand no man likes a peach with the bloom off, no", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 The People of Our Parish\\nmatter how beautiful and luscious the peach. Phil\\nCarleton suddenly left the Pier and went fishing off\\nBlock Island.\\nMinnie Jones fell violently in love with Phil, but I\\nrather think he was disgusted at the start. Minnie\\nis of the gushingly sentimental order, and no\\nhealthy-minded young man can be blamed for run-\\nning away from a girl like that. She is thoroughly\\nselfish without knowing it, as people of that type\\nare apt to be she could not bear anything that was\\npainful, because of her delicate sensibilities, and as\\npain must be met and grappled with in an imper-\\nfect world, Miss Minnie was given to throwing her\\nshare on braver shoulders. And she read novels of\\nthe tawdrily sentimental kind, and called them liter-\\nature, and fancied herself of the type of the mushy\\nheroines depicted. The girl had not been fortunate\\nin choosing her mother, for Mrs. Jones was almost\\nas big a fool as her daughter, the kind one sees\\nwith bleached hair and very low gown, sitting on a\\nred divan at a party, and talking violent scandal to\\nher neighbor. To add to her silly birthright, the\\ngirl was sent to a school under the supervision of\\nanother fool, the mercenary fool, who inculcated\\nin her girls that the first duty of woman is to marry\\nmoney and position, the whole duty of a schoolgirl\\nto dress well, dance, and speak French, and pay her\\ntuition fees promptly.\\nMinnie showed what a simpleton she really was\\nby fancying for a moment that she could catch such\\na man as Phil Carleton. She tried it, however, in a\\nvery business-like way, and so did her mother.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Wedding Cards 33\\nWhen Phil began to sit out dances with Kathryn\\nBlair, and to be seen in Linden Avenue, where\\ndwells the Juno-like maiden, the gossips were once\\nmore busy with his name, and really hoped that the\\ncouple would go to the altar together. In this\\ninstance I think it was brains that intervened.\\nKathryn is quite the most brilliant young woman in\\nher set to-day, and I think her superior knowledge\\nrather hurt her suitor s vanity. She was too young,\\nand too candid by nature to cultivate the tact that\\nwould openly defer to masculine judgment, whilst\\nsecretly adhering to her own.\\nI have always been very fond of Kathryn she is\\na type of that which is fine and high in what the\\nthoughtless are apt to speak of as the new woman/\\nIn that senseless phrase some imply a compliment,\\nand some a reproach but no one could know\\nKathryn without being struck by something noble\\nwhich was reflected from her soul to her expressive\\nface. She has been carefully educated, first under\\na thorough gentlewoman at home, whom misfor-\\ntune had forced into the workaday world as a\\ngoverness, and later at Manhattanville. After her\\ngraduation she went abroad for a year, and on her\\nreturn home took up a course of alarmingly solid\\nreading, under a professor from the University.\\nShe is somewhat lacking in what are called the\\nwomanly accomplishments that is, she cannot work\\nsprawling roses on a bit of linen, nor make over a\\ngown to be as good as new with ten cents worth of\\nruby dyes, like the thrifty women in the advertise-\\nments, and she has few ideas about cooking, and\\n3", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 The People of Our Parish\\nthe relation of food to the soul indeed, she star-\\ntled us all by reading a paper before the Monday\\nClub, an organization to which some twenty favored\\nfeminines belong, in which she proved triumphantly\\nthat in all the branches which are popularly con-\\nceded to be the domain of women, men have won\\nthe highest place. It left us in rather a hole as\\none put it, inelegantly, because she did not prove\\nthat women have ever excelled in anything; but\\nthen, that was not in her subject.\\nKathryn is pretty, too, almost beautiful, and a\\nsuperb dresser quite the equal of Marion in that\\nrespect. I cannot see why a man would look twice\\nat Annie Powers when he might have looked for a\\nlifetime at Kathryn Blair. Not that Annie is not\\na charming little thing, really a dear, sweet girl.\\nIf one had to classify her, although classifications\\nare never quite satisfactory nor quite just, one would\\nput her among the domestic, homelike women.\\nAnnie can do all the things that Kathryn cannot\\ndo she is dainty and pretty, and sweet-tempered,\\nwell-bred, naturally refined and not a fool, by any\\nmeans, in the line of books and the doings of the\\nworld. She has a sympathetic little voice, and it is\\neasy to fancy Phil, lazy Phil, after dinner, with a\\ncigar, an easy-chair, and the evening paper, listen-\\ning to Annie sing his favorite songs.\\nIn the mating of our friends we are never dis-\\nposed to allow sufficiently for difference in tastes.\\nThe ideal spouse for one would be a sort of lifelong\\npurgatory for another. Sometimes we get sorrow-\\nful glimpses of a mismating. Five years ago, when", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Wedding Cards 35\\nMary Burke married the ex-alderman, Richard\\nNolan, known as Dick to his intimates, before the\\naltar in St. Paul s, but without the grandeur attend-\\ning the nuptials of Miss Annie Powers, everybody\\nthought it was more than a glimpse. The Honor-\\nable Dick is what is known as a self-made man, and\\nhe had performed the work of making himself\\nrather badly. It was the old melodramatic situation\\nwhich, unfortunately, exists in life as well, an\\nambitious mother, poverty, a beautiful young girl,\\nrefined and innocent and just out of a convent, on\\none side and an elderish man, commonplace, rather\\ncoarse, but with a fortune and in want of a wife, on\\nthe other.\\nA girl does not always object to a man merely\\nbecause he is old, provided he is not too old, nor\\nto a fortune either. A man may be rather well\\nalong in life and very rich, and yet charming, fascin-\\nating, brilliant, heroic. It would not be hard to find\\nlove matches, that proved ideally happy, when the\\nbridegroom was almost old enough to be the father\\nof his wife but, after all, these cases are only excep-\\ntions. The general rule, and it is usually safe to\\nfollow this, declares in favor of a similarity of age.\\nBeautiful Mildred Hays married General Hearne,\\nwho was just twenty-two years her senior, and a\\nhappier or more devoted couple it would be hard to\\nfind. But the general was a handsome, well-pre-\\nserved man of the great world a courtier in man-\\nner, a diplomat, a true gentleman, and a brave\\nsoldier. When an old man is conscious of uniting\\nin himself all these attributes he may safely woo a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 The People of Our Parish\\nromantic young girl but for an ordinary old gentle-\\nman this usually ends in domestic disaster.\\nThere is a consensus of opinion, born of thousands\\nof years of experience, that a man should be older\\nthan his wife. From three to fifteen years, say some,\\nbut hide-bound limits are not easy to define. A\\nwoman is supposed to love, respect, and obey\\nher husband, and sometimes his superior age is\\nabout the only claim he can put forth to wifely sub-\\nmission. Adam was older than Eve, to give an\\nexample weighty by reason of antiquity, and\\nAbraham was very much the senior of the beauti-\\nful, dark-eyed Princess Sara, whom we do not suffi-\\nciently honor as the mother of the Chosen People.\\nIn marriage the one absolutely essential thing is\\nmutual love. This is not saying that love should\\nbe the only thing, but nothing else, esteem, respect,\\nfamily ties, station, learning, piety, upright charac-\\nter, no other thing in the world, should be allowed\\nto take its place. The history of the human race\\nconclusively proves that the love between man and\\nwoman is the strongest passion that exists. Like\\nany other great force, it can be as powerful for\\ndestruction as for good. Mark Antony threw away\\nan empire for a woman who had loved many men;\\nHelen of Troy made the most memorable epoch in\\nGrecian history; Clotilde, through her husband s\\nlove, was able to bring Christianity into Gaul.\\nAnd in the realms of art, poetry, painting, sculp-\\nture, a woman loved, if not always loving, has\\nbeen the most fruitful inspiration, next to religion,\\nof the undying masterpieces.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Wedding Cards 37\\nWho can reckon the debt of the ages to Beatrice,\\nbeloved of Dante, Petrarch s beautiful Laura, or the\\nHighland lass who won the heart of Burns?\\nLove, when not cemented by sacramental grace,\\nis apt to be as fleeting as it is uncontrolled. Henry\\nVin. put aside his faithful wife, the proud daughter\\nof the proudest house in Europe, overthrew religion,\\nand turned his kingdom into a seething volcano for the\\nsake of the soulless, beautiful Anne Boleyn. A love\\nso lawless and so shameless lasted three brief years,\\nwhen the woman paid for it with her head. Indeed,\\nthe history of Henry the Bluebeard s matrimonial\\nexperiences has been used by more than one cynic\\nto cast discredit on love. One might with as much\\nreason point to a conflagration to show the evils of\\nfire.\\nWhen a man comes wooing with nothing but his\\nlove to recommend him, a maid s only safeguard\\nfrom a life of unhappiness and neglect is flight, or\\nstrength of character to say no. If the lover is un-\\nscrupulous, or irreligious, or selfish, scheming, cruel,\\nor given to drink, or all these things combined, it is\\nmadness to expect the husband to be very different.\\nThere have been many cases where the love and\\nprayers and hercfic patience of a noble woman have\\nreclaimed a brute and made a man but the woman\\nherself sacrificed all chance of earthly happiness in\\nher work, and suff ered tortures at which the world\\ncan only dimly guess.\\nDespite what some novelists say, and novelists\\nseem to be the world s teachers in matters of love,\\na woman who marries without love is degrading her", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 The People of Our Parish\\nown womanhood. Crawford the BrilHant is given\\nto sacrificing very charming women at the altar, and\\nhe invariably makes a merit of the sacrifice. We\\nfind some palliation in our hearts for the peerless\\nCorona, because she was a young girl, as ignorant\\nof life as a baby, when she married the worn-out old\\nroue D Astradente, and had an interesting career in\\nthe four volumes of the Saracinesca series of\\nnovels but when the unfortunate Maria d Aragona\\ndeliberately perjures herself at the altar, loving with\\nall her heart another man, we instinctively recoil as\\nfrom a species of suttee.\\nThere is no accounting for tastes, in a man s\\nchoice of a wife as in his choice in less important\\nmatters. If both young men and young women do\\nnot yet know how to choose wisely in the question\\nof marriage, it is not because benevolent ones have\\nnot sufficiently instructed them, at so much a column,\\nin the teeming pages of scores of periodicals.\\nPerhaps it is one of those questions where theory\\ncounts for little, and experience for everything;\\nwhich seems unfortunate, considering that it is\\nirremediable, and being so, the experience, when it\\nhappens to be of the wrong sort, can serve no per-\\nsonal good.\\nDivorce, the shameful canker that is eating at the\\nheart of our country, its family honor, and domestic\\npeace, can have no meaning for a Catholic. Death\\nalone dissolves the marriage bond.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "IV\\nAN OLD QUESTION\\nAT what age should a young man marry? This\\nis one of the stock questions that are asked of\\nthe omniscient persons who conduct the correspond-\\nents* columns of the family weeklies. The suitable\\nage for a young woman to assume the responsibili-\\nties of matrimony is not often discussed, there being\\na natural delicacy around a subject in which the\\nlady must remain quiescent. It is generally un-\\nderstood that she will be married when a suitable\\nchance presents itself. One would imagine that this\\nis a point which every young man would decide\\nfor himself, did not the anxious inquirers give a\\nhint of the efforts made to get wise guidance. It is a\\nquestion that can never be answered, because it de-\\npends on so many things which make a prudent act\\non the part of one young man the wildest folly on\\nthe part of another. Position, money, temperament,\\nobject in life, strength of character, so many\\nthings go to turn the scale one way or the other.\\nAnd when one looks about at one s friends and ac-\\nquaintances the question is still as unsettled as ever.\\nSome ten years ago two unknown young men\\ncame to this city. They filled similar positions, and\\ntheir services received equal compensation. Chance\\nthrew them together in a boarding-house, and they", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 The People of Our Parish\\nbecame friends. Their social opportunities were\\nmeagre, and neither one at that time possessed such\\nshining personal qualities that nice people would go\\nout of their way to pay them any attention. They\\nhad received an ordinary commercial training, and\\nknew enough of social usages to eat peas with a\\nfork, but neither had ever worn an evening coat or\\nled a cotillon.\\nAt a church festival they met a young lady, in\\ncharge of one of the tables, and fell instantaneous\\nvictims to her charms. These charms were just the\\nusual ones of youth, a beautiful complexion, bright\\neyes, a natty figure, and an amiable manner. It\\nwas not hard to procure an invitation to call on the\\nmaiden, and it was soon evident that the two were\\ngenuinely in earnest in their attentions. The girl\\nhad the small accomplishments of her class: she\\ncould play a little on the piano, and paint a little,\\nand if her knowledge of literature and science, of\\nart and all the things that go to form what is meant\\nby culture, was indefinite and hazy, her piety, and\\ngood-nature and domestic attainments formed an\\nacceptable substitute. Besides, the imagination of\\na young and ardent lover can be depended upon to\\ninvest the most prosaic of maidens with idyllic\\nqualities. At the end of the year she accepted\\nGeorge Calkin and poor F ederick Gaston, bearing\\nhis defeat manfully, sent her a salad fork, with his\\nbest wishes, as a wedding present.\\nThe history of the Calkins in the ten years which\\nhave flown over their heads is not greatly different\\nfrom the histories of the hundreds and thousands of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "An Old Question 41\\nyoung couples of their means and attainments. The\\nyoung man, being conscientious and faithful, has had\\nhis salary increased several times, but his family has\\nincreased as well, and he has no ambitions above a\\nlife of prodding industry, content if the necessaries\\nand a few minor luxuries can be procured for his\\nwife and children. They live in Downs Street, in\\none of the houses built on an economical scale to\\nrent to young husbands with small salaries. The\\nchildren s wants and ills, the extortions of the coal\\ndealer, the butcher s bills, the antics of the gas\\nmetre, enliven the hours at home and the evening\\npaper affords apparently all the intellectual diet that is\\nneeded or desired. Mrs. Calkin devours the society\\nitems, subscribes for a fashion magazine, and obtains\\nnumberless novels in endless succession from the\\ncirculating library. She had not cared for books of\\na higher class when she was pretty May Loring,\\nwith time for many things now quite beyond the\\nreach of the wife and mother. Occasionally they\\ngo to the theatre, and Mrs. Calkin, sadly faded, with\\npeevish lines about the eyes and the base of the\\nnose, belongs to an afternoon card club made up of\\nother commonplace souls. On Sunday, the one free\\nday in a grinding week, George, with his wife and\\ntwo elder children, may be seen at the eight o clock\\nMass hurrying home he spends the forenoon over\\nthe voluminous Sunda}^ papers, an^ Mrs. Calkin\\nbusies herself with the usual Sunday feast, the one\\nslovenly maid-of-all-work not being adequate to its\\nsuccess a nap, a stroll along the boulevards, a cold\\nsupper, and perhaps a friendly chat with a neighbor,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 The People of Our Parish\\nand the precious day is over. No one has ever\\nheard George Calkin discuss the question whether\\nmarriage is a failure, because he is not given greatly\\nto discussion, except about the tariff; but Frederick\\nGaston looks upon him as an awful warning.\\nAs for young Gaston himself, he flew to literature\\nand modern languages as a balm for his bruised\\naffections. At the end of a year, when he encoun-\\ntered the Calkins at an informal dinner, and was\\nforced to listen to his old sweetheart s common-\\nplaces, he suddenly realized with a rush of thankful-\\nness that the last tiny abrasion of his affections was\\nquite healed. The star of ambition which had\\nalways glimmered over his meridian suddenly flamed\\ninto a beckoning glow. He would make a man of\\nhimself. He had acquired the taste and the price-\\nless habit of regular study, and whatever extrava-\\ngances he permitted himself were in the nature of\\nopera tickets, or for the best plays, photographs of\\nfamous pictures, art exhibits, and books. To books,\\nhis landlady wrathfully thought there was to be no\\nend, when they overflowed from the case and filled\\nthe corners of Gaston s small, third-story bedroom.\\nAbout this time the young man, who had caught\\nglimpses of an existence quite removed from that of\\na second-rate boarding-house, fitted up an apart-\\nment of his own.\\nAt the end of ten years he had become, from\\nan unformed, good-looking youth of the provinces,\\na cultured, travelled, brainy, popular man of the\\ngreat world. He had been abroad twice, once\\nin summer, to the haunts beloved by the American", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "An Old Question 43\\ntourist, and a winter had been given to Egypt,\\nPalestine, Greece, Turkey, and southern Italy.\\nAnd every place of note in his own land had been\\nvisited. Prosperity had marked him for her own,\\nand he could well afford to get married. One of\\nthe sweetest and prettiest girls in the parish be-\\ncame his bride. The wedding was celebrated in\\nSt. Paul s, with almost as much state as attended\\nthe nuptials of Annie Powers.\\nThe Gastons revolve in an orbit far removed from\\nthe modest periphery of the Calkins. And when\\nFrederick Gaston glances across the well-appointed\\ntable at the beautiful cultured girl, capable of being\\na helpmate in its noblest sense to her husband, if he\\ndoes not breathe a prayer of thankfulness for his es-\\ncape from May Loring it is because she has passed\\nso completely out of his mind that she never\\ncomes into it for even a reminiscent moment.\\nBut there are other young men belonging to St.\\nPaul s who have not been so fortunate and if Fred-\\nerick Gaston is a shining illustration of the good of\\nwaiting, Matt Dyer is an awful example of the young\\nman who has not married at all. Matt started in\\nthe race of life unusually well equipped for he\\nhad family, influence, and a good position. He\\nspeedily took to the pace that kills, and his money\\nhas been spent in ways that would not bear nar-\\nrating. Perhaps if he had married a pious, nice\\ngirl in the beginning, she might have been just the\\nbalance-wheel that has been lacking in his short but\\ndisastrous career. Again, she might have been\\ndragged down to untold depths of degradation and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 The People of Our Parish\\nwant. Matt belongs nominally to St. Paul s, and\\nhe made his first communion in the beautiful old\\nchurch, but it is seldom now that his form casts a\\nshadow over its threshold.\\nThe rule might be laid down that for a man\\nwho lacks stability of character an early marriage\\nis best; for others it is good or bad according to\\ncircumstances.\\nThere is an old saying that a young man\\nmarried is a young man marred.\\nThis cynical epigram, to say the least, has many\\nnotable exceptions.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "V\\nA GRAVE QUESTION\\nT HAVE known many instances of mixed\\nX marriages/ said a silvery-haired old gentle-\\nwoman, with a wistful look in her still fine eyes,\\nand of all the number I can recall but three\\nthat turned out well.\\nIt is not difficult to see that in so intimate a\\nrelation as marriage a oneness in religion, that\\nhighest of all concerns, is absolutely indispensable\\nto the perfect union.\\nTheoretically we all object to mixed mar-\\nriages, answered Mrs. Gibson, a matron whose\\nthree daughters had married out of the Church;\\nbut practically we realize that circumstances\\nmake them necessary. The Church itself under-\\nstands this, else she would not grant dispensations\\nso readily. And when the husband makes the\\nrequired promises I can t see where the wrong\\ncomes in.\\nOf course it would have been rude to say, Look\\nat your own daughters, and you might see plainly\\nenough.\\nWhen Louise Gibson became engaged to Fen-\\ndall Gates her friends thought her a very lucky\\ngirl, and her mother s enemies said that she was a\\ncleverer woman than they had imagined, to have", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 The People of Our Parish\\nlanded that nice young Gates for her daughter.\\nThen there came a time when the hum of busy-\\ntongues indicated an ugly hitch in the preparations.\\nIt was said that the young man objected very em-\\nphatically to making the promises. He was will-\\ning enough for his wife to practise her religion,\\nsince she had been brought up that way, but most\\nemphatically the children should be reared Pres-\\nbyterians, like all the Gates since the time of the\\nfirst Presbyterian, or else they should be left to\\nchoose for themselves. Mrs. Gibson bemoaned\\nthe indelicacy of the question, and the want of fine\\nfeeling on the part of her pastor which compelled\\nan innocent young girl to face such a discussion;\\nas if the couple were two babes in the woods chas-\\ning a rainbow. Louise was pluckily firm, and Fen-\\ndall, who really was very much in love with her,\\nsaw that he must either give up the girl or yield,\\nand finally consented to marry a Gatholic on the\\nonly terms a Gatholic could marry him.\\nLouise is perhaps doing the best she can for her-\\nself and her children, but it is very evident that she\\nhas abandoned many of the ideas and practices she\\nbrought home with her from the convent. She slips\\ninto St. Paul s to the eight o clock Mass, usually after\\nthe priest is on the altar, and sometimes just at the\\ngospel but she never goes to High Mass, because\\nher husband is at home on Sundays, and he objects\\nto having his wife absent on the only day that he\\ncan be with her. If he happens to feel like going\\nto his church at eleven o clock, and returning at\\none, that is a different thing; she never hears a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 47\\nsermon, nor assists at Vespers or Benediction, for\\nthe same reason, her husband cannot spare her,\\nand the hour for evening service interferes with the\\nhousehold arrangements. Such a thing as grace\\nat meals is unheard-of, and one of her friends\\nsadly doubts whether Louise even says her morn-\\ning prayers. On Fridays there must be meat on\\nthe table, and at every meal during Lent. She\\ncannot attend the Lenten services, because Fendall\\nobjects to being left at home alone.\\nThere are three children, and the eldest, a boy\\nof nine, who is clever and naughty, goes to the\\npublic school, because the children who attend the\\nparochial school are so vulgar and low that Fen-\\ndall insists that they would spoil Fendall Junior s\\nEnglish and his manners and St. Xavier s College,\\nwhich has a Minim Department, is too far away\\nfor one so young to attend by himself. He has\\npromised, however, that the boy shall be sent to\\nSt. Xavier s to make his first communion.\\nIn the meanwhile there are some lively differences\\nof opinion in the Gates household. Mrs. Gibson re-\\npeats some of Fendall Junior s remarks, as if they\\nwere evidences of budding genius to make a doting\\ngrandmother proud, instead of indicators of a con-\\ndition to be wept over. His mother insists on his\\ngoing to church with her. One cold Sunday morn-\\ning the lad, instead of responding to her gentle tap\\nby getting up and making ready to accompany\\nher, turned over in his little bed and went to sleep.\\nWhen his mamma came to his room to put the last\\ntouches to his toilet and to help him into overcoat", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 The People of Our Parish\\nand cap, after the fashion of mothers, she was hor-\\nrified to see his curly head peeping out from under\\nthe covers.\\nWell, I don t see why I should have to go to\\nchurch papa does n t go said the boy, in excuse.\\nAnother time he asked his mamma if he might\\ngo with his chum, who lived in the same block, to\\nthe Methodist Sunday-school. Of course he was\\nmet by a refusal, but with the Gates trait of deter-\\nmination early manifesting itself, he passed on into\\nthe library where his father was reading, and made\\nthe same petition. His father said yes, so Fendall\\nran away gleefully. On holy days of obligation\\nthe child does not go to church, because his father\\nwill not have his school work interfered with. Early\\nin life the lad is imbibing the doctrine that religion\\nis all very well for w^omen and children, like his\\nmamma and his little sister Dorothy, but not for\\nmen like his papa and himself.\\nAnd what weight will the mother s teaching have\\nwhen the example of the father is an ever present\\ncontradiction? A child naturally respects, obeys,\\nand looks up to the father quite as much as to the\\nmother. How is little Fendall Gates, for instance,\\nto be made to understand that it is a mortal sin for\\nhim to miss Mass on Sunday, to eat meat on Friday,\\nwhen his father never goes to Mass and eats meat\\nevery Friday? How is he to be taught to goto\\nconfession, to say his night and morning prayers,\\nwhen his father omits both these practices? How\\nis he to realize that his faith is his most precious\\npossession, and not a mere matter of choice or", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 49\\nexpediency, like being a Democrat or a Republican,\\nor a member of a club, when his father and his\\nGrandmamma Gates, who gives him ten times more\\nthan Grandmamma Gibson, and his Uncle Jack, and\\ntwo beautiful young aunts, do not believe in it\\nat all?\\nMildred Gibson, who married a widower with two\\nchildren, has not fared so well in the matter of\\nreligion as her sister. Mildred was always rather\\ndelicate, and was kept at home and sent to a day\\nschool so she did not get as thorough a training in\\nher faith as Louise. She has two babies of her\\nown, and is still delicate, so that she seldom goes\\nto church at all and when she happens to be in the\\nmood to be well she not infrequently accompanies\\nher husband and her step-children to the Episcopal\\nChurch.\\nI can t see where the harm comes in, she\\ndeclares belligerently. How am I to expect my\\nhusband to be liberal towards my belief if I act\\nas if I thought his church were a den of thieves?\\nI go with him sometimes, and then he goes with me\\nsometimes. And I just wish Father Horan, with\\nhis horrid brogue, and his droning way of preach-\\ning, could take a few lessons in pulpit oratory from\\nDr. Gracelands. His sermons are really beautiful,\\nand so edifying Indeed, I only wish that Catho-\\nlics would live up to half his teaching, and there\\nwould n t be so much scandal given in our parish.\\nOf course I believe my own church just as firmly as\\nyou do, and hearing a sermon from another minister\\nnow and then is not going to change me. It is not\\n4", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 The People of Our Parish\\nthe church and the sermon that count it is the\\npeople themselves and the lives they lead. Some\\nof the most perfect Christians I know belong to the\\nEpiscopal Church\\nNaturally, when a woman has such sentiments, it\\nwould be absurd to expect her to be very particular\\nabout the minor practices of her faith.\\nBad as it is for a girl to marry a man not of her\\nfaith, the consequences are usually deplorable when\\nit is the man who marries mixed. Everybody was\\nsurprised when Tom McFall married Cora Bates\\nsome ten years ago; the rector of the Second Pres-\\nbyterian Church is her uncle, and the whole family\\nhave the reputation of having strong and bitter\\nprejudice against Catholics.\\nI don t object to my coachman or my cook\\nbeing a Romanist, but most emphatically I do\\nobject to my daughter s husband belonging to that\\nfaith, said Mrs. Bates, when rumors of young Mc-\\nFall s attentions to pretty Cora began to gain\\ncurrency.\\nIt will never be a match, said Tom s friends,\\nbecause Mrs. Bates would rather see her daughter\\ndead than have her make the required promises.\\nNevertheless, in due time cards were out for\\nthe wedding; a gorgeous wedding it was, too, with\\nthe house turned into a fairyland of flowers and\\nlights, six bridesmaids and a page of honor,\\nSherry s orchestra, and champagne enough to float\\na raft, and everybody who is anybody among\\nthe guests. Mrs. McFall and the Misses McFall\\nlooked triumphant, so malicious ones declared, for", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 51\\nthey were getting their first glimpse of real society.\\nThe Archbishop himself performed the ceremony,\\nbecause old Tom McFall, who made a fortune in\\nmines, had given five thousand dollars towards the\\nnew Cathedral.\\nThe first child lived only three hours, and Mrs.\\nMcFall herself baptized it. It was several years\\nbefore the second one came, and Mrs. McFall and\\nher daughter-in-law were not on the best of terms.\\nMrs. McFall undeniably did consider the McFall\\ndollars a more desirable possession than the Bates\\nblue blood, and she was not slow to express this\\nopinion. And many things had happened to Cora;\\namong others, she had joined her uncle s church.\\nShe most emphatically declared that a priest\\nshould not baptize her baby, and as it was born at\\nher mother s house poor Tom could not very well\\ninsist upon it. There will be time enough, he\\nthought. And when Cora is back in her own\\nhome, away from the hourly influence of her\\nmother, she will abide by her promise. But Cora\\ndid nothing of the sort. She put aside her promise\\nas lightly as if it had been a bit of thistle.\\nMy children are my own, and they are going to\\nbe brought up in my faith, she declared without\\nany circumlocution.\\nPromise What does a young girl know about\\na mother s love, or. a mother s duty? You were\\nvery glad to get a Protestant wife I don t see why\\nyou should object to Protestant children.\\nAfter six months of wrangling Tom slipped off\\nwith the child and had it baptized but Cora dis-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 The People of Our Parish\\ncovered what she was pleased to call her husband s\\ntreachery, went into hysterics, and threatened to go\\nhome to her mother.\\nOnly a few weeks after the Bates-McFall nup-\\ntials society assembled for another mixed marriage,\\nand Adele Devereux became Mrs. Charles Warren\\nHenderson. If the other was a great social func-\\ntion, this was an Event, for the Bates blueblood is\\nvery pale azure when compared with the current of\\nroyal purple coursing in the veins of the Devereux.\\nIt was said at the time that every name of social\\nprominence in the city could have been found on\\nthe cards with the bridal presents, hardly one of\\nwhich did not represent a relation, or at least a con-\\nnection by marriage. And, like Cora Bates, the\\nhigh-born Adele married a man of no particular\\nfamily. Young Henderson came to the city as a\\npartner in a large factory, and was introduced at a\\ngood club, and into society, by the junior member\\nof the company. A disreputable little weekly,\\nwhich ought to have been named The Wasp, an-\\nnounced that the latest addition to Swelldom, Mr.\\nC. W. H was the grandson of a man who began\\nlife at a dollar a day in a tannery. The young man\\nsaid that the item was true, except that he believed\\nthe wage had been only ninety-five cents. Mr.\\nHenderson himself was rated at half a million dollars,\\nand he was personally most charming.\\nThe question might have presented itself to a\\nlooker-on, Why could not Adele have married Tom\\nMcFall, a young man of her own faith, and every\\nwhit the equal of Henderson?", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 53\\nOld Tom might not know the difference be-\\ntween the Parthenon and a barn, but young Tom\\nis college-bred, travelled, cultured, good-looking,\\nmanly, and the only son of his father, with but two\\nsisters to divide the prospective inheritance. It is\\npossible that the Devereux had never laid eyes on\\nthe McFalls, although they had lived neighbors for\\nyears, until the McFalls built their palace opposite\\nthe park.\\nWould you have Mrs. Devereux, born De Clouet,\\nand descended from the Marquis Villeneuve, call\\non, and recognize socially, Mary McFall, whose own\\nmother had landed at Castle Garden from the\\nsteerage? Perhaps not, but then would you have\\nMrs. Devereux s daughter marrying the non-Catho-\\nlic grandson of a poor tanner?\\nIf the Hendersons have had any ripples in their\\ndomestic life they have not published the fact to\\nthe world but it is easy to understand that Adele,\\na devout, vivacious little beauty, would be happier\\nif she and her husband were one in the most vital\\nconcern of her life, if she could share with him her\\ndevotions and her ideals.\\nBut we should like to hear about the three\\ncases that turned out well, chirps a young girl,\\nwhose heart flutters dangerously in the presence\\nof a youth who has no religion at all, and rather\\nmakes a merit of the fact.\\nAh, it is easy to lose sight of them, when the\\nother kinds are before one s eyes and memory all\\nthe time responded the white-haired saint.\\nThere was poor Blanche Caruthers, that died", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 The People of Our Parish\\nand left three beautiful children, now being reared\\nstrict Httle Unitarians, by the Boston spinster who\\npromptly became Mrs. Caruthers the second. And\\nthere is Miss Sue Bedford, a leader in the Ethical\\nCulture movement, and the author of that horrible\\narticle in the Blank Review denouncing the\\nChristian system of marriage she will tell you that\\nher father was a Catholic, but that the children\\nwere left, by mutual agreement, to be free to choose\\ntheir own religion.\\nThe happiest example that I have ever known\\nwas that of the Ewings. Her friends were sur-\\nprised when Clara Campion s engagement to Robert\\nEwing was announced, because Clara was known\\nto be so pious, and so faithful in the practice of\\nher religion; one would have thought of her as\\nthe last person in the w^orld to marry a man of\\nan alien belief. But Robert was personally charm-\\ning, and with the one exception he had everything\\nto recommend him. The girl went back to the\\nconvent to make a retreat shortly before she was\\nmarried, and her old teacher, who had once been\\na woman of the world herself, gave some sterling\\ncounsel which was never forgotten.\\nMy dear, in marrying a man not of your faith,\\nshe said, *you will have to be not only as good and\\npious as the average Catholic woman, but better,\\nfar, far better. The beauty of your own life must\\nteach your husband the beauty of your church.\\nThe little faults that other women might be guilty\\nof without serious consequences must never touch\\nyour life.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 55\\nAnd from the very first the girl tried to act upon\\nthis advice. Scrupulously exact in the performance\\nof every religious duty, she left nothing undone\\nthat could add to the charm of her home, or to her\\nhusband s comfort. Robert himself bore testimony\\nto her uniform sweetness of disposition.\\nAfter four years of married life,* he declared,\\nnever once have I seen Clara angry not even\\nwhen a new parlor-maid sent our most beautiful\\nart treasure to an untimely grave did she lose con-\\ntrol of her temper/\\n**When they first went to housekeeping Clara\\nregularly served meat to Robert, but after a few\\nmonths he said Oh, never mind about getting\\nmeat for me on Friday. A fish dinner once a week\\nis good for the constitution. The hygienists all\\ndeclare that this barbarous American habit of gorg-\\ning on meat at all meals, and at all seasons, is ruin-\\ning our national digestion.\\nClara never preached, a thing no man will\\nstand, nor sought controversy, but sometimes she\\nwould say Don t you want to go to church with\\nme, Robert? They are going to sing Mozart s\\nTwelfth Mass or Father Paxton will preach to-\\nday, wouldn t you like to hear him? We think\\nthat he is an unusually fine preacher. At Christ-\\nmas and Easter he was attracted by the grandeur\\nof the ceremonial.\\nAt such times Clara always supplied him with a\\nprayer-book, and explained the meaning of the\\nservices in advance. Sometimes he would volun-\\ntarily ask an explanation of some dogma or prac-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 The People of Our Parish\\ntice. On one occasion the subject was so intricate\\nthat Clara said frankly, I am afraid, Robert, that\\nI am not quite prepared, ofif-hand, to explain that\\nsatisfactorily, but you will find it treated at length\\nin The Faith of our Fathers, by Cardinal Gib-\\nbons and this estimable book was put into his\\nhands. It was a happiness to the devoted wife to\\nsee that he read every page of it, for she had un-\\nlimited confidence in our great Cardinal s power to\\ninstruct the ignorant. In concord and happiness\\nfive years went swiftly by, and poor Robert was\\nstricken with pneumonia. It was soon evident that\\nhis life was near its end. He asked for a priest,\\nand on his deathbed was baptized into the church\\nwhich the example of his wife had made him love.\\nOh, there is no question but that here and there\\na mixed marriage proves fortunate and happy.\\nBut these are exceptions to the general rule.\\nIt takes a girl with a strong, noble character, a\\nwell-poised brain, to steer successfully through the\\nshoals of a mixed marriage and, unfortunately, it is\\njust girls of this type who hesitate longest about\\nmarrying a man not of their faith. It is the weak,\\nfrivolous, worldly, half-instructed girls who rush\\ninto these alliances, and see no danger in them. It\\nis not so easy to be good, and a woman should not\\nwilfully throw away the safeguard and help of a\\nhusband whose piety might be firm where hers was\\nweak, whose sturdy faith would be as the north star\\nto their common lives the obstacles so hard for\\none proving trifles to their united strength.\\nAnd if it is hazardous for a girl to marry one not", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question ^y\\nof her own faith, what can be said of the woman who\\ntakes for her husband a man who is of no religion\\nat all, or of a very negative sort, the infidel, agnos-\\ntic, deist, or whatever name and form his want of\\nreHgion may assume?\\nThe girl is bound by her faith, guiding her con-\\nscience, to be true to her husband until death parts\\nthem, to be his loving, loyal, devoted wife through\\npoverty, illness, disgrace, misfortune, in whatever\\nguise it may come; the man is bound by nothing\\nbut his fancy. If he tires of his wife there is\\nnothing to prevent his seeking a divorce, and getting\\nanother; if illness and loss of beauty and charm\\nrob her of his affection, he does not hesitate to\\nbestow it elsewhere; if he has no conscience and\\nno love for his wife, there is nothing in the world to\\nkeep him from abusing her; and, as a matter of\\nfact, if the secret history of many a household could\\nbe known, the world would be amazed at the amount\\nof neglect and abuse that are endured in proud\\nsilence by unhappy wives.\\nWhere there is the bond of a common faith, a\\ncommon ideal, each bears with the failings of the\\nother from a supernatural motive.\\nSaid a poor invalid who has hardly left her couch\\nfor years, except when borne in her husband s arms\\nto a carriage for a little outing, I am sure my hus-\\nband will be one of the great saints in heaven, he is\\nso patient and so kind to me. I have been nothing\\nbut an expense and a drag to him all these years,\\nbut he makes me think that I am the greatest\\nblessing his life could have known.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 The People of Our Parish\\nA mother of girls says What are you going to\\ndo? A nice Catholic girl must either marry a non-\\nCatholic or else she must be an old maid, for there\\nare no Catholic young men of her own class for her\\nto marry. And not long ago from the four quarters\\nof our country there came a wail from the young\\nmen: We marry Protestant girls because we don t\\nmeet in society Catholic girls of our own class, and\\na cultured young man cannot mate with an ignorant\\nwoman. The two wails together make a sort of\\ncomic-opera situation. It is undeniable that one\\nknows many more nice Catholic girls than nice\\nCatholic young men, letting that word nice do\\nduty for well-bred, cultured, refined. Whether it is\\nthat whooping-cough and other infantile complaints\\ncarry off the little boys, leaving their sisters to grow\\nto marriageable womanhood, or whether the parents\\ngive superior training to the daughters, statistics\\nhave not finally settled. There was still another\\nwail from a good old priest, whose sober Teu-\\ntonic mind has small use for the advanced woman,\\ninveighing against the pernicious (I am not sure\\nthat he did not say damnable) custom of educat-\\ning the girls above the boys, and, as a consequence,\\nunfitting them to be the practical, sensible wives of\\nother girls brothers.