Life — July 15, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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80 Our Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged.........+-$3491-47 G. P. su sesweawes es 2" 40.09 1 20.00 1.00 235 00 10.00 00. Bessie, Moily, John Jacob Astor.....cscscscee $378 Postals from the Farm Life’s Farm Branchvill Conn. June 23, 1909. Dear Mother: Just a few lines to let you know that ived very safetly, Oh! mama I time I go on the we am having a lovel scups, pick berrics and pluck apples and Oh! we don't have no fun only fine Dear mother the dinner supper and breakfast are something grand I never thought they would give us such good things to cat in a free country. Mr. Moor and Mrs. Moore the people we stay with are very kind to us. Please send me some money and write soon I remain, Susie P. S. if Josephine came she would en- joy herself very much 6 o'clock. S-FARM. We got in the country We are in Kennetit LIF It nice out here— and we fell very plesant Jobn. Dear Mother we are getting along fine and the children eats fine good by kisses from all. My dear Mother I'm getting along fine we get ple cat to From your daughter Rose. T is the marrying parson who profits by the mistakes of others [MESH MINERAL BATHS CERTAINLY Do FASE A PELLOWS RHEUMATISM ’” gE Beale Poor Bishop McFaul! ISHOP McFAUL of New Jersey (Roman Catholic), who made such harsh remarks about the non-sectarian colleges, says he got all his information about them from a series of articles in the Cosmopolitan Magazine. The poor bishop! We are sorry for him! The pieces he read were let loose under the title of, “ Blasting Away the Rock of Ages,’ or something like that. We do not recall which muck-raker it was that compiled them, but the obvious intention was to provide the most scare possible for the money, and the colleges generally were sifted for terrifying de- tails of teaching. Considering what an army of teachers the colleges maintain, and how high the percentage of foolish- ness is in mankind, the proceeds of the sift’ were remarkably meagre. But Bishop McFaul, eager to prove that the colleges of his own church were the only safe place for the sons of Catholic fam lies, accepted and magnified the muck- raker's conclusions, and made his. ill- advised proclamation that all the leading American universities were dangerous places for young men and unfit for Roman Catholic boys. There could hardly have been a better example of the narrowing effect of a close, sectarian education. The present Pope, an admirable man, had a very nar- row sectarian education, and the whole church of which he is the head has suffered by it. So, apparently, with Bishop McFaul. His knowledge of the world and of what is going on in it, is not wide enough to protect him from being gulled by a sensa- tion-monger. It is far better for the Catholic Church that a reasonable percentage of its children should get their secu- lar education outside of their own church, in the great schools and col- leges of the country. If there were not plenty of faithful Catholics who are graduates of the great non-sec tarian universities and know what is going on in them, such mistakes as that of Bishop McFaul would be by so much the harder to set right. A New Fad A NEW fad among women is re- ported; namely, the buying of small farms. To some extent the fad ought to be encouraged, but let us hope it will not extend to the lower strata of society, If the dwellers of the tenements should take it up and commence to grate, the great cities would be depopu- lated, much to the annoyance of those who are depending on these dwellers to do their work, as well as of those owners of the tenements themselves who are so- journing in various parts of the world confident that their rent-collectors will keep duly active and forward periodical checks in ample time to pay recurrent hotel bills and tip the servants. Anyone who has influence with these dwellers should go to them at once and, in a kindly way, persuade theif not to desert the paths of duty at this juncture when everything is getting along so nicely. Even the prospective lowering of the price of corn and wheat would not warrant such an exodus. is O. Jones bs I SN'T that Prof. Wiseman, the author of ‘The Effect of Home Training on the Character of the Child ’?"" “Yes, he has just been West to bail his son out for the third time.” WON'T ANYONE BUY? comicbooks.com