Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1894, Page 10

i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SU FEBRUARY N0 USE FOR THE CHAPERON The American Girl Neods No Such Append- age to Keop Her Respectable, THAT'S WHAT ELLA WHEELER WILCOX SAYS es Do Not Understand the Ameriean of The V ble Forelgn Tdea Pro Chaperos m of Matrimony—F Facts and Faneles To the foreigner our Amerlcan chaperon must be a droll study. Indeed I have heard many a curious comment pa upon her by forelgn men who were visiting here, They come to America with the idea that our girls aro absolutely dnrestricted in their freedom. Wi discover that the chaperoning system has been in: ngurated among us, they are surprised, says Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Brooklyn Times, but their urprise chang to amusement as they observe the American adaptation of a foreign patent And we cannot be an- gry with them, for the methods of the American chaperon are indeed amusing In the old world the vigorous vigilance which surrounds the young girl renders a tete-a-tete with an admirer an impossibility. The young girl who should scheme to obtain it would be looked upon with suspicion if not as absolutely disgraced. The man who should atempt to see her alone would be of- fering an insult. An Englishman said to me: “I was betrothed to my wife (who was my cousin) threo years. During that time 1 never saw her alone a single hour. It I obtained five or ten minutes—sometimes by the temporary absence of her family from the room during my visits—I felt trans- ported to heaven.' A Frenchman, who has the entry to the most - exclusive families in America 1 to me: “I shall never get accustomed to tho freedom of the American girl. I saw two young ladies of culture and refine- ment yesterday enter a restaurant together and order lunch. It was a very quiet and elegant restaurant, to be sure, but it struck me as a remarkable freedom of conduct. Another young lady belonging to a fashion- able family tells me she has done the same thing quite alone, when caught down street by the tide of shopping at lunch hour. 1 hear these young ladies speak of chap- erons, but I do not understand the Ameri- can idea of chaperons. Some excellent young ladies I know, who belong to re- spectible and cultivated though not fashion- able families, went off with a party ot young people of both sexes to witness a na- +val parade of some sort in the harbor one morning. It shocked me. Young ladies could do no such thing in France and re- main respectable.” “That is whero the American girl has the advantage,” I said. “She does not need a chaperon to keep her respectabl. She is born and bred with the idea that she can keep herself s0." “Yet I hear you Americans talk of the chaperon,” he said. “In what cases is she supposed to be necessary and what are her duttes? “The American chaperon s a compara- tively new institution,” I replied. “A few of our most wealthy and fashionable fami- 1les adopted the idea a good many years ago, but the general public has been siow In ac- cepting it. The different grades and circles ot soclety have all been’more or less Inocu- lated, but the virus has not always worked What {s considered soclety proper (or im- proper) is composed of a handful of people in each large city. But beyond, about and abovp this handful of purely fashionable belngs are circles within circles composed of cultivated, intellectual and reflned people, many of them possessed of wealth, others who are among the world’s tollers. The advent of women into all professions +and arts hay established a_society which is distinet in itself. It would be impossible and absurd to insist upon a chaperon for all the cultivated, charming young women who are engaged In artistic pursuits, for instance, or in journalism in New York City. As a result, the even semi-fashionable girl, who has a home and no occupation save to be pretty and amuse herself, does not go out evenings save in the company of a chaperon. She ‘:e. about by daylight quite independently, ul on th t after 6 o'clock parent or chaperon must ter into her plans for pleasure. This rule, however, it Is utterly impossi- for the army of gifted young women to ow who are pursuing careers of various inds. They consider the theater, the con- cert and the opera a part of thelr education. They are glad to accept the invitation of a young gentleman whom they respect to en- Joy these pleasures, and they have no fear of losing his respect or their reputation by belng seen in public with a gentleman and no chaperon. In forelgn lands they would be under suspicion, but not here, where their numbers alone would establish the respectabllity of the custom, and, after all, the freedom of the fashionable girl with the chaperon is always as great as that which the independent young artist enjoys. For I repeat the assertion that the American chaperon is a huge joke. She remembers her own frea girlhood, and she gives the young people under her charge a wide lat- itude. ~ Any amount of mischief can be plotted in her presence, if the young people are mischlevously Inciined, .and she will never prevent its execution. Were all the tragedies which have taken place in the lives of fashionable girls suddenly to be oxposed to the world, I fear the name of chaperon would be held henceforth in less respect. Not that she contenances evil doing, but that she is small protection against it. 1t {s a curous fact that a libertine takes greater pride in the contedt of chaperoned virtue than in the subjugation of the un- protected. The warlike tendency