\\nIn the smaller cities and towns, unquestionably,\\nthere is often the alternative of marrying a non-\\nCatholic or of not marrying at all. Sometimes it\\nresolves itself into a syllogism It is my vocation to\\nbe married I am fitted by disposition, training, and\\ninclination to be a good wife; one can save one", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "A Grave Question 59\\nsoul in that state of life to which one is called more\\neasily than in any other; there are no Catholic men\\nto marry, therefore it is wiser and better to marry a\\nnon-Catholic than not to marry at all.\\nThe problem is not an easy one for the marriage-\\nable young person to solve.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "VI\\nEXCEPTIONS TO GENERAL RULES\\nTHE little company assembled in Mrs. Dris-\\ncoirs drawing-room one Sunday evening had\\nbeen talking about young Fred Weber s marriage,\\nand the opposition of the bride s parents on ac-\\ncount of the religious differences of the couple.\\nThere is one thing about your church that I\\ndon t understand, said Captain Claiborne, and\\nthat is, why you don t stick to your own rules.\\nClaiborne, recently of the Volunteers, was bap-\\ntized a Catholic, brought up a Methodist, and\\ncaught in a mild agnosticism through choice and\\nforce of circumstances.\\nI was at Weber s marriage, he went on a\\nbrilliant affair it was, too, and it gives point to my\\nquestion. I happen to know that there is a rule\\nin this diocese forbidding evening weddings, and\\nanother rule requiring a mixed couple, as Carl\\nwould say, a Catholic and a Protestant, to go to\\nthe priest s residence to be married. Still another\\nrule provides that the banns be announced for the\\nthree preceding Sundays in the parish church of\\nthe Catholic.\\nEach and all of these regulations were violated\\nin the present instance. They wxre married in the\\ngorgeous Louis Seize drawing-room of the Dayton", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 6i\\nhome they were married by electric Hght, before\\nan assemblage in evening dress the hands of an\\nonyx clock showed the hour to be ten minutes of\\nseven; and Miss Norrison is my authority for saying\\nthat the banns had been published but once. Still\\nanother violation of rule, they were not married by\\nthe parish priest, as is ordinarily required, but by\\na clergyman from another city.\\nI call that a pretty stiff array of exceptions.\\nI was at the wedding, also, said Dr. Mordant.\\nIn fact, if it had not been for me there would have\\nbeen no wedding, for I saved the life of the bride\\nwhen she was three years old, who even at that\\nearly age began to show her disregard of accepted\\nrules by swallowing a cherry-stone.\\nYou understand, of course, that dispensations\\nare given in matters of discipline, and never in\\nmatters of faith or morals. You are not such a\\ndonkey as to imagine anything else.\\nIt is a principle of good government that the\\npower that makes a rule can also dispense with the\\nobservance of the rule. The Church can, for satis-\\nfactory reasons, dispense from the laws that she\\nmakes herself. A law is always made for a good\\npurpose, and only a grave reason can secure its\\nabrogation.\\nNow, of course, I don t know, in this particular\\ncase, why the dispensations were granted but I\\nknow something of dispensations in general. In\\nthe first place, it is the wish of the Church that her\\nchildren marry Catholics, that they get married\\nin the morning at a nuptial Mass in their parish", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 The People of Our Parish\\nchurch, that they receive the nuptial blessing from\\nthe parish priest, and that the banns shall have\\nbeen proclaimed for three Sundays.\\nHer wisdom and experience have shown that\\nthese regulations are conducive to the welfare, spirit-\\nual and temporal, of her children. Nevertheless,\\nlike a good mother, she is indulgent and divinely\\ntender, and her regulations are meant to be salutary\\nand upholding supports, not galling yokes.\\nFor good reasons dispensations are given, and,\\nin many instances, given reluctantly, to prevent\\ngreater evils.\\nThose regulations may be very well when two\\nCatholics marry each other, said Claiborne; but I\\nfail to see what purpose they serve when a Catholic\\nmarries a Protestant, since the Church won t let\\nthem be married at Mass, and withholds her bene-\\ndiction, no matter what they do. I certainly\\nshould n t want my sister, if she married a Catholic,\\nto go to the clergyman s house for the ceremony,\\njust like a runaway couple to Gretna Green, or\\nfriendless nomads from a boarding-house.\\nRules are for everybody; exceptions are for in-\\ndividuals. In the first place, you must bear in mind\\nthat, to a Catholic, marriage is a solemn sacrament,\\none that must be received in a state of grace under\\npain of sacrilege. It is not a mere civil contract,\\nstill less a social function. When the daughter of\\nJohn Doe is married at home, this fact is remem-\\nbered the priest is received with respect, the com-\\npany is decorous, and the ceremony is as solemn\\nas the circumstances will permit.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 63\\nShortly afterwards the priest is called to the home\\nof Richard Roe for a similar function; the time is\\nset for half-past five, but when the clergyman arrives\\na few minutes before the hour, nobody is ready;\\nthe bride is still engaged with her toilet or her\\nbridesmaids, the musicians have not come, the\\nlamps are not yet lighted in the drawing-room, and\\nthe priest is kept waiting for fifteen minutes, or an\\nhour, for the ceremony. Dr. Saxon, the pastor of\\nthe bride, arrives, and eyes him coldly, and the\\nfriends of the family chatter together in isolated\\ngroups, leaving the priest to his own devices.\\nFinally, after the ceremony, without any time for\\nthought of the sacredness or solemnity of the\\nsacrament, the occasion becomes merely an ordi-\\nnary reception. The priest, who has had nothing\\nto eat since an early luncheon, being human, is\\ngetting hungry. At last some one asks him to go\\nto the dining-room, where he takes his place along\\nwith a crowd of strangers, and is served, standing,\\nto a croquette and some ice-cream, washed down\\nwith champagne or California wine, this part de-\\npending on the finances of Papa Roe. Some time\\nafter nine o clock he reaches home, with an enve-\\nlope in his pocket containing anything from five\\ndollars to a hundred. He has been absent four\\nhours, instead of one or two, as he intended, and\\nhe finds that he has missed several people of im-\\nportance to see, and also a sick call from an old\\nand devoted penitent.\\nHe is behind with his office, and he goes to bed\\nfeeling not quite his usual self, but forgetful that he", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 The People of Our Parish\\nhas had no dinner. In the morning he has a dull\\nheadache, and when he tries to write out his Sun-\\nday s sermon the ideas are all in a haze.\\nMy dear Doctor, I think you are letting your\\nimagination carry you too far in regard to the im-\\naginary nuptials of an imaginary Miss Roe, said\\nMrs. DriscoU; but one can readily see how a\\nhome wedding, say in the Blank Flats, might cause\\ndisedification to the company and annoyance to the\\npriest. A marriage in a stifling, ill-ventilated room,\\ncrowded with the hilarious and uncouth friends of\\nthe couple, might easily be shorn of every vestige of\\nsolemnity and decorum. The festivities are apt to\\nbe kept up far into the night, and the beverage will\\nbe neither champagne nor wine, but democratic\\nbeer, flowing in generous quantities.\\nHow much more in keeping with the sacrament\\nwould be a quiet ceremony in the rectory parlor,\\neither in the morning or afternoon, with only the\\nwitnesses present\\nAh then the home w^edding depends largely\\nupon the sort of home it is? answered Claiborne.\\nWell, yes, and the sort of people in the home,\\nadmitted the Doctor.\\nGranting that, why should the hour make any\\ndifference? pursued Claiborne. Nobody wants\\nto be married in the afternoon\\nGet married in the forenoon that is the proper\\ntime, retorted Dr. Mordant. As Adele here would\\nsay, evening w^eddings are bad form, and whilst our\\nBishop is not an especially fashionable old gentle-\\nman, he favors this point in the social code.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 65\\nThat hardly applies to this country, protested\\nClaiborne. It would be easy to recall any number\\nof fashionable evening weddings.\\nIn Europe everybody is married in the morn-\\ning/ interpolated Adele. That rule is coming into\\nfavor, here too. A morning home wedding can be\\nmade as swell as you please\\nHorrid little word, swell, whispered Mrs.\\nGriggs.\\nWhen Annie Cresus married Count Coquin,\\nwent on Adele, and all the coroneted Coquins\\ncame over to the wedding, the ceremony was at\\nnine o clock, and a wedding breakfast was served\\nimmediately afterwards to the hundred guests, with\\nthe Archbishop who had officiated seated at the\\nright of the bride s mother.\\nTo come down or up, rather to church wed-\\ndings, went on Claiborne, why is it allowable for\\na couple to be married at five o clock, and forbid-\\nden for them to be married at seven?\\nWhy does the elevator in your office building\\nrun until twelve o clock, and not a minute after?\\nWhy do you work nine hours a day, and not eleven?\\nWhy does the city council demand a pavement of\\neight feet, and not permit one of seven? Why do\\nlaw and order demand any concessions from human\\ncaprice?\\nThat is not an answer; it is merely pyrotechnics\\nin words, retorted Claiborne.\\nEvening weddings in the church are forbidden\\nin the interests of law and order, and also out of\\nrespect for the Blessed Sacrament. All the hood-\\n5", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 The People of Our Parish\\nlums in the neighborhood, or from neighborhoods\\nremote, congregate around a church when a wed-\\nding is taking place, and rend the air with their\\nnoise and, worse still, if the ushers are not on the\\nalert and draconian in their scrutiny of cards, peo-\\nple who have not been bidden to the ceremony\\nscramble in, crowding those who have a right to\\nbe there, standing in the pews to catch a glimpse\\nof the bride and of the assemblage, and a dar-\\ning urchin once perched himself on top of the\\nconfessional Chatter and laughter are going\\non constantly, and the occasion is robbed of its\\nsolemnity. Then, to come to the material point\\nof view, on investigation the following day the\\npews are found scratched, the cushions torn, the\\nfloor inexpressibly dirty, an arabesque of tobacco-\\nstains on the carpet.\\nBut, pardon me, my dear Mrs. Driscoll, surely\\nthose features are evils that proper care could\\neasily obviate. A few policemen on duty near the\\nentrance would speedily disperse the crowds, and\\nno one can complain when the ushers resolutely\\ndemand the cards of admission; in no other way\\ncan intruders be kept out.\\nPerhaps for the weddings among nice people\\nthese evils could be avoided, but if a pastor opens\\nhis church for one he must do it for all and when\\nTim Sharky and Nettie Toole are married, their\\nfriends would have the right to crowd the church, in\\nnoisy, malodorous numbers.\\nAnd there is one form of disrespect not con-\\nfined to the lower classes. I have seen in our", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 67\\nown church at evening weddings they do take\\nplace occasionally women in evening dress I\\nam speaking of the days of the extreme decollete\\nthat would have shamed a Roman festival. Un-\\ncovered shoulders are out of place in a church.\\nBut suppose a man must work all day; would\\nyou debar him from matrimony on that account?\\ncontinued the young officer, banteringly.\\nA man that cannot afford a holiday for his\\nwedding is not prepared for matrimony. However,\\nthere is no rule without an exception, and I know\\nof at least one instance where a couple were married\\nat night for the very reason you give. The bride-\\ngroom was compelled to work because of the illness\\nof the man who was to have taken his place in the\\nshop, and the pastor married them at night; but\\nthere were conditions the church was not open,\\nand only two witnesses were allowed to be present,\\nthe little party following the clergyman from the\\nrectory through the sacristy to the altar.\\nYou see the powers that be are not unreason-\\nable in their demands.\\nYou insist that in order to have a dispensation\\none must show a reason why it should be granted,\\ncontinued Claiborne. You say that for the reason\\nof illness, old age, or hard work, one is dispensed\\nfrom the Lenten fast; necessity permits one to work\\non Sundays or holidays; you give cases where\\nthe regulations in regard to the time and place\\nof marriage are abrogated now I should like to\\nknow the reasons that allow a Catholic to marry\\na Protestant.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 The People of Our Parish\\nI should like to know that, too/* put in Adele.\\nNot that I have any serious intintions/ as our\\ncook would say, but simply as a seeker after\\ninformation/\\nIs it not merely a matter of form? asked\\nTravis. I have known scores of instances where\\nthe only reason that any one could see was the very\\ngood one that the couple fell in love with each\\nother. And if that be a sufficient reason, why\\nrequire a dispensation, since that is an understood\\ncondition, at least theoretically, to all American\\nalliances.\\nThat is a question that takes us into rather deep\\nwaters, said the old Doctor. I fancy the Church\\nrather favors keeping the laity in the dark in regard\\nto the causes for dispensations in this matter, since\\nif people were familiar with them they might easily\\nbring about the conditions for themselves. You\\nhave all heard the story of the mother who warned\\nher children not to put beans in their noses, and\\nwho returned from her outing to find each baby\\nnostril filled with a bean?\\nThere is much more to be considered than the\\nmere matter of falling in love. In fact, some crusty\\nold priests, to whom sentiment is absolutely an\\nunknown quantity, might refuse to consider that\\naltogether.\\nThere are reasons, known in the schools as ca-\\nnonical reasons, for dispensations you will find them\\ntreated at length, in the Latin tongue, in various\\nmoral theologies. Now, when a couple applies for\\na dispensation they must show one or more of these", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 69\\nreasons before the priest will apply for the dispen-\\nsation. If the reason does not seem sufficiently\\nstrong the Bishop may, and often does, refuse. Of\\ncourse the pastor makes the application, and he\\nnaturally puts it in the correct form, but he must\\nhave a bona fide reason; it is a matter of con-\\nscience with him, and might be made a matter of\\necclesiastical discipline as well, if he were not care-\\nful to keep within the law.\\nIn the first place, the prohibition of the Church\\nacts as a deterring influence with the majority of\\nCatholics; no one can look with indifference on\\ntaking what cynics call a plunge into the dark\\nentering the holy state of matrimony without the\\nblessing of the Church. Then there are certain con-\\nditions to be complied with by the couple asking\\nthe dispensation. The non-Catholic must promise,\\nand I believe the promise is now required in writ-\\ning, not to interfere with the practice of the religion\\nof the Catholic spouse, that all the children are to\\nbe brought up in the Catholic faith, and that this\\npromise will be kept even in case of the death of\\nthe Catholic. More than one marriage has been\\nbroken off when this promise comes up for consid-\\neration, and sometimes a weak Catholic, especially\\nanxious to get married, and fearing that another\\nchance will not present itself, yields, and is married\\nby a judge or justice, or even by a preacher. Some-\\ntimes you hear a couple say that they had agreed\\nthat all the girls were to be of the mother s religion,\\nand all the boys to go with the father but this is\\nnonsense, a palpable falsehood to those who", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 The People of Our Parish\\nknow anything about the regulations of the Catholic\\nChurch. No priest would dare to ask for a dispen-\\nsation if this preliminary promise had been with-\\nheld. Oftentimes it is not kept, but where it is not\\nyou may know, beyond the shadow of a doubt,\\nthat a solemn pledge is being violated.\\nAnother condition is, that the ceremony must\\nbe performed by the priest, and no other ceremony,\\nbefore or after, can take place. Sometimes a couple\\nare married by a priest, and then a public ceremony\\nat the home of the bride, with her pastor officiating,\\nfollows but where this happens it is positive that\\nthe priest has been deceived furthermore the Cath-\\nolic is lending himself to a sacrilege, and incurs\\nexcommunication ipso facto^ becomes a reserved\\ncase something very dreadful, indeed.*\\nDon t you think your Church is just a little\\nsevere? inquired Claiborne.\\nNo, I don t think anything of the kind, re-\\ntorted Dr. Mordant, promptly. The Church objects\\nto mixed marriages, and she wishes them to be\\nmade as difficult as possible and besides, if you\\nunderstood what the Church really is, the teacher\\nand conserver of a divinely committed truth, you\\nwould see that she could not be less exacting.\\nOne s faith should be dearer than any earthly pos-\\nsession possible, and if one so regards it, it naturally\\nfollows that one would wish to transmit this price-\\nless heritage to one s offspring.\\nTo come back to the reasons for dispensations\\nage and ugliness are accepted Adele, you could n t\\ncreep in under either head. Suppose a spinster", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Exceptions to General Rules 71\\nof thirty-five gets an offer of marriage from a Meth-\\nodist, and the chances are that she will not get\\nanother, her pastor cannot be so hard-hearted as\\nto refuse to consider her application for a dispensa-\\ntion; or suppose a girl lives in a community where\\nthere are few Catholic young men of her own rank\\nin life, or that she has been receiving attentions\\nfrom the gentleman until her neighbors are of the\\nopinion that wedding cards should follow, or that\\nthere are family reasons, the healing of a feud, the\\nuniting of desirable estates. In Europe this con-\\ndition occurs more frequently than with us. Often-\\ntimes the peace of nations depends upon a certain\\nalliance between royal families.\\nSpeaking of Europe, said Claiborne, reminds\\nme of another point in the discussion, and that is\\nthe shameful unions among near relatives. The\\nChurch theoretically forbids them within the fourth\\ndegree; but despite the prohibition we are con-\\nstantly seeing marriages among first cousins. I\\ndon t mind that so much, although strong reasons,\\nnot of sentiment but of sense, can be adduced\\nagainst them but when it comes to an uncle\\nmarrying his niece, I call it nothing less than\\nshameful.\\nThat happens very rarely, answered the Doc-\\ntor, and only for extraordinary reasons is a dis-\\npensation granted. Among royalties the welfare\\nof nations is generally involved; among private\\nfolk, often the good name of the girl.\\nYou might tell us who She is, Captain Clai-\\nborne, interposed Mrs. Driscoll. Such a thirst", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 The People of Our Parish\\nfor detailed information naturally makes us all sus-\\npicious. I shall be very glad to tell Father Ryan\\nwhat a nice boy you are, or to say a good word for\\nyou to the girl but then of course that part would\\nbe entirely superfluous.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "VII\\nA FOOTNOTE TO AN OLD DISCUSSION\\nMRS. HICKS confided to me this afternoon\\nthat her son George is going to be married\\nto Kate Mahan, the engagement to be announced\\nvery soon, and the wedding to follow shortly af-\\nterwards. Seldom in my life have the restraints\\nimposed by civilization on a truth-loving tongue\\nseemed so exasperatingly hampering. Assuming\\nthe deprecating attitude of the beneficent parent, she\\nassured me that, whilst Kate was not quite the wife\\nshe would have chosen for George, neither she nor\\nMr. Hicks objected to the girl personally I sup-\\npose I was expected to infer that the Mahan\\nescutcheon is not quite up to the lofty Hicks\\nstandard.\\nI felt like telling her that any respectable girl in\\nthis parish is much too good for her son. George\\nHicks has been sowing his wild oats in so public a\\nmanner for a half-dozen years that it is no violation\\nof the law of charity to comment on the abundant\\ncrop he has harvested.\\nNow, forsooth, he is a little tired, and ready to\\nreform, and his mother regards it quite as a\\nmatter of course for some sweet, innocent girl to\\nstep forth to be the willing prop of this shaky\\nreformation", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 The People of Our Parish\\nIf it were poor little Kitty Mahan it seems\\nonly yesterday that the child was in short frocks\\nwho had reformed, and was aspiring to the hand\\nof Prince George (of the house of Hicks), all the\\nmothers in the country would hold up their arms\\nin righteous amazement at her presumption.\\nThe press and the various talking clubs have\\ntreated the subject ad nauseam of what is dubbed\\nthe double standard, not of sound money, but of\\nunsound morals. One side, representing the solid,\\nconservative element, the British pater familias and\\nthe American mother of sons, insists that it is all\\n*^rot to judge men and women by the same laws,\\nand the wildest Utopian dream to imagine that the\\nstandard will ever be the same for both.\\nThey show very clearly that the foundations of\\nsociety rest upon the virtue of women. They fail\\nto show how something higher than society\\nChristianity can rest on anything less than the\\nvirtue of mankind. A very large class of thinkers,\\nwhose prime apostle is Mr. Ruskin, insists with\\ntireless persistence that woman is the weaker vessel,\\nthat her mission in life is to be a helpmate for man,\\nand that just as she is subordinate in physical\\nstrength, so she is in intellectual vigor.\\nIf this be the case, and Scriptural texts, hurled\\nlike Parthian arrows, are made to support it, then it\\nlogically follows that man, far more than woman,\\nshould set the example of all beautiful traits.\\nThe cleverest of American essayists, Agnes\\nRepplier, has conceded without argument that in\\nthe higher walks of human activities man has un-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "A Footnote to an Old Discussion j^\\nquestionably excelled, and it were a bootless task\\nto thresh over old straw. But mounting from the\\nintellectual to the spiritual, we find woman in im-\\nmemorial possession.\\nWoman makes the sanctity of home, without which\\nlaw and order would speedily be turned to chaos;\\nshe fills our churches, crowds the altar railings, at-\\ntends to the poor, keeps alive the higher culture, and\\ndoes far more than her half of the world*s work.\\nThe demon drink has possession of myriads of\\nmen, but of few women the millions of dollars\\nthat annually swell the coffers of the saloon keepers\\nhave been spent in selfish disregard of hungry little\\nchildren, ill-clad, sorrowful wives, the needs of the\\npoor, the just demands of the Church, and spent by\\nmen; men fill the penitentiaries, the jails, the work-\\nhouses they fall away from the practice of religion\\nby countless thousands and from the earliest times\\nthey seem to have followed their own caprices in the\\nbreaking of parts of the Decalogue, in absolute im-\\npunity, so far as the world s censure is concerned.\\nThis is not saying that men have not been heroi-\\ncally good, that any community is without men who\\nlead cleanly, noble lives. Men are found in the\\ncalendar of saints, in the vanguard of all high en-\\ndeavor; one can bear grateful testimony to all this,\\nand yet stand appalled at the array of vices which\\nare perpetrated and perpetuated by men.\\nIt is certain, as certain as anything human can\\nbe, that there are far more good women in the\\nworld than there are good men.\\nIf in the divine order man is intended to be the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 The People of Our Parish\\nhead of woman, her wise ruler, and loving protector,\\nwhy does he fail so egregiously in the first duty of\\na superior, the setting of a good example?\\nIt is absurdly paradoxical for women to fold their\\nwhite robes about them and shut the door relent-\\nlessly against a woman whose robe is not quite\\nwhite, or has not always been so, and open it wide\\nto men whose moral habiliment is smirched to\\nsooty blackness.\\nIndividual women say Society is so constituted,\\nand we must bow down to its usages we are power-\\nless to effect a change.\\nThe individual can do very little, but a collection\\nof individuals make up society, and society forms\\npublic sentiment, and pubHc sentiment, which let\\ndown the bars of morality a score of centuries before\\nChristianity had birth, could easily put them up\\nagain, and show a consistency between the theories\\nof civilization and its practice.\\nAmong the nine ways in which, as the little cate-\\nchism tells us, we can be accessory to another s sin,\\nis connivance in the evil done.\\nHow is it that the fathomless mother-love, which\\nhas sweetened the world since Eve crooned lullabies\\nto little Abel, has not sprung to the rescue of boyish\\nsouls?\\nThe apparent callousness of good Christian\\nmothers on this point is appalling; the innocence\\nof their daughters is guarded as infinitely more\\nprecious than apples of the Hesperides, but the loss\\nof the innocence of their sons seems to trouble them\\nnever at all", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "A Footnote to an Old Discussion 77\\nThey make temptation easy by doing away with\\nall earthly penalties for a fall. They seem to forget,\\nor to ignore, that awful reckoning in another world.\\nPoor boys when even their own mothers and sisters\\nare leagued against them.\\nA fatal fallacy running through much of the dis-\\ncussions is, that woman should be allowed the same\\npersonal liberty in the matter of morals as man; in\\na word, that all women should have the privilege of\\nbeing as bad as some men. If society is far from\\nideal with its feminine half held to a strict account,\\nwhat would it be if both women and men were free\\nto choose either virtue or vice\\nVirtue that is a matter of compulsion is not of a\\nvery admirable order; but one must admit that it is\\nfar better for the individual as well as for society, of\\nwhich the individual is a part, for a person to be\\ngood through compulsion than not to be good at all.\\nAnd the effect of the example is just the same.\\nThree men stand out in history as representative\\nand forever great: Julius Caesar, conqueror, law-\\ngiver, pagan Napoleon, conqueror, lawgiver, Chris-\\ntian; Louis XIV., hereditary monarch, lawgiver,\\nChristian, three men as noted for their private\\nvices as for their public virtues, but three men held\\nup to the admiration of boyish hearts. To many\\nminds the pagan was the noblest of them all; thus\\na bad example, reaching out from the grave where\\nkingly ashes have mouldered for centuries, puts a\\nweapon in the hands of the enemies of religion.\\nBoys are taught their catechism, and taken in their\\nchildish innocence to make their first communion;", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "jS The People of Our Parish\\nand then the world steps in and says, Leave religion\\nto women and children/\\nAnd so we have the paradox of Freemasons and\\ninfidels ruling, or misruling, Catholic countries. In\\nFrance, Italy, Mexico, Cuba, South America, women\\nfill the churches and lay siege to heaven with their\\nprayers but their husbands and fathers enter the\\nportals only to be baptized, married, and buried.\\nWomen bewail this condition of things, and ig-\\nnore the fact that they themselves have helped to\\nbring it about. When society demands that purity,\\nhonor, and sobriety shall be the passports to recog-\\nnition and favor, regardless of sex, for the Deca-\\nlogue knows no exception, then indeed will come\\nthe dawning of a happier era for humanity.\\nNot a lower standard for woman, but a higher\\nstandard for man should be the slogan in this mod-\\nern crusade.\\nIn that happy time young girls will not be ex-\\npected to say, Thank you, sir, for the shop-worn\\naffections of any man.\\nIn the mean time, Kitty Mahan has probably been\\nschooled by her mother not to be over-nice in her\\nchoice of a husband, so long as a carriage and pair,\\nand all that they represent, are to reward her mag-\\nnanimity.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "VIII\\nSOME DOMESTIC INTERIORS\\nPERHAPS the greatest charm in novels is that\\nwe are transported into beautiful, or interest-\\ning, or curious homes without the trouble of going\\nforth to seek them. In this way we can have a much\\nlarger circle of friends and acquaintances than would\\nbe possible in any other, and without the disquiet-\\ning consciousness that some of them are most inel-\\nigible for friendship, or the humiliating suspicion\\nthat we are intruding unasked into the society of\\nour betters.\\nWe can go to the Queen s drawing-room without\\nthe permission of the American ambassador, and\\nmake the thirteenth at a Midas banquet given to a\\nfavored twelve.\\nSt. Paul s is not an unusually large parish; in-\\ndeed, since the Grosvenor Park people insisted upon\\nhaving a church of their own, and cut themselves\\noff from us to add wealth and prestige to St.\\nPius s, we are of very moderate dimensions yet it\\nis safe to say that within the parish limits are to be\\nfound such diversity of homes, and of people, as\\nwould supply material to all the novelists in the\\nState.\\nAt the corner of Carroll Place there stands a\\nbeautiful old stone homestead, set well back in a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "8o The People of Our Parish\\nflowering lawn for the house dates from the era\\nwhen lawns and flowers belonged as naturally as the\\ndoors and walls to the rich man s town-house.\\nOne goes up the gray stone steps with richly\\ncarved newels, and finds a modern electric door-bell,\\nwhich has but recently taken the place of the brass\\nknocker; a heavy door, fit to be the portal of a\\nseventeenth-century chateau on the Loire, swings\\nslowly open, and admits the visitor into a lofty,\\nbroad hall, with a marble floor left almost bare\\nof rugs; a massive bronze lamp depends from a\\nbeautiful frescoed ceiling, no longer in its pristine\\nfreshness.\\nTo the left is the spacious drawing-room, with\\nheavy curtains draping the long French windows,\\nmassive, old-fashioned mahogany furniture, and dim\\nold paintings on the walls. As the eye becomes\\naccustomed to the half-light one distinguishes a\\ncopy of Raphael s Sistine Madonna, and a-^oft-eyed\\ngentle St. Elizabeth. In a far corner is a white\\nmarble statue of Our Lady. Instantly one has a\\nkey to the faith of the household, the old faith so\\nrich in inspiration to the artist, so unerring in its\\nuse of art. After this glimpse, one is quite prepared\\nto find in the chatelaine of the mansion the dear old\\ngentlewoman who came to the house a bride forty\\nyears ago, and who has, under its hospitable roof,\\nreared a charming family of womanly daughters and\\nbrave sons. If you get to know the family well\\nenough you will hear of Robert, the eldest, who now\\nrepresents his country at a European court, and is\\nthe pride of his father and mother, not so much", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 8i\\nbecause of his fame, but, as they will tell you, be-\\ncause Robert has been nothing but a pleasure to us\\nall his life he was always so good.\\nOf Elizabeth, now a sweet young matron, married\\ninto another of our old Catholic families; of Ar-\\nmand, a talented, spirituel youth, who died in the\\nJesuit Scholasticate in Belgium of Constance, a\\ngay young belle, who dances from All Saints to\\nShrove Tuesday, inclusive, and prays like a little\\nnun, and goes demurely on her way of charity and\\ngood works during Lent. Oh, yes, Constance\\nloves society, sometimes I fear, too much, says the\\nmother; but she is such a devoted child, and so\\nsweet and gracious, who could help loving her, and\\nspoiling her too, almost as much as her father\\ndoes?\\nAcross the hall is the library, and in the rows of\\nblackened cases one finds many a well-thumbed\\nvolume bearing names that the cramming average\\nyoung American has barely heard of: Montalem-\\nbert, de Sevign6, de Gu^rin, John England, Mar-\\ntin L. Spalding, these hold up their honored\\nheads along with the best of the old aristocracy of\\nliterature.\\nOn the mantel above the grate there stands, for\\neverybody to see, a tall, yellowing, ivory crucifix.\\nAs one goes over the house, one finds emblems of\\nreligion and the world s Redeemer in all its big,\\ncheery rooms. Here, evidently, is the robust, logi-\\ncal faith that recognizes and utilizes the tremendous\\npower for good or evil in environment.\\nIt has never occurred to this gentle dame that\\n6", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 The People of Our Parish\\nthe best way to teach purity and modesty and wo-\\nmanly virtue to a young girl is to surround her,\\nfrom her earliest years, with pictures and statues of\\nVenuses and dancing Bacchantes or that these,\\nhowever good from the artistic point of view, would\\nincite to prayer and noble living, rather than copies\\n6f Millet s AngehiSy and Murillo s Immaculate Con-\\nceptioii or that a bronze Hermes, or a beautiful\\nhead of the young Tiberius, would prove more effec-\\ntive in quickening the boyish pulse with heroic\\nresolve and manly honor than the bust of the great\\nLeo, or the scholarly profile of the saintly Newman.\\nThe matron next door thinks differently, and\\npagan treasures are to be found in her house in pro-\\nfusion, and in the most unimpeachably artistic verity.\\nAs she would tell you, with a shrug of her bared,\\nwhite shoulders, it is all a matter of taste. But\\nour chatelaine is an old-fashioned mother who would\\nprefer to see her children innocent and chivalrous,\\nrather than artistic and world-wise.\\nAnd what beautiful memories cluster around this\\nold home memories of the gay frolics of children,\\nof splendid parties for the children grown-up, of\\nchristenings, and first- communion breakfasts, and\\nwedding feasts, of birthdays, and anniversaries, and\\nChristmas dinners.\\nNow the house is more quiet, but never for long,\\nand grandchildren lend their piping trebles to the\\nechoes of the vaulted hall.\\nOver in Seneca Street, the houses are on a very\\ndifferent scale, built in a row, and whole blocks of\\nthem just alike. One hears the story of the young", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 83\\nman who went into the wrong door, and did not dis-\\ncover his mistake until confronted by the angry\\noccupant of the third-story front.\\nThese houses were built before architects awoke\\nto the possibilities lying dormant in their imagina-\\ntions. There is one block which is known as The\\nDovecote, because so many young couples have\\nset up their Lares and Penates behind its narrow\\nstone fronts.\\nThe Carletons live there, and Mrs. Carleton, who\\nas Eleanor Byrne was the prettiest little minx in\\nthe Raphael Sketch Club, has accomplished the\\nimpossible, and wrought artistic beauty out of the\\nlittle box rooms, and the long, narrow hall with its\\nabrupt toy stairs. She had the house freshly\\npapered, choosing each shade and pattern with ref-\\nerence to the light, or more frequently the absence\\nof light, in the particular room and with the new\\nfurniture, the wedding presents, some growing plants\\nat the windows, candles with pink shades in the\\ndining-room, and Eleanor herself in her trousseau\\nfinery, the home is a delightful spot, and worthy of\\nplace in one s mental picture-gallery.\\nYoung George, the happy benedict, thinks so, and\\nbeing a generous youth he is always asking his\\nfriends to dinner, quite informally, you know; and\\nthe bride, who is as delighted with the shiny new\\nthings in her kitchen and the motherly Bridget who\\npresides there as she was with her dolls and card-\\nboard mansion not so very long ago, is developing\\nsurprising genius in the way of salads and soups.\\nSometimes, when there is a larger number of guests", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 The People of Our Parish\\nthan the architect had planned for crowded into the\\npretty drawing-room, a gilt chair gets knocked over;\\nand when Arthur Bonner, the noted bass, sings for\\ntheir delectation, his big voice so fills the house that\\none expects to find a tiny crack in the wall. But\\nthe coterie evidently enjoy themselves, for they\\ncome back again as soon as asked, and the lord of\\nthe domicile chants insistent paeans of matrimony to\\nbachelors.\\nThe neighbors opposite are not artistic. The\\nlady of the house, in the suave words of the book\\nagent, is not a bride, and whilst her devotion to her\\nhusband and little family is beyond question, its\\nmanifestation is somewhat erratic. She does not\\nspare herself, and equally of course she does not\\nspare them. Everything about her house is cheer-\\nless and untidy. She cannot get along with the\\nvarious Phyllises who have come and gone from her\\nkitchen; when her husband returns home at night\\nhe expects, and is not often disappointed, to hear\\na tale of woe Phyllis has given warning, or she is\\nso impudent or wasteful; the gas pipe leaks; little\\nPhil has been having trouble at school, his teacher\\ndoes not understand the child s sensitive tempera-\\nment; Katie shows symptoms of whooping-cough.\\nAnd there is the bill from Eraser s how the things\\ndo count up is a mystery, for she knows that no\\nwoman in town is as saving as she. The tale is\\ninterrupted by sounds of a lively scrimmage among\\nthe children, and vigorous wails from the youngest.\\nIt has been a long time since a guest, not a rel-\\native, sat at their board, and naturally the couple", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 85\\nhave been dropped from the lists of dinner-givers.\\nThere are too many little mouths to feed, and little\\nfeet to keep shod to permit of squandering dollars\\non the theatre, and papa does not care for cards.\\nHe would like to read, but by the time the domestic\\natmosphere is cleared it is too late to do more than\\nglance at the evening paper.\\nSmall wonder that, when the young man who has\\nthe desk next to his in the great commercial bee-\\nhive asks for congratulations on his approaching\\nnuptials, he stammers absently, You poor dev\\noh, ah, of course I congratulate you, wish you\\nevery joy, old fellow. When is the the happy\\nday to be?\\nAs for the wife, she is not artistic, or literary,\\nor social, or religious. It would be hard to say\\nin a word just what she is, a faded, peevish, dowdy\\nlittle woman, her skirts in chronic need of new\\nbinding.\\nAs a rule, the keynote of a home is given by the\\nbeing who presides as its queen. On her depends\\nthe comfort or the discomfort, the cheerfulness or\\nthe gloom, that pervades its interior. Rules, how-\\never, have exceptions. For instance, a man with a\\ndecided literary bent will naturally have a good\\nlibrary, and there will be the literary flavor, so to\\nspeak, in the surroundings, the conversation, the\\npoint of view. If he is artistic there will be the\\natmosphere of art. In the ideal home there is the\\nblending of tastes.\\nPeople impress their individualities on their sur-\\nroundings, or they do when they are not hampered", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 The People of Our Parish\\nfor means until every natural taste has been\\nsmothered. Sometimes the poor woman who loves\\nmusic and books and company and laughter is\\ncondemned to a dreary, cheerless, silent home and\\nthe woman who craves flowers and birds and the\\nmurmur of running brooks may dim her eyes gazing\\nout over the chalky stretch of a barren Western\\nplain. The man who would find his element with\\ngun or wheel is forced by circumstances to the\\nsaloon or club for recreation.\\nWhilst it is true that the woman makes the happi-\\nness of the home, she cannot always prevent its\\nunhappiness. There are men in the world whom\\nno woman without a halo could ever hope to please,\\nand even a saint would find her task harder work\\nthan the winning of the halo.\\nThere is Perry Bryson, for one. When Carrie\\nTurner married him her friends, and especially his,\\nthought that she was doing unusually well for her-\\nself; for the Brysons are a good old family, at one\\ntime rich, whilst the Turners were, in a sense,\\nparvenus. Mrs. Turner was a widow with two\\ndaughters to take care of, and a very limited income.\\nLouise, the elder, shocked her mother and sister by\\ngoing to work.\\nI hate old gloves and threadbare flannels, she\\nsaid, and a diet of stewed prunes and toast; and\\nI am going to use the brains the good Lord gave\\nme to obtain beefsteak and decent clothes.\\nBut then Louise was not pretty like Carrie, and\\nwas of a different temperament.\\nPerry Bryson was the youngest son, much in-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 87\\ndulged by his mother, who naturally expected\\nhis wife to continue the indulgence.\\nAt first life was pleasant enough. Carrie soon\\ndiscovered that her husband drank more than was\\ngood for him, and that his club dues and tailor s\\nbills and incidental expenses whatever that\\nmight mean ate up his salary at an appalling\\nrate. However, she did not complain. But after\\na brood of little Brysons appeared on the scene, to\\nbe fed and clothed and taken care of in the thou-\\nsand ways which the modern child has invented to\\nuse up an income, the pinch of real poverty made\\nitself felt. Carrie had long since dropped out of\\nsociety; either the children needed her presence,\\nor else she had no clothes suitable in which to\\nappear in the drawing-rooms frequented by her\\nhusband. She never thought of asking him to stay\\nat home with her when an invitation came which\\nshe could not accept. Soon their friends came to\\nlook upon Mrs. Bryson as a chronic invalid, and\\nrather pitied Perry. There was nothing the matter\\nwith the poor woman except loneliness and neglect,\\nand the torturing problem of trying, from week to\\nweek and from year to year, to live on a pittance\\nwoefully inadequate to the demands made upon it.\\nWith one inefficient domestic, six children, and a\\nhusband who made things unpleasant if his dinner\\nwas not well cooked and properly served, it can be\\ndivined that life for the wife and mother meant\\nmerely a round of never-ending toil.\\nWith no leisure, no opportunity for pleasure, or\\nfresh air, or pretty clothes, or books, or great plays,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 The People of Our Parish\\nor new pictures, and far too much exercise of the\\nwrong sort, it is not surprising that Mrs. Perry\\nBryson looks so much older than her husband, and\\noh, such a fright She never has on a decent\\ngown, or appears to know anything of what you\\nare talking about; and her husband is so nice and\\nso good-looking. One does see the queerest\\nmatings, or mismatings\\nAnd handsome Perry Bryson, as he doles out\\nmoney to Carrie, and wonders in April what she\\ncould have done with the check he gave her at\\nChristmas, feels unfairly treated when stewed prunes,\\nor their equivalent, appear on his table.\\nMiss Louise Turner, a prosperous spinster of\\nthirty-six, who keeps house with another spinster in\\na cozy flat, and has an income from property\\nalmost enough to support her did she choose to\\ngive up her place as the head of a bureau of stenog-\\nraphy, pays her sister Carrie an occasional visit.\\nAlthough five years the senior, she looks younger\\nand fresher than Mrs. Bryson. She has been to\\nEurope, and every summer is spent in travel and\\nrest. With work, society, friends, books, fads,\\ncharities, and her sister s children, she has no time\\nfor regrets for what her brother-in-law says that she\\nhas missed. (She is devoutly thankful that she has\\nmissed a Perry Bryson\\nPoor Louise What a pity she never married\\nsays Perry; she would have made some man a\\ngood wife. She never was as pretty as you, Carrie,\\nbut she is rather stunning now. Some women are\\nlike that, you know never seem to amount to any-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 89\\nthing in the way of looks until they get up in years\\nand others are just but he had the grace to\\nstop short.\\nThe Bryson children are uproariously delighted\\nwhen Aunt Louise is expected for her coming\\nmeans more matinees, and candy, and nice times\\ngenerally, than their father would give them in a\\nyear.\\nAnd poor Louise secretly pities poor\\nCarrie, and crushes down the impulse to give that\\nselfish, unfeeling incarnation of stinginess, her\\nbrother Perry, a piece of her indignant mind\\nDown near the lower boundary of the parish one\\ncomes upon the dwellings of the poor, sometimes\\nthe very poor, and, in at least one block, of the\\nsubmerged poor.\\nMrs. George Carleton, who is an active member\\nof the St. Paul s Aid Society, says that there is no\\nexcuse for the submerging; that when you\\nfind a family who cannot by their united efforts\\nearn enough to eat and to wear, you will usually\\nfind the beer mug and laziness behind their dis-\\ntress. Of course, where sickness is a factor the\\ncase is different.\\nEven a tenement can afford striking contrasts.\\nThere are the Dingers, who live in the Kensing-\\nton flats; the house is so called, although it is\\nreally only a tenement of the better sort. They\\nhave four rooms, but they also have a home. Too\\nmany of their neighbors have only four rooms\\nthey have not succeeded in making a home.\\nThe Dinger children go to school, all except", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 The People of Our Parish\\nTom, the first-born, who is sixteen, and has a posi-\\ntion in a shoe store. The father is a mechanic,\\nearning fairly good wages. What first impresses\\none in their abode is the neatness and brightness of\\neverything. Flowers are in the windows, and the\\nwhitest of muslin curtains are looped back from\\nthem there are pictures on the walls. Mrs. Carle-\\nton says that she has to wear smoked glasses when\\nshe calls to leave magazines from the book club,\\nthe pictures are so highly colored; but they suit\\nthe Dingers.\\nIn the evening the little family gather around the\\ndinner-table the mother in her calico frock and\\nwhite apron, fresh and crisp, listens with maternal\\npride to the children s bulletins of their school, and\\nMaster Tom s boasting of what our firm is going\\nto do; and the husband says that he guesses\\nKittie can have a guitar if she gets over ninety in\\nher examinations, has visions of Tom s glorious\\nfuture, and is altogether sure that there is not a\\nfiner family in the parish than his.\\nIf you listen to their conversation, or use your\\neyes, you will soon find out that they know some-\\nthing about books, and the happenings in the big\\nworld; and Tom, at least, can tell you the names\\nand strong points of all the great histrionic stars\\nwho have come to town during the season.\\nPresently, before the dishes are all washed, some\\nof the neighbors drop in, and there are games and\\nmuch chatter and laughter, and a pan of hot pop-\\ncorn and who can blame them? perhaps a\\npitcher of beer.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Some Domestic Interiors 91\\nIn the rooms next to theirs you will find dirt and\\ndisorder, ragged, hollow-eyed children, the father\\nsleeping off a drunken debauch.\\nOn the floor above is pandemonium.\\nAnd little children are born into that atmosphere,\\nand live in it, when a merciful Providence does not\\nlet them die. And when this class become very\\nnumerous in a city, the police are vigilantly alert in\\nthe neighborhood, and thoughtful people who have\\nread history look grave, and wonder what the end\\nwill be. But within earshot of the profanity and the\\ndrunken revels is a sweet-faced little sewing-woman,\\nin her tiny room she has had only bread and tea\\nand a bit of cheese for her supper, but she says\\ngrace as devoutly after the repast as if it had been\\na feast. And after stitching away until her eyes and\\nback ache wearily, she puts out her candle, and\\nkneels before a little altar to say her prayers. The\\nLitany of Our Lady does not come from a purer\\nheart in all the parish than from that of the ill-paid,\\nhalf-starving sewing-woman.\\nPerhaps you have seen her in the church, or\\nnoticed her saintly expression as she passed up the\\naisle, in the long line of Sodality girls, to the com-\\nmunion railing.\\nAnd it is the sewing-woman and her kind that\\nbring hope to the social economist.\\nIn the thousands of homes within the parish\\nlimits, happy homes, sorrowful homes, among the\\nrich and among the poor, the spirit of good and\\nthe spirit of evil often dwell side by side, with only\\na brick wall separating peace from despair.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "IX\\nA PLEA FOR THE CHILDREN\\nSO much sound advice has been given in recent\\nyears to parents that one would naturally ex-\\npect the present generation of little ones to be\\nprodigies of goodness and charm, a little lower,\\nperhaps, than the angels, but certainly far superior\\nto the infant phenomenon of earlier and less in-\\nstructed days.\\nYet one s acquaintance with children does not\\nhave to be very extensive to demonstrate that this\\nis not the case. Parents are either very stupid, or\\nelse very heedless of the profuse counsels given to\\nthem.\\nWhen one rubs against some of the common-\\nplace, little-souled women who have been intrusted,\\nthrough some strange oversight of nature, with the\\nhigh and holy office of motherhood, it is a matter\\nof pleasant surprise that their children are not\\nworse than they really are.\\nMother-instinct, perhaps, comes to the rescue\\nwhen common-sense fails. There is no lack of care\\nbestowed by these women on the physical well-\\nbeing of their offspring, the merits of various\\npatent foods, the right temperature of baths, the\\nbest remedies for croup, are not unknown to them", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "A Plea for the Children 93\\nbut they seem to overlook the little soul, fresh from\\nthe hands of its Creator, a jewel so rare, so precious,\\nso beautiful that the angel guardian is never weary\\nof watching over the treasure.\\nThe soul of a child is like some wonderful ala-\\nbaster clay, which can be moulded into shapes of\\nexquisite beauty, or deformed and scarred and soiled.\\nIt is like a garden in which rarest flowers are planted.\\nThe saints and great doctors of the Church are\\nnever tired of trying to depict what the soul of a\\nlittle child really is in the sight of God they have\\nnot spared the finest imagery, the most glowing\\nterms. And yet it is treated in a way to make\\nangels veil their faces.\\nPeople touch lightly upon the spoiling of chil-\\ndren, as if that were their normal fate. They are\\nmore grave when the spoiling of a horse is involved.\\nThe human spoiling begins before the little thing\\ncan even give articulate speech to its baby wants.\\nThe infant screams for the clock at the top of its\\nvigorous young lungs, and to save herself trouble\\nthe mother yields; the child has learned its first\\nlesson in strategy. As it grows older the tactics\\nwhich won the clock are constantly employed to\\nwin other things. The little one cries for candy,\\nand gets it, toddles into forbidden closets, and cries\\nto avert reproof and punishment the boy wants to\\nplay with naughty boys across the street, and teases\\nand whines until the mother s no becomes an\\nimpatient yes.\\nYet that parent has probably heard a score of\\ntimes that the primary law for the management of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 The People of Our Parish\\nchildren is, to say yes with discretion, and no\\nwith firmness.\\nMiss Norrison dropped in for a cup of tea the\\nother day, and, as no stranger was present, gave\\nutterance to her candid opinions on the subject of\\nchildren.\\nI have just been to call at the Glovers she\\nsaid, and a brood of more ill-mannered Httle cubs\\nit would be hard to find in a day s ride. Kitty\\nGlover was my chum at school, but if I d thought\\nthat a friend of mine could develop into such an\\nidiot mother, I should n t have attended her wedding.\\nThe nurse had gone to the dentist s, and Kitty\\nwas walking the floor with the baby; Pauline was\\nhammering with her fists on the piano, and Charles\\nand Reggy were pummelling each other in the hall.\\nOf course I felt decidedly out of place, and wanted\\nto go away immediately, but Kitty would n t let me.\\nPauline left the piano and came over to see me, and\\nI soon discovered that she had been eating candy,\\nfor her dirty, sticky fingers have ruined the front\\nof my best Redfern frock. Reggy kicked the dog\\nand set it to howling, the baby yelled in sympathy,\\nand Charles proceeded to give his brother another\\nthrashing,\\nThe senseless theories of some women as to the\\nmanagement of children are almost worse than no\\ntheories at all. One writer gravely puts forth the\\ndictum that one should reason with a child, and\\nmake it see the wisdom of obedience, but never\\nunder any circumstances use force. If this prin-\\nciple were put into practice, all the Sunday-school", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "A Plea for the Children 95\\nbooks, as Miss Repplier points out, and the pleasing\\nlittle anecdotes in the Readers, illustrative of the\\nbenefits to childhood of the virtue of obedience,\\nwould have to be destroyed, and a new set con-\\nstructed on radically different lines.\\nWell brought-up children, in old-fashioned days,\\nnever dreamed that reasons were their due. It was\\nthe privilege of youth to lean on the wisdom of\\nage, and to pursue the even tenor of its ways in\\nthe comforting conviction that the course decided\\nby parental authority was best or, at least irrev-\\nocable.\\nParents sometimes permit their children many\\nhurtful privileges, and withhold some of their nat-\\nural rights.\\nThey act as if they considered their children to\\nbe a set of little fools. They teach them that it is\\nwrong to tell falsehoods, and fib to them and before\\nthem without scruple.\\nThere is that tiresome bill collector from Her-\\nford s Run to the door, Georgie, and tell him that\\npapa is out of town.\\nAnd if Georgie comes in a few days later and\\nsays that he had been kept in at school for spell-\\ning, when, as a matter of fact, he had been play-\\ning with the grocer s boy in the street, Georgie s\\nmamma is hardly logical if she punishes him for\\nfalsehood.\\nAnd if Georgie s papa laughs at him to-day for\\ntying the cat to the parlor curtains, and whips him\\nto-morrow for the same act, because the curtain\\nhappens to be torn in the second venture, Georgie", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 The People of Our Parish\\nis apt to lose that nice appreciation of the correla-\\ntion of punishment and crime.\\nHappy is that child who can accept as a reason,\\nsatisfying beyond all doubt, the simple phrase,\\nMamma says so, secure in the conviction that\\nmamma cannot lead him astray.\\nChildren are not always fortunate in the selection\\nof their parents. Who has not known the mother\\nwho appealed unconsciously to the worst instincts\\nin the little soul, developing the germs of evil\\nplanted in human nature at the Fall of Man. At\\ndancing-school the Httle coquettes walk about in\\nsilks, casting admiring glances over their shoulders\\nat their overdressed figures reflected in the mirrors,\\nor looking disdainfully at those of their companions\\nwhose mothers have less money or more sense. At\\nan early age they get their first lessons in snobbery.\\nEleanor Standish came home the other day and\\nsaid that the girls had asked if her mamma were in\\nsociety, and if her papa were rich.\\nAre you in society, mamma? asked the child,\\ninnocently.\\nAs if a healthy-minded child would care to know\\nmore about another child than whether she could\\nplay games, and be depended upon to bring cara-\\nmels with some degree of regularity to school\\nClass distinctions and the burden of clothes be-\\nlong to a later and worldlier era of girl life.\\nNo mother can be censured for keeping her young\\ndaughter away from undesirable playmates, but pov-\\nerty and obscurity should not be given as reasons\\nfor the exclusion.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "A Plea for the Children 97\\nKathleen, you must n t play with the little girls\\nnext door; they are not polite/ and Kathleen, to\\nwhom politeness is a cardinal virtue, acquiesces at\\nonce.\\nSmall girls of ten have been heard to talk about\\ntheir sweethearts and their mothers, standing\\nby, thought them clever\\nHow many have had the beautiful innocence of\\ntheir child souls tarnished through hearing all sorts\\nof subjects discussed in their presence by a vulgar,\\nunthinking mother and her friends Their percep-\\ntion of evil develops even more rapidly than their\\nperception of the good and true.\\nA sensitive child may be frightened into serious\\nnervous disorders by the gruesome tales of an igno-\\nrant nurse, who sees the wondering eyes close in\\nshuddering terror whilst she peruses a Beadle\\nnovel.\\nThat child is to be envied whose mother has time,\\nor who takes the time from less important things,\\nto tell it all the dear delightful nursery tales that\\nare forever after a heritage of joy. How quickly\\nthe tots learn the thrilling points, and how promptly\\nthey tell you that you have forgotten, if you attempt\\nto interpolate a bit of original fiction\\nAnd mingled with these old tales the Christian\\nmother does not forget the beautiful legends and\\nstories of the Infant Jesus, and the saints.\\nAs the child grows older it learns, in the guise of\\nstories, and childhood is voracious for stories, the\\nhistory of Jeanne d Arc, St. Clotilde, St. Blanche,\\nthe knightly Crusaders, of Marquette preaching to\\n7", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 The People of Our Parish\\nthe Indians, of Columbus, Washington, Barry,\\nDewey.\\nThere is such a wealth of material for stories which\\nthe mother will utilize if she is wise, even if a ruffle\\nthe less must go on her small daughter s frock, or a\\nfew extra dollars be paid out for a sewing-woman.\\nThere is no more pernicious form of selfishness\\nthan that of the mother who neglects the hearts and\\nminds of her children in order to minister to their\\nbodily needs. A seamstress at a dollar a day can\\nstitch aprons, but the wealth of the Klondike cannot\\nprocure a mother s teaching.\\nWhat child ever forgets the prayer learned at its\\nmother s knee?\\nOur Father; Hail Mary\\nAngel of God, my guardian dear\\nNow I lay me down to sleep.\\nThe child that can sing a song and dance a skirt-\\ndance, but cannot say its prayers, is an innocent\\nwitness to its mother s unworthiness.\\nThose who have had much to do with children say\\nthat it is surprising the lively interest they take in\\ntheir guardian angels. The idea that a beautiful\\nunseen Presence is watching day and night, putting\\nin a big black book all the naughty deeds, and re-\\ncording in a book of gold the good, appeals vividly\\nto the child nature.\\nIt is a common mistake to give children juvenile\\nstories that have been written down to their sup-\\nposed intellectual level. A clever woman has\\nentered vigorous protest against these colorless pro-\\nductions. I was turned loose at twelve in a good", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "A Plea for the Children 99\\nlibrary/ she said, and I had Ivanhoe and Quen-\\ntin Durward and David Copperfield, and the great\\npoets as my friends and guides to an enchanting\\nrealm.\\nA child can be thrilled by the ringing cadences\\nof martial verse, and the telling episodes of a great\\nstory, before it in the least comprehends their darker\\nmeaning or their philosophy, before, indeed, it\\nknows anything about philosophy. A child reads\\nRobinson Crusoe, and Don Quixote, for the\\nstory, and bothers its head very little about the\\nmoral which the elders find so apparent.\\nScott never harmed a healthy-minded child of\\ntwelve or fourteen.\\nThis question of what a child is to read is one of\\n(J the gravest that confronts the anxious parent.\\nNever before since the printing-press came- into\\nexistence, to be the greatest blessing and the great-\\nest bane of civiHzation, has the danger been so\\nalarming as now; cheapness of production has in-\\nundated the land with a supply, and youth reads\\nwith avidity things that age would blush to touch.\\nOne poor child, a beautiful girl of fifteen, regu-\\nlarly buys and reads the Sunday edition of a New\\nYork yellow journal. It is as much beyond the pos-\\nsible for that girl to be innocent-minded as it would\\nbe for a piece of paper buried in the mire to remain\\nwhite. Her mother, when the fact was brought to\\nher attention, said that she did not believe in the\\nmuzzle system for American girls. They would have\\nto know evil in order to know how to shun it, and the\\nsooner the knowledge was acquired, the better.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I oo The People of Our Parish\\nPoor child Unworthy mother\\nIf Herod slaughtered innocents, the daily papers\\nslaughter innocence. The first crime is a trifle com-\\npared with the second.\\nThere is an admirable little manual called Five\\nHundred Best Books by Professor George Hardy,\\nand mothers cannot do better than to consult this\\nlist.\\nIf so many dangers menace the child of opulence,\\nwhat can be said of the poor little victims of the\\nslums, children preternaturally old and unconsciously\\nwicked?\\nThe privileges of the child depend upon the means\\nand the opinions of its parents but every child has\\ncertain inalienable rights it has the right to a wise\\ncontrol on the part of its parents to protection from\\nevil to good books to a Christian education to a\\nsound mind in a sound body; and a noble soul.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "X\\nTHE BREAD-WINNERS\\nNO woman goes out into the down-town busi-\\nness world simply because she wants to\\nbe there. The normal woman loves her home,\\nand her social pleasures, and her clubs for intel-\\nlectual improvement, too well to exchange them\\nvoluntarily for the industrial bondage of a salaried\\nposition.\\nBut the sensible woman realizes that any sort of\\nwork is a thousand times better than an unhappy\\nmarriage, and the unselfish one often chooses to earn\\na living rather than to be a burden on an overtaxed\\nfather or brother.\\nJust now it is a fad for women who, for reasons\\nof their own, do not wish to be married, to take up\\nsome line of work merely as a means of using their\\ntime profitably; but they do not select a field of\\nlabor where they must be at the beck and call of\\nemployers from eight in the morning until five or\\nsix in the evening.\\nWriters, artists, singers, follow the bent of their\\ngenius because they must, the impulse is in their\\nsouls and it is bound to find its legitimate expres-\\nsion but this is no more than saying that a person", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "to2 The People of Our Parish\\nmust be herself, and a talent is an integral part of\\none s being.\\nBut when a woman takes to raising mushrooms\\nfor the market, or lends her name to a millinery\\nestablishment, or paints dinner-cards, or vends choc-\\nolate creams, she is doing it for money.\\nAnd in this she is merely exercising her privilege\\nas a sentient being, to which no one can object so\\nlong as she keeps within the bounds set by the laws\\nof God and man and Mrs. Grundy.\\nThe favored daughters of genius hardly count\\nin the vast army of stenographers, cashiers, clerks,\\nwho go forth to battle for bread because they would\\nhave to do without it if they did not.\\nOur periodicals have given much space to the\\nimprovement, mental, moral, physical, of these\\nbread-winners, but a casual glance around would\\ngo to show that those who need the advice do not\\ntake it; fortunately, the average wage-earner is\\nquite capable of looking out for herself.\\nHer hfe, even under the most favorable conditions,\\nIS not an easy one, and if she sometimes fail in the\\nstruggle, a thrill of pity, rather than of reproach,\\nshould go out to her. Many a woman reared ten-\\nderly in a happy home, shielded and protected from\\nbabyhood, has been forced by reverses, bereavement,\\nbusiness failures, to enter the lists, when she is ill-\\nprepared to do battle with the forces there arrayed\\nagainst her. To-day among the served, to-morrow\\nforced to be of the servers. For these the struggle\\nis doubly hard.\\nThe great body of the industrial army, however,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "The Bread-Winners 103\\nare bred up to it, and get their first taste of the\\nlittle luxuries of life when their salaries become an\\nassured monthly fact.\\nThose who have studied the question note with\\nalarm a growing discontent in the ranks these\\nwomen look at other women whose lives are sur-\\nrounded with wealth, who can have diamonds and\\nsealskins, trips abroad, and days of refined pleasure,\\nwhen they must be in the treadmill of work they\\ncannot see why others should have what is denied\\nto them. The ideal of a spiritual and mental aris-\\ntocracy does not appeal to them they eat out their\\nsouls in a longing for wealth, ease, pleasure.\\nThe bread-winners of this parish, however, do not\\nlook as if they were among the discontented ones.\\nYou see them once a month on the communion\\nSunday of the Young Ladies Sodality, and as they\\nmarch in line, over a hundred of them, so modest\\nin demeanor, so innocent, so devout, they seem\\nfairly to radiate piety around them.\\nThere is Miss Crosby at their head as prefect,\\na briUiant, cultured woman, assistant principal in a\\nlarge public school. She goes to Mrs. Dale s Shakes-\\npeare Club, too, but that has not made her feel above\\nthe society of Our Lady s children. Pretty Katie\\nTynan, who clerks in a big retail shop, walks to\\nthe raihng with Mary Nolan, the cashier at the\\nWindsor Hotel; near them, bright and natty, is the\\nmaid who opens the door and receives your card at\\nMrs. Greene s.^ One might think that the only true\\ndemocracy, after all, is found within the CathoHc\\nChurch.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "I04 The People of Our Parish\\nThe good that this society has done is known only\\nto God, and the guardian angels of the girls whose\\nfeet it has kept in the right path, whose wavering\\nwills have been confirmed, their piety made strong,\\nby the network of prayers and good deeds and wise\\ncounsel that it has put as a stay to weak souls.\\nHow many a one owes the preservation of her inno-\\ncence to the influence which held her back from\\nthe first fatal step that counts so much\\nA distinguished Unitarian minister has declared\\nhis belief that the confessional and the Sodalities of\\nthe Catholic Church have exerted a more widespread\\nand beneficial influence than any other force in\\nmodern society.\\nThe bread-winner who is a devout child of Mary\\nis usually both good and successful, and her success,\\nin a measure, follows from her goodness. She\\naccepts her lot in life as coming from the hand of\\nGod, and endeavors to make the best of it from the\\nhigher motive of following a Saviour who was poor\\non earth, and of saving her own soul she does her\\nwork in the very best way she can, and bears the\\nhardships inseparable from it with a patient serenity\\nwhich in time moves the hardest-hearted employer\\nto increase her salary, or give her a promotion.\\nIf the discontented worker said less about her\\nwant of luck and realized more fully her want of\\nmerit, and then set about remedying the defect, her\\nlife would be more satisfactory to herself and to her\\nemployers.\\nAmong the failings which have been pointed out as\\npertaining to the working-girl, a love of tawdry finery,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "The Bread- Winners 105\\nand an absence of taste and suitableness in attire are\\nprominent; the clerks in the best shops are always\\nstyhshly gowned, and it is a marvel to women, who\\nknow the cost of clothes, how this result is encom-\\npassed on their modest salaries. In some instances\\nthey have a mother who sews for them, and in others\\nthey take the time from morje important things to\\nsew for themselves. A woman who is engaged all\\nday has no business to take a needle in her hand,\\nexcept to mend a glove or to sew on a button. In\\nthis era of really good ready-made things the problem\\nof clothes is wonderfully simplified for the w^orker.\\nThis bit of conversation was overheard acciden-\\ntally in a shop You look pale to-day, Mamie.\\nWhat s the matter, grippe\\nOh, no I was up until two o clock fixing over\\nthe sleeves in my black silk. I had to cut them\\ndown, they were large and old-fashioned, and it\\nwas a bigger job than I reckoned for.\\nAnd this girl had to rise at six o clock, and stand\\non her feet until seven in the evening. No wonder\\nshe looked pale And small wonder if the customers\\nwho fell to her ministrations were not waited upon\\nwith that patience and suavity the average customer\\nhas come to expect.\\nThe fashion books give very sensible and full\\ndirections as to toilets for the busy working-woman.\\nA hat of nodding plumes that makes a fearful hole\\nin the purse, and loses its pristine freshness on the\\nfirst damp morning, is not in good form as a head-\\ncovering for the stenographer who wears it, and\\nthinks it beautiful. The light-colored kid gloves,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io6 The People of Our Parish\\nthe fluffy silk waist, the gay colors should be\\nreserved for her home and the homes of her friends,\\nand not displayed in the office of her employer.\\nPrudence as well as economy should counsel\\nplainness in attire, for nothing sets waspish tongues\\nagog more surely than a wage-earner dressed in the\\nsilks of the opulent daughter of wealth.\\nEmployers do not like to see a striking toilet;\\nthey do like neatness and exquisite freshness; in\\ntruth a man does not pay any especial attention to\\nhis stenographer s clothes, provided she is neat and\\ntidy.\\nA love of pretty clothes belongs to the eternal\\nfeminine, but, like some other loves, it should be\\nheld in bounds. Serge and not silk is for the shop\\nand office.\\nThrift which is quite a different thing from\\npenuriousness should be the darling virtue of the\\nbread-winner. One can but marvel at the radi-\\ncally different results obtained by two girls on a like\\nsalary. The one seems to know by a sort of sixth\\nsense what to buy, and how and where she always\\nlooks well dressed, and she always has money the\\nother, is perpetually in need of something, with\\nnever a cent ahead.\\nAnother count against the worker is the low in-\\ntellectual plane on which she is content to dwell\\nher opportunities for self-improvement are meagre,\\nbut such as she has she throws away. Books for\\nher, as for the most of us, are the easiest path to\\nknowledge and culture. It is disheartening to hear\\nthe testimony of librarians and book-sellers as to", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "The Bread- Winners 107\\nthe sort of literature she absorbs, novels, novels,\\nnovels, of the vulgarest, most commonplace kind.\\nNo one objects to her reading novels which take\\nher out of her own gray surroundings, into the en-\\nchanting realm where earls and duchesses move\\nand have their gilded being but let the novels be\\nwell written, and by an author who knows whereof\\nhe writes, novels which will cultivate the intellect as\\nwell as enthrall the imagination.\\nIt is here that the parish reading-circle is getting\\nin its splendid work. A girl who can be induced,\\nfor six months, to forsake the cheap, morbid fiction\\nof her uncultivated, unformed days, and led to drink\\nat the springs of pure literature, will never want to\\ngo back.\\nThe worker should remember, too, that in adding\\nto her culture and culture includes much more\\nthan a knowledge of books she is adding to her\\nusefulness, and, ultimately, to her worth in dollars\\nand cents.\\nThe lady-like, gentle-voiced, well-read, neatly\\ngowned young woman stands a better chance of\\npromotion than the flashily dressed, slangy, boister-\\nous one, although both may do their work equally\\nwell.\\nAnd, not least to be considered, she adds im-\\nmeasurably to her chances of securing a good hus-\\nband. The eligible young man may flirt with\\nthe larky, slangy girl, but he does not marry her.\\nAnother critic of the wage-earner objects to her\\nmanners. This criticism, of course, has nothing to\\ndo with the gentlewomen who are found in such", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "io8 The People of Our Parish\\nnumbers in the ranks. It does apply to the girl\\nwho giggles in street cars, talks loud, laughs bois-\\nterously, speaks of her gentlemen friends, writes\\nnotes on pink scented paper, and with a lavish use\\nof capitals, and originalities in the way of spelling,\\npicks up the latest slang and uses it freely, goes out\\nwith a young man to luncheon at a restaurant, per-\\nmits him liberties which would disgust a gentleman,\\nwears a profusion of cheap lace on a soiled silk\\nbodice, and is fool enough to think that her em-\\nployer, if unmarried, is going to fall in love with\\nher.\\nA serious charge, and one affecting her comfort\\nand usefulness, is that she does not understand how\\nto take care of her physical well-being. She does\\nnot take proper exercise, nor breathe enough fresh\\nair she eats indigestible pastry and munches cara-\\nmels, when she should be eating Somebody s health\\nfood, and drinking rich milk she wears her stays\\nand her shoes too tight; she sweeps the streets\\nwith her gown she puts so much money in a wrap\\nfor show that she has none left with which to buy\\nunderwear for comfort; sh-e does not know how to\\nwalk, and compresses her chest, thus rushing into\\nconsumption she does not understand the simplest\\nremedies to be taken to ward off a cold or to avert\\nan ache; she spends more money than she can\\nafford on Madame Quack s lotions, and ruins her\\ncomplexion in the attempt to make it beautiful\\nshe bleaches her hair, if she be a blonde, until she\\nlooks like a ballet-dancer off duty.\\nAnd the remedy? What would be the use of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "The Bread- Winners 109\\nindicating the disease if one were not going to point\\nout the cure. A rehable manual of etiquette will\\ngive the essentials of good usage, and a bright girl,\\nusing her eyes when with well-bred people, can\\nlearn very rapidly; in the matter of physical cul-\\nture another manual, supplemented by the number-\\nless articles in the magazines, and, better still, by\\na course in physical culture, will save her many ills.\\nTo sum up the principal points: the bread-win-\\nner is urged to shun slang, trashy fiction, showy\\ndress, bad manners, and bad grammar. She is\\nurged to join without delay the parish Sodality, and\\nthe reading-circle, to take a ticket in the parish\\nlibrary and one in the public library, to set apart\\na sum of money for the purchase of books of her\\nown, to take proper exercise, and to keep good\\ncompany.\\nThe last injunction is not always easy. The\\nwage-earner, who has not already a little circle of\\nfriends, is not going to find it easy to form one.\\nThere is no use in denying the palpable fact that\\na woman who works in a shop, or sits at a cashier s\\ndesk, is not asked to homes that gladly welcome the\\nyoung man in the same position.\\nShe has the natural longing of youth for pleasure\\nand social relaxation, and faiHng to get it where she\\nhas the right to expect it, she sometimes seeks it in\\ncompany that is not very good.\\nIt is claimed that by joining the bread-winners\\na woman seriously jeopardizes her chances of\\nmarrying advantageously, or of marrying at all.\\nThis is partly because her opportunities for meeting", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "1 1 o The People of Our Parish\\nyoung men are small, and also because the modern\\nman is not averse to marrying a little money and a\\nsecure social position.\\nThe most serious charge of all brought against\\nwomen who work is, that by increasing competition\\nso enormously, they have reduced salaries to a point\\nwhere a man cannot marry, at least for years, on\\nwhat he earns. A woman will work for less than\\nwill a man, so a woman gets the position, and a\\nman goes begging for work. A strenuous opposer\\nof woman s entering the industrial field says that,\\ntwenty years ago, a young man received as much as\\nis now earned by both himself and his. sister, and\\nthat if the girls would stay at home, devoting them-\\nselves to home duties, the old condition would\\nreturn.\\nThis does not apply to the woman who has no\\nhome, and no brother to work for her.\\nEmployers say that, in many cases, the reason why\\na woman receives poorer pay is because she gives\\npoorer service. A man goes into a business and\\nexpects to make a life vocation of it; a woman\\nworks merely until she can get a husband to save\\nher the necessity. Consequently the one reaches\\na point of excellence not even striven for by the\\nother.\\nThose who have studied the question claim that\\nw^omen behind the counter are not so courteous\\nas men, and that, therefore, shoppers prefer to be\\nwaited upon by men.\\nA sensible little woman, who is now- in charge of\\na department, said, in speaking of this I learned", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "The Bread-Winners 1 1 1\\nearly in my business life to practise a uniform\\ncourtesy. Some clerks act as if they considered\\na customer as a troublesome stranger to be got rid\\nof as soon as possible, with no thought of ever\\nseeing her again. I went on the principle that she\\nwas a native of the city in which I expected to\\nearn my living, and that if I succeeded in pleasing\\nher she might easily be made a regular customer,\\nnot only of my special department, but of my\\nown. A woman may pull down and overhaul\\nthings mercilessly to-day, but if you are attentive\\nand courteous, and do not intimate that she is doing\\nanything unusual or troublesome, the chances are\\nthat to-morrow she will return and purchase; and\\nthe chances, too, are strong that she will hold off\\nfrom the other clerks, and wait for you. I have\\nfound that women like to have time to make up\\ntheir minds before purchasing, and if a clerk is\\nthe least impatient with a customer s vagaries she\\nis apt to go to another shop to supply her needs.\\nAt least, this is the theory that I have acted upon,\\nand to-day I am at the head of the department\\nwhere I commenced on a very low salary.\\nAt its best the life of the bread-winner is not\\neasy. One cannot but admire the quiet dignity,\\nthe patient sweetness with which not a few of these\\nworkers, ladies born and bred, many of them, go\\nabout their daily tasks.\\nAs a rule it is not the women of gentle birth\\nwho rail at fate for their reverses, and wring the\\nhearts of their friends with longings for better days.\\nIn how many avenues of industry one finds the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "1 1 2 The People of Our Parish\\ndaughters of the old South, working bravely, earn-\\ning less than their grandmothers spent for gloves\\nand bonbons\\nWe hear much of the overcrowding along cer-\\ntain lines of human industry. There are too many\\nteachers, musicians, journalists, artists, stenogra-\\nphers, clerks indeed, it would be puzzling to\\nname a branch of work where there are not too\\nmany workers.\\nA woman cannot be blamed, any more than a\\nman, for seeking the easiest work, and that which\\nis best suited to her talents.\\nThe curse of the times is the lack of quality in\\nwork.\\nExcellence succeeds where mediocrity fails.\\nThere are too many laborers, but the supply\\nof skilled workers is not at all adequate to the\\ndemand.\\nSaid an employer I can put an advertisement\\nin the paper, and get a hundred applicants from\\nstenographers willing to work for ten dollars a\\nweek, and not worth any more, where I would\\nfind a difficulty to get one worth twenty dollars.\\nYet it is the twenty-dollar kind I want.\\nCertain work is considered ladylike, and other\\noccupations something else. For instance, the\\nSouth worships intellect, or the old South wor-\\nshipped it, and anything that calls out purely\\nintellectual power is respected the teacher, the\\nmusician, the writer, go into the best society, ride\\nin the carriages of the social leaders, and are fre-\\nquent and welcome guests in drawing-rooms where", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "The Bread-Winners 1 1 3\\nthe clerk, or the cashier, would not be received.\\nAs a consequence a Southern woman who must\\nwork thinks first of being a teacher, although she\\nmay not have the slightest aptitude for this honor-\\nable and difficult calling.\\nAs woman advances in general culture, and mas-\\nters her reserve forces, she will forge her way, by\\nsheer ability and pluck, into wider and better-paid\\nchannels. Instead of being the employed, she will\\nbecome the employer of labor. Already she is at\\nthe head, where a few years ago she would not\\nhave dreamed of any but a subordinate place.\\nShe may hesitate before working at all, but if\\nshe must or will, she is going to work to the best\\nadvantage.\\nThe day will soon be at end when a woman will\\naccept fifty dollars where a man would demand\\none hundred; and the new era will mean an in-\\ncrease in prosperity for both the man and the\\nwoman.\\nAlready she is learning to claim nothing on the\\nscore of sex; then why should she give anything?\\nIf she does not plead a woman s weakness to off-\\nset inferior work, but bravely gives the best, why\\nshould she not have the highest rate of wage\\nI had to let Miss Smith go, because she upset\\nour office by working on the sympathies of every-\\nbody in it, said a commission merchant. She\\nwas deHcate, and looked it, and I had n t the heart\\nto insist on promptness in getting out my mail.\\nWhen she came late, with great hollows under the\\neyes, I had to act as if I had not noticed the hour.\\n8", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "1 14 The People of Our Parish\\nBut I required a strong, capable stenographer, who\\nneeded no sympathy; so Miss Smith lost a good\\nposition/\\nAs yet it is sadly true that women are doing the\\nworld s drudgery. They fill the hard, subordinate,\\nill-paid places everywhere. They do far more work,\\nfor greatly less pay, than men. There are many\\nwho contend that she was created to be a subor-\\ndinate. If that be true she has filled the end of\\nher creation in a way that leaves nothing to be\\ndesired on the score of subordination.\\nOthers insist that, given an equal field, with no\\nhandicap, she can compete with man in any sphere\\nof intellectual activity. She has not done so in the\\npast, whatever she may do in the future.\\nNot infrequently the woman bread-winner makes\\nher life harder than it really needs to be. Where\\nthe man, outside of business hours, seeks relaxation\\nand gives himself up to absolute leisure, the woman\\nslaves over her needle, or in the kitchen, and hardly\\ndreams of pleasure, except in the form of a paper\\nnovel, read in an ill-ventilated, sunless back room.