latent in every man 18 aroused by restrictions. There is less chivalry shown by men toward the unpr tected woman today than fifteen or twenty years ago. In time, perhaps, if the vigilance of the AV UOUI 4NO ‘SOSWAIDU] WISAS SujuododRID learn to think it the correct thing to speak to any woman who appears upon our streets in the daytime unaccompanied by a pr tector, as the men of many foreign cities do. It is the history of the world, that where women are t surrounded by restrictions the men are most lacking In respectable treatment of them; where women are most at liberty men display the most esteem for them. Are proposals premoditated o rct? men make up their minds they drift Into marriage, 5o {o speak propinquity or opportunity bring about a greater number of proposals then does actual intention? This Is a problem that greatly perplexes mothers with maarviag cable duugh- ters and they are at a Joss o understand why it s that thelr danzhters’ admirers do not develop into suitors, sa a writer i the San Francisco Argonaut. The girls are pretty well dressed and of ages ranging from 18 to 28, and they experionce no lack of attention’ from the men of thair different sots, men who ride, Jance wnd play tennis ‘with them, and with whom they are on the best of terms. Mothers, looking back to thelr own girl hood, are dismayed at tho difference be- tween the past and the present, and each matron remembers that she was wooed and won within, say, a few week of a first meet- ing, whereas her daughters are still unsought after months - of constant companionship. Is it that in former days men were impul- sivo as well as impressionable, and that in these days they are impressionable, but not impulsive? Or Is it that the comradeship that 18 now established between young men and girls robs the situation of every shadow of romance, while this footing of frank friendship Induces girls to assume a sort of brusque, self-reliant, independent boaring, the roverse of sentimental and confiding? This may account in some measure for the position that girls occupy toward men, but hardly sufficlently so to be the only causo for the gravity of the situation. Anyho: <At 1s humiMating to thelr powers of attrac- _tlon to find that, after months of pleasant socal Intimacles, the most valued acquaint- ances cool off. Many proposals are the result of clrcum- _stances and- are surprising allke to both Aldes. Thoy Were not, nor are, each other's fdeals, but they drifted together, neverthe- Tessihthoso proposals cannot be called pre meditated; they come about from the force of ovents,which often brings togother the most unlikely people. Older men, over 60, make distinctly pre- meditated proposals to women of a certaln age, In whom they hope to find congeni: companionship, and women with money are often found willing to exchange spinsterhood for wifehood under such conditions, viz., sulitability of age and position. Ag the matter stands, It seems pretty evi- dent that as many premeditated as unpre- meditated proposals are made—only that there are so few when all Is told. Itls that the good fellowship that now exists between the sexes acts as a barrfer to any tenderer sentiment, joined to the extravagance of the age and the self-indulgence which Is &o characteristic of both men and girls? Or, is it that the number of marriageable girls offers such a wide cholce to men in general that an impression Is effaced almost as soon as it {5 made? Living in_the mountains of this country s a family which has a singular history in a matrimonial way, writes a Murfreesboro cor- respondent of the Philadelphin Times. The fathier owns a little farm and four daighters, or did own the latter. A man named Phillips about fifteen years ago married the eldest of these daughters and after a few ¥ of married life the lady ran away with the husband’s sworn enemy. He pro- cured a divorce from her and wooed the second sister and took her home, but the next day ghe woman turned up at home and sald sho wouldn't live with Philllps, and after a time succeeded in gotting legally freo from him Then the third sister, undaunted by what had gone before, married the husband of her two sisters. Soon after this the fel- Jow was sent to tho®penitentiary for an of- fense that kept him there three years, and when he came out he found that his wife's fickle fancy had strayed while he wzs ab- gent and fixad itself upon a neighbor, John Callahan. By law she was entitled to a divorce from her husband, as he was a convicted felon, so getting it she married her lover. In the meantime the first wife had found that the n with whom she had_eloped would not marry her after Phillips had di- her and returned home. Then Mrs. han wandered back to her father, for 0. 2 would not support her. S ¢ the old man had once more his four daughters on his hands, and Phillips was still froe. The youngest daughter was now about 18 and she almost fell a victim to the fascina tion the ‘man Phillips appears to have ex- erted over them all at first, and becoming infatuated with him consented to marry him. Phillips went to the father for the fousth time to ask for a daughter's hand and was told that he might have her on condition that he kept her. Phillips promised, and the ceremony was to take place the following night, when the ex-wives, growing jealous, armed themselves and swore that the marriage should never take place. So Phillips rode to town and swore out a warrant against the sisters, tell- ing of their threats. The women were sworn then to keep the peace, but Phillips thought it prudent, however, to run