\\nNo woman can do the work of one man and two\\nwomen, and when she tries it she soon breaks down,\\nand must pay out for medicine, and relief from ex-\\ncruciating pain, the money that ought to have gone\\nto a seamstress or a cook, and to procure the legiti-\\nmate pleasures of existence. The pain gets worse,\\nthe medicines more costly, until at last there is a\\nquiet funeral, just when the woman ought to have\\nbeen in her prime.\\nHappy is the wage-earner who has her own", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "The Bread- Winners 1 1 5\\nhome if she have not this blessing the greatest\\ncare and prudence are necessary in the choice of a\\nboarding-house. Here it is that the CathoHc girl\\nfinds invaluable assistance in her pastor, who can\\nusually recommend a safe and suitable place. The\\nattractions of a fashionable street and a well-fur-\\nnished parlor too often offset rather questionable\\nfellow-boarders.\\nWhat the young girl needs on beginning a career\\nin the working world is a wise, prudent counsellor;\\nand what she absolutely must have, if she would not\\nmake shipwreck of her higher nature, is a strong,\\nclear, luminous faith.\\nA woman without religion is like a flower with-\\nout perfume, said a philosopher; and a bread-\\nwinner without religion is treading very near to a\\nprecipice.\\nThe girl of eighteen does, through ignorance and\\nthoughtlessness, the deeds that the woman of twenty-\\neight bewails with unavailing tears.\\nThe wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of\\nthe dove should be hers, if she wish to steer clear\\nof pitfalls and what young girl can be expected\\nto have these?\\nShe can have religion, which is better than either,\\nand which yet includes both and an angel guard-\\nian was placed over her to give inspiration where\\nwisdom fails.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "XI\\nTHE PASSING YEARS\\nTHAT wise old worldling, Lord Chesterfield,\\nhas left his testimony as to the inestimable\\nvalue of time, and the futile remorse with which old\\nage looks back upon wasted years and he was but\\nrepeating, in a different form, the wisdom of Solomon\\nand the teaching of the gospel, a truth which\\neverybody sooner or later finds out for himself.\\nIf precept could but take the place of experience\\nwhat a golden era would be the heritage of the\\npresent generation\\nFaber says Count all years wasted that are not\\nlived for God.\\nWhat must have been the anguish of that saintly\\nsoul at the sight of the desolate ruins of wasted\\nyears, crumbling along the pathway to eternity\\nAnd the frankly hedonistic views of life professed,\\nor at least practised, by men and women on whose\\nheads have fallen the snow that never melts, fill\\nrational beings with uneasy wonder.\\nOld age without God, says a philosopher, is\\nthe most profoundly sad spectacle in the world.\\nSome such thoughts as these had overflowed un-\\nconsciously into speech.\\nYou are thinking of Mrs. Perry, I know, inter-\\npolated Miss Norrison, who has the way of read-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Passing Years 1 17\\ning your mind and interpreting it with surprising\\naccuracy.\\nI was thinking of Mrs. Perry, and of some others\\njust like her.\\nMrs. Perry is a woman of sixty-five who has had\\neverything that she wanted all her life well, not\\nquite that, for nobody ever has all she wants, but all\\nthat a reasonable being ought to want in the way\\nof life s luxuries. Cradled in wealth, married to\\ngreater wealth, she has lived more like a princess\\nthan an American woman with duties to perform.\\nHer energies, so far as any one can see, have been\\nused to encompass ease and pleasure, and banish\\ntrouble. Other rich women have founded asylums,\\nlooked after the poor, regulated their households,\\nstood in the vanguard of intellectual and moral\\nforces, in a word, used their leisure and means for\\nnoble ends. But Mrs. Perry has been conspicuously\\nabsent in all these avenues of human endeavor. If\\nher tombstone is truthful it will record the facts that\\nshe was noted for giving sumptuously extravagant\\nentertainments, and for having introduced English\\nliveries for the coachman and the footman into her\\nnative city. Of course she has given to charities,\\nand sometimes her checks have been rather large,\\nfor nobody not a savage is entirely free from the\\nvirtue of charity; but she has never been known to\\ngive anything of herself, anything that might cost a\\npersonal effort. Her religious practices are hmited\\nto going to church on Sundays, and permitting her\\nmaid to attend five o clock Mass and late vespers;\\nshe keeps Lent by hieing away to Florida, or", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "1 1 8 The People of Our Parish\\nBermuda, or Nice, playing cards in the evening,\\nsleeping until ten o clock in the morning, and in\\nresigning herself into the hands of a complexion\\nspecialist during a good portion of the day, and in\\neating all the dainties that a complacent doctor\\nrecommends in the way of fruits and fresh meats.\\nThose who know her well say that she is as su-\\npremely selfish in private life as she is in her social\\nrelations. She made brilliant marriages for her\\ndaughters, one of whom, by the way, is divorced and\\nback on her hands settled her sons in life, after they\\nhad sowed an unusually large crop of wild oats, and\\nis now chasing around to parties with a numerous\\nbrood of granddaughters if she has ever practised\\nan act of self-denial, of pure kindness and considera-\\ntion not imposed by the laws of society, no one\\nknows anything of the deed.\\nIt is amusing to hear another old woman, as selfish\\nand worldly as Mrs. Perry, differing from her but in\\ndegree, merely because her circumstances are more\\ncircumscribed, berating the richer woman soundly\\nfor wasted opportunities.\\nMrs. Scott is just as lax in keeping the fasts of the\\nChurch, just as absorbed in pleasure, as ease-loving,\\nas callous to the cries of the poor as Mrs. Perry. She\\nis scandalized at the richer woman because she does\\nnot endow a chair at the Catholic University at\\nWashington, and herself gives fifty cents to the\\nseminary collection she rails at Mrs. Perry for\\nspending her time at fashionable functions, and\\ndevotes her own days to the reading of the trashiest\\nnovels, her afternoons to running about among the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "The Passing Years 1 1 9\\nshops, her evenings to playing cards. She married\\nher daughter to an atheist able to set up a carriage,\\nand Mrs. Perry mated hers to a roue attached to a\\ntitle.\\nAnd there is Mrs. Noonan, who lives in a flat, and\\noccasionally assists her husband in his grocery store\\nbelow, envying Mrs. Scott, and virtuously censuring\\nher wanton luxury, the while spending her own scant\\nleisure in fashioning a bonnet or gown, exhibiting\\nherself in the streets, spending her dimes for the\\nmost sensational papers, neglecting her children, and\\ndreaming of what she would do with Mrs. Scotf s\\nlarger opportunities.\\nAnd as for the epicurean old men one sees or\\nhears of their numbers do not support the theory\\nof superior masculine intelligence.\\nOnly a block away from St. Paul s lives Robert\\nDeering, the capitalist, Robert the Great, the news-\\npapers dub him, the man who puts a price on\\nwheat before it is harvested, dictates wages to ten\\nthousand people, and helps to name the President\\nof the United States. All his life he has had to do\\nwith large issues, and yet he has a soul so small that\\na million hke it could sit on the little end of a brick.\\nThe world to him is a battle-field, not for the old\\nbattles waged by the saints against the world, the\\nflesh, and the devil, but a battle-field for money, just\\nmoney. Because money can do so much, he thinks\\nthat it can do all. He himself is a potent illustration\\nof its power, and so it has come to be his god.\\nSometimes he pities, when he has the time for pity,\\nthe myriads of toilers who can never hope for wealth,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "1 20 The People of Our Parish\\nnot even for a competence, and shudders at the\\nthought that such might have been his own fate. Far\\nbetter to die\\nHe regards the toilers about him as a seething\\nmass of envy and discontent, of fierce longing and\\nfutile wrath, kept from the throats and the coffers of\\nthe rich by the strong arm of the law\\\\ He cannot\\nconceive of any happiness that does not grow out of\\nthe possession of wealth.\\nFrom his office, in a towering beehive of a building,\\nhe can look out upon church steeples rising over\\nthe smoky city; and the great library, built and\\nendowed by a rich man some years dead, is but a\\nfew rods distant; near his own beautiful home, in the\\nflower-lined boulevard, a university stands as a\\nreminder and a monument to man s intellectual side.\\nBut to Robert Deering these give not a tithe of the\\nsatisfaction and confidence inspired by the blue-\\ncoated policemen who patrol the beat below his\\noffice. He does not believe in the correlation of\\nmoral forces represented by education and the\\nChurch. A good police system is much better.\\nMen may go to church on Sunday, the poor devils\\nhave no other place to go, but on Monday see that\\nyour cash drawer is locked.\\nThis is what life has done for Robert Deering\\nit has given him money and robbed him of an ideal\\nDoes that man ever realize his predominant\\npassion?\\nIf he should ever examine his conscience, which he\\nnever does, having all that he can do to examine\\nhis ledger, he would rise from his knees with a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "The Passing Years 1 2 1\\nPharisaical belief in his own virtue. He does not\\ndrink to excess his physician long ago pointed out\\nto him the danger in that line he is not a glutton,\\nthe pangs of indigestion speak in no uncertain\\ntone he has not broken any of the laws laid down\\nby civil society for its preservation and welfare. He\\nhas used his brains and his opportunities to amass\\nwealth, and has succeeded over the heads of the\\nenvious millions who have failed he uses his money\\nto. obtain for himself the greatest amount of com-\\nfort and pleasure and adulation. He calls it hap-\\npiness; but can any man know happiness who\\nbeHeves that there is not a man or woman living who\\ncannot be bought? who Hves amidst flowers and\\nnever sees them, surrounded with books that are\\nsealed to his intellect? a man near seventy who\\nmust recall with a shudder that the best part of his\\nlife is over, and that each day brings him nearer to\\nhis grave, either a grave of annihilation, in which he\\nprefers to believe, or else to the portal of that un-\\nknown world to which he cannot carry a penny of\\nall his millions, where he will have to stand among\\nthe throngs he has despised, no whit more power-\\nful than they, and take his chances for eternity\\nmeasured by the records of his past? Robert Deer-\\ning does not look Hke a happy man.\\nThere seems to be a widespread idea that when peo-\\nple grow old they will grow virtuous. Either no one\\never acknowledges himself old, or else the habits of\\nyears cannot be broken in a day. Students of human\\nnature find that the old man and the old woman are\\nusually but a fulfilment of the promise of middle age.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 The People of Our Parish\\nThe scandals in which old men figure ought to\\nredden the printers ink with shame.\\nAn old man was heard to declare that he had but\\ntwo objects in life to eat a good dinner every day,\\nand to avoid rheumatism.\\nAnother, who has not been to church for thirty\\nyears, says that he has no time for religion, but\\nafter he gets a little more money he will retire and\\nthink of such things.\\nThe picture would be terrible were it not for the\\nexamples of serene and beautiful old age that\\ncrowd the canvas, and hide the skulking faces of\\nthe wrinkled and gray-haired hedonists.\\nOnly last year St. Paul s was called upon to\\nmourn the demise of a saintly old gentlewoman,\\ncut down in her prime at eighty-six, who left be-\\nhind her ninety-seven descendants, not one of the\\nnumber but who is a credit to her memory. Sons\\nand grandsons are priests at the altar; she saw a\\ngreat-granddaughter receive the veil as a Sister of\\nCharity; one daughter died a nun, in harness, so\\nto speak, as the superior of an Indian Mission\\nSchool; another is a cloistered nun, whilst several\\ngranddaughters are making the world better in vari-\\nous convents. And in a score of happy Christian\\nhomes her own life and virtues are repeated in the\\npersons of her descendants. One son was mayor of\\nthe city, and made a record by the honesty and\\ncivic prosperity of his administration another is a\\nbanker; her daughters married into fine old fami-\\nlies, and their husbands are worthy of them. As\\nfor her charities, even her good angel must have", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "The Passing Years 123\\nbeen kept busy recording them, sacrifices of little\\nluxuries for the poor, bright boys educated for the\\nministry, orphanages and schools and homes for the\\naged, that never appealed in vain to her generous\\npurse.\\nThere is Mrs. Chatrand, in her youth the most\\nbeautiful woman of her city, sweet, pious, gentle,\\nnoble, responding fully to all the demands upon\\nher, a devoted mother, a leader in the great world,\\na ministering angel in the purlieus of poverty.\\nSome writer has said that if you wish to see the\\nfine flower of piety blossoming in all its beauty in\\naristocratic soil, you must go to France, and to the\\nold chateaux that have nursed it for centuries.\\nOne need only go to their descendants in America,\\nto see how saintly can be the children of that fair\\nland which is called the Dowry of Our Lady.\\nBut piety knows no boundary lines, no distinction\\nof blood the Christian gentlewoman has certain\\ninalienable characteristics, whether the blood in her\\nveins be French or German, Irish or English, or a\\nfusion of many kinds, as in the average American.\\nThe procession of gray hairs is always before us,\\na potent sermon on the shortness of life and what\\nmust be its end now and again a familiar form\\ndrops out, carrying either a precious treasury of\\ngolden deeds or the black record of a squandered\\nlife.\\nIf history is philosophy teaching by example,\\nit is also something more. It is a magic mirror\\nwhich shows two pictures and says, Choose.\\nIt shows us Washington, the great patriot, dying", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "I 24 The People of Our Parish\\nthe idol of the country he had saved and it shows\\nus another George, the narrow, egotistical, sensual,\\nHanoverian monarch, with the gray ashes of pas-\\nsion s volcanoes polluting the atmosphere of his\\ndeath chamber, and choking the tendrils of every\\npure aspiration.\\nIt shows us Caligula, bent and furrowed by the\\nwickedness of nearly seventy years, resigning him-\\nself to debaucheries which made the very name of\\nhis island home a horror, and dying in his sins at\\nthe hands of a faithless praetorian. It shows us\\nCharlemagne also expiring at seventy, happy in\\nthe consciousness that he was leaving the world\\nbetter than he found it, a great monarch and a\\ngreat man, his last hours consoled by the religion\\nhe had loved and championed so valiantly.\\nIt shows us Louis IX. dying the death of a saint,\\nand if it does not show us Louis XV. dying the\\ndeath of a sinner, it is because of the heroic sacrifice\\nof a loving daughter, who offered up her life amidst\\nthe austerities of a Carmelite convent for that\\nfather s conversion.\\nIt shows us Elizabeth, the dissolute daughter of\\nHenry the Monster, expiring on a pallet on the\\nfloor, despair written on her aged features, and the\\nshameful deeds of her seventy years confronting\\nher glassy eyes it shows us Isabella the Great, the\\nwise ruler of Castile, forever immortal as an instru-\\nment in the discovery of a new world, equally\\nworthy of renown as the most learned woman, and\\nthe ablest monarch of her time, and as an example\\nof the most beautiful qualities of her sex.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "The Passing Years 125\\nBut we need not look to bygone centuries for\\nparallels.\\nWe have our own great Leo, the Lion of the\\nVatican, unequalled among modern statesmen, un-\\nsurpassed among scholars, unmatched as an ex-\\nemplar of every Christian and priestly virtue. A\\nfew rods away is Crispi, the plotting, self-seeking,\\nconscienceless minister, discredited in his old age,\\nhis plots coming to nought, the shadow of a great\\nscandal darkening his declining years. We have\\nGladstone, spared so long to the world that does\\nhim reverence, passing away near the ninetieth\\nlandmark, in the aroma of a glorious career; the\\nend of the eighteenth century closed over the new-\\nmade grave of Voltaire, the scoffing cynic who gave\\nhis long Hfe, and splendid talents, to the overthrow\\nof the temple of religion in the souls of thousands\\nof his fellow-men.\\nThe last decade of the nineteenth century saw\\ntwo nations in tears for Manning and Newman, and\\nthe centuries to come will be the richer because of\\nthe genius and heroic virtues of these princes of the\\nChurch, who devoted their lives, both reaching well\\ninto the eighties, to the good of souls and the\\nbetterment of the world. Cardinal Wiseman, the\\ngreat Archbishop of Westminster, whose hfe had\\nknown care and sorrow, said, as he lay dying in\\nhis simple, bare room, I feel hke a schoolboy\\ngoing home for the long vacation.\\nAnd if these great ones seem too remote for or-\\ndinary humanity s imitation, we have but to look\\naround us to see genuine piety in every walk of life.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "I 26 The People of Our Parish\\nThere is the great financier stealing in to St. Paul s\\non his way home, for a few moments meditation be-\\nfore the Tabernacle and close behind him is a crip-\\npled old apple-woman, who would not commit a\\ndeliberate sin for the whole wide, beautiful world.\\nNow and again one passes in the crowd a hag\\nwhose face bears the stamp of shameless vice, a\\nmatron with hard, cruel lines about the mouth and\\neyes, a furrowed roue whose soul has been caught\\nin the matrix of his own evil deeds.\\nAnd when these pass, the sun for a moment seems\\nto shine less brightly.\\nThe young may die, the old must.\\nAs ye live, so shall ye die.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "XII\\nCHEERFUL GIVERS\\nMR. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, in his\\nown inimitable way, has recorded some of\\nthe vicissitudes and experiences of a cheerful\\ngiver.\\nA great deal of perverting socialism has been put\\nforth under cover of the Golden Rule, Do unto\\nothers as you would have them do unto you,\\nThis rule binds no one to the caprices of gener-\\nosity which selfish humanity would like to bring\\nabout, from those more favored than themselves in\\nworldly goods. The tramp might wish with all his\\nheart that the millionaire would divest himself of\\nhis millions and hand them over to him, but a re-\\nfusal on the part of the millionaire could not be\\ninterpreted to mean a violation of the golden pre-\\ncept. As it is a poor rule that does not work both\\nways, a fair test is a reversal of positions wish from\\nanother what you would give were he in your place,\\nand you in his.\\nExplained by theologians, the precept binds one\\nto that which justice, honor, and Christian brother-\\nhood dictate. It forbids one to cheat, to oppress,\\nto overreach, to take advantage of the ignorance\\nor helplessness of another, to make unjust laws, to\\ngrind down the wage of labor, to demand long hours", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 The People of Our Parish\\nfrom laborers. It goes further than strict justice,\\nand commands charity. It does not mean that the\\nworker, the provident, the clear-brained, are to strip\\nthemselves of the results of their work to give to the\\nidle, or even to the unfortunate. If this were so,\\nwhere would be the incentive to industry?\\nThe laborer is worthy of his hire, and this is as\\ntrue in one field of work as in another.\\nYet, if this beautiful rule were practised only on\\nits broad, legitimate lines, reserving charity for de-\\npendent little children, the aged, and the sick, the\\nworld would soon be transformed into something\\nvery like an anteroom to Paradise.\\nThe virtue of charity and its contrary vice, op-\\npression, are opposing forces that were strong in the\\nbeginning of time, and are growing stronger every\\nday. No other virtue and no other vice are so uni-\\nversally found as these. They flourish side by side\\nand, strange and paradoxical as it may sound, they\\nare sometimes practised by the same person.\\nA man \\\\v\\\\\\\\l give millions to found a university or\\nestablish a library, and grind down the laborers\\nunder him to a wage that means but a degree above\\nstarvation. A woman will serve on a hospital\\nboard, and show no consideration to a poor little\\nhouse-maid ready to drop with fatigue. Another\\nwill make an eloquent plea for a home for working-\\nwomen, and force a dressmaker s apprentice to come\\nto her house half a dozen times for the amount of\\nher bill. She will give a quarter to a beggar, and\\nhurry on her way to purchase garments put together\\nin sweaters shops. But avarice in petty things is", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers 129\\nsaid to be the vice of women. Bill collectors will\\ntestify from the fulness of experience that it is also\\nthe vice of men.\\nIf capital gives to labor its smallest moiety, labor\\npays back in kind, and seeks to render as little in\\nreturn for the largest wage possible.\\nWhen one hears the recurring tales of incompe-\\ntency and untrustworthiness, slovenly work and\\nconstant shirking, it is easy to see why capital\\ngrows a little hard.\\nWhere the rule is, An honest day s work for an\\nhonest day s pay, the wheels of society run in\\nsmoother grooves. And this obtains, not because\\nsupply and demand compel it, but simply because\\nhonor and justice, handmaidens of Christianity, are\\nsatisfied with nothing less. Anarchists rail at the\\nluxuries of capitalists, but take care not to put into\\nthe common fund the luxuries that come to them-\\nselves.\\nMany of the saints have given the example of\\nthat heroic charity which sacrifices every possession\\nfor the poor, and casts its lot with the lowly, becom-\\ning as the least, in imitation of the divine Master of\\nall but this is a plenitude of good works not re-\\nquired of every one.\\nPeople are oftentimes much more kindly disposed\\ntowards the unfortunate than they are credited with\\nbeing heartsick in a sealskin jacket at sight of the\\nbeggar in rags.\\nSaid one of these pure saints to her confessor:\\nFather, how can I save my soul surrounded with\\nluxury and comfort, a carriage and servants, and\\n9", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 The People of Our Parish\\njewels and laces, and a round of pleasure, when\\npeople about me are starving and cold, and herded in\\nhovels that even my dogs would disdain? I wake\\nin the night sometimes and wonder, if I should die\\nin the midst of the luxuries that have always been\\nmy portion, whether God would let me come into\\nHis Presence. I recall the text, What ye do to the\\nleast of these little ones ye have done unto Me/\\nNow of course if Our Lord were really on earth, it\\nwould be my greatest happiness, my most blessed\\nprivilege, to throw everything at His feet but, to be\\nhonest with myself, I know that I do not want to\\ngive everything to the poor, except just the bare\\nnecessities. I should n t want to receive a starving\\ntramp into my house, nor give up my carriage, and\\nmy summers abroad, and live in a tenement and\\nwork for my living; yet I am stronger, and more\\nable to work than many who are working for me.\\nAnd the girl was deeply in earnest in her scruples.\\nThe clergyman succeeded in bringing a ray of\\ncomfort into her troubled soul. She had inherited\\nher fortune from her father, who had acquired it\\nhonestly, without cheating or oppressing any one.\\nHis fortune was rightfully his own, and therefore\\nhis to dispose of, within the limits set by the laws\\nof God and of man, as he saw fit He had left it to\\nhis children through the providence of God it was\\ntheirs, theirs not to hoard, but to use wisely. The\\nmoney they spent was not a waste it was put into\\ncirculation, it stimulated trade some was paid to\\nthe poor for service it went for pictures and bene-\\nfited art, for music and helped musicians so long", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers 131\\nas luxury did not degenerate into self-indulgence,\\nnor pagan excess, nor oppression in the smallest\\nfarthing, so long it was innocent.\\nThe girl went away comforted, but not long after-\\nwards she followed the dictates of her heart, and,\\nrehnquishing everything of this world, gave herself\\nand her fortune to the service of God s poor, and\\nfound peace and happiness as a Sister of Charity.\\nUnfortunately it is not often that a confessor has\\nto deal with a conscience that is so scrupulous in its\\ndictates of charity; the tendency is far more apt\\nto be in the opposite direction people spend\\nrecklessly for luxuries and dole out niggard sums\\nfor charity.\\nYet there are always the army of devoted ones to\\nshame the unfeeling. Brilliant young beauties, and\\ndainty matrons, devote time and money and execu-\\ntive ability to the different charities, soothe the sick\\nin hospitals, visit the poor in their hovels, labor\\nindefatigably to give food and clothes to the little\\nones one girl does without candy to save for the\\npoor, another paints dinner-favors, another sews a\\nday out of every week; one gives a tenth of her\\nallowance to a hospital, another goes without a new\\nball-gown, and sends the price to the fresh-air fund.\\nThe rich do not advertise their charities, and never\\nin this world will the vast extent of their good works\\nbe known, the poor famiHes supported, the hospi-\\ntals and asylums maintained, the deserving helped\\nto positions, the clever boys and girls educated and\\ngiven a chance to become something, in a word,\\nof the millions of dollars that pass from the purses", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 The People of Our Parish\\nof comfort to the pockets of distress. We read of\\na Queen Elizabeth of Hungary giving all to the\\npoor, of a Lady FuUerton going without gloves and\\nspending her days in the service of the poor, of a\\nFrederick Ozanan s far-seeing charity to the poor\\nof Paris, of a St. Martin dividing his cloak with a\\nbeggar, of a Madame de Maintenon founding and\\nsupporting a free school for girls, of the patrician\\nSt. Cecilia stealing through the streets of Rome on\\nher missions to the poor, of the flower of the French\\nnobility parishing in a bazaar for charity but these\\ndevoted lives are duplicated every day around us,\\nand we do not know of them, we do not see the\\ncharity that conceals from the left hand the good\\ndeeds of the right.\\nAnd how much of the poverty in the world comes\\nthrough vice, rather than misfortune through\\ndrunkenness, laziness, improvidence, ignorance, in-\\ncompetency, and general untrustworthiness Skilled\\nlabor is always in demand. It is the man or woman\\nwho can do many things indifferently, and who does\\nnot care about doing anything, who is oftenest in\\nwant not the people who can do one thing well.\\nOthers, again, are selfishly, perhaps unconsciously,\\npenurious. I wish that we lived in another\\nparish, said a censorious one, returning from Mass.\\nHere we hear nothing but money, money, money\\nIt is give, give, from January to December. The\\norphans, the hospital, the missions, the seminary,\\nthe Holy Land, the school, the parish debt, the\\ncharity fund, until one never has a cent that one\\ncan call one s own", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers\\n133\\nMy dear/ replied the Old Member, you should\\nconsider it your dearest privilege to be allowed to\\ncontribute to any or to all of these beautiful objects.\\nHave you ever considered that it is not through any\\nmerit of your own, but only the providence of God,\\nthat you are not in a condition to require charity\\nrather than to be able to give that you are not\\na friendless little orphan, or a cripple in a charity\\nward of a hospital, or a blind beggar, or a delicate\\ngirl seeking for work. Be thankful that you can\\ngive\\nThe different ways of looking at charity, that\\nvirtue so dear to Our Lord, afford some curious\\nand interesting bits of soul study.\\nWho has not seen the people, men and women\\nwell dressed, who Sunday after Sunday pay their\\npittance for a seat, rather than rent a pew in their\\nparish church?\\nSaid one of this brigade, We can t afford a pew\\nin the middle aisle, and we wont go to the side aisle\\nwith the riff-raff!\\nJust as if one could not hear Mass from the side\\naisle as well as from the centre And the disdain-\\nful one was quite unconscious that riff-raff more\\nadequately described the perambulating, shirking\\nmembers, like herself, than the honest poor who were\\ndoing their duty towards the support of their\\nchurch, and who had too much self-respect to come\\nas unattached flotsam.\\nA beautiful, serene old gentlewoman said I am\\nalways glad to find, when travelling abroad, a box\\nto receive the offerings of the faithful towards keep-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 The People of Our Parish\\ning in repair those glorious old-world Cathedrals.\\nIt is very like being permitted to share in a per-\\npetual act of adoration. And what is a Cathedral\\nbut a prayer in stone and an act of adoration? All\\nthat is beautiful in nature, all that is noblest in\\nart are gathered and placed there in perpetual\\nservice of the Creator of all. When God sees the\\nwickedness of the world and in His justice is\\ntempted to send some retributive calamity on the\\nnations, those beautiful churches, enshrining the\\nBlessed Sacrament, lift up their spires as if pleading\\nfor mercy, pleading potently during all the long\\ncenturies. And those who contribute to them, if\\nonly a few cents saved from some little luxury\\ndenied, must feel a thrill of noble pride at the\\nsight of the beautiful temple they have helped to\\nerect or preserve. What a blessed privilege to\\ncontribute towards the splendor of the dwelling-\\nplace of the Most High!\\nPeople ask, Americans especially, What is the\\nsense we are a nation of sense, it is one of our\\nfailings of the costly piles that dot Europe, and\\nthat are seldom if ever filled with people, glorious\\ntemples with their mass of exquisite carving, much\\nof it not even visible? It might perhaps be a hope-\\nless task to explain to a thorough utiHtarian that\\nthe beauty of the churches is for the eyes of the\\nAll-seeing God, that it is an act of adoration and\\ngratitude on the part of creatures to the Giver of\\nall good gifts. The utilitarians of apostolic times\\nmurmured at the waste of ointment, which Magdalen\\npoured out on the head of our Saviour.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers i 3 5\\nThe matchless splendor of St. Peter s, the Cathe-\\ndral of Milan, that poem in stone, the ideally beauti-\\nful gothic spires at Cologne, gorgeous St. Mark s,\\nrising over the Venetian sea, the simple grandeur\\nof the duomo at Florence which Dante loved, and\\nSavonarola must have rejoiced to see, all these\\nserve for much more than mere creations of beauty\\nfor the eyes of men, although even this were no\\nmean mission. They are the dwelling-place of the\\nMost High.\\nMen may grow careless and forgetful, but the\\nsilent stone, the transfigured marble, the glowing\\ncanvas, the sculptured saint, the enduring mosaic,\\nare a tribute from dead hands, and loving hearts\\nthat are stilled, to the Eternal, Living God.\\nIn the long nights, when the world is asleep, a\\nthousand stately cathedrals whisper Adoremus\\nTe, to the Unseen Presence in the tabernacles\\nwhisper a ceaseless prayer for the wants of the\\nliving, as they pleaded for men centuries dead,\\nand as they will plead for the generations yet\\nunborn.\\nAnother dear old lady said I think that it is a\\nparish disgrace that our priests must talk as much\\nas they do to get the funds to keep up the church.\\nCertainly it is not for themselves that they beg, and\\nit seems to me that if we had the proper parish\\npride, to say nothing of proper Christian charity,\\nwe should not have to be nagged I know of no\\nbetter word into doing our plain duty. When\\none compares the meagre salaries received by even\\nthe most learned of our clergy with the princely", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "I 36 The People of Our Parish\\nincomes of the rectors of rich Protestant congrega-\\ntions, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves that the\\nword money must ever come to a pastor s hps.\\nWhen we learn to look upon our contributions as\\na privilege, and not as a burden, we shall give with\\nmore spiritual profit to ourselves. I fancy our good\\nangel forgets to place to our credit the contribu-\\ntions we cannot evade.\\nAnd, after all, our mites amount to but little for\\neach individual during the year, a small gift at\\nChristmas to the clergy, an offering at Easter towards\\nthe education of young men for the priesthood,\\nand no one who appreciates the Holy Sacrifice, and\\nthe glorious mission of saving souls, could wish to\\nbe left out of this w^ork, something for the orphans,\\nand few cavil at this for the little children appeal\\nin their very helplessness to the strong. The basket\\nset before us on Good Friday for the offerings\\ntowards the preservation of the holy places in Jeru-\\nsalem receives more dimes than dollars. Surely\\nevery Christian who venerates the spots hallowed\\nby the footprints of the Saviour, is glad of the privi-\\nlege of offering his mite.\\nAs for the pew rents and the special parish collec-\\ntions, all who share in the benefit of a commodious,\\nwell-ventilated, well-heated edifice, with able and\\ndevout clergy to minister to their souls, attend their\\nsick calls, be ready in the confessional, prompt on\\nthe altar, forceful in the pulpit, surely the people\\nought to regard it as a matter of honor and Chris-\\ntian duty to pay for the benefits they receive.\\nA self-respecting man does not care to eat the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers 137\\nbread or wear the clothes of charity; why, then,\\nshould he desire to be a mendicant in the Church?\\nCharity is the last virtue the human heart relin-\\nquishes, and when that goes then indeed is there\\nlittle hope of ever w^akening the soul to life again.\\nYet, not long ago, a woman who goes to the sacra-\\nments regularly sent word to the Little Sisters of\\nthe Poor, on the rounds for their old people, that\\nshe was not at home. One would have thought\\nthat she would rather go hungry herself than refuse\\nthose dear saints. Down in the busy streets men\\nwho have lost every spark of religion take off their\\nhats to them, and put their hands in their pocket-\\nbooks without waiting to be asked.\\nFather O Neil declares that it is the poor of the\\nparish who are the generous ones, and not the rich.\\nThe gift counts when you deny yourself some-\\nthing in order to give. The girl who walks home\\nfrom shop or office to save car fare, and drops her\\nmite into the poor-box, has given generously; the\\nrich matron, who writes her check for the hospital\\nand thinks no more about it, has not given nearly\\nso much.\\nThere are so many ways to give when one has\\nthe will. The records of noble lives whose memory\\nis our heritage, reveal touching examples of gener-\\nosity, examples that poor worldlings admire but\\ndo not imitate.\\nEven in the eras of shameful Hcense, when thrones\\ntotter, undermined by the corruption of those that\\nshould make their strength, there are always a few\\ngenerous souls to save Gomorrah.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "I 38 The People of Our Parish\\nLittle children should learn the beauty of charity,\\nbut not the arrogance of philanthropy this spirit,\\nin a typical Irish home, has been given to us by\\nthe Jesuit brother of the great English Chief Justice,\\nLord Russell of Killowen\\nThe harsh word beggar was under a ban\\nIn that quaint old house by the sea\\nAnd Little Blue-Frock s announcement ran\\nT is a poor little girl, a poor bhnd man,\\nPoor woman with children three.\\nOnly the angels know the good that each day\\nbrings forth.\\nProvidence intends that mutual helpfulness should\\nbe the law of the world. Society in its highest\\nresolution is organized socialism, not the social-\\nism which can ever grow into anarchy, the socialism\\nwhich would overturn law and order, and give some-\\nthing for nothing; rather, it is the action and re-\\naction in society of supply and demand, where the\\nperfection of the whole depends upon the capability\\nof the component units. The millionaire does not\\nescape this law, any more than does the laborer;\\nhe must depend on the farmer for bread, his cook\\nfor a dinner, on the doctor for health, the lawyer\\nfor wise counsel in his pleasures he is dependent\\nupon the army of workers who supply them, the\\ncaptain of the vessel that takes him across the\\nocean, the engineer who stands at the tireless\\nthrottle, the coachman who drives his horses, the\\nprinter who makes possible the morning paper,\\nthe actors, the artists, the sculptors, the musicians", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Cheerful Givers 139\\nwho give charm to leisure, the teachers who have\\ndeveloped his mind and soul. Not a bit of coal\\nnor a grain of wheat, not a need nor a pleasure\\ncould be supplied without the co-operation of the\\nworld s workers.\\nAnd if the workers are a necessity to the rich\\nman, so equally is he indispensable to them his\\nmoney pays their wage, and is put in circulation by\\nthem in the procuring of the comforts or the little\\nluxuries of life. The Church, the school, the State,\\nthe arts, science, and literature owe their temporal\\nprosperity to the rich.\\nThe poverty, almost the suffering, the monstrous\\nwrong in the world, can be traced ultimately to the\\nfailure of some one to do his duty. Just as a loose\\nscrew may disarrange a whole system of machinery,\\nso one failure in the line of duty may work measure-\\nless ill. And when the failures are repeated and\\nmultiplied by the million day after day, is it strange\\nthat the world itself seems but a gigantic honey-\\ncomb of evil, oppression, degradation?\\nTo every one a different part is assigned. The\\nworld asks only that each do his best in the allotted\\nsphere; it asks steady work from the mechanic,\\nloyal service from the statesman, unquestioning\\nvalor from the soldier, a right use of money from\\nthe capitalist. Honest work for honest pay in re-\\nturn should be the foundation and the simplification\\nof the Labor Question. If each gave his best,\\nwhether of skill or intellect, keeping a clean con-\\nscience before God and the world, the Millennium\\nwould not be far away.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "XIII\\nA NATIONAL TRUTH SOCIETY\\nDR. MORDANT had just finished reading\\naloud, to the small company assembled\\naround his own hearthstone, one of those contempt-\\nible little paragraphs, half truth and all lie, that\\nmake an intelligent Catholic red-hot.\\nI don t know why we stand this sort of thing,\\nbegan the Doctor.\\nBecause we can t help ourselves, answered\\nMrs. Driscoll.\\nA body of twelve millions more or less sensible\\nbeings, with a hierarchy, clergy, schools, charitable\\ninstitutions, thoroughly organized, and adequately\\nequipped, and we can t help a bigoted, shyster editor\\nof a third-rate journal vomiting forth his venomous\\ncalumnies Well, I think we can and the old\\ngentleman glowered at us as if we, in our ignorant\\nhelplessness, were shyster editors ourselves.\\nForbearance under calumny is not virtue, but\\ncowardly weakness. We Catholics do our duty as\\ncitizens and as individuals we fight the battles of\\nour country, pay taxes, obey the laws, do good in\\nour several ways to our neighbor, educate our chil-\\ndren, and attend to our own particular business;\\nand all we ask in return is to be left in peace, and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 141\\nprotected in our just rights. We get tired of being\\nlied about, nothing but Hes, Hes, lies, from the\\ntime a man is born until he goes to his grave.\\nMy dear, if we went around fighting people who\\nlie about us, we should spend our lives between\\nfighting and nursing our bruises, either of the body\\nor of the spirit, said Mrs. Mordant, softly.\\nNot if we fought in a proper way, guerilla\\nwarfare counts for little, but organized armies are\\nvery much to the front.\\nThe Reverend Zion Blunderbuss who edits the\\nSabbath Star, fills his columns with atrocious libels\\non Catholics as a body, and no one takes the\\ntrouble to refute him, because no one considers it\\nwithin his province.\\nBut suppose there were an incorporated Catholic\\nTruth Society, with six milHons of members, and\\nwith a branch in every city, town, and village in the\\ncountry, on the watch for the Reverend Zion, and\\nready and able to hunt him down, and force a re-\\ntraction of his lies How long do you think it\\nwould be before the tone of the press would be\\npitched in a very different key?\\nAs it is, here and there a Catholic resents a cal-\\numny, sometimes a man with more zeal than dis-\\ncretion rushes into the fray, and has to crawl out of\\nit, and the jeering victor has an open field for the\\nrest of his days. Now and then a Catholic priest\\nwrites to the editor of a big magazine, ordering his\\nsubscription discontinued, because of the unfair and\\nanti-Catholic spirit manifested in its pages but what\\ncounts one more or less? As units we have no", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "142 The People of Our Parish\\nstrength, but as an organized body we might move\\nthe mountains of lies, libel, and calumny.\\nWhat about the Truth Society that we have\\nalready? asked Horace Norrison.\\nIt never was much more than local, at least\\nits influence has counted for very little in the\\naggregate.\\nI am an old man, but I hope to see a national\\norganization before I die one that will be a power\\nwherever the English tongue is spoken or, what\\nis more to the point, written and printed.\\nFancy Editor Zion s receiving a letter indited\\non the official paper of my ideal society National\\nCatholic Truth Society, The Most Reverend Arch-\\nbishop Erin, President; then a lot of distinguished\\nnames, as directors, and in one corner, Membership,\\nsix million, and in the other corner, General Office,\\nTrinity Building, Washington, and tucked modestly\\nto one side, Legal adviser, Ex-President George\\nWashington Blank, why, the letter-head alone of\\nthe society would make the creature weak at the\\nknees. And the brief and pointed lines that would\\nfollow, calling his attention to the error of his ways,\\nand signed by the secretary of the local branch,\\nwould bring out an ample apology in the next issue\\nof the Star/\\nAnd imagine this process repeated and multi-\\nplied throughout the country, a calumny exposed\\nalmost before the printer s ink is dry; it would not\\ntake long to place ourselves in a very different atti-\\ntude from our present submissive meekness.\\nAnd if we had a million or even a half-million", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 143\\ndollars as annual revenue, we might send out enough\\nfree literature, in the way of cheap books and pam-\\nphlets, to instruct even the ignorance of the Reverend\\nZions. Human endeavor could aspire no further.\\nThe average Protestant, when not blinded by\\nbigotry and prejudice, loves truth and fair play, and\\nwould be the first to protest against the systematic\\nvilification of Catholics and the Catholic Church, if\\nthe statements were once recognized as a vilification.\\nThe average Catholic gets the credit for being\\nfar more solicitous about the spiritual condition of\\nhis separated brethren than he really is if he were\\nhalf as intent on proselytism on being ^a secret\\nagent of the Jesuits as he is supposed to be, the\\nconverts would be in far greater numbers than they\\nare.\\nToo often he is derelict. Not that I advocate\\ngoing about with a catechism, or explaining Indul-\\ngences to the pretty Protestant you take in to din-\\nner, but I do like to see an intelligent Catholic\\nabsolutely fearless in presenting Catholic truth when\\nasked, and morally courageous in openly professing\\nevery jot and tittle, when the occasion arises for so\\ndoing.\\nThe Catholic who goes to non-Catholic churches,\\nattends little dances in Lent, joins an avowedly\\nProtestant charity organization, never speaks of\\nCatholic concerns, no matter how much the Protes-\\ntant friend prates of his all in the name of\\nliberality and broad-mindedness is my pet\\nabomination.\\nDr. Mordant, you must, at some period of your", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 The People of Our Parish\\nlife, have lived in Ovington you describe the\\nOvington type of pinchbeck Catholic so accu-\\nrately, laughed Margaret Oglesby, a delightful\\ngirl on a visit to Mrs. DriscolL If you were in\\nthe pulpit in our church I should expect to see\\nheads bobbing all through the congregation, to\\nescape the psychic stone you were going to\\nthrow.\\nIf we had that minority of one in seven that Mrs.\\nDriscoll speaks of, we should consider ourselves rich\\nbeyond the dreams of avarice. We are little more\\nthan one in twenty, and the one is so often not\\nequal to the part of a ragged little fraction At\\nleast one of the Scriptural marks of Christianity is\\nours beyond all dispute the poor we have with\\nus, in the greatest abundance and most interesting\\nvariety and they have the gospel preached to them,\\nsometimes in English spiced with Teuton accents,\\nand sometimes in the richest brogue. We have\\ntwo saloon keepers and their families among us,\\nand I have been told by some member or other of\\nnearly every denomination in the city that they\\n(the pronoun is not strictly grammatical, I know)\\ndo not admit saloon keepers to membership. And\\nnearly all the cooks in the West End belong to us,\\ntoo, and I am constantly hearing of some Bridget\\nor Delia who is such a faithful soul in the house-\\nholds of my friends, told as if the news would be\\npersonally gratifying.\\nThen we have half a dozen families who are of\\nthe local Four Hundred Dr. Mordant s old friends,\\nor their telepathic relatives. One lady, in particu-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 145\\nlar, she is a friend of mine, too, and we have the\\nmost beautiful fights on rehgion, makes a pose\\nof Hberality. She is always to the fore in society\\nfunctions, Protestant charities, and the Chautauqua\\ncircle, with their horrid little shallow, bigoted text-\\nbooks, but she never condescends to any of the\\naffairs of her own church. She pretends to be\\nsomething of an invalid, just enough to be excused\\nfrom the Lenten fast, or going to High Mass, or to\\nVespers, or any of the evening services; but not\\nenough to shut out receptions galore, evening par-\\nties, and all sorts of committee meetings. We\\ncan have the most eloquent preacher in the State,\\nbut Mrs. Desmond is not attracted The name\\nslipped out, I hope I am not sinning very terribly\\nagainst charity, since none of you know her.\\nShe thinks mamma is a relic of the dark ages\\nso she called her because she wouldn t let us\\njoin the King s Daughters, a body of charming\\nyoung girls and our intimate friends, who do a\\ngreat deal of good, and are nobly consistent in\\nsaying their prayers and singing hymns according\\nto the Protestant ritual, for they are an avowedly\\nProtestant association.\\nI admire them immensely, but I should scorn a\\nCatholic who sacrificed her principles and joined\\nthem.\\nMrs. Desmond s daughter is a member, but she\\nis not a member of the parish sodality because the\\ngirls composing it are so common First and last\\nthere are a good many things that Catholics of our\\ncity have to stand not big ones, but just hateful\\n10", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 The People of Our Parish\\nlittle nettles that sting before you quite realize their\\npresence. All the best plays come in Lent, and\\nthere has never been an opera there at any other\\nseason. Now I do go to the opera and to a tragedy\\npresented by a great actor, because I look upon\\nthem as elevating and uplifting and we must see\\nthem in Lent or not see them at all. For instance,\\nmamma took us to see Hamlet, but when Mansfield\\ncame with The Parisian Romance, we had to refuse\\ntwo invitations to box parties, because by no stretch\\nof conscience could The Romance, be considered\\nelevating; yet I simply dote on Mansfield as an\\nactor.\\n*The Daughters of the Revolution, our very swell-\\nest organization, always give a reception and ball\\non Washington s birthday, and it generally falls in\\nLent sometimes on Ash Wednesday. And Fri-\\nday is a favorite day for fashionable luncheons and\\ndinner parties and if you go you satisfy your hunger\\nwith bread and potatoes, whilst your partner eats\\nchicken salad and duck and turkey and sweetbreads.\\nThen the Monday papers devote a page to news\\nof the churches, with transcripts of Methodist and\\nBaptist and Presbyterian sermons, and mention of\\nthe choir that Miss Dresden sang the Sanctus\\nfrom Gounod s Solennelle at the First Methodist\\nChurch, and Mr. Munich rendered with great feel-\\ning The Agnus Dei from Mozart s Twelfth Mass at\\nthe Unitarian Tabernacle. But never a word about\\nthe Catholic service.\\nAnd the children of the public schools are\\nmarched in procession to hear a baccalaureate ser-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 147\\nmon, preached by invitation, in one of the Protestant\\nchurches and a local holiday is declared when the\\nMasons in gorgeous paraphernalia lay the corner-\\nstone of the new city building; and a committee of\\nProtestant clergy select new books for the public\\nlibrary, and put in Gems from Beecher, and Ten\\nYears as a Methodist Missionary in Mexico and\\nyou are expected to pay your taxes that help to\\nsupport all these institutions, and look pleasant the\\nwhile.\\n**The Protestants are in the ascendency and they\\nsimply make use of their privileges.\\nIt is only an esoteric sort of consolation to hug\\nto your soul the thought of all the great and repre-\\nsentative Catholics in New York and Washington,\\nor Paris and Vienna.\\nOf course, if Catholics believed what many good\\nProtestants think that we believe, we should be fit\\nfor hanging, but not for anything else, unless it be\\nsolitary confinement on Devil s Island.\\nOur dentist is an ardent Baptist, and whilst I am\\nwaiting in his reception-room, to be stretched on\\nthe red plush rack, I amuse myself with the file of\\nthe Baptist weekly kept on the centre table.\\nI learned from its columns that the Jesuits are\\ngiven to bacchanalian orgies, and that the Indians\\nare taught in the confessional to lie and steal. I\\nread of the horrors of the Inquisition (still harping\\non my daughter, you know), and of Popish plots,\\nand the raffle of souls, and the current prices for\\nsins, and the corrupting tendencies of Romanism,\\nand the like delectable rot", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 The People of Our Parish\\nGo home instantly, and start a branch of my\\ntruth society, interrupted Dr. Mordant.\\nI am afraid my friends would politely decline\\nthe pamphlets, retorted the visitor.\\nPersonally I am sure they would n t lie and\\nbear false witness against their neighbor even a\\nRomanist, but as subscribers to their church\\npapers they are forced to become the dissemina-\\ntors of the lies of others. And the editors them-\\nselves may not know any better, but if they do\\nnot know, they are out of place in the editorial\\nchair or the pulpit, and would better suit the street-\\ncleaning department of a big city.\\nI fear that we do not quite realize our responsi-\\nbilities towards our Protestant friends, began Mrs.\\nDriscoll. We love them and admire them for\\ntheir virtues and charms of mind and heart, we see\\nthem doing good in their way, devoted to their form\\nof religion, and we console ourselves with thinking\\nthat they belong to the soul of the Church, if not\\nto its visible body. We forget that we have a\\nsacred duty to show them the truth if we can.\\nLife is not so easy that any one can afford to dis-\\npense with the means of grace which would help over\\nthe pitfalls. Mother Church offers to her children\\nthe priceless daily sacrifice of Mass, the grace of the\\nSacraments, holds aloft the flaming light of truth,\\nmarks unerringly the path through the wilderness,\\nand sets unchangeable guide-posts at the cross-\\nroads of right and wrong. We start out as travel-\\nlers through a dark and unknown countr)^, but with\\na sure leader to show^ the path, with spiritual Bread", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 149\\nto give strength and sustenance, and with a bea-\\ncon that is never extinguished to Hght the way.\\nWe have all that, we know that we have it, and yet\\nwe see our friends, deprived of it through no fault\\nof their own, struggling forward in the mist, stumb-\\nling over boulders or pitching into ravines we see\\nthem thirsty, and drinking the water from poisoned\\nwells; and yet, because they have rejected our\\ncounsel in the beginning, we say never a word that\\nmight make them pause. We are in possession of\\na priceless treasure that belongs to others as much\\nas it does to us, since Christ died for all.\\nTheoretically I agree with you, said Adele, but\\nin practice there are many obstacles. One would be\\nvoted a bore if one brought up religion, it is one\\nof the subjects to be tabooed in a mixed assemblage\\nbesides, the mere telling counts for very little.\\nFaith is a gift of God, the catechism tells us, and\\nno amount of talking is going to bring it. In a\\nbigoted community a convert has to suffer so much\\npetty persecution that that knowledge alone often\\ncloses the mind to any consideration of Catholic\\nclaims.\\nI fancy that the Missionary Union, recently\\nestablished at the Paulist headquarters in New York,\\nwill do much in the way of making Catholic truth\\nknown to those outside the fold, said Mr. Travis.\\nYes, answered the Doctor, if it is properly\\nsupported, and if its sphere is sufficiently extended,\\nand if the Catholic people generally become in-\\nterested in the work.\\nIt is unfortunate that nearly all admirable things", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150 The People of Our Parish\\nin this world depend on so many if s^ said Horace,\\nin an aside to the visitor.\\nWe CathoHcs here in the United States are in\\nthe condition of the young giant who has just grown\\nup, and has not yet learned the extent of his power,\\nwent on the Doctor. It is a singular example of\\nthe perversity of wilful blindness, that, whilst we are\\naccused by our separated brethren of being the\\npolitical tools of ecclesiastical power, we are the\\nmost thoroughly disunited body, in everything ex-\\ncept our faith, in the world. In a recent presiden-\\ntial campaign, a Catholic was on the Republican\\ncommittee, and another Catholic was on the Demo-\\ncratic in the ranks of both parties Catholics are\\nfound fighting each other stubbornly at the polls.\\nThe Germans have their own organizations, and the\\nIrish have theirs; there is no social unity, and no\\npolitical unity. Yet we are accused but why talk\\nof accusations?\\nThe wise might learn a lesson from the condi-\\ntions as they now exist, and not force us by persecu-\\ntion to become a political unit. We might wield a\\npower little dreamed of in their reckonings.\\nThe German Catholics taught Bismarck a lesson,\\nand if necessary the American Catholics can repeat\\nthe lesson for corrupt poHticians.\\nSo long as our Constitution is preserved in its\\nintegrity, there will be no need for the lesson,\\nanswered Horace, who is ardently patriotic.\\nWe have had a good deal to suffer in the past,\\nanswered the Doctor. I pass over the double tax\\nfor schools, the withdrawal of appropriations from", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 151\\nour charitable institutions, where we take care of the\\nsick, the helpless, or the bad, regardless of creed\\nand I still have a big score of wrongs an army in\\nwhich nearly one third of the soldiers are Catholics\\nwith four CathoHc chaplains the navy largely\\nmanned by Catholic seamen, and nearly all the\\nchaplains Protestant; the atrocious injustice of the\\nIndian bureau in breaking its contract with the Sis-\\nters, after letting them erect and equip suitable\\nbuildings, and leave their work in other places to\\ndevote themselves to the Indian, and without the\\nshadow of a complaint; and this too, when one\\nfourth of the Indians in the country are Catholic,\\nand desirous of Catholic schools for their children\\nwhen the highest Protestant testimony senators,\\njudges, commissioners have declared the worth of\\nthe Catholic schools when not a breath of scandal\\nhas ever tarnished the fame of one of them, and\\nshameful excesses have been proven over and over\\nagain in the Government schools. Our enemies\\nwould prefer to have the Indians pagan rather than\\nto have them Catholic.\\nAnd yet we have nothing to complain of!\\nAt West Point the Episcopahans, one of the\\nsmallest of the leading denominations in the country,\\nhave had a chapel on the Government reservation\\nfor years, and with an Episcopal clergyman, paid by\\nthe Government, in charge and yet Catholics had a\\nlong and bitter fight to obtain permission to build\\nat their own expense a Catholic chapel on the\\ngrounds, for the benefit of the Catholic cadets,\\nlargely outnumbering the Episcopahans.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 The People of Our Parish\\nThe infamous A.P.A. have made religion a po-\\nlitical issue in spite of the Constitution, and appHed\\nthe religious test in elections. No Catholic has\\never been President, and no Catholic could be, at\\nthe present state of prejudice, be his gifts those of\\nan archangel.\\nIf Sheridan had been a Methodist like Grant, or\\nif Sherman had not had a Catholic wife, we might\\nhave seen one or both of these distinguished Union\\ngenerals in the White House.\\nIn many communities a Catholic could not be\\nelected to any office, however petty.\\nAll these things will, in the providence of God,\\nbe remedied in time.\\nWhat I would wish the National Truth Society to\\nsecure and unless it is national in reality as well\\nas in name, found in every town throughout the\\nland, it could do very little would be, primarily,\\nJustice for Catholics, and the Truth about them;\\nto enable Catholics to say effectively to our non-\\nCatholic fellows You shall not lie about us, and\\nyou shall not deprive us of our rights. If you were\\nhonest in your professions you would not wish to\\ndo either, and if you are not honest, you should be\\nforced to be just. For the rest, you are at liberty\\nto dislike us as much as you please. Our clergy,\\nsuccessors of the Apostles, are divinely commis-\\nsioned to teach the truth to every creature we offer\\nthe means to enlighten your ignorance, ignorance\\nfor which you are probably not to blame we\\ninvite you to our churches to hear the truth ex-\\nplained we will give you, free of charge, books ex-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "A National Truth Society 153\\nplaining Catholic truth. We do this out of Christian\\ncharity for our brethren; personally your conver-\\nsion is not of the slightest moment to us it is for\\nyour own sakes we teach you, not for any benefit\\nyou can confer upon us.\\nThe average middle-class non-Catholic acts as\\nif he imagined that the Pope secretly rewards his\\nagents who bring converts into the Church.\\nAs a general thing we do not manifest a suffi-\\ncient concern for the souls of our brethren, said\\nTravis.\\nWe do not begin to support our foreign mis-\\nsions, in proportion to their number and extent,\\nas Protestants support theirs. When I read their\\nreports I am filled with admiration for their zeal,\\nand with pity for their almost wasted efforts.\\nThe Catholic Church has more extensive mis-\\nsions and more converts among the heathen than all\\nthe sects put together.\\n**The Protestant missionary goes to China or Japan,\\nor wherever his particular sect sends him he takes\\nhis wife and children with him, and is provided with\\na house in some city, he is seldom found in the\\ncountry places, with a servant or servants and a\\nsalary, sufficient to support himself and family, is\\ncheerfully paid.\\nThe CathoHc missionary, usually a member of\\nsome religious order, asks only a coarse cloth habit\\nand simple food, a hard bed or a pallet of straw\\nhe goes everywhere, into jungles and deserts, to the\\nbedside of the plague-stricken sinner, into the\\nhovels of the poor, to the mansions of the rich and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "1 54 The People of Our Parish\\npowerful. Sisters, vowed to poverty, chastity, and\\nobedience, are there with their schools and hospi-\\ntals and orphanages. The Catholic missionary,\\nwhether he wears the black robe of the Jesuit, the\\nbrown of the Franciscan, or the white of the Domini-\\ncan, teaches one and the same doctrine, offers the\\nsame Sacraments. The heathen, who is not a fool,\\nsees the sacrifices the Catholic priest and nun make\\nfor him, and he contrasts it with the comfort, and\\nsometimes luxury, wijh which the Protestant mis-\\nsionary surrounds himself, and the sacrifice appeals\\nto that which is highest in his nature he sees the\\nCatholic clergy teaching the same thing, so that\\nwhether his brethren have been baptized by a Jesuit\\nor a Franciscan they go to the same church, and\\nreceive the same Sacraments, and are taught the\\nsame doctrine and he sees the Presbyterian mission\\nhouse, and the Methodist, and the Baptist, and the\\nAnglican, all independent, and all differing; and\\nthis fact strikes home to his logical faculty, with\\nbut one conclusion.\\nLet us fight for our rights, but fight manfully,\\nopenly, honorably, with the weapons of truth, jus-\\ntice, and personal integrity let us spare no means\\nto instruct our separated brethren as to what the\\nCatholic Church really is, and then let the result be\\nwith themselves.\\nOh, no, said Mrs. Driscoll, gently. Let the\\nresult be with God.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "XIV\\nTHE PRIEST OF THE FAMILY\\nTHREE lines in the evening Star an-\\nnounced to the world that Jack Carroll had\\ngone to the seminary to study for the priesthood.\\nEverybody in the parish knows and likes Jack, and\\nhis pious decision is regarded as a fitting climax to\\nhis years of service in the sanctuary and the choir.\\nIt seems but yesterday, although really quite ten\\nyears ago, since Jack, with his beautiful baby face,\\nchubby cheeks shaded by long black lashes, big\\ngray eyes and golden curls, a countenance domi-\\nnated by dimples and smiles at his young impor-\\ntance, in the glory of purple cassock and snowy\\nsurplice, appeared in the train of a bishop, and\\nsat as still, or bowed as gracefully, during the long\\nservice of a pontifical Mass, as any critically fond\\nmother could expect of a boy only seven and a\\nhalf years old.\\nI knew about his going, yesterday, vouchsafed\\nAdele Norrison. He and Carl have been class-\\nmates and chums at St. Xavier s, and Carl imparted\\nthe momentous secret to me, in strictest confidence,\\nof course, when he was getting ready to go to the\\ntrain to see the last of his Damon. Mamma was\\nafraid Carl might take a notion to go to the semi-\\nnary, too.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156 The People of Our Parish\\nAfraid, Adele? That seems rather a strange\\nword/ answered Mrs. DriscoU. Hoped would\\nsound better.\\nThat depends on the point of view, I suppose.\\nAt any rate, it was fear and not hope in this in-\\nstance, and with precious Httle room for either.\\nCarl is a good boy, but nature never intended him\\nfor a cassock.\\nI wonder why it is, put in Dr. Mordant, that\\nso few of our old American families have given a\\nson to the priesthood We seem to leave this\\nhighest of all vocations to the children of obscurity,\\nor to foreigners. Whether this indicates a deca-\\ndence of piety among our people, or carelessness on\\nthe part of pastors who might be supposed to be\\non the lookout for clerical raw material, so to speak,\\nthe effect is apparent. In Europe a priest in the\\nfamily is counted a holy honor, and in an earlier\\nday a son was set apart for the altar, almost as a\\nmatter of course.\\nAnd a pretty mess this matter-of-course made\\nof his vocation save the mark in too many cases\\non historic record. I am glad that the day of the\\nfamily-convenience priest is of the past. May it\\nnever return\\nTravis spoke with some heat, for nothing gives him\\nmore delight than the opposite side of an argument.\\nI was not thinking of him in the light of a family\\nconvenience. In fact, in America, where a lad grows\\nup with the expectation of making his own living,\\nof working for his cakes and ale and all that they\\nrepresent, irrespective of his father s possessions,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "The Priest of the Family 157\\nthere could n t be any family convenience. A boy\\nbecomes a priest, and lives on his salary; his brother\\nis a lawyer, and lives by his wits. Of course, where\\nit is a question of an only son one can understand\\na father s natural desire to see him marry and per-\\npetuate the family name, and whatever honor at-\\ntaches to it; but Catholic families, as a rule, are\\nnot afflicted with only sons that is a malady in-\\ndigenous to New England and the new mother.\\nWe live in such a din of materialism that the\\nwhisperings of a vocation are unheard, said Mrs.\\nDriscoll. Or perhaps parents expect an angel\\nto warn them in a vision of the priestly halo on\\nthe brow of their son. They forget that* one can\\nreach the supernatural through natural means.\\nA boy with good dispositions, fair talents for\\nstudy, and a sound physical body, might be\\ndirected in this chosen path, and with proper safe-\\nguards and training reach the goal of holy or-\\nders. Father Morris told me that his mother first\\nput the thought of being a priest into his head, and\\nthe idea had come to her from seeing him play at\\nbeing one; he was given to singing High Mass,\\nvested in a sheet and a red plush table-cover, with\\nhis small brother as a serving-boy.\\nIn fact, more vocations have been fostered by a\\npious mother s counsels and prayers than through\\nall other means combined. The devout female sex,\\nwhen it happens to mean anything at all, means a\\ngreat deal. The modern American woman does not\\nseem to appreciate the honor that might be hers,\\nthe honor of being a good priest s mother.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158 The People of Our Parish\\nPerhaps the mothers fear the terrible responsi-\\nbiHty attached to the priestly office, said Travis\\nand a bad priest is something so awful that one\\nmight well pause to think of this possibiHty.\\nThe bad priest in America practically does not\\nexist. Once in a while one sees a child with six\\nfingers, and once in a while a priest forgets his\\nsacred character.\\nI fancy the difficulty is of a very different\\nnature, said Dr. Mordant. Lack of money is\\nthe great stone in most careers, and the ministry\\nis no exception. A father with a large family\\nand a small salary might hesitate on the score of\\nexpense.\\nI thought the diocese paid for the education of\\nits priests, put in Adele. I m sure we are al-\\nways having collections for the seminary.\\nNot always, my dear. Only once a year,\\nanswered Mrs. Driscoll.\\nThe diocese pays after the candidate reaches\\ntheology, the last three years of his course but\\nthere must have been many years of study before\\nthis time, and whilst he is studying the classics, the\\nsciences of an ordinary education, and the multiple\\nbranches of philosophy, and in this age of critical\\nculture he must go from cosmology to paleontology,\\nhis father must pay.\\nHow does it happen, then, that so many boys\\nof the poor, or the merely well-to-do, become\\npriests?\\nEither because their families are willing to\\nmake heroic sacrifices for them, or they are edu-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "The Priest of the Family 159\\ncated at the expense of the pious rich. Some\\nfamilies find this vicarious way of having a priest\\nto their credit more to their Hking than to devote\\none of their own sons to the altar.\\nSometimes the pastor takes an interest in the\\nyoung acolyte, and discovers a generous patron\\nwilling to pay his expenses during the preparatory\\nyears.\\nIn some parishes the sanctuary is a sort of train-\\ning-school for candidates, and the boys who show\\nthe most aptitude and piety when serving at the\\naltar are singled out by the pastor, and encouraged\\nto hope for the privilege of one day being priests\\nthemselves/*\\nCertainly this is not the case with us,* answered\\nAdele. Jack Carroll is the first altar boy in my\\nrecollection who has gone to the seminary.**\\nI am very sure that none of the clergy ever\\nspoke to the boys about being priests, during my\\ntime of service,** put in Horace Norrison.\\nSometimes the Sisters at the school would ask\\none of the Httle chaps if he would n*t like to be a\\npriest, but none of the Fathers ever suggested the\\nidea.**\\nWe might take a lesson in fostering vocations\\nfrom our German neighbors,** added Travis. The\\nBishop ordained eight young men last week, and\\nof the eight six were Germans, one a Bohemian,\\nand only one an American and he was Irish.**\\nThere is n*t any nonsense about a German, and\\nwhen he wants things to happen he makes them\\nhappen. A pastor sees German congregations who", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "i6o The People of Our Parish\\nwant a German clergy, and he takes little German\\nboys and develops them into German priests. Now\\nand again it happens that there are not enough Ger-\\nman congregations to go round, so the priests are\\nlent to English parishes, and the parishioners, when\\nthe language of Shakespeare is served to them in\\nthe accents of Schiller, grumble in Bostonese\\nAmerican.\\nAre the Germans really more pious than other\\npeople, that they give their sons so willingly to the\\nChurch?\\nThey are more practical, they understand\\nbetter the relation between cause and effect; the\\ncause is generally money. An American sits still,\\nwaiting for some one else s money to bring about\\ncertain desirable effects, and the German gives his\\nown not a great deal, because he is thrifty, but\\neverybody s little makes the requisite much.\\nLook at all the big, beautiful churches the\\nGermans have built in this city, and in other cities\\nyou see the same, and the schools and the hospi-\\ntals and they are usually paid for by the time the\\nlast paint is dry on the walls. Perhaps if Father\\nRyan did n t have the parish debt he might find\\ntime to teach good little boys Latin.\\nFather Winkelkamp, over at St. Mary s, picks\\nout the clever boys in his school, informs their\\nproud fathers that he has discovered signs of a\\nvocation, and starts them at mensa^ mensce If\\nthey are poor boys he takes up a collection, on his\\nown responsibility, to defray the expenses of\\ntheir education. As a result, the Catholic Planet", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "The Priest of the Family 1 6 1\\nis always announcing that Mr. Anthony This, or\\nMr. Jacob That, of St. Mary s parish, has been\\nordained priest.\\nA very potent cause in making our boys them-\\nselves hesitate, is the undeserved stigma attached\\nto the clerical student who finds he has no voca-\\ntion and withdraws. Pretre manque the French\\nsay, but they do not make him feel as if he had\\ndone something terrible, where in reality he has\\nacted with the highest honor.\\nMany an Irish mother would rather see her son\\ndead than to see him return from the diocesan\\nseminary. The disgrace would be when he was\\nhypocrite enough to keep on, knowing that the\\npriesthood was not his vocation.\\nSometimes the priests have such dreadfully\\nhard times, especially in the West, that their\\nmothers seek to dissuade them, rather than to\\nencourage the pious ambition.\\n^Yes, that is very true, although as a rule our\\npriests have an easier life than they would have had\\nas laymen. This is looking at the matter as a pro-\\nfession, rather than as a vocation. Here is Father\\nRyan, to find an example at our door. His family\\nare good, plain people his brother works early\\nand late in a grocery store, and his sisters are\\nmarried to hard-working, plain men. Yet where\\nwould you find a more charming man, one more\\npolished, more highly educated, or more welcome\\nin the best houses, than this same Father Ryan?\\nGiven his tastes, the tastes of a scholar and gentle-\\nman, is he not a thousand times happier as he is\\nII", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1 62 The People of Our Parish\\nthan he would be behind a grocery counter, dealing\\nout salt mackerel?\\nHe has a comfortable home, a fine library, and a\\ngood horse; his cook knows how to get up a dinner,\\nand when he asks a fellow-priest to dine with him\\nthere is no lack of silverware and china for the\\ntable. His friends are among a class of people he\\ncould never have known in the sphere in which\\nhe was born, and his responsibilities are not to be\\ncompared with the daily burden of providing for\\nthe wants of a family on an entirely inadequate\\nincome.\\nThe rich man*s son sacrifices a great deal in\\nbecoming a priest, but the poor man s son is rather\\nthe gainer. This is taking a very material view,\\nand a view that no good priest ever considers. He\\nis trained to be ready to make any sacrifice, even of\\nlife itself, for the salvation of souls. And in the\\nministry, as in other callings, a man s own gifts\\ndetermine his position. The zealous priest, who is\\na scholar and an orator and a man of affairs, will\\nbe at the head of a large parish, where the equally\\ngood priest, whose talents are ordinary, w^ill be left\\nin a poor country mission. The priest, like the\\nsoldier, goes where he is sent, without question.\\nI wish that more boys of nice families would\\nbecome priests, said Adele. All the priests I\\nknow are holy men, but some of them lack the\\nrefinements of a gentleman. I took a Protestant\\nfriend to hear Father Marsden preach, and in the\\npulpit he is magnificent but she met him at a\\nconcert afterwards, and his manners were simply", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "The Priest of the Family 163\\nuncouth He wore his hat in the house, and had\\ndirty finger-nails, and the influence of the sermon\\nwas instantly lost.\\nYou must have her meet Father Ryan, retorted\\nMrs. Driscoll.\\n**I do hope Jack Carroll will persevere. He will\\nmake a charming clergyman. He has the manners\\nof a French marquis, and he sings so beautifully it\\nwould be a real treat to hear him sing the Pater\\nNoster. Poor little Father Higgins has no more\\nmusic in his voice than a parrot, and he will sing\\nthrough his nose. He got catarrh when he was on\\na mission in the country, where he had to go on a\\nhandcar to attend sick calls. But one is apt to\\nforget the handcar and the sick calls, when he gets\\noff the key at adveniat regnuniy and does not get on\\nagain until debita no sir a T\\nThere seems to be a general demand among the\\nbishops for a more thorough training in the semi-\\nnaries, said Travis and this is a move in the\\nright direction. If the arts of oratory and the\\nlearning of a scholar will widen the influence of a\\npriest, then the arts and the learning should be re-\\nquired of the candidates for orders; in pioneer\\ndays, when the harvest was ripe and the reapers\\nwere few, the students had to be hurried through\\nthe course of studies, and ordained for the mis-\\nsions nor could a bishop, with people falling away\\nfrom their faith, because there was no one to ad-\\nminister the sacraments, or teach the children, be\\nover particular as to the talents of his candidates\\npiety and zeal were seized upon with avidity, and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 64 The People of Our Parish\\noratory and nice manners were not required. Now\\nthe conditions are different, at least in the older\\nStates, and the candidates are numerous enough to\\nadmit of a careful choice. In the West one may\\nstill occasionally find the curious accent, and the\\nmourning finger-nails, in the pulpit, but the progress\\nof piety and polish is making surely, if slowly, for\\nbetter things/", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "XV\\nCATHOLIC LITERATURE\\nOUR little assembly of intimates had again\\ngathered at Dr. Mordant s.\\nThe Doctor is fond of asking his friends to come\\nand take what he calls pot-luck with him, although\\nthere are usually five courses, and cut flowers, and\\ndress-coats, features which did not belong to pot-\\nluck twenty-five years ago.\\nMrs. Mordant led the way to the library, because\\nthe gentlemen wanted to smoke, and the rest of us\\nwanted to listen to their elevating conversation.\\nHorace Norrison, who is not afflicted with mod-\\nesty, says that it is elevating.\\nThere had been no preconceived plan to talk of\\nliterature, but it so chanced that the latest cata-\\nlogues from two publishers, were lying on the\\nlibrary table, and they turned our thoughts into\\nthe channel which, in that house, is very wide. For\\nthe Doctor is a great reader.\\nIt is marvellous, the amount of deep learning,\\noriginal research, and literary excellence represented\\nby these two catalogues, began Travis, his nervous\\nwhite fingers resting on the little books.\\nThere are volumes here that contain the gar-\\nnered treasures of long, busy lives given up to one", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 66 The People of Our Parish\\nbranch of learning; works in every department\\nof human thought science, theology, philosophy,\\nphilology, social economics, as well as literature\\npure and simple. The books contained in these\\nlists would make a fairly creditable library for a\\ntown or college. University professors, gray-haired\\necclesiastics, statesmen, lawyers, noblemen, are here\\nrepresented, by the essence, so to speak, of their\\nlife-work, the distillations of years of study and\\nvaried activities.\\nHere are works, written not six months ago, in\\nidiomatic, clear-cut Latin, supposed to be a dead\\nlanguage, but very much alive among Catholics;\\nworks in German, in French, in Italian, models of\\nstyle, too, some of them. And yet there is the cry,\\nCatholics do not buy their own books\\nThose ponderous tomes are for the clergy, and\\nthe other professors, rather than for ordinary mor-\\ntals like ourselves, answered Mrs. Hartley. **The\\naverage woman is too busy to bother over biology,\\nor the Arians in the fourth century. I read a\\nlot of Catholic books when I was at school,\\nand wretched twaddle they were, too, because I\\ncouldn t lay my hands on anything else, concluded\\nthe little lady, with disarming candor.\\n*^We received histories of the Church and Treas-\\nuries of Truth for premiums, gaudily bound, poorly\\nprinted, and as lifeless in style, and quite as absurd,\\nas a wooden soldier who presents arms when prop-\\nerly wound.\\nIn Lent, for our sins, we had the lifeless lives of\\nthe Saints read to us in the refectory.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Catholic Literature 167\\nNow I am not so hardened as not to care for the\\nSaints, some of them I love dearly and it has\\nbeen my good fortune to read at least two saintly\\nbiographies that are as fascinating as a good novel.\\nI don*t see why some of you end-of-the-century\\nwriters, with common-sense and a style, do not turn\\nyour attention to this rich field. The closing re-\\nmark was directed to Marian Vere, a clever young\\nwoman who has published several books, and from\\nwhom her friends expect brilliant things.\\nWe use our sense I suppose I may say we\\nsince you said *you in the fields that promise the\\ngreatest returns, said Marian, spiritedly.\\nThe reading public does not discriminate be-\\ntween good work and bad. As apt as not the\\nbooks of the sort that you call twaddle, and I call\\njunk, have a greater sale than books of really high\\nmerit. The Catholic mother with a conscience buys\\nCatholic juveniles, but it does not occur to her to\\nadd the Catholic novel to her library.\\nIt is generally so stupid, interrupted Adele.\\nThere, that proves just what I was saying.\\nMany of them are stupid stuff, but if you would use\\nyour taste and judgment you would find not a few\\nof genuine worth. The number is surprising when\\nyou consider that the Catholic novelist seldom gets\\neither money or glory, but is supposed to work\\nfrom some sublimely altruistic motive. Of course\\na few make some money, but the majority get\\nnothing.\\nThe successful Catholic book is not in the line\\nof fiction.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "1 68 The People of Our Parish\\nThis is accounted for in part by the fact that our\\nbest Catholic writers belong to the realm of general\\nliterature, without any restricting prefix.\\nCrawford, and Johnson, and Repplier, and La-\\nthrop, are names of Catholics, but not of Catholic\\nwriters. You see what I mean?\\n*As soon as a Catholic makes a reputation as a\\nwriter he passes to the secular publishers and the\\nbig magazines, and our literature knows him no\\nmore.\\nThe few capable ones who would remain in the\\nranks are either crowded out, or kept down by the\\narmy of mediocrities who throng to the front, and\\nare willing, not to say anxious, to write volumes of\\ntrash, and to supply the magazines with insufferable\\ncommonplace, merely for the sake of seeing their\\nnames on title-pages.\\nI think our magazines are surprisingly good,\\nconsidering the disadvantages under which they\\nlabor, said the Doctor, briskly. Now here is the\\nBlank Monthly I think it compares very favorably\\nwith the secular magazines.\\nAll except the fiction, but deliver me from that,\\nsaid Mrs. Hartley. I agree with Marian that the\\nbest known Catholic writers are not found in our\\nmagazines, or so seldom that they hardly leaven the\\narray of commonplace served up to us month after\\nmonth.\\nIt would be a great gain, conceded the Doctor,\\nif our editors could see their way to securing more\\nfirst-class talent than they do, but until they receive\\na more generous support it is hardly possible.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Catholic Literature 169\\nSome of our Catholic periodicals are caught in\\na sort of vicious circle/ said Travis; they are not\\nsupported because they are so dull, and they are so\\ndull because they are not supported. I know of\\nmore than one Catholic institution where the three\\nor four of the big secular magazines are taken, and\\nnot a single Catholic monthly, and only one Cath-\\nolic paper.\\nOne has to pay for what is worth having, and\\nthe Catholic editor is no exception, said Marian.\\n**The average editor has not learned this truth, and\\nprobably will not, so long as he can get tons of\\njunk some of it is very good junk, with bits of\\ngold showing here and there for what he chooses\\nto pay.\\nNow I received for my first article in the Blank\\nMagazine, if you will pardon the intrusion of the\\npersonal pronoun, when I was absolutely unknown,\\na larger check than I received for my last one and\\nthe first check was sent on acceptance of the manu-\\nscript, and the last one not until the article had\\nbeen published. The latter check was so ridicu-\\nlously small, for an article that had cost some trouble\\nto write, that I was on the point of returning it to\\nthe editor, when Professor Goodheart I happened\\nto be in Washington at the time coaxed me out\\nof this bit of folly, and told me that he was paid at\\nprecisely the same rate for his best work in the\\nmagazine. This mollified my wounded vanity.\\nThe editor has the writer by the throat, so to speak,\\nand if one does not care to accept his terms, there\\nare hundreds of others who are glad to do so.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "1 70 The People of Our Parish\\nBut so long as he buys his fiction by the yard,\\nyou must not expect any great things of its quaUty.\\nWhy don t you CathoHc writers do something\\nfor yourselves through the united efforts of the\\nSociety of Authors? said Travis. You might\\nform a sort of labor union.\\nThere are too many writers, so-called, who would\\nnot keep to the conditions. The itch of authorship,\\nyou know.\\nI think it is a mistake for a writer to attempt to\\nremain in so limited a field as our Catholic literature\\nis, and must be, said Mrs. Driscoll. I am always\\nurging Marian to send her work to the big maga-\\nzines. Success is much harder to win there, but it\\nmeans so much more when it does come. Many\\nCatholic writers, so-called, remain with us and we\\ncould see them depart to pastures new with equa-\\nnimity, not to say positive pleasure because they\\ncannot secure entrance anywhere else. Then they\\ncomplain because their junk, and it is nothing else,\\nis not eagerly bought and read by their co-religion-\\nists\\nAt school I was assistant librarian during my\\nsenior year, put in Mrs. Hartley, and the girls\\nused to come and say, Give me a good novel; I\\ndon t want any of those conversion stories!\\nEverybody laughed.\\nWe had all been victims to the conversion story.\\nThe old-fashioned Catholic novel usually re-\\nvolves about a few well-worn situations, went on\\nMrs. Hartley. Lovers who separate because of a\\ndifference of religion, only to come together after", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Catholic Literature 171\\nyears of suffering have brought to the unbeliever the\\ngift of faith, stand easily first; the superhumanly\\ngood governess or saleswoman who inherits a for-\\ntune, forgives her rich and vulgar persecutors, and\\nmarries the heir to a great house, makes a good\\nsecond. Saving a train from destruction by discov-\\nering a boulder across the track, and walking miles\\nin the snow to warn somebody, is not an unpopular\\ndevice.\\nAnd the heroine is always so beautiful and so\\npreternaturally good and she has a way of drawing\\nout a pearl rosary from a convenient pocket, even\\nwhen fashion forbids pockets to ordinary women;\\nthen there is, as a matter of course, the scene over\\nher tearful refusal to wear a low-cut gown, or to\\ndance round dances and the flinty-hearted aunt or\\nstepmother brought to terms by the appearance of\\na noble lover, who confesses that this maidenly\\nmodesty first won his exacting affections.\\nSometimes a writer, composed of flesh and blood\\nlike the rest of mortals, ventures to put in a bit of\\ngenuine love-making, and a tiny fault or two in his\\nleading lady, and also a bit of virtue into the first\\nold woman, but a cautious publisher, with an eye\\nto his premium list insists upon the removal of\\nthese daring touches, and the restoration of the\\nconventional formula.\\nAt any rate, our fiction is infinitely superior to\\nthe Sunday-school books of our separated brethren,\\nsaid Adele. At least we are spared the atrocious\\nvulgarity of the Elsie books, and the morbid\\nemotionalism of some other writers almost as pop-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "172 The People of Our Parish\\nular. A cousin of mine gets books from Dr. Har-\\nvey s Sunday-school, and if you could see the stuff\\nthe poor child reads, I suppose on the advice of her\\nteacher, you would thank your stars for the con-\\nversion story of your youth.\\nIt is quite as interesting as the history of the\\ngood little Protestant boy who does without butter\\nin order to buy Bibles to send to the heathen,\\nunable to read them, or of the distressing little\\ngirl who preaches long sermons to her parents,\\nand quotes, in self-conscious priggishness, dis-\\nquieting texts anent the dark condition of their\\nsouls/\\nI am tired of the prefix Catholic attached to\\na story, said Adele. Suppose Saracinesca had\\nbeen thus labelled; readers would have been counted\\nby tens, where now they are numbered by thou-\\nsands. Give a book a good title, and let its religion\\nspeak for itself; it must be of a shadowy character\\nto require a tag.\\nOur books will never be received as literature by\\nthe general public and the reviews so long as they\\nbear the label. This omission has nothing to do\\nwith the tone of the book let that be as Catholic as\\ntruth itself.\\nWhy need we care how our books are received\\nso long as we ourselves know that they are litera-\\nture, and of the best? said Mrs. Mordant.\\nFrom pure altruism, answered the Doctor or,\\nto speak_ like a Christian, from a charitable desire\\nto see the greatest good done to the greatest num-\\nber. So many people never read a book until it is", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Catholic Literature 173\\nthe fashion to read it, that one does a good work to\\ngive vogue to the best in literature.\\nToo many Catholics are mentally starving, when\\nnot morally sick, with treasures of learning all about\\nthem.\\nLet us omit the label and make our great authors\\nthe fashion", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "XVI\\nTHE SCHOOL QUESTION\\nFROM the very beginning of his pastorate\\nFather Ryan has taken a decided stand on\\nthe school question. In this, despite all opposing\\ninfluence, he has been supported by the Bishop.\\nThere was a parish school that school the pastor\\nwas determined should be of the best. Regardless\\nof the fact that his exchequer was not flourishing,\\nhe made extensive improvements in the buildings,\\nand added to their equipment the best apparatus\\nin the market.\\nThen he gave his attention to the teachers some\\nof them were very good, and some were not. The\\nsuperior of the order was informed that she would\\nhave to send first-class teachers for every room, or\\nelse he would find another order to take charge;\\nand failing in that, he would employ secular\\nteachers.\\nAbsolutely his school must be inferior to none in\\nthe city. He purchased the best works pertaining\\nto teaching and the training of the young, and\\nplaced them in the school library for the use of his\\nteachers he organized a teachers association, and\\nonce a month presided over the meetings. He did\\nnot rest until he was sure that his school was all\\nthat it ought to be, and then he informed the people", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "The School Question 175\\nthat the place for CathoHc children was in Catholic\\nschools, either in the parish school or in some one\\nof the many good private academies and colleges\\nin the city. Only for a very grave reason would\\nany dispensation be given from this rule.\\nThose able to pay the nominal tuition fees were\\nexpected to do so those who could not were to\\nsend their children entirely free of charge.\\nThen, in the terse phrase of Miss Norrison, there\\nwas a howl.\\nMr. Higgins said, in Tom McCarthy s saloon, as\\nhe gulped his beer and grew red in the face, that\\nFather Ryan must remember that we are living in\\nthe free country of America; that the United\\nStates is not Ireland, and the nineteenth century\\nnot the middle ages. His boy was educated in the\\npublic school, and if he had a dozen children he\\nwould send them where he pleased. Mr. Dyer,\\nwho was also drinking beer, happened to know\\nthat young Gerald Higgins, baptized Jeremiah,\\nwent to church only when it suited his fancy, and\\nthat he had not been to the Sacraments for years.\\nBut Gerald was a handsome boy with a fine position,\\nand he was making his way into very good society.\\nNo wonder Jerry Higgins was proud of his boy.\\nStill, Mr. Dyer, whose children were all girls, thought\\nthat for his own part, he would be better pleased\\nif a son of his had not disowned the old faith.\\nIn Dr. Mordant s library, recently, this school\\nquestion was vigorously discussed.\\nI am not opposed to parochial schools, said\\nMr. Travis, the banker. Far from it. I think", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "1 76 The People of Our Parish\\nthat they do an excellent work; however, I do\\nthink that Father Ryan has made a mistake in tak-\\ning so decided a stand, at least at present. The\\npublic-school system is the great shibboleth of\\nthe American people, and any opposition to it\\nat this stage of its development can but prove\\nunfortunate.\\nBut, my dear Travis, who is opposing the pubhc\\nschool system? said Dr. Mordant, straightening\\nhimself so vigorously that the cigar ashes fell in a\\nlittle gray trail down his shirt-bosom. The public\\nschools have their work to do, and we are not trying\\nto hinder them in any way. We do not attempt to\\ncontrol them or to dictate as to their policy. What\\nwe do say is that they are not the place for Catholic\\nchildren. If we admit, as certainly we do, that the\\nspiritual is higher than the temporal, that all true\\neducation rests on a religious basis, it is self-evident\\nthat Catholic children have the inalienable right to\\na Catholic training.\\nNobody questions their right to a Catholic\\ntraining, responded Travis.\\nBut will you tell me, my dear Doctor, what con-\\nnection there is between mathematics, for instance,\\nand religion? Religious instruction is necessary,\\nbut it is not the only kind necessary. If a boy\\nknows nothing but his catechism he is going to\\nstand a very poor show in this world, whatever may\\nbe his chances for the next. I cannot see why we\\nshould question the faith of the man or woman who\\nteaches our children arithmetic, and geography, and\\ngrammar, any more than we question the faith of the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "The School Question 177\\ndancing-master who teaches them to dance, or the\\nmusician who teaches them to play the piano. It is\\nthe duty of the pastor and of the parents to instruct\\nthe children in religion. That is quite out of the\\nsphere of the secular educator/\\nTheory is one thing, practice is another/ said\\nthe Doctor. If you could separate the two kinds\\nof learning, the religious and the secular, all very\\nwell. The child is composed of body and soul, and\\nif you could separate the two and send the soul to\\none place for spiritual development, and the body\\nwith a vitalized brain to another, to acquire a knowl-\\nedge of the things that belong to the world But\\nwhy talk nonsense?\\nThen, again, how can a pastor with one or two\\nassistants, give the time for the proper instruction of\\nthe children? Catechism once or twice or three\\ntimes a week is not sufficient, and how many\\nparents have the time or the abiHty to attend to this\\nduty for their offspring? The father is away at his\\nwork or business, and at night he wants to rest, or\\nto have a little recreation and the overworked\\nmother has no time, and in many cases no qualifi-\\ncations, to do this. And if the children are at the\\npublic school all day, where is the opportunity to\\ngive them their religious training?\\nHowever, this is but a minor point. Religion is\\nnot a thing apart, that can be learned and stored\\naway in a brain cell for future use rather it is an\\nessence that must permeate the heart, the soul, the\\nintellect or, to be philosophical, it must be the vital-\\nizing principle in the fourfold activities of the soul,\\n12", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178 The People of Our Parish\\nthe aesthetic, the intellectual, the moral, the\\nspiritual.\\nThe child in a Catholic school breathes religion,\\nso to speak; the garb of the teachers, that habit\\nwhich has caused such spasms of indignation and\\nhorror in the breasts of good Puritans, is a constant\\nreminder to the children of that higher Hfe which\\nour Lord has invited chosen souls to follow. The\\ncrucifix, telling ever of the infinite love of a Saviour\\nwho died on a cross to redeem mankind, the statue\\nof the Blessed Virgin, the pictures of saints on the\\nwalls, all speak to the little child of its faith. There\\nare the prayers at the opening and closing hours.\\nWhen a child begins and ends each important act of\\nthe day with prayer during the impressionable years\\nof youth, the man or woman is not apt to forget this\\nduty. Then there is the regular Sunday for con-\\nfession and Holy Communion for the school chil-\\ndren; they get into the habit of approaching the\\nSacraments, and we all know the tremendous force\\nthere is in habit, good or bad.\\nAnd now I come to another telling point: we\\nknow that such a thing as history impartially taught\\nhas so far been an impossibility in non-Catholic\\nschools the holiest practices of our religion, the\\nmost obvious truths of history, are perverted. What\\nloyal Catholic wants his child taught that the Popes\\nsold indulgences authorized the burning and mur-\\ndering of millions of good people because of their\\nreligious beliefs; that Catholics pay the priest for\\nforgiving their sins; that learning arose with the\\nReformation; that people did not read the Bible", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "The School Question 179\\nuntil Luther s time, and that enlightened, progres-\\nsive countries are Protestant, and the illiterate,\\nsqualid ones are Catholic; to come under the\\ninsidious teaching for years that to be a Catholic\\nis to be mentally stultified, to be behind the age,\\nan object of pity as the victim of a strange per-\\nversion of intellect? Yet we all know that this is\\nthe spirit of the public schools. A hundred ex-\\namples could be given from the schools here in\\nour own city.\\nYes, I admit that there are Catholics teaching in\\nthe public schools but the proportion of Catholic\\nteachers is very small, and they cannot teach their\\nreligion even to Catholic children they would\\nquickly find themselves without a position if they\\nmade the attempt. Besides, they have no voice in\\nthe selection of the text-books. Even in the matter\\nof mathematics, where Travis was so sure religion\\ncould not enter, as a matter of fact it has entered.\\nIn the text-book used in a public school where a\\nfriend of mine was educated, was an example some-\\nthing like this I quote from memory: If there\\nwere two hundred thousand Protestants in Spain,\\nand the pope put to death ninety-five thousand,\\nand sold indulgences to eighteen thousand, and\\nbanished the rest from the country, how many\\nProtestants had to leave Spain?\\nOh, well, such a thing as that would be impos-\\nsible in our public schools. The board would not\\ntolerate it, said Travis.\\nI am not so sure about that. The board has tol-\\nerated things almost as offensive to Catholics. You", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "I 80 The People of Our Parish\\nforget that Coffin s Story of Liberty/ a book\\nviolently anti-Catholic, is one of the reference books\\nin the schools/\\nI agree fully with Dr. Mordant, put in Mr.\\nVere. The place for Catholic children is in\\nCatholic schools. If we assert that the Catholic\\nfaith is the birthright of the Catholic child, we can\\nadmit nothing else. The impressions of youth can\\nnever be obliterated. If you take a child at its ten-\\nderest age and let him spend the greater part of his\\nyoung life in a school where religion is banished, he\\nis apt to grow up to think that religion is, after all,\\nbut a secondary consideration. He says a few\\nhurried morning prayers and rushes off to school,\\nwhere his books are often anti-Catholic, his associ-\\nates non-Catholic, and his teachers Protestant, Jew,\\nor infidel, where he hears nothing of God and re-\\nligion, sees nothing to remind him of his faith. Can\\nyou expect him to grow up to be either very loyal\\nor very devout?\\nOn Sundays he is taken to Mass, where he squirms\\nabout, not having been taught how to assist at the\\nHoly Sacrifice; in the afternoon he goes to cate-\\nchism for a half-hour, or perhaps he does not. At\\nthe best, one little lesson a week in religion to five\\nlong days given up to secular knowledge.\\nIn the Catholic school the catechism is quite as\\nimportant as mathematics, perhaps more so. The\\nchild studies Bible History when he is old enough,\\nand these branches are continued for years. He is\\nas familiar with the life and teaching of Our Lord,\\nthe heroes of the Old Testament, the history and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "The School Question i 8 i\\ndogmas of the Church, as he is with the life of\\nWashington or Caesar, and the Constitution of his\\ncountry. Religious truths are as an unknown\\ntongue to the child of the public schools except as\\nthey are taught outside the school.\\nNow as to your comparison, Travis, in regard to\\ndancing and music. A child takes a music lesson\\ntwice a week, and dancing once or twice; these\\nthings are but incidents in his regular life they do\\nnot take him away from a Catholic environment\\nduring the greater part of the day, and for every\\nday during his school life. No one would object to\\na child^s having lessons in mathematics or French\\nfrom a Jew or an infidel. There is no question but\\nthat a child s daily training should be not only not\\nanti-Catholic, but positively Catholic.\\n**Life is not so easy; temptations come soon\\nenough, and parents owe it to their children to give\\nthem all the spiritual strength they can procure.\\nGrant that religion is necessary to right living, and\\nthat the religious parent who brings up an irreligious\\nchild has failed grossly in his duty, and you grant\\nthe paramount necessity of the rehgious school.\\nThis is a free country, and we do not try to force\\nthose who think differently from us to act from our\\npremise. But we demand the same liberty for our-\\nselves that we grant to others.\\nAnd now, even on their own grounds of material\\nprogress, we can meet the public schools. At least\\nthis is so in the St. Paul s parish schools there is\\nno appliance of science or sanitation that has been\\nneglected. We have model schools, and there is no", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "i82 The People of Our Parish\\nreason why our Catholic children should not be\\nsent to them.\\nYou forget a very important reason, said\\nTravis. At the St. Paul s parish school you must\\npay, and at the public school you go free.\\nYou do not pay unless you are able to do so,\\nand I for one should not want my children, to get\\ntheir education for nothing, any more than I should\\nwant them to get their shoes in the same way.\\nThe public schools are supported by the tax-\\npayers, and we Catholics pay our taxes just the\\nsame as anybody else.\\nIndeed we do, chimed in Mr. Vere. And\\nno one, even among the very poor, wants to admit\\nthat he cannot afford to pay his children s tuition\\nfees, even w^here paying entails a great hardship\\nand he will not when he can send them to the public\\nschool, where everybody is free.\\n**We are handicapped there, I admit, replied\\nthe Doctor, and we shall be until we get our\\nrights.\\nWhat are our rights? asked Travis, rather\\nquizzically.\\nThe right to our proportion per capita of\\nthe public school fund, answered Dr. Mordant,\\npromptly.\\nYou will never get that right, said Travis.\\nDon t be too sure of that. Why should we not\\nget it? There are a million of Catholic children\\nin the parochial schools in the United States;\\nshould we close these schools and turn the children\\nout, the public schools would be compelled to make", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "The School Question 183\\nroom for them. They would have to build addi-\\ntional schools, increase the rate of taxation, and\\nthe taxpayers would not like that, and at an enor-\\nmous increase of expense provide teachers for these\\nchildren.\\nThat would be a desperate remedy\\nFor a desperate disease, snapped the Doctor.\\nCatholics pay their taxes, and taxation without\\nrepresentation is unconstitutional. We cannot from\\nconscientious reasons avail ourselves of the public\\nschools; therefore simple law and justice would\\nseem to point out the solution of giving us our\\nproportion of the school fund.\\nIf that was conceded to Catholics, it would\\nhave to be conceded to Methodists and Presby-\\nterians, or to any religious organization that de-\\nmanded it, said Travis.\\nAnd why not? If the parents of forty Metho-\\ndist or Presbyterian children in a community de-\\ncided that they wished their children to have a\\nreligious training, to be taught the religion of their\\nparents by teachers competent to impart it, and if\\nthey are willing to provide the building, and a\\nteaching corps who would keep the standard of\\ninstruction in purely secular branches, which are\\nthe only concern of the state, up to the standard\\nof the public schools, and demanded their propor-\\ntion of the public money, the money that the state\\nwould have to pay for these children if left in the\\npublic schools, why should their right to this be\\ndenied?\\nAs a matter of fact, whilst the majority of Prot-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184 The People of Our Parish\\nestants are contented to have their children in the\\nnon-rehgious public schools, there is a minority, and\\nnot a small minority either, who deplore the secular\\nspirit of these schools, and would be very glad to\\nhave schools of their own. Many of them do have\\ntheir own schools; you have only to look to the\\ndenominational schools, academies, and colleges\\nscattered over the country to acknowledge this.\\nIf we made a determined stand we should have\\nthe support of this minority; for in helping us to\\nour rights they would be coming into their own.\\nIn England the parish schools receive state aid,\\nand are under the supervision of the state board,\\nand the plan works satisfactorily to all concerned.\\nWhy not in this country?\\nAnother point in our favor statistics prove that\\nwe can educate in our parish schools, and compare\\nfavorably with the public schools, for about one\\nhalf the cost of the state schools. This is because\\nour schools are taught by the religious orders de-\\nvoted to the work of teaching, who require very\\nsmall salaries, and also because we have no school-\\nboards and no book trusts to be fattened out of the\\nschool fund consequently we save all that. It is\\nnot an unheard-of thing for a member of a school-\\nboard, serving for no salary, to retire comfortably\\nwell-off.\\nOur school buildings are erected under the per-\\nsonal supervision of the pastor, who secures honest\\nlabor and pays an honest price for it; there is no\\njobbery, no cheating. No man makes a fortune\\nwhen a new parish school is to be built. So, be-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "The School Question 185\\ntween our honesty and our teaching orders, we can\\neducate our children at a very modest cost com-\\npared with the cost in the pubHc schools. If we\\nare willing to take these million children and edu-\\ncate them for a dollar a month per capita, say, or ten\\nmillions of dollars a year, building our own schools\\nwithout state aid, and if it would cost the state\\ntwenty millions a year for these same children, it\\nseems to me that it would be good business policy\\nto save the ten millions, and let us educate our\\nown.\\nThey know that they can do better than that,\\nsaid Mr. Vere. They are sure that we will never\\ngive up our schools, and so they save the entire\\ntwenty millions.\\nThere is such a thing as the public conscience,\\nretorted Dr. Mordant, and there is such a thing\\nas the Catholic vote. With these two w^eapons we\\nshall in time secure our rights.\\nWe have overlooked a very important point\\nin regard to our schools and that is, the asso-\\nciation of our children. The objection has been\\nmade to parish schools that only the children of the\\nlower classes attend them. My experience is that\\npractically the same class of children are to be\\nfound in the parish and the public school. Wealthy\\nparents as a rule, both Protestant and Catholic, pre-\\nfer private schools for their children. But there\\ncan be no question that in a parish school where\\nthe children are from Catholic homes, with religious\\nteaching in their lives at school, there is less danger\\nfrom moral contamination than in the public school", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "i86 The People of Our Parish\\nwhere children from the shims, from the homes of\\nthe most degraded vice, can be found side by side\\nwith the children of the virtuous poor. The social\\ncharacter of the childrenin a given school depends\\non the neighborhood in a wealthy neighborhood\\nthey will be of a higher class, socially speaking,\\nthan in a school near the slums. This is true of\\nboth parochial and public schools. But certainly I\\nshould take my chances in a parish school, with\\nCatholic children as deskmates for my little ones,\\nrather than in- a public school in the same locality.\\nNo Catholic father worthy of his children is going\\nto risk their spiritual welfare to save the paltry\\ndollar a month he must pay for each at the parish\\nschool.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "XVII\\nBOARDING-SCHOOL AND COLLEGE\\nMR. TRAVIS had remarked with pardonable\\npride that his son John, expected home\\nshortly for the holidays, had carried off the first\\nhonors in an oratorical contest at Notre Dame.\\nThen Captain Claiborne, who is a distant relative of\\nthe Travises, and therefore privileged to be disagree-\\nably frank, asked if Travis did not think a denomi-\\nnational school handicapped a boy in the race with\\nmodern life. Forthwith there was a Babel, a nice\\nsort of Babel, with the accompaniments of tea,\\ncushions, easy-chairs, and an open fire in Mrs.\\nDriscoU s pretty drawing-room.\\nThe discussion once turned on schools kept upon\\nthem, for the Catholic school in all its ramifications,\\nfrom parochial to post-graduate, is the especial hobby\\nof old Dr. Mordant.\\nCatholic colleges, and institutions calling them-\\nselves by that name, are, I fancy, pretty much like\\nother things in this world, easily separated into good,\\nbad, and indifferent, put in Horace Norrison.\\nOne hears a great deal of adverse criticism of\\nthis and that college, and comparisons with Harvard\\nand Yale, the carpers never seeming to see how\\nillogical they are in thus comparing totally distinct\\nclasses.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "1 88 The People of Our Parish\\nThey take a struggling little school, purporting\\nto give everything, from the classics down to pre-\\nparatory branches, unendowed, unknown, the veri-\\nest makeshift in a wilderness, so to speak, and send\\na boy there simply because it is ridiculously cheap\\ntwo hundred dollars for ten months of board and\\ntuition, and perhaps laundry.\\nThen they complain because all the advantages\\nof a great Eastern University, with its millions of\\nendowment and its high charges, are not forth-\\ncoming.\\nIt is not always easy to make a selection/ said\\nMrs. Hartley.\\nWe had catalogues from a score or more when\\nBrother Fred was ready to go to college, and to\\njudge from the official eulogies all were equal, be-\\ncause all were perfect. The only way to decide\\nwas to take the best known and the most expensive\\nI have found out that if you want a good thing you\\nhave to pay for it.\\nSome of our colleges the title is given merely\\nby courtesy and very many of our convents should\\nbe suppressed as pious frauds, said Horace and a\\ncry of horror went up from the company.\\nNot that they mean to be so, he hastened to\\nadd, but they are so through limitations beyond\\ntheir control. In our pioneer days there was\\nan excuse, and a reason for being, for the poorly\\nequipped and poorly manned college and boarding-\\nschool\\nHow could a convent be manned whispered\\nAdele.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 189\\nbut that reason no longer exists.\\nI heard the Bishop of SensopoHs say not a\\nmonth ago that it would be a good thing for educa-\\ntion and the Church if many of the boarding-schools\\ncould be closed, and others forced to keep to a higher\\nstandard. With railroads going in all directions, and\\ntravel safe and luxurious as it is, there is no need of\\nall the half-baked institutions found everywhere.\\nThey are quite as good as the half-baked insti-\\ntutions of our non-Catholic brethren, put in Mrs.\\nDriscoU, and in one way infinitely better, for they\\nteach religion and morals, and purely secular insti-\\ntutions do not.\\nI think that the half-baked do fill a very seri-\\nous need, said Dr, Mordant. They give to poor\\nboys a chance to get a Christian education, who\\notherwise would be forced to remain in ignorance,\\nor to put up with cheap secular schools not a whit\\nsuperior. No doubt it is a mistake, generally speak-\\ning, to crowd minims into the Third Reader, and\\nsophomores in Greek all in one institution, but it\\nis a necessary and temporary inconvenience.\\nI happen to know something of the half-baked\\ninstitutions I use Horace s designation for the\\nwant of a better of various Protestant sects, and of\\nthe state, and they labor under the same disadvan-\\ntages as our own I should even concede to ours\\nthe superiority, for the reason that the professors,\\nbeing members of the religious order in charge of\\nthe college, require no salary, thus making possible\\nlower terms, and also, because they usually do re-\\nceive a very good training for their work.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "190 The People of Our Parish\\nThere is the University of Boomopohs, for in-\\nstance, absurd in its pretensions, and wholly inca-\\npable of any sort of real culture, a field for a comic\\nopera if it were not so serious in its consequences.\\nThe faculty are miserably paid, forced to do peda-\\ngogic drudgery, mercenary, and garbed in thread-\\nbare raiment. One man who was, according to the\\ncatologue, professor of Latin and Greek and Eng-\\nlish, taught the elements of English grammar to the\\nsons of neighboring farmers.\\nIf you compare schools of the same class, we\\nhave nothing to be ashamed of, or to regret.\\nIf a Catholic father wishes to give his son a col-\\nlege training with the surroundings of a gentleman\\nand the appliances of science and art, he can easily\\nfind the college.\\nA very serious drawback to our colleges, said\\nHorace, is the restrictions which they impose. It\\nis all very well to pen up small boys, put them to\\nbed at nine o clock, and confine their walks to the\\nschool campus, but young men at college will not\\nsubmit to these regulations, certainly our twentieth-\\ncentury American young men will not, and as a\\nconsequence we see them going to the great secular\\nuniversities instead of to our own.\\nI call the restrictions a wise precaution, an-\\nswered the Doctor. If you knew of all the im-\\nmorality, drunkenness, gambling, and midnight\\ncarousals and debauches that go on at the secular\\nuniversities you would thank God for the Catholic\\ncollege and its restrictions.\\nIf a young man is naturally vicious, college walls", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 191\\nare not going to make him virtuous/ returned\\nHorace.\\nIn a way they may, asserted the Doctor. If\\na youth is forced to be good for the four years of\\nhis college course, four critical years in the de-\\nvelopment of his character, he may decide to be\\ngood for all time. On the other hand, you take a\\nboy on the threshold of manhood and turn him\\nloose in a great university, practically his own mas-\\nter outside of recitation hours, with no home influ-\\nence, far from his mother s eye, perhaps caught in\\nthe maelstrom of bad associates before he knows it,\\ntemptation in an alluring guise before him, nothing\\nto fear from society, and nothing but a weak con-\\nscience, easily blinded, to stand between him and\\nmoral ruin, is it any wonder that so many of the\\nyoung men come out roues and infidels?\\nYou are rather severe, aren t you? queried\\nHorace.\\nNo, I am not I wish I were I speak of what I\\nhave seen. Not that all college men are bad, or the\\nmajority of them, but many are and no Christian\\nparent has a right to expose his son to needless\\ntemptation.\\nIf you muzzle your boy at college, returned\\nHorace, you have merely postponed an inevitable\\ncondition, for temptation is waiting for him at the\\ngates of the college when he leaves. If he has not\\nstamina enough to be a man, acting as a free agent,\\nhis virtue is hardly worth bothering about.\\nA man can carry a burden easily where a child\\nwould break down under it, said the Doctor; but", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "192 The People of Our Parish\\naccording to your reasoning one should expect the\\nchild, with its undeveloped muscles, to carry as\\nmuch as the man, and just as easily.\\nI think there is something to be said on both\\nsides, hastily interposed Travis. Too much hb-\\nerty is given boys in our secular colleges, and not\\nenough in our own. The English are wiser than we.\\nNo Oxford student has a tithe of the liberty afforded\\na Harvard man.\\nYet we read of very dreadful things laid to the\\ndoor of the Oxford men, said Mrs. Driscoll.\\nIf that proves anything it proves that the re-\\nstrictions should be even greater, answered Dr.\\nMordant.\\nI still incline to the opinion that if a boy wants\\nto be a ruffian he will be one in spite of your restric-\\ntions, put in Horace.\\nI am not in favor of treating young men as one\\nwould treat small boys.\\nThis country is ready for a great CathoHc uni-\\nversity, said Travis, the equal in every way, in\\nintrinsic worth and general prestige, of Oxford and\\nHarvard. We have not such an institution, admir-\\nable as many of ours are, and we gain nothing by\\npretending that we have.\\nThe Catholic University at Washington pro-\\ntested Mrs. Driscoll.\\nSo long as that confines itself to post-graduate\\nwork it counts for very little in the general scheme\\nof collegiate education. If the Catholic University\\nwould open its doors to the undergraduate, and re-\\nceive him without asking him to retire at nine", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 193\\no clock, and to obtain permission to go to the city\\nto buy a necktie, then, indeed, a glorious era would\\nbegin for Catholic education.\\n**The powers that be are inflexibly opposed to\\nthat move, put in Dr. Mordant.\\n^*Not all the powers, by any means, said Horace.\\nThere is- a growing sentiment in favor of the\\nundergraduate work. Theoretically, the opposition\\nis right, granting certain premises but I do not\\ngrant them. The wealth, the buildings, the faculty\\nof the university, all are commensurate with a large\\nbody of students, and the students are not there. It\\nproves nothing to point to the Johns Hopkins in\\nBaltimore as limiting itself to post-graduate work,\\nfor it is fed from countless sources closed to the\\nCatholic University. Even if that were not so, if we\\nhad a great university for the undergraduate, one\\nwith the prestige of Oxford and Yale or Harvard,\\nI ring the changes on those names because they\\nstand in popular estimation for what I mean,\\nwe might leave the Washington University to its\\nchosen sphere.\\nI am afraid you will have to leave it there any-\\nway, laughed Adele.\\nIts sphere is surely an exalted one, said Travis,\\nenthusiastically.\\nIt is destined to revolutionize the intellectual\\nlife of this country.\\nIts chairs are filled with men of genius the\\nuniversities of the world have been canvassed for\\ntalent and its possessions already are reckoned in\\nmillions. With schools of Divinity, Law, Medicine,\\n13", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "1 94 The People of Our Parish\\nScience, Literature, waiting for the young man when\\nhe finishes his college course, its very existence is\\nan incentive to him to round out his manhood by\\ndevoting himself, with his trained faculties, to the\\nhigher learning.\\nIt is appallingly true that liberal culture in our\\ncountry has hitherto rested largely on Agnosticism,\\nopen or insidious.\\nThe University where St. Thomas sits in triumph,\\nwill solve the riddles of a questioning age by the\\nkeys of Thomist philosophy and Christian law.\\nThen let us work for the University, give to it,\\nspeak for it, herald it proudly\\nBravo in chorus.\\nAnd what the University is doing for men,\\nTrinity College, in a lesser degree, will do for\\nwomen. If it meets the expectations that it has\\naroused, Trinity will be a dominant intellectual\\npower in that ever widening kingdom of woman.\\nThe higher education of woman is no longer a\\ntheory, it is a glorious fact. And the Church that\\nhas steadily exalted womanhood, now provides a\\ntraining for American girls commensurate with the\\npossibilities of her influence.\\nIf the college were to be an integral part of the\\nUniversity I should feel much more elated over its\\nfoundation, said Adele. You know Professor\\nHarry Thurston Peck s dictum that women are not\\nheld up to the same standard of intellectual excel-\\nlence as men. They do very well considering their\\nsex. We don t want any of this insufferable con-\\ndescension in the world s attitude towards Trinity", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 195\\nCollege. If the students could study for University-\\ndegrees, with the University examinations ever\\nbefore them, I should don cap and gown and enter\\nmyself as a candidate.\\nWhy should not Trinity College be a part of the\\nCatholic University just as Balliol College is a part\\nof the University of Oxford?\\nThat would be something worth while\\nAnd that may come, said kindly Mrs. Driscoll.\\nOnce upon a time a woman was professor in the\\nCatholic University of Padua.\\nWe have admirable institutions, but they lack\\nprestige,* said the Doctor. And if the number of\\nthe really good colleges were multipHed the poor\\nones would be forced to the wall. Let us fight un-\\nceasingly for at least one representative university,\\nwith as many of the merely excellent as we can\\nget, and death from inanition to the poor ones let\\nus have preparatory schools distinct from the col-\\nlege; it is ridiculous for a boy in geography and\\ngrammar to be numbered on the rolls of a college.\\nOne might ask what s in a name but there is a\\ngood deal in a name, sometimes. Let each college\\nhave its preparatory school if it finds a need of it,\\nbut let it advertise it as a school, and not under\\nthe heading of college. Dr. O Malley, in his\\nable articles on the Catholic college, insists upon\\nthis.\\nI thought that he insisted upon reclaiming the\\nCatholic boy from the non-Catholic college, mur-\\nmured Adele.\\nThe fight for success is hard enough as it is,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "196 The People of Our Parish\\nwithout handicapping a youth by depriving him of\\nthe best education possible for him to obtain. And\\nif Harvard and Yale give a training and prestige to\\ntheir men unknown to the Catholic college, Harvard\\nand Yale will get the student, declared Travis.\\nI fancy that it is the man himself that counts,\\nand not his college, answered the Doctor.\\nThe college will often help a man to a position\\nimpossible to him through any other means at his\\ncommand, said Travis.\\nI don t like to hear any of our schools spoken\\nof as poor, put in peace-loving Mrs. Driscoll. I\\nfeel towards them as the Kentuckian does about his\\nwhiskey, some kinds of w^hiskey are better than\\nothers, but there is none bad.\\nSome of them are mighty poor stuff, answered\\nHorace, gloomily.\\nKinds of whiskey or schools? returned his\\ncousin.\\nBoth\\nI had a youth in my office who had been gradu-\\nated from one of the half-baked colleges mummi-\\nfied, I ought to say, because it has many years\\nbehind it who actually couldn t write the simplest\\nletter. He did n t even know how to spell, and yet he\\nhad droned through Csesar and geometry. And his\\nlanguage was appalling. Had n t ought was one\\nof his favorite expressions. And the poor chap\\nhad not even the most elementary conception of\\ngood breeding, kept his hat on in the house,\\nleaned his head against my freshly papered walls,\\nand once I saw him at a restaurant with his napkin", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 197\\ntucked around his neck, and swallowing soup from\\nthe end of a pewter spoon/\\nI should lay those things to his home training/\\nput in Mrs. Hartley.\\nWell, suppose you do Why, do you think, did\\nhis poor father sacrifice his hard-earned dollars in\\nsending him to college if he did not want his boy to\\nget what he could not have at home I consider the\\nrector of that particular institution just as much of a\\nthief as if he had helped himself to the lad s pocket-\\nbook\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOh, Horace\\nHe had obtained money under false pretences.\\nI saw the catalogue of the school, and it claimed to\\ngive a thorough training, classical and commercial,\\nto attend to the morals, and to set a good table.\\nThe food was awful, and the training well, a boy\\ncoming with a diploma from that college would\\nhave taken the surest means possible to be barred\\nfrom my employment.\\nPerhaps he was naturally stupid.\\nNo, he was not on the contrary, he was very\\nclever, and the fact that he taught himself the rudi-\\nments of our language, and something of the code\\nof a gentleman, acting on a hint from your humble\\nservant, proves it. And if he were, why in the name\\nof common honesty should he have been given a\\ndiploma?\\nI wish to say a word in regard to the food of the\\naverage cheap school, put in Mrs. Driscoll. What\\nsort of table can one reasonably expect in institu-\\ntions where the charges for board and tuition are", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "198 The People of Our Parish\\nnot more than two hundred dollars, often less, and\\nwith even this small sum not always paid The\\nwonder is that they can afford anything at all to\\neat Suppose you allow fifty dollars for lodging,\\nfuel, and light, and in some cases, laundry, and fifty\\ndollars for tuition, and the figures are ridiculously\\nsmall, you have left one hundred dollars for board,\\nten dollars a month. Why, the poorest, roughest\\nboarding-house intended for roustabouts would\\ncharge more than that. A boy who complains of\\nthe food in a two-hundred-dollar college, even if he\\nlives on bread and sauer-kraut, should be branded\\nas a cad.\\nI don t agree with you, said Horace. The boy\\ndoes n t set the charges, he pays the price asked.\\nWhy don t the schools charge more, if they cannot\\nfulfil the implied contract between school and par-\\nent at the old rate?\\nAnd if they did, many a poor boy would be\\nbarred out through poverty. No, the cheap school\\nfills a need let the well-to-do boy pay more and\\ngo to the school giving what he desires.\\nI know of some boarding-schools for girls where\\nthe charges are only a hundred and fifty dollars,\\nput in Mrs. Hartley.\\nThe poor girls must live on bread and cheese\\nand slate-pencils, answered Horace.\\nThey do nothing of the sort. And in at least\\none school of that class there is an excellent table.\\nMinnie Glover goes there, and if you can please a\\nGlover you can please anybody. The superior is a\\nvery holy woman, and I am incHned to think that", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 199\\nthe miracle of the loaves and fishes is constantly\\nrepeated for her benefit.\\nThe trouble is that we have entirely too many\\nboarding-schools for girls; consequently many of\\nthem are not adequately supported, said the Doctor.\\nWretched aff airs some of them are, too, added\\nMrs. Hartley.\\nThe majority of them are excellent, said Mrs.\\nDriscoll.\\nThey charge too little, said Travis.\\nPoor girls cannot pay more, returned Mrs.\\nDriscoll.\\nWhether cheap or expensive, the schools should\\nbe forced to meet a certain standard, said Dr.\\nMordant. If they undertake to train girls at all,\\nand advertise themselves as capable of doing so,\\nthey should in common honesty be held to the\\nimplied contract.\\nMy greatest complaint against the poor schools\\nis that they do not pay sufficient attention to the\\nphysical training of their pupils, continued the\\nDoctor. I have been called to schools where\\nsome of the girls were covered with pimples, some\\nwere sallow, some too fat, many too thin, some\\nknock-kneed, others bowlegged, some with squint-\\ning eyes, bad teeth, half of them with gaping\\nmouths, breathing, not through their noses as\\nnature intended, but through their mouths, and in\\none school to which I go not one of the girls in\\nit knows how to walk. They all go shambling\\nalong, heels down first, or pigeon-toed. Bah! It\\nis enough to sicken one", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200 The People of Our Parish\\nBut surely, Doctor, you don t hold the Sisters\\nresponsible for those things, cried Mrs. Driscoll.\\nWhy, to be sure I do Sisters take the place\\nfor the time of the mothers or guardians of those\\ngirls, and assuredly it is their place to look after\\ntheir well-being, physically as well as intellectually\\nand morally.\\nYou would n t hold them blameless, would you,\\nif diphtheria broke out in the school, and they left\\nthe means of preservation to the girls themselves?\\nI insist that physical culture and health have just as\\nmuch place in a boarding-school course as mathe-\\nmatics, and even more. What good is her mathe-\\nmatics going to be to a girl if she is ugly and\\ndeformed, or under-formed through lack of proper\\ncare in her school days? It is all very well to\\ntry to keep girls from being vain of beauty, but\\na well-formed body, a clear complexion and good\\nteeth are not matters of vanity, but of common-\\nsense. I think that every community of nuns\\nshould have a physician among their number, or\\nat least a trained nurse, thoroughly familiar with\\nthe laws of health.\\nFresh air, exercise, and water can be had in the\\ncheap school as well as in the expensive, and where\\ngirls suffer through lack of any of these I should\\nhold the Sisters in charge to a very strict account.\\nIn this same school there is one bath-tub to\\nsixty girls; and two baths a year, so I was told\\nby one of the pupils, are the ordinary allowance.\\nWorse still, the girls are forced to go to a wash-\\nroom and stand in rows at stationary washstands", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 201\\nto perform their daily ablutions. What sort of\\ncleanliness can they have under such conditions?\\nThat is a dreadful exception, Doctor. In all the\\nschools that I know anything about, the girls sleep\\nin curtained alcoves, and have their washstands by\\nthe bed, where they can have a sponge bath every\\nnight and morning if they so please, in absolute\\nprivacy.\\nAnd each girl has a tub-bath with plenty of hot\\nwater at least once a week.\\nThere should n t be any exceptions.\\nAnd I confess that I have a prejudice against\\ndormitories, went on the Doctor. How can a\\ngirl be perfectly healthy sleeping in a room with\\nsome twenty or thirty others, some sick and some\\nsnoring.\\nDormitories are the necessary corollary of the\\ncheap school. Let a girl pay for it, and she can\\nhave a private room in scores of convents. Besides,\\nthe dormitories are always thoroughly ventilated,\\nand an abundance of fresh air is secured. Thirty\\ngirls in a dormitory allowing eight feet of space to\\na girl, is less harmful than a twelve-foot room with\\none w^indow given up to two girls, insisted Mrs.\\nDriscoll.\\nYet in some of the nicest finishing-schools in\\nNew York two girls occupy a room no larger than\\nthis, and they pay five times as much as the girl\\nin the dormitory. I do not defend the dormitory^\\nmind, except as a necessary attendant of the cheap\\nschool. You hear parents complain of this feature\\nof a school, with covert allusions to some secular", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202 The People of Our Parish\\nboarding-school, and you want to ask why, in the\\nname of Whateley s logic, they do not send their\\ndaughters to a convent where private rooms are\\nto be had for much less than the secular school\\nwould charge.\\nIt is grossly unfair to compare schools of one\\nclass I mean in regard to the cost with schools\\nof an entirely different class. The cheap convent\\ngives far more for the money than does the cheap\\nsecular school. I insist upon this as holding good\\nin every locality and with every school. Name one\\nsecular boarding-school in the United States where\\nfor a hundred and fifty dollars a girl can get as good\\na training, and as comfortable living accommodations\\nas she can get in a convent charging that rate. The\\nfact that the Sisters have no salaries, and that there\\nare members of the community who do the cooking\\nand housework, easily explain how this can be.\\nSome of the schools, I admit, could be better.\\nMy complaint against the less good is that they\\ndo not pay any attention, or very little, to the man-\\nners of the girls, said Mrs. Hartley.\\nTheir pupils are as ignorant in this line as Mr.\\nNorrison s office-boy.\\nIn many of these schools the teachers are\\nwomen of common family and very ordinary attain-\\nments when they embrace the religious life, said\\nMrs. Driscoll and after two short years in the\\nnovitiate, during which they must learn the rudi-\\nments of many things, they are turned out to teach.\\nWhat can you expect of them\\nI expect them to devote as much time as is", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 203\\nnecessary, whether two years or ten, to fit them for\\na grave and responsible position none is more so,\\nanswered Mrs. Hartley.\\nIn every community of nuns there are to be\\nfound ladies, ladies by birth, breeding, and envi-\\nronment, and these might enhghten their Sisters\\nin religion.\\nOn the other hand, many of the pupils in these\\nschools are from a rank in life where social usages\\nand gentle manners are quite unknown, returned\\nMrs. Driscoll. When Mary Brown, whose parents\\ncan just read and write, returns from boarding-\\nschool to a stuffy flat over her father s carpenter-\\nshop, of what service would be her training in the\\narts of refined society? She was sent to school to\\nget the rudiments of an education, and to be taught\\nher rehgion, how to be a good true woman in her\\nown sphere, and not to be fitted for a society which\\nshe may not enter.\\nGood manners belong to a woman s training, no\\nmatter what her sphere. And in this country a\\ngirl s sphere is just as exalted as she can attain,\\neither through marriage, or through her father s\\nsuccess in business. There are women who now\\ntake a prominent place in the best society who were\\nonce very poor, and, it may be added parentheti-\\ncally, very ignorant, girls.\\nThen again you assume that only girls of humble\\nstation are found in the cheap school as a matter\\nof fact girls of the nicest families are found in them.\\nA father may have a house full of girls, and a limited\\nincome, and yet be a gentleman, and desire for his", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "204 The People of Our Parish\\noffspring the training of a gentleman s daughters.\\nAnd very ill-bred, lowly born pupils are to be\\nfound in the fashionable and expensive schools.\\nOne of the most ridiculously snobbish creatures I\\never knew came from a noted convent school, the\\ndaughter of a successful mechanic.\\nMy dear madam, you cannot cut one coat to\\nfit a big man and a little one at the same time,\\nsaid the Doctor. Generally speaking, you will\\nfind in the cheap school girls of a lower class than\\nyou find in the expensive one, and this is not say-\\ning that nice girls do not go to the cheap school,\\nnor un-nice girls to the expensive.\\nIn fact, when you come to judge of convent\\nschools you are adopting a very unfair test when\\nyou take the money test; for some cheap schools\\nare famous and deservedly so, with a roll of dis-\\ntinguished pupils. In selecting a school one has\\nto use discretion, just as in selecting anything else.\\nIf you accept their own catalogues all schools are\\nadmirable the better way is to be guided by the\\nadvice of some one who knows.\\nWait until the college for girls at Washington\\nopens its door; then we shall have the perfection\\nof a school system, said Adele.\\nHeaven speed the day answered Mrs. Driscoll.\\nBut there is yet another institution I should like\\nto see materiaHze, and that is a Catholic finishing-\\nschool, I know of no other term, a school to\\nwhich girls might go after completing the course at\\nan ordinary convent, and undergo a supplementary\\ntraining such as is offered by the fashionable New", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 205\\nYork finishing-school, plus much more, and minus\\nsomething; the woman s college does not offer any-\\nthing to the merely average girl, more intent on\\nhaving a nice time in society and finding a suitable\\nhusband than in acquiring the higher mathematics,\\nor writing the great American novel.\\nRich Catholic girls are found in the non-Catholic\\nfinishing-school, even in schools distinctly sectarian,\\nand they usually come out the worse Catholics.\\nSuch a school it might be advertised as a post-\\ngraduate school, with courses for special students\\nand parlor boarders would fill a very real want.\\nAnd we have Catholic gentlewomen, cultured and\\nbeautifully educated, who could make it a brilliant\\nsuccess.\\nThere are so many things that a girl in society\\nmust know, and which the average school does not\\ntouch. Social usages, to begin with, appreciation\\nof art, music, the drama, current literature. Many\\ngirls go to the finishing-schools in our Eastern cities\\nsolely for these things, and not to study at all. The\\nCatholic girl who is to become a social leader needs\\nto be especially well grounded in her faith, its his-\\ntory as well as its dogmas, and she needs to be\\nshown the things that tend for culture from the\\nCatholic point of view. Art, for instance, may\\nmake you coarse, or it may make you like unto\\nthe angels and current Hterature can easily give an\\nagnostic turn to a weak mind.\\nI have known several Catholic girls from the\\nfashionable finishing-schools, but I have never known\\none who could be called pious,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2o6 The People of Our Parish\\nI am not sure that we have reached the point\\nwhere a Catholic finishing-school would really fill\\na want the fashionable convents give a very good\\nfinish, even if the girls are not taken to the theatre,\\nsaid Mrs. Hartley.\\nWhat we really do need is an increased number\\nof select day-schools, and a diminished number of\\npoor boarding-schools.\\nWe cannot have too many day-schools, for the\\nselect day-school usually gets the cream of the\\nProtestant girls of a town or city, where a boarding-\\nschool might get very poor milk. In fact, if I had\\nnot talked so much already I should enter a pro-\\ntest against the kind of girls some boarding-schools\\naccept among their pupils. Not infrequently a girl\\nwho is unmanageable at home, or on the road to the\\nbad, is shipped off to some unsuspecting convent.\\nIt is much easier to have a good day-school than\\nboarding-school; food, baths, fresh air, physical\\nculture, are thrown on the shoulders of the parent.\\nThe nuns need concern themselves with the curricu-\\nlum alone. But in boarding or day schools, a high\\nstandard should prevail.\\nTeachers of music who are but mediocre musi-\\ncians, artists who daub atrocious landscapes, vocal-\\nists who ruin promising voices, scientists who\\ncannot perform the simplest laboratory experi-\\nments, teachers of literature who give their pupils\\nthe wretched twaddle found in some school hbraries\\nsimply because the heroine is impossibly good,\\nsuperiors who let the girls under them stumble\\nthrough a shallow course without physical culture,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 207\\nall these things belong to the dark age of Amer-\\nican education, and should have no place in the\\ntriumphant era we have made for ourselves.\\nAs the eldest woman present I am entitled to\\nthe last word, said Mrs. Driscoll and that last\\nmust be a eulogy.\\nWhen I think of all the sacrifices that have been\\nmade in the cause of Catholic schools, I find it hard\\nto hear patiently the slightest word in their dis-\\npraise. They are not perfect some of them could\\nbe much better, and perhaps a few might be dis-\\npensed with altogether. But the Catholic school in\\nits ordinary integrity is the finest triumph of Catho-\\nHc truth in our time.\\nIts history is a history of heroic sacrifice, of the\\nheavy burden of double taxation, of a fight against\\nfearful odds, and of an unqualified victory at the\\nend.\\nThe teachers may not always be as thoroughly\\nfitted for their high office as one might wish but\\nthey are the intellectual equals of teachers in the\\nsecular schools, and in personal character their\\nsuperiors.\\nThe discipline of the convent, its very atmosphere,\\nso to speak, gives something to the youthful soul\\ncoming under its formative influence that nothing\\nelse can even imitate.\\nThe silent example of the Sisters tenderly nur-\\ntured daughters of happy and luxurious homes, many\\nof them who have given their Hves to the glorious\\nwork of education their patience, sweetness of tem-\\nper, nobility of character, fidelity to the regular,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "2o8 The People of Our Parish\\narduous life of the religious, the real poverty, the\\nunquestioning obedience, the beautiful purity, the\\nfasts, silence, early rising, multiplied devotions,\\nand unceasing toil, are object lessons not easily\\nforgotten.\\nBesides, there is a very real training of the\\ncharacters of the pupils, be the material however\\nunpromising.\\nThe invaluable discipline of regularity of life, re-\\ncurring hours for prayer, for study, for class, the\\nladylike courtesy exacted from the pupils among\\nthemselves and towards their teachers, the ideal con-\\nstantly before them of a noble Christian woman-\\nhood, cannot be measured by any extraneous gain\\nof fashion or modern comforts.\\nAnd even though the girls are not Catholic, and\\nare forbidden by their parents to become so, yet\\nthey Hve in an atmosphere of religion it is the\\ninspiring motive of the existence around them, it\\nanimates the text-books, is held before them as the\\nconserver of morality, the essence of the fine flower\\nof true womanhood.\\nIf this were not recognized by the world at large\\nwe should not see our convents filled with the\\ndaughters of strict Protestant families.\\nThe careful mother knows that in convent walls\\nher daughter, no matter what the vivacity of her\\nspirits, or faults of her temperament, is absolutely\\nsafe, and that there, if anywhere, her character can\\nbe moulded and corrected in the way a true mother\\ninstinctively desires.\\nNo girl can pass through the ordinary course of a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Boarding-School and College 209\\nconvent and not learn that hardest of all lessons, self-\\ncontrol, without which other lessons are futile.\\nAnd in addition she gets all that other schools of\\nthe same class give, and in many instances much\\nmore; and when one remembers how little in the\\nway of money she gives in return, the wonder is\\nthat the convents, numerous as they are, can con-\\ntain the throngs of eager seekers at these Pierian\\nsprings/\\n14", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "XVIII\\nA NOTE ON FUNERALS\\nIF the Chinese autocrat who went through our\\ncountry asking questions had chanced to go to\\nSt. Paul s this morning, he would certainly have\\ninquired what prominent man was dead.\\nA line of carriages stretched well into the second\\nblock, and the hearse, with waving plumes, stood\\nnear the entrance of the church. Inside the edi-\\nfice a coffin with silver handles rested on the\\ncatafalque, and piled on the side altar and the com-\\nmunion railing were masses of beautiful flowers in\\nthe conventional funereal designs of crosses and\\nanchors. In the pew reserved for the family were\\nthree women smothered in crape. The occasion\\nwas the funeral of poor Jerry Desmond, a calker\\nin the Arlington shops.\\nOne might well ask what was the good of all\\nthis panoply of grief. None to the bereft widow\\nand little ones, and certainly none to the departed.\\nHis friends who filled those carriages were\\ntaking a half-holiday which they could not afford,\\nand were paying five dollars for each carriage,\\nwhich they could not afford, either; a goodly num-\\nber of them, with the best intentions in the world,\\nhad bought costly flowers, also beyond their means,\\nand which served absolutely no purpose. The\\nChurch decries flowers at funerals, and will not", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "A Note on Funerals 2 1 1\\npermit them around the bier; and merely to deck\\nthe grave with them seems rather a costly tribute\\nfrom poverty to a poetic fancy.\\nThis question of flov^ers at funerals has been a\\nmatter of contention for a long time. It is the\\ncustom in America to send flowers, and if one fails\\nto do so there is the fear that a lack of regard may\\nbe imputed to one. On the other hand, the clergy\\nseek to do av^ay with the custom as not in keeping\\nwith the spirit of mourning and the solemn office\\nof the Church for her departed children.\\nSome one recently suggested the plan of having\\ncards for masses sent to the family.\\nThe form might be something like this:\\nPtttflatorian Societs\\n\u00c2\u00aei)ttrti) of t ^aul tlje Apostle\\nfl^ols Sacrifice of |Mass\\nWin ht offereti for tl^e ^oul of\\nOn the back of the card would be\\nWit b tfte ?pmpatl)p of", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "2 1 2 The People of Our Parish\\nInstead of sending flowers, a friend would pro-\\ncure one or more of these cards from the pastor,\\npaying the usual honorarium, fill in the blank with\\nthe name of the departed, write his own name on\\nthe back of the card, and enclose it to the family.\\nThese cards would be presented to the pastor of\\nthe church named on the card, who would assign\\nthe dates for the Masses, and the priests to say\\nthem.\\nIn this way several hundred Masses might be\\nsecured, where otherwise perhaps not ten would\\nbe offered.\\nTo extend the good work, an arrangement might\\nbe made whereby a portion of the Masses would be\\nassigned to priests in poor missions, thus enabling\\nthem to live and labor in regions too thinly popu-\\nlated to support a priest.\\nFlowers look out of place in a church decked in\\nblack, black shrouding the altar and covering\\nthe candlesticks, a black pall over the bier, the\\nvestments of the priest, black, the undertaker in\\nblack, the pallbearers in black, and the pews filled\\nwith sobbing women covered with black, their\\ncrape veils sweeping almost to the floor; they\\nwould seem hardly more so if worn in the corsage\\nof a widow in deepest mourning.\\nThe funeral of Jerry Desmond, who was glad to\\nwork for three dollars a day, probably cost some-\\nthing over four hundred dollars, and this included\\nbut a single requiem Mass.\\nIt would be interesting to know how many of the\\nsenders of flowers had Masses offered up for the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "A Note on Funerals 213\\nrepose of his soul, or gave alms for the same pious\\nintention.\\nFriends show their love for the dear ones gone\\nby attending the funeral services at the church,\\noffering Masses for them, praying for them, and\\nperforming good works for them forever beyond\\ndoing anything for themselves.\\nIt is easy for a man to get excused from work\\nfor an hour to go to the church, but a half -day to\\ngo to the cemetery often means the loss of a half-\\nday s pay.\\nThe mourning of the poor seems peculiarly\\npitiful; the silver coffin-handles and the yards of\\ncrape are a tax to custom especially hard to be\\nborne at the very time when other expenses are\\npiled up at a fearful rate.\\nWhy should not the undertaker supply veils to\\nthe mourners along with the gloves for the pall-\\nbearers. Let the poor man s widow wear black\\nfor two years if she wishes, or for a lifetime, but\\nin the name of sober sanity, why should she shroud\\nherself in the costly weeds suited to purses much\\nfuller than hers? The cheap variety of crape is an\\nabomination, condemned by the doctors as dele-\\nterious to health, and forbidden by fashion for its\\nhideousness.\\nWhy should money troubles come as a crushing\\nweight to trouble that is already heavy enough.?\\nThe debts incurred through a death in the family\\nhave caused ruin to many a humble household.\\nEverything seems to combine to make them as\\nheavy as possible one cannot haggle over a coffin,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "214 The People of Our Parish\\nand the best seems none too good for the beloved\\nform; the doctor s bill comes in, and the milliner s\\nten dollars apiece for bonnets that probably cost\\nthree. On the one occasion when common human-\\nity would suggest moderation, the profits must\\nneeds be the highest.\\nThe expenses at the church must be paid, usually\\nin advance.\\nThis is reasonable, for whilst the rites of the\\nchurch are free, the attendant expenses must be\\nmet; the choir for a requiem Mass must be paid,\\nthe candles cost something, the heating of the\\nchurch much more, and, finally, it is only fair that\\nthe officiating clergy should be supported by those\\nwhom they serve.\\nIn anticipation of this last act in life s drama,\\nmany of our people join burial associations, and\\nthe expenses are met through assessments on the\\nmembers.\\nFuneral expenses are, admittedly, too high for\\nthe well-to-do as much as for the poor. Simply\\nbecause a man leaves a competence to his family is\\nno reason why a clique should unite in getting as\\nmuch as possible for themselves.\\nThere is scope for reform here, and work for the\\norganized charities. Surely the burial associations\\nmight secure more reasonable terms.\\nIt must strike one as a sort of anachronism that\\nJerry Desmond, living in a gaslit flat in a bustling\\nAmerican city, should have had a wake, the very\\nname calls up a thatched cottage on a desolate\\nmoor, the peat-bog or the furze and purpling", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "A Note on Funerals 215\\nheather, with the salt mist in one s nostrils, the\\nwild croon of a bowed, shawled form ringing haunt-\\ningly in one s ears, but so he had, and a rousing\\none, too. One hesitates to write the word dis-\\ngraceful, considering the kind intentions of the\\nassembly. Had it not been for the stilled form in\\nthe corner, one might have mistaken the occasion\\nfor a party. There was much eating and drinking\\n(not of water or coffee only), many racy stories,\\nand genial hilarity. Bridget, Miss Norrison s par-\\nlor maid, spent the night at the wake, and said she\\nhad a perfectly splendid time. The house was\\ncrowded, but no one thought of saying the rosary and\\nlitanies, or devoting the long night-hours to a sober\\nmeditation on the final end of all things earthly.\\nAnd the people who filed out of the church, and\\ninto those forty or more waiting carriages, although\\nsupposed to be mourners, and called such by\\ncourtesy, concealed their grief by a jovial exterior.\\nOn the return journey from the cemetery there\\nwas a stop, somewhat prolonged, at Mart Nornian s\\nHalfway House.\\nIn Rome, in a different grade of society, one\\nsees empty carriages, the blinds drawn, in a funeral\\nprocession, but their owners are enjoying them-\\nselves elsewhere. We are shocked at the Roman s\\nheartlessness, but not at that of Desmond s friends.\\nEtiquette fights a battle with sincerity, even in\\nthe shadow of death. Sometimes a disregard of\\nconvention steps in, and then the spectacle develops\\ninto the unexpected.\\nA young widow attended a ball clad in sable", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "21 6 The People of Our Parish\\nhabiliments, and danced with the man who soon\\nafterwards afforded her consolation. People were\\namazed, as they had a right to be. Well-bred\\npeople who can afford to do so usually go to\\nEurope to display their indifference; bereaved\\nones who keep to the strictest seclusion in New\\nYork go to the opera or the horse-show, or even\\nto receptions, in Paris.\\nRuth McEnery Stuart, in her own droll way,\\nchronicles the proud satisfaction with which a\\nbride in darkeydom showed herself in church, lean-\\ning on the arm of Number Two, clad in new and\\ndeepest mourning for Number One, the outfit\\nbeing a wedding present from her devoted spouse.\\nMourning is intended to be a shelter for aching\\nhearts against the demands of society when it is\\nlooked upon as a galling handicap to pleasure it\\nis time to lay it aside.\\nAnd in our cemeteries, filled with costly monu-\\nments, one may be pardoned for conjecturing just\\nwhat proportion denotes grief for the dead, and\\nwhat merely the vanity of the living.\\nA widow left in very moderate circumstances\\nspent two thousand dollars for a granite shaft, and\\nkept the vault filled with costly flowers; but in\\ntwo years she had another husband, and her father-\\nless children look neglected; or, perhaps, one\\nmerely imagines that they do.\\nMen are not a whit more consistent in their\\nmourning; but then society, in portioning out the\\nvirtues, always assigns the lion s share to women,\\nand holds them to corresponding account.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "A Note on Funerals 217\\nA few Sundays ago our new curate read out\\namong the announcements that there was a promise\\nof marriage between John O Brien and Mary\\nMuldoon, and, further on in the list, that there\\nwould be a Mass on Friday for the repose of the\\nsoul of Martha O Brien, the aforesaid Martha\\nbeing the deceased wife of John. Of course every-\\nbody smiled. Possibly this was a bit of pious re-\\ntaliation on the part of John s eldest daughter.\\nThe living may forget, but the Church does not.\\nThe Purgatorian Society has long been established\\nin our parish, and a trifling alms secures for the\\ndear ones dead its inestimable benefits of prayers\\nand good works.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "XIX\\nINSTRUCTING THE PASTOR\\nWHEN Father Ryan had completed his theo-\\nlogical studies, and was pronounced by\\nhis superiors ready for ordination, the Bishop was\\nsatisfied that the young man was capable of in-\\nstructing the ignorant, and looking after the\\nspiritual welfare of the learned. And when, after\\nten years of assistant work, and the pastoral charge\\nof a small church in the country, he was assigned\\nto the old and flourishing parish of St. Paul the\\nApostle, the thought did not once occur to his\\nLordship that there was grave doubt as to the\\nclergyman s fitness for this arduous position.\\nThat was because by some oversight the Bishop\\nhad not consulted Mrs. Higgins. If that zealous\\nlady were only one of the diocesan council, a good\\nmany pastors who rest securely in the misplaced\\nconfidence of their Bishop and flocks would find\\nthemselves officially decapitated.\\nOh, and it was the good priest we had in\\nFather O Brien s time. He preached the gospel,\\nand was not foreverlastingly after money, money,\\nmoney! said Mrs. Higgins to Mrs. Dyer, as she\\nsat in the rocking-chair by Mrs. Dyer s front win-\\ndow, to rest after coming from High Mass,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "Instructing the Pastor 219\\nWhatever possessed the Bishop to remove him,\\nwhen everybody liked him so well is what nobody\\nknows. It seems that if you have a priest that\\njust suits the people and the parish, and the Bishop\\nfinds it out off the poor priest goes, I think,\\nand so does Mr. Higgins, that since the people\\nhave to support the priests, the people ought to\\nhave the say so in their coming and their going.\\nAnd the two good ladies discussed the short-\\ncomings of their pastor, his love of money, his\\nextravagant improvements in the school, and\\nbemoaned the removal of Father O Brien, who,\\ndear man, would have been much surprised to\\nhear in what esteem he was held by his former\\nparishioners. They had succeeded in concealing\\ntheir real sentiments during his incumbency at St.\\nPaul s. Indeed, Mrs. Higgins had sat in that\\nvery chair and mourned over his recalcitrant stub-\\nbornness in riding a bicycle, when both she\\nherself and Mr. Higgins had expressed their dis-\\napproval. Cycling was not a dignified pastime for\\na priest, and nobody could make her say that it\\nwas\\nThe truth of the matter is that Father O Brien\\nwas a devoted, zealous priest, and a first-class\\nbotanist, but he was not a financier. Four times\\na year he succeeded in remembering that the inter-\\nest on the parish debt was due, and reminded the\\ncongregation in the gentlest, most polite way in\\nthe world of this unpleasant fact. Having per-\\nformed his duty, he went back to the classification\\nof South American orchids.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "220 The People of Our Parish\\nAnd this is why the Bishop sent him to a pretty\\nlittle church in the suburbs, which was entirely\\nout of debt, and where he would have excellent\\nopportunities for studying the pedigrees of plants.\\nWhen Father Ryan succeeded him he lost no\\ntime in calling on every one of his parishioners,\\ntaking them block by block, so that no one escaped,\\nand asking, with note-book in hand, what each\\nwould subscribe a month towards the paying off of\\nthe parish debt. The parish debt why, the\\nchurch would feel most uncomfortable without its\\ndebt; it was as old as the steeple, and, by this\\ntime, almost as high.\\nAnd that was only a beginning. The people\\nwere soon made to feel that their debt was a\\nregular Old Man of the Sea, and that there was no\\nescape except through prompt and generous sub-\\nscriptions.\\nThose who subscribed the least complained the\\nmost.\\nThe habit of complaint passed on to other\\nthings after the debt had become an old story.\\nThe Browns object to the pew rents. They have\\nbeen to Europe, and they point out the superiority\\nof the European custom to our own. Distinctions\\nof money ought to have no place in the house of\\nGod, and pews especially pews in the middle\\naisle are un-Christian and disedifying. They\\nfail to show how the revenues of the parish are to\\nbe kept up to the necessary amount if the pews are\\nnot rented and that is the question which Father\\nRyan regards as hinging upon pew rents.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "Instructing the Pastor 221\\nOf course in the ideal parish, inhabited by\\nquite ideal people/ admitted Mrs. Driscoll,\\neverybody would contribute according to his means\\nto the support of the church and its pastors, and\\nthen the system of pew rents would be abolished.\\nBut so long as the average parishioner is selfish\\nand vain, and bent upon getting a return for his\\nmoney, the pews in the middle aisle will go to the\\nhighest bidder.\\nMrs. Corwin does not understand her pastor s\\nharshness in regard to Catholics attending Protes-\\ntant places of worship. When one goes just for\\npastime, or to show regard for one s non-Catholic\\nfriends, I cannot see any harm, she says. I\\nknow my religion, and nothing can change me; but\\nI must say, I hear as good sermons in other\\nchurches as I hear in my own.\\nIt seems almost a bootless task to try to explain\\nto her that one goes to church to worship God, to\\nobtain grace through the channels of the Sacra-\\nments and prayer, and not for pastime, nor to\\nplease one s friends; and that for a Catholic to go\\nto a non-Catholic house of worship is an act of\\ndenial of her faith. No one questions the piety\\nor sincerity of Protestants themselves, but their\\nchurches are not the place for Catholics. It is not\\na question of the goodness or the badness of the\\nsermon, nor the piety or the want of piety of the\\npeople. As well might a man say, I am a Demo-\\ncrat, but I sometimes vote the Republican ticket\\njust to please my Republican friends. I can t see\\nmuch difference, anyway. I know plenty of good.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "2 22 The People of Our Parish\\npatriotic people who are Republicans, and we all\\nhave the same object in view, the prosperity of\\nour common country/\\nMrs. Bertrand says that the reason she does not\\ngo to High Mass is because the sermon is so long\\nand prosy, and the preacher uses such common\\nmetaphors, and preaches on such very trite sub-\\njects. And then the choir is not at all what it\\nshould be; the soprano sings with that throaty\\nmethod that is most annoying to sensitive ears.\\nMr. Bertrand protested vigorously against a\\npaid choir; singers should use their voices for the\\nglory of God, and not for mere hire. He is a\\nlawyer who does not give his brains to the congre-\\ngation for the love of God; but then, that is quite\\nanother story.\\nMrs. O Tool has an objection, but it is not a\\nvery serious one. I never did like to see a priest\\nparticular about his clothes. Father Ryan s coat\\nfits as well as Mr. Robert Dale s, and I call that\\nmost unbecoming his sacred character; and his hat\\nis as shiny, and his shoes, and his gloves are new,\\nand he carries a cane, and you d think he was a\\nmillionaire instead of a poor priest that ought to\\nbe giving his money to the poor, and not putting\\nit all on his back.\\nMrs. Wheeler finds in him just the contrary\\nfault; he does not dress well enough to suit her\\nfastidious taste, and he is entirely too generous\\nwith his money. He gives and gives, and half\\nthe time the people are able to work. They know\\nwhere they can impose on one s good nature, and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "Instructing the Pastor 223\\nwhere they would be sent about their business on\\nshort order. The beggars don t bother me very\\nmuch, I can, tell you The telling is quite super-\\nfluous to any one who enjoys the acquaintance of\\nMrs. Wheeler.\\nMr. Bertrand is almost scandalized at the\\nworldliness displayed by the pastor in build-\\ning an addition to the parochial residence, and\\nin having a piano in his sitting-room, and solid\\nsilver on bistable; but Mr. Bertrand mistook his\\nlistener when he mentioned these things to Dr.\\nMordant.\\nMy dear sir, said the old Doctor, I should\\nnot feel altogether comfortable in my own new\\nhome if the hard-working priests of the parish had\\nnot, at least, a few of the minor luxuries. The\\nonly pleasure they have is what they can get out\\nof their home life. There are few places of amuse-\\nment at which they can be seen without causing\\ndisagreeable comment; they have no family ties,\\nno clubs, and very little social life of any sort.\\nAnd if in their scant hours of leisure they can find\\npleasure in a good library, a piano, an easy-chair,\\nand a decent cigar to offer a brother priest, I, for\\none, shall always be ready to contribute my mite\\nto pay for these things.\\nThe laborer is worthy of his hire, and no body\\nof men of equal attainments in the world are as\\npoorly paid as our clergy. My assistant, who cast\\nhis first vote for a president at the last election,\\nreceives more in a year than does the gray-haired\\npastor of St. Paurs.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "224 The People of Our Parish\\nOne old crone complains because the priests do\\nnot visit their people as much as they should;\\nanother, that they visit the rich too much.\\nA certain spinster dislikes to see a clergyman on\\na bicycle, and a widow objects to Father O Neil\\nbecause he is too old-fashioned and not sufficiently\\nabreast of the times. Mrs. Morris declares that\\nFather Ryan goes entirely too far in his stand\\nagainst mixed marriages, and that it is absurd to\\nexpect people to get a dispensation to be married\\nin their own home. It is useless for the poor priest\\nto explain that he does not make the trouble, but\\nthat it is a law of the diocese which he must obey.\\nAnd the idea of charging for a dispensation It\\nis positively scandalous Simony, I call it\\nMrs. Morris has never vouchsafed to explain who\\nis to bear the expenses of the Chancery office if\\nnot those who benefit by it. The rules of the\\nChurch are made for a good purpose, and one is\\ndispensed from them only for a good reason. If\\nno one wanted a dispensation there would be no\\nneed of a capable man to take charge of this branch\\nof diocesan business, no salary to pay him, no rent\\nfor his office, no money for paper and postage; but\\nso long as people do want dispensations it is only\\nfair that they should bear the expense incurred,\\nand not those who reap no benefit. It ought to\\nbe superfluous to explain to any one that an appli-\\ncant does not pay for the dispensation, in the sense\\nthat one pays for a barrel of sugar, any more than\\na client pays a judge for his decision. He pays\\nthe fees, if he is able to pay, connected with the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "Instructing the Pastor 225\\ngranting of the dispensation, and if he is not able,\\nhe pays nothing.\\nSome of the parishioners object to Father Ryan s\\nteetotalism, and declare that such a stand is\\nPharisaical and puritanic, and that our Saviour\\nHimself drank wine. Father O Neil, his assistant,\\nwho was educated abroad, takes his glass of claret\\nat dinner, and not a few of the good people are\\nwoefully scandalized, and wonder why Father Ryan\\npermits strong drink in his house.\\nThe Archangel Gabriel has never been the pastor\\nof the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, but if he\\nwere to assume charge there would not be lacking\\ncensorious ones to complain of his management,\\nand to give him entirely superfluous advice.\\nIt is only fair to say, however, that the fault-\\nfinders are a small minority. The great body\\nof the people are loyal, obedient, and warmly\\nappreciative of the noble work and the brave self-\\ndenial of their pastors. And even the critics\\nthemselves are strictly clannish in their criticism,\\nand resent, fiercely, anything of the sort from the\\noutside. Mrs. Jenkins from St. James s had the\\ntemerity to agree with Mrs. Deering when that\\ngood lady voiced a complaint, and was promptly\\ntold that Father Ryan was quite the ablest priest\\nin the diocese. The Bishop took especial care\\nin making the appointment because of the impor-\\ntance of our parish.\\n15", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "XX\\nOUR PARISH SOCIETIES\\n^TTMIIS parish is being clubbed into model\\nI behavior if not into premature translation\\nto glory/ began Adele Norrison, as she came into\\na pleasant social group assembled at Mrs. Driscoll s,\\nand looked daringly at young Horace, her cousin,\\nwho is wont to dispute nearly everything she says.\\nJust to hear himself talk, declares that clever\\nyoung woman.\\nMrs. Driscoll had been explaining to her guest,\\nMrs. Bland, a high-church Episcopalian, the char-\\nacter and workings of the parish organizations of\\nSt. Paul s.\\nFather Ryan believes that in union there is\\nstrength, continued Adele, and he evidently\\nwants all the kinds of strength that he can get.\\nThere is not a club or a society ever heard of on\\nthe top of the earth or the face of the waters that\\nhas not a branch or some sort of imitation in this\\nparish.\\nThis is a free country, and you don t have to\\nbelong to them all, put in her brother Carl. No-\\nbody is expected to eat all the dishes on the bill of\\nfare in a cafe, or to read everything in a newspaper,\\nor to look at the three rings in a circus at the\\nsame time.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "Our Parish Societies 227\\nCarl, you always were rather vulgar, but it\\nstrikes me that a college man man save the\\nmark! might find comparisons a little bit more\\ndignified.\\nOh, I didn t mean to compare Father Ryan\\nand his societies to a circus. That was just your\\nevil interpretation. I have studied the philosophy\\nof style, even if you have not.\\nThere are the sodalities, to begin with.\\nAnd an excellent beginning, my dear, an-\\nswered Mrs. Driscoll. I own I feel proudly\\nelated whenever our sodalities are in evidence.\\nThe Young Ladies Sodality, the Young\\nMen s Sodality, St. Anne s Sodality for the\\nMarried Women, the Married Men s Sodality\\nYes, and every man of them goes to the Sacra-\\nments once a month, and they meet in the sodality\\nhall to say prayers, and be lectured to, and read at,\\nand cajoled into good behavior, explained Carl.\\nThere is many a woman looks at the change\\nwrought in her husband by this same sodality, and\\ngoes down on her knees and thanks God for it,\\nsaid Mrs. Driscoll.\\nThe Father Mathew Temperance Society has\\nabout killed the saloon business in this neighbor-\\nhood so Fritz Schmitz declares.\\nAnd the Boys Blue Ribbon Society, which\\nis merely a temperance society that has not yet\\ngrown up, for the boys take a pledge not to drink\\nintoxicating liquors until they are twenty-one, is\\nthe safeguard of our youth.\\nOver at the parish school the youngsters have", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "228 The People of Our Parish\\norganized, too, and are as proud as Punch, in con-\\nsequence, said Adele. Our Tommie came home\\nlast week all aglow, and running into the sitting-\\nroom burst upon us with, Oh, mamma, I ve\\ntaken a pledge, and I can t never swear! and his\\nblue eyes were dancing with his new importance.\\nOh, that is the Holy Name Society; I belong\\nto that, vouchsafed Carl. The members are\\npledged never to use profane or bad language, and\\nto make an act of reparation when they hear the\\nHoly Name in blasphemy.\\nTo me there is something infinitely touching in\\nthat, said Mrs. Driscoll. Those innocent little\\nchildren trying to atone to our Lord for the in-\\nsults offered to him by men, and, alas women,\\ntoo, to whom He has given intellects and tongues.\\nMinna, not to be outdone, has her society,\\nthe Society of the Angel Guardian; which consists\\nin some special devotions to the guardian angels.\\nAnd both the children belong to the St. Francis\\nof Assisi Club, which has the welfare of birds\\nand animals for its object. Minna has been har-\\nboring the most forlorn-looking cat you ever saw, in\\nfollowing her rules, much to the disgust of Sarah,\\nthe cook, who says unsayable things in her throat\\nwhenever that cat gets under her feet. And Tom\\nthe little rascal is only ten reported to the\\npoliceman a man who was beating his horse, and\\ncoolly informed that be-buttoned official that he\\nbelonged to St. Francis Sizerum, and couldn t\\nlet a horse be abused in that way.\\nWe grown-ups have the Altar Society, and the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "Our Parish Societies 229\\nSociety of the Living Rosary, and the League of\\nthe Sacred Heart, which takes in pretty much the\\nwhole parish.\\nWhat a marvellous growth has the League!\\nsaid Mrs. Mordant. Scarcely a century has gone\\nby since the saintly Visitandine nun. Blessed Mar-\\ngaret Mary, received her heavenly commission to\\nestablish a society for the adoration and devotion\\nto the Sacred Heart of our Lord. I suppose it will\\nnever be known until time is no more all the mer-\\ncies and blessings that came to a sinful world\\nthrough the prayers and good works of this glorious\\nsociety.\\nAh, glorious There is no other word mur-\\nmured Mrs. Driscoll.\\nAnd there is the Purgatorian Society, nobody\\nwho has a loved one in the great Beyond but finds\\nconsolation here, this unique charity, that seems\\nto bridge the gulf between the Here and the Whither\\nby Masses, and prayers, and good works for the\\nsuffering souls in Purgatory.\\nWhat consolation there is in the doctrine of\\nthe Communion of Saints\\nYou have omitted the Catholic Knights of\\nAmerica, put in Adele, and the Ancient Order\\nof Hibernians, or the Order of Ancient Hiber-\\nnians, I have forgotten which; and the Kenrick\\nGuards, and the Wolfe Tone Cadets I am sure I\\ndon t know what they do. Mamma says if they do\\nnothing except keep the young boys out of mis-\\nchief and bad company, they have served a sensible\\npurpose.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "230 The People of Our Parish\\nAnd the peer of them all is the St. Vincent de\\nPaul society.\\nCarl, I want you to read the life of Frederick\\nOzanam, by Kathleen O Meara. I suppose you\\nknow he founded this society, and was a noble\\ncharacter, any way you look at him.\\nThe St. Vincent de Paul is the society of\\norganized charity, explained Mrs. Driscoll to her\\nguest.\\nLast month our parish branch distributed ten\\ntons of coal, over one thousand garments, and\\npaid out three hundred dollars in rents for the\\nsick or those out of work, and I ve forgotten the\\nnumber of loaves of bread and pounds of meat\\ndistributed.\\nWhy don t they have women in the society\\nasked Adele Norrison.\\nBecause they are men of sense, retorted\\nHorace, winking shamelessly at Mrs. Driscoll.\\nBecause they make it a point to investigate,\\npersonally, the cases reported to them as worthy\\nof aid, and their duty calls them often into haunts\\nwhere it would not be safe for ladies to go. Be-\\nsides, women have so many channels for their\\nbenevolent activities that it is well to throw the\\nresponsibility of at least one on the men.\\nA man naturally shirks if he can get a good\\nwoman to pick up his charities for him, said\\nHorace.\\nI must say, responded Mrs. Driscoll, that\\nwhen men do set out to be charitable they do it in\\na whole-hearted way that ought to put our niggardly", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "Our Parish Societies 231\\ndoles to shame. They give dollars where we give\\ndimes.\\nThe Queen s Daughters is an organization on\\nmuch the same lines, only that it has a wider\\nscope. This society aims to have cooking-schools,\\nand sewing-classes, and classes for mothers, and\\nfor all sorts of necessary instruction. Mrs. Dale\\nis at the head of this, and Miss Horton is secre-\\ntary and at the Saturday sewing-class the wealthiest\\nand prettiest girls in the city are in attendance,\\nworking like little Trojans.*\\nI wish they had another name, said Adele.\\nQueen s Daughters seems too much like an\\nimitation of King s Daughters.\\nSo long as they feed the hungry and clothe the\\nnaked, and instruct the ignorant as successfully as\\nthey are doing, I think they might be allowed to\\nchoose their own title.\\nThe Catholic Foresters have recently been\\norganized here, and Father Ryan has spoken of\\nintroducing the Women s League, that society\\nthat is doing so much good in its three divisions\\nover in our neighboring parish of St. James.\\nThese societies are spiritual and charitable,\\nexplained Mrs. Driscoll. They exist for the good\\nof our souls, and the welfare of the bodies of our\\nneighbor.\\nThe intellectual and social side has not been\\nforgotten.\\nFirst in this class is the Newman Reading\\nCircle; this organization, new as it is, has worked\\nwonders among our people. It has awakened and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "232 The People of Our Parish\\nstimulated an interest in the best books, induced\\nthe desultory reader to take a regular and system-\\natic course of study, and it has drawn the people\\ntogether in that most delightful bond of books;\\nthe weekly meetings sharpen the wits by the inter-\\nchange of ideas and the general discussion of perti-\\nnent topics and it has opened, too, a very pleasant\\nsocial side.\\nThe Young Men s Club is on the line of the\\nYoung Men s Christian Association. Father\\nRyan says, take a good thing wherever you can\\nhonestly get it; besides, the Y. M. C. A. got\\ntheir idea from the guilds and societies of the\\nmiddle ages,\\nThe young men have charming club-rooms, a\\nbilliard-table, smoking-rooms, card-rooms, a read-\\ning-room with the papers and magazines on file.\\nAny young man of good standing can belong, and\\nthe dues are very small. Robert Dale, the son\\nof a millionaire, is the president, and John Henry\\nBrown, an ambitious young mechanic, is the\\nsecretary.\\nMen are naturally so much more democratic\\nthan women! murmured Mrs. Bland.\\nMrs. Dale would probably not be president of\\na society which numbered Mr. John Henry Brown s\\nwife among its members.\\nNot by a long shot said Carl.\\nI detest slang, it is so hopelessly vulgar, put\\nin Adele.\\nThe. club is a rallying-place for the young men\\nit gives them a pleasant retreat in which to spend", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "Our Parish Societies 233\\ntheir evenings. Man is a social animal, and likes\\nto be amused/\\nWhy is there not a club for young women?\\nasked Adele. Aren t we social animals, too?\\nOh, women can look out for themselves. As\\na matter of fact, there is a club for women; only,\\nyou have to work at something harder than paying\\ncalls or pouring tea at a reception, to be eligible\\nfor membership. It is called the St. Catherine s\\nIndustrial Club why St. Catherine more than\\nSaint Somebodyelse I don t know.\\nAll the saints were industrious enough, if their\\nbiographers are trustworthy.\\nThis society has its club-rooms, but they are\\nnot nearly so luxurious as the young men s, it must\\nbe confessed. There is an employment bureau con-\\nnected with it, and upstairs there are bedrooms for\\nwomen out of employment and without homes.\\nThere is a cooking-school attached St. Paul s\\nought to be blessed with good cooks; we instruct\\nthem enough, goodness knows\\nWe show ourselves there to be a sensible\\npeople, said Mrs. Mordant. Give a man a good\\ndinner, and then preach to him, and he will\\nlisten to you; but if you preach first, and promise\\nthe dinner afterwards, you have wasted your\\nammunition.\\nAnd then we have a University Extension\\nClub, and a Shakespeare Class, and a Political\\nEconomy Club, and a Brownson Club for the\\nstudy of philosophy; but these are all offshoots of\\nthe Reading Circle, and properly belong under", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "234 The People of Our Parish\\nthat head, although they have weekly meetings\\nquite apart from the regular assemblies, and some\\nof the members do not come to the circle evenings\\nat all.\\nAnd with all these societies, my dear Adele,\\ncan you name one that could be withdrawn without\\nleaving the parish spiritually or intellectually\\nthe poorer? queried Mrs. Driscoll.\\nMy dear Mrs. Driscoll/ retorted the girl, I\\nam not objecting to the number of societies. I\\nam proud of them as a loyal St. Paul s woman\\nshould be. I merely called attention to a glorious\\nfact.\\nComment is not criticism.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "XXI\\nTHE PARISH FAIR\\nTHE parish fair is regarded by most people as\\na necessary evil.\\nUsually it is the corollary of the parish debt.\\nIn the ideal parish, people would contribute ac-\\ncording to their means towards the good works\\nat hand but ours is not quite ideal.\\nOn the principle that makes one take quinine\\nafter exposure to the danger of catching cold, a\\nfair ought to be followed by special devotions in\\nthe church.\\nNo observant person can deny that the average\\nfair appeals effectively to an ugly strain in human\\nnature, the desire to obtain that for which one\\nhas not given adequate value.\\nQuite true that the motive which induces one\\nto take chances on the various articles offered are,\\nprimarily, the success of a worthy cause; but\\nequally true, there is a strong secondary one, of\\na desire to win. If you have any doubt of this\\nbit of cynicism, just observe the eagerness with\\nwhich the chances on beautiful objects are bought,\\nand the dragging, hesitating, palpably reluctant\\nmanner in which the monstrosities in satin banners\\nand amateur water-colors are accepted.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "236 The People of Our Parish\\nAs a rule, I do not concede the superiority of\\nthe St. James people over us, but in the matter of\\nsupplying the parish revenues they, in racing\\nphraseology, out-class St. Paul s.\\nIn the dark ages St. James s depended, like our-\\nselves, upon the raffles at fairs for extra revenues.\\nThey have changed all that.\\nThis season they have had a series of fortnightly\\nentertainments in the school-hall admission, fifty\\ncents.\\nThey started out with a progressive whist party,\\nproviding three handsome prizes for the winners\\nit is hard to give up old idols all at once.\\nRefreshments were served, after the games, to\\nthose who wished to wait, and pay extra.\\nThen the Honorable Timothy O Rourke, the\\nworld-renowned orator and liberator, Father\\nBurke, the pastor, says he is world-renowned,\\ngave a lecture on The Ruins of Ireland, and\\ntheir Message to Humanity, at which stand-\\ning room only was the gratifying notice on the\\nbillboard.\\nA musicale with amateur talent followed, and\\nMiss Linda Curran, niece to our own Mrs. Robert\\nDale, and cousin to ever so many fashionable folk,\\nlent her voice and her beautiful self to the\\nentertainment.\\nLittle Dorothy Cleary and her brother received\\nan ovation for a cake walk; and Harry Masters\\nsang coster songs almost as well as Chevallier. It\\nis admitted that there were some strong differences\\nof opinion as to the discrimination displayed in", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "The Parish Fair 237\\nthe selection of stars. Father Burke certainly did\\ngo into the country for a few days after the affair,\\nin serious danger of nervous prostration caused by\\nsundry trying interviews with the mothers of infant\\nwonders. He has been heard to say that profes-\\nsional talent is, on the whole, more satisfactory.\\nThe parish school gave the next entertainment,\\nand Mrs. Driscoll, who went with Mrs. Dale to\\nthe matinee performance on Saturday, says that\\nit was refreshingly charming.\\nOf course all the mothers and mothers friends\\nwere there.\\nTheir entertainments are still going on, in the\\nlanguage of Macaulay, with undiminished vigor.\\nThey have tried pretty much everything that the\\ningenuity of man, and especially woman, can\\ndevise.\\nThey have even had a fair, a real fair, I mean,\\nand not a mere lottery.\\nThat is, for a week the ladies had booths in the\\nhall, for the sale of articles useful or ornamental.\\nThis sale was announced in June, and the young\\nwomen of the parish were asked to spend some of\\ntheir summer leisure in fashioning timely articles.\\nThe hall was attractively decorated; pretty girls\\ndispensed refreshments, or coaxed dollars from the\\npockets of impressionable youths. The Married\\nLadies had a table, and carried off the honors,\\n^distancing all competitors,* since they had their\\nhusbands for buyers. The children conducted a\\nflower booth on Saturday afternoon, but were not\\nin evidence at any other time.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "238 The People of Our Parish\\nThe articles were sold at their market value,\\nbut as everything was contributed, the proceeds\\nwere satisfying to legitimate expectations.\\nOf course the money by this mode of procedure\\ncomes in slowly, and in small sums; but the result\\nin the end is about the same, and there is the\\nimmeasurable gain of having given something in\\nexchange for the money. It is one of the few\\ncases where one gives and yet has many things\\nthe reward of charity, for the good of the parish,\\nis held up as the inciting motive; and pleasant\\nand instructive evenings for the people, many,\\nif not the majority of whom, are poor and hard-\\nworking, and who hail the diversion of these enter-\\ntainments as red-letter occasions in their rather\\nhumdrum lives.\\nBesides this, it is much easier for the working-\\nman to give fifty cents on each of ten evenings\\nthan to give five dollars at one time. And different\\nmembers of the same family can select the occa-\\nsions that best suit their tastes or other engage-\\nments.\\nIn every way I think their method far superior\\nto our own.\\nWe have just had a fair, one of the regularly\\nthorough-going sort.\\nWe made six thousand dollars, and that is the\\nonly feature that gives one unmitigated pleasure\\nto record.\\nMrs. Driscoll, our sweet saint, put aside all\\nnice social distinctions, and worked faithfully,\\nside by side with Mrs. Diggs, taking orders and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "The Parish Fair 239\\nsuggestions from that lady in all meekness and\\nhumility.\\nFor Mrs. Diggs was the bright, particular star\\nof our fair, a Vega in the milky way of neo-\\nphytes, like Mrs. Driscoll.\\nMrs. Dale sent her check for twenty dollars.\\n(Mrs. Driscoll spent thirty dollars in chances, and\\nalways on the ugliest things imaginable, just to\\nsave the feelings of their makers and donors.)\\nAll sorts of articles were raffled, from a marble\\nAthene, clothed in laurel, to a hand-made stole.\\nThe sodality girls had raffle books, the school-\\nchildren had them, the Married Ladies had them\\neverybody had them.\\nThe first move in the game was to secure the\\narticles to be raffled, or sold, or eaten, or smoked.\\n(The smoking-room was Mrs. McCarthy s clever\\nidea, and the men voted it a find.\\nI record Miss Norrison s experience in her own\\nvigorous words Mrs. Stiles was our first solici-\\ntor. She appeared on behalf of the Married\\nLadies, and we pooled our donations, in the\\nphraseology of graceless Carl, and presented a\\ncut-glass rose-bowl. She had scarcely gone when\\nMrs. Bayless appeared on behalf of the ladies of\\nthe Altar Society, and as she is a sort of connection\\nby marriage of my brother s, we couldn t refuse,\\nand a lace-trimmed handkerchief was offered, and\\naccepted with rather poor grace.\\nThen, after dinner, poor little Mary Madden,\\nwho fits my gloves at Anderson s, and is always\\nso patient about it, came to ask something for the", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "240 The People of Our Parish\\nSodality table. I parted with a favorite etching,\\nbecause I could n t afford to buy anything more^\\nand I simply could not refuse Mary, when I re-\\nmembered that she had stood on her feet for ten\\nhours that day, and was sacrificing needed rest to\\ndo something for her beloved parish.\\nAltogether, we had seven callers in the interest\\nof the fair.\\nWe refused one so awkwardly she was under-\\nbred enough to be importunate that we were\\nnot at home to any of the remaining three.\\nWe had grapes at thirty cents a basket for\\ndessert, alternating with tapioca pudding during\\nthe intervening week, and then, with our united\\nsavings, we went to the fair.\\nIt required only twenty-five minutes in which to\\nspend our money, and then we watched the other\\nvictims.\\nThe visitor was met almost at the threshold of\\nthe hall by one or a dozen solicitors, with rafitle-\\nbook in hand, and before he reached the flower\\nbooth, arranged seductively in the centre, he had\\nparted with several dollars in chances. But that\\nwas just the beginning. At every table he was\\nmet with the same demand, and in going from one\\nto another he was seized upon as the lawful prey\\nof the free lances, girls attached to no particular\\ntable, or of the representatives from all.\\nCharity is a beautiful thing, but it ought to be\\nvoluntary; a man surrounded and besieged by a lot\\nof pretty girls, or babbling women, especially if he\\nbe lacking in moral courage, or addicted to vanity,", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "The Parish Fair 24 1\\nis really not a free agent. He spends far more\\nthan he can afford before he begins to realize that\\nhe is doing so. Of course I know that raffles and\\nlotteries are not in themselves wrong; if they were\\nkept within bounds, if the people were left to\\nadmire in peace, buying an article here, taking a\\nchance there, as inclination dictated, raffles would\\nserve very well in the absence of something better\\nfor the purpose intended.\\nNot content with the raffles, we brought politics\\ninto the fair. Rival candidates were put up to\\nbe voted for at ten cents a vote, a Morris chair,\\ninstead of an office, being the prize. Of course the\\ncandidates had to treat to cigars every man and boy\\nin the hall who presented himself for that offering.\\nAnd the things they bought, of the kind that\\nMr. Howells calls Jamescracks, when he thinks\\njimcracks too familiar, must have filled their poor\\nwives with dismay. Dennis Murphy, who wants\\nto be an alderman, only Heaven and the politi-\\ncians know why, paid ten dollars for a pincushion\\nand his poor little wife, wearing a cheap jacket and\\nmended gloves, stood by, and said nothing.\\nOver in one corner, for the benefit of those who\\nfound the raffles tame, and of young boys with a\\nfew nickels to spend, gambling, quite unmixed\\nwith a semblance of anything else, was in full\\nswing. A man with numbered paddles sold them\\nat ten cents apiece, the winner getting a dollar.\\nThis proved a popular device, especially with\\nthe children.\\nThe winner of the dollar generally invested a\\n16", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "2^1 The People of Our Parish\\npart of it in candy, which he did not always share\\nwith the envious losers.\\n**0n the stage, occupied by the orchestra, the\\npoliticians each told how much he loved the city\\nand hated political corruption, and then offered a\\nmild little bribe, in the way of cigars, to the\\nvoters present.\\nPerhaps the most pleasing feature was the voting\\nof a picture to the most popular teacher in the\\nparish school. It was beautiful to see the children\\nscramble with their pennies to the voting stand,\\nand the eagerness with which they canvassed the\\ncrowd for votes for their beloved teacher. Fritz\\nAnglin, whose father keeps the Palace Saloon,\\ntwo blocks from the church, carried the election\\nfor his room. He handed in five dollars in one\\nlump, and boasted, like the insufferable little cad\\nhe is, that his father was rich and would give him\\nall the money he wanted.\\nPoor little Tommie Blake, his red-stockinged\\ntoes peeping out of a torn shoe, replied loyally,\\nMy mother would give me lots, too, if she had\\nit, but she ain t got it; she give me seven pennies,\\nand my brother Dick give me five, and I voted\\nem all for Sister Lucretia, you bet\\nIn former years we had a bar, and a bar-tender\\nfrom Anglin s, sent free of charge with the\\ncompliments of the proprietor, to mix the drinks.\\nAnd the genial pastor, who gave the total absti-\\nnence pledge to one portion of his flock, was sup-\\nposed to be gratified to see another portion going\\nin a steady phalanx towards the bar; and if faces", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "The Parish Fair 243\\nlooked flushed, and the retreat seemed not quite\\nso steady it was for the good of the cause.\\nHappily, the Bishop has put an end to this\\nfeature.\\nAt one time, too, there was dancing, and the\\nyoung girls assisting at the fair sometimes danced\\nwith men who did not often have the privilege of\\nspeaking to that kind of girl. That, also, is of\\nthe past. Prudently so.\\nMiss Norrison, evidently, is not in favor of the\\nparish fair.\\nYet, so long as the fair is held, all the mem-\\nbers of the parish should make it a matter of\\nhonor and Christian duty to contribute, not only\\ntheir money, but also their work and time.\\nA few do the work year after year, and hard\\nwork it is, none harder, and do it uncomplainingly.\\nMrs. Diggs likes it, but she is an exception.\\nThe Sodality girls notably, many of whom are\\nemployed in various ways during the day, go into\\nthe work with untiring zeal. They solicit dona-\\ntions, and sell tickets, and take raffle-books; and\\nmany are the snubs and rebuffs they meet with,\\nand from members of the parish.\\nMrs. Dale annually sends a check; her daughters\\ndo nothing.\\nMrs. Driscoll, who is quite as high up in the\\nworld, the worldly world of cotillons and Dante\\nclubs, as is Mrs. Dale, gives money, and time,\\nand sweet, wise counsel.\\nMrs. Dale thinks the fairs are vulgar, but she\\ndoes nothing to make them more refined.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "244 The People of Our Parish\\nIt is whispered in ecclesiastical circles that the\\ndays of the parish fair are numbered. Pastors, as\\nwell as people, hope, ardently, that this is true.\\nAn annual bazaar might be made to yield a\\nlarge revenue, with all Midway features, so to\\nspeak, of multitudinous raffles, votes, and paddles\\neliminated.\\nMrs. Bayless waxes enthusiastic over the\\nmethods of the Church of the Epiphany, ritual-\\nistic and high, whose head is her gracious Majesty,\\nVictoria.\\nThe ladies of that select sheepfold give monthly\\nteas that are most popular social functions.\\nPeople wear their best gowns to them, and the\\nneighborhood, for a block, is filled with irre-\\nproachable carriages and coachmen in English\\nlivery.\\nWhen Miss Norrison agreed with her that\\nthese affairs are much superior to our own, and\\nsuggested that Mrs. Bayless, who has a beautiful\\nhome and no small children, offer her house to\\nFather Ryan for a carnation tea, with orchestral\\naccompaniment, that worthy matron was horrified.\\nAnd have a lot of dirty old women tramping\\nover my carpets, and fingering the curtains, and\\nspilling their tea or breaking my china No,\\nthank you. My altruism is not of such heroic\\nheights\\nAnd so the harassed pastor returns, perforce,\\nto the parish fair.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "XXII\\nNOTES FROM A MISSION\\nFATHER RUSSELL has just given the last\\nsermon of the mission, and the two weeks of\\nspiritual awakening are at an end. Still, in the\\nglow of those burning words, one feels that being\\na saint would not be so very difficult after all.\\nThe charm of the preacher magnetic gift would\\nperhaps be a better term is that he knows how to\\nbring his sermons, his theories, in touch with\\npractical, every-day life.\\nThese are some of the things that he said,\\nthe gist, if not always the exact words\\nPeople act as if the Catechism which they\\nlearn as children is merely a little book to give\\nexercise to the memory, or a storehouse of polite\\nlearning, to be acquired and put away in the\\nmind, along with Cicero s orations, or Plutarch s\\nLives.\\nOf course they know that a few little things\\nare to be practised they go to Mass on Sundays\\nand holydays, and abstain from meat on Fridays;\\nthat much is binding, and not to be evaded but\\nas for fasting on ember days, giving up amuse-\\nments in Lent, denying themselves for charity,\\ncontributing to the support of their pastors, mak-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "246 The People of Our Parish\\ning mixed marriages, or marrying cousins, that\\nis a different story.\\nThey know that the Theological Virtues are\\nFaith, Hope, and Charity, but it does not occur\\nto them to make the sign of the cross when passing\\na church where dwells Our Lord in the Blessed\\nSacrament; or to stop inside for a little visit\\nbefore the Tabernacle. That may be all very well\\nfor old women, and young girls, and nuns, but\\nmen and women of the world have other concerns.\\nThey will tell you that the Cardinal Virtues\\nare Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance.\\nBut they rush in where angels would fear to tread,\\ninto all sorts of dangers, spiritual and temporal,\\nand then besiege Heaven and the Saints to extri-\\ncate them from the toils of their own folly, this\\nis their prudence.\\nJustice, as far as their lights go, they prac-\\ntise; that is, they do not cheat, nor injure their\\nneighbor in his property or good name. Fortitude\\nis not so common. Why is the cross laid upon\\nthem they cry. Why come so many unmerited\\nmisfortunes.^ always unmerited in their eyes, no\\nmatter what their sins. Why should they be\\npunished for another s transgressions.*^ Job said,\\nin the grandeur of his love and faith, The Lord\\ngave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be\\nthe name of the Lord\\nBut these weak ones, if they do not question\\nthe justice of God in so many words, in their\\nhearts are rebellious against His decrees. And\\nTemperance they do not get intoxicated, as an", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "Notes from a Mission 247\\nirrational brute might do if given all the liquor\\nit could swallow, but do they ever think of deny-\\ning themselves the palatable drink to save a few\\ncents for the poor? Do they put aside a delicate\\ntidbit at table as a little act of secret mortification\\nof the appetite, as was the practice of the saints?\\nDo they leave the comfortable seat, the soft divan,\\nfor the weak or the aged Do they resolutely lay\\ndown the interesting story at the usual bedtime\\nhour, so as not to encroach upon the time which\\nbelongs to prayer, to the examination of con-\\nscience, nor to steal the hours that the body\\nrequires for rest, in order to perform the day s\\nduties well? Do they deny themselves an evening\\nat the play, and give the dollar saved to have a\\nMass said for the suffering souls?\\nOne can be temperate in so many things besides\\neating and drinking; and self-denial comes easily\\nin the footsteps of temperance.\\nAvoid extremes, said an ancient philosopher.\\nHe said it in Latin, but it is just as true in\\nEnglish.\\nAnd you, my friends, in what class are you?\\nYou believe in the Sacrament of Confirmation,\\nof course you believe in it, you say, that in\\nthis Sacrament you receive the gifts and fruits of\\nthe Holy Ghost; but what is your practice?\\nWisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude,\\nKnowledge, Piety, the Fear of the Lord how\\nmany of you even remember the names of these\\nprecious gifts a year after your Bishop has sealed\\nyour brow in Confirmation.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "248 The People of Our Parish\\nHow many of you seek after the wisdom which\\npertains to the things of heaven, to the myste-\\nries of religion, to the power and goodness and\\nwisdom of God as displayed in His Creation, in\\nHis Church, even in the souls of His fallen\\ncreatures? How much do you value that divine\\nunderstanding which would make you appreciate\\nyour faith as the only gift worth caring for in a\\ntransitory world of trouble and care? How ardently\\ndo you long for the knowledge, not of science and\\nlanguage, of government and money-getting, but\\na knowledge of the workings of God s Providence,\\nday by day, in a world that deserves it so little?\\nHow many of you pray for the counsel to direct\\nyour actions by the rules of Christian prudence\\nand perfection, so that every act of your lives may\\nbe for the honor of God, the salvation of your own\\nsoul, and the edification of your neighbor? How\\nmany of you stop to think that these gifts are to\\nperfect and guide the will as well as the under-\\nstanding, fortitude, with which to face the evils of\\nthe world, generously to bear your crosses as from\\nthe hand of God; piety, the yearning of the heart\\ntowards God, a love and appreciation of holy\\nthings the fear of the Lord, which overcomes all\\nfear of the world and the world s rules, when it\\nis a question of offending God or of offending the\\nworld\\nAnd this spiritual wealth that came to you in\\nthe days of your innocent youth how earnestly\\nhave you labored to increase and preserve it\\nLet some one leave you a material fortune, and", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "Notes from a Mission 249\\nhow diligently, anxiously, perseveringly you seek\\nto make it bear interest and multiply; but the\\nheritage of the Holy Ghost you are content to\\nlet that remain idle in your souls, or, perhaps,\\nvanish for the want of any attention. Charity,\\nJoy, Peace, Patience, Benignity, Goodness, Long-\\nsuffering, Mildness, Faith, Modesty, Continency,\\nChastity if you had kept this legacy, what a bit\\nof Eden on earth would be your soul\\nSome of you say, Father, I should like to be\\nbetter, to do something more than I am doing for\\nGod and my own soul, but I do not seem to have\\nthe opportunity my life is restricted, hemmed in\\nby a daily routine and petty cares.\\nThere is no life too restricted for the practice\\nof the virtues which make saints. God does not\\nexpect the impossible. He does not want from\\none what it would be a grave offence for another to\\nwithhold.\\nYou learned in your little Catechism the names\\nof the works of mercy, Corporal and Spiritual,\\nand you learned, too, something of the ways in\\nwhich you are to practise them.\\nTo feed the hungry is the first of the corporal\\nworks, and this is the one which everybody, not a\\ndevil in human form, practises to some little\\nextent even the boasting infidel, the lowest\\nlibertine, does not keep back his pittance when\\nthe sad-eyed, starving woman, or the little child\\nin rags makes its appeal.\\nIt is the bounden duty of every one to give in\\nproportion to his means, and few of you do this.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "250 The People of Our Parish\\nThe dollar from the workingman is a princely gift,\\nwhere the hundred from the millionaire is a miser s\\ndole.\\nTo feed the hungry, to give drink to the\\nthirsty, to clothe the naked, to ransom captives, to\\nharbor the harborless, to visit the sick, to bury\\nthe dead how many occasions arise every day for\\nthe busiest of you to perform these. The poor\\nwoman who must prepare the meals with her own\\nhands for her little family, yet can spare the time\\nto take a bit of pudding or a plate of toast to an\\ninvalid neighbor; the elder sister can pause in\\nher task to give a drink to clamoring little ones;\\nthe housewife can go over the family wardrobe,\\nfinding a garment here, another there, that can be\\nspared for the poor; the maiden can give an after-\\nnoon from pleasure to sewing for the poor, either\\nat home or at the parish sewing-society; the\\nwealthy matron can take off the luxuries from her\\ntable during Lent, and devote the money to the\\npurchase of material, and use her time in fashion-\\ning it into garments for the needy; all these are\\nworks of mercy. But let no one think that, when\\nshe gives away old garments which she cannot\\npossibly wear herself, and which can be of little\\nservice to their recipients, she has been prac-\\ntising charity. She has merely rid herself of an\\nincumbrance.\\n*At least there are no captives in our day to\\nbe ransomed, says one.\\nNo captives.? There are captives to inhuman\\nemployers of labor, who grind down their work-", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "Notes from a Mission 251\\npeople to the lowest pittance; captives to stern\\nnecessity; captives to ignorance, to want, to prej-\\nudice; captives in distant lands to cruel laws and\\nenslaving barbarism; captives, everywhere, to the\\ndevil. Your contribution to the foreign missions,\\nto the Truth Society, your patronage of shops\\nwhere honest labor is honestly paid, your strength\\npitted against injustice, even the cancelled stamps\\nthat you send to aid the foreign missions, in all\\nthese ways you are ransoming captives.\\nYou harbor the harborless in every penny that\\nyou give to orphanages, to industrial schools, to\\nhospitals; you cannot, unless in rare instances,\\ntake into your own homes the homeless stranger,\\nbut you can contribute out of the means God in\\nHis mercy has given to you and withheld from the\\nother, to support the institutions where shelter\\ncan be found. And every one can visit the sick.\\nSickness comes, at some time or other, to every\\nhousehold; even the invalid in a comfortable home\\nis cheered by the sight of a friendly face, a bunch\\nof roses, or a book left as a remembrance; and to\\nthe sick poor, where doctors and medicines and\\nnourishing food must be had, and there is no\\nmoney to pay for them, the visit is a sacred duty;\\nand a dollar slipped into the work-worn^ wrinkled\\nhand of the bereaved widow in the tenement, and\\nyou have helped to bury the dead.\\nSpiritual Works of Mercy that has a for-\\nmidable sound to timorous ears, and yet they are\\nnot hard.\\nWhat are they.? To admonish the sinner.", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "252 The People of Our Parish\\nThe life of a consistent Christian is the best\\nadmonition a sinner can have; a gentle word of\\nreproach, an indignant protest at a public wrong,\\nthese are your duty, and should be counted your\\nprivilege. To instruct the ignorant. How effec-\\ntively, yet how quietly, how sweetly, this may be\\ndone on so many occasions. An intelligent expla-\\nnation of points of doctrine or some part of the\\nbeautiful liturgy of the Church, never obtruded on\\nany one, yet always at the behest of the inquirer;\\nbooks of instruction and devotion, given or lent\\nto non-Catholic friends, or to ignorant Catholics\\nthe number of these last is appalling; a chance\\nafforded a simple domestic to attend an instruc-\\ntion or to hear a sermon; the courteous invitation\\nto a friend to go with you to hear a good preacher\\nor to attend a mission, and the thoughtful pro-\\nvision of a prayer-book for the occasion the dime\\nor the dollar contributed with a willing heart to\\nthe Truth Society, or to help the mission work, or\\nto pay the subscription to a Catholic paper sent to\\nsome one in a distant hamlet, or for books and\\npapers left at hospitals, or prisons, or asylums.\\nTo counsel the doubtful. This is not so easy;\\nbut every intelligent Catholic knows, or ought to\\nknow, the refutation against the doubts of revealed\\ntruth; and if he is not sure of his own knowledge,\\nhe ought to be able to lay his hand on a book that\\nwould silence any honest scruple. To comfort the\\nsorrowful. Every one is called upon, at some\\ntime, to perform this Christlike work, but not\\nevery one does it in the Christlike spirit, a word", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "Notes from a Mission 253\\nof sympathy, the tender little note of condolence,\\nthe card left at the door where death has come,\\nloyal friendship to one on whom disgrace has\\nfallen, a whisper of hope to the despairing; even\\nto drive away the tears of a little child is not in\\nvain.\\nTo bear wrongs patiently does not mean to\\nsuffer injustice where justice may be had, for that\\nwould be weakness; but to suffer without mur-\\nmuring when evil comes through the perfidy of\\nanother, a bank suspends payment, you are\\nthrown out of work, you are blamed where blame-\\nless, reproached where you have done your best,\\nput aside to see others in your rightful place.\\nTo forgive all injuries follows, naturally, from\\na patient endurance of wrong. There is not one\\nof you to whom there has not come, or will not\\ncome sometime during life, a chance to revenge\\nan injury. A pagan under Nero would glut his\\nvengeance to the full, but a Catholic under the\\nsweet sovereignty of a Saviour who forgave His\\nenemies when in dying agony on the Cross, goes\\nout of his way to serve his persecutor.\\nYou know the story of the French monarch,\\nwho said, regally, The King of France does not\\navenge the injuries of the Duke of Orleans.\\nAnd Robert the Christian does not avenge the\\nwrongs done to Robert the man. The wrongs\\nmay not be grave happily, it is not often in any\\none s power to do his neighbor a vital injury; but\\nthe cumulative, petty persecutions are almost as\\nhard to bear. A woman s tongue sets on foot a", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "254 The People of Our Parish\\nslander about you; sooner or later a disgraceful\\nstory that is true about this very woman for it is\\nusually women with shady histories of their own\\nwho delight in slandering other women will come\\nto your ears. If you are a Christian it goes no\\nfurther; if a pagan, then is your chance for revenge.\\nAnd we come to the last of the seven to pray\\nfor the living and the dead. Here, at least, the\\nwork depends entirely on yourselves; no waiting for\\nopportunity. And our dear Lord Himself com-\\nmanded you to pray, pray always; and what beau-\\ntiful, what consoling promises He made to those\\nwho obey this sweet command If your work\\nrequires the greater part of your time, your heart\\ncan be lifted up in prayer, even whilst your hands\\nare busy at their appointed tasks. A messenger\\nboy recited the entire rosary every day whilst going\\nabout his errands. And a whispered ejaculation\\nof faith, hope, and charity, a short act of contri-\\ntion, an invocation to our Lady, a De Profundis\\nfor the dead how easy, yet how efficacious And\\nthen you have our Lord dwelling day and night in\\nyour churches, at every turn, how sweet to slip\\naway from the cares and distractions of the world\\nto spend a few moments before the Tabernacle", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4638", "width": "2861", "jp2-path": "peopleofourparis00bugg_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process.\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: Feb. 2006\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION\\n1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township. 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