away with his bride to Kentucky and marry her there. This time his venture seems to have ‘terminated happlly, for he has three children and is prospering. I've kept a sharp eye cn the young women in domestic service over here, having a fel- low-teeling for them, as you can el under- stand, madam, and since [ liave been in the country I've watched the poor folks and seen how they live, and it's just as plain to me as can be that the young women 1o are maids and waitresses over here are the kind who would have tried to be shop 3ris and dress- making and even school teackeis in America, and many of {he ssrvants we have would be working in the Gelds if they lived over here, writes ‘Pomona,” under the guiding hand of Frank R. Stock- ton In_the February Ladies’ Home Journal. The fact is the English people don't 0 to other countries to get their servants. Their way is like a factory consuming its own smoke. The surplus young women, and there must always be a lot of them, are used up in domestic service. Now if an American poor girl is good enough to be a first class servant she wants to be something else. Sponer than go out to service she will work twice as hard In a shop, or even go into a factory. I have talked a good deal about this to June, and he said I'm geting to bo a phil- osopher, but I don't think it takes much philosophizing to find out how this case stands. If house service could be looked upon in the proper way it wouldn't take long for American girls who have to work for their living to find out that it's a lot better to live with nice people, and cook and wait on the table and do all those things which come natural to women the world over, than to stand all day behind a counter under the thumb of a floorwalker or grind out their lives like slayes among a lot of steam engines and machinery. The only reason the English have better house servats than we have is that here any girl who has to work is willing to be a house servants than we have Is that here any girl are, too. It is proper, after a removal from one part of town to another, to send cards to one's friends with the new address thereon. As- suming always that the new comers are de- sirable people to know the duty of the first call devolves upon the older residents of the neiphborhood, and a failure to show this courtesy where it Is due is not only careless but unpardonable, and a first call should be returned In person and within a week of the receipt of the courtesy. Where a gentleman has been properly in- vited to call upon a lady, or if through the offices of a mutual friend he is the bearer of an introductory letter, he must within a reasonable time—a week or less— and this call, at least, must be of the most formal nature. The same rule applies with regard to the acknowledgement of the obli- gation incurred by the acceptance of an in- vitation to a dinner party or similar aftair, the call must be made soon after and in person. After a marriage has taken place or an engagement announced in a family of your acquaintance, or where a friend has re turned from a prolonged absence, . the obli gation to call Is imperative. The whole system of this phase of soclal obligation turns upon expediency, and, /while the foregoing rules of observance may well be regarded as strictly correct in all that they cover, there must be a certain freedom of action allowed to individual acquaintances regarding visits of condolence, congratul tion or matters of common interest. Re- \ember that “‘not at home" is imperative even from your dearest friend, and do not seek to prove the truth or falsity of it. You have often escaped a bad quarter of an hour by this convenient device of society, and you should be as ready to accept such excuse without question as you have been on occa- sion to make it. To the drdinary mind it looks decidedly like asaulting a woman to kiss her against her will, a fact which the English law very properly recognizes. The consensus of femi- nine opinion would be that such an t is far more offensive than a blow, but Dutch law looks at the matter in an opposite light According to the London Daily News the Duteh court of appeals has decided that to Kiss a person eannot be offensive, as it is in the nature of a warm mark of sympathy. So the man who exhibited this extraordinary “mark of sympathy" to a stranger in the streets of Utrecht has escaped without pun- ishment When 1 next go to Holland I shall not want to be sympathized with in this manner, but aftor sich a judgment it seems that every woman will have to be prepared to re- sist unwelcome and unexpected osculatory attacks, says an English writer, What would the grave and reverend signors of Holland say It a male escort failed to ap- preclate such sympathetic attentions and knocked the offender down? Verily, sym- pathy may take strange gulses, and none stranger than this. Preserve me, I pray, from these Duteh sympathizers. In Germany, the land of scholars and thinkers, notwithstanding the liberal char- er of politics which is every day making t moro apparent, there is a general an- tagonism to the higher education of women. The radical German Is conservative to the backbone in what he sarcastically calls the “emancipation of women.” If the subject is broached it Is met with a jocular reply and the usual commonplaces, says the New York Sun. The average German thinks that the term ‘woman" and ‘“‘wite" should be synonymous ~ with ‘“hon- est wife," and that the wite's duty should be to provide for the animal comforts of the household. Although the movement commenced twenty-elght years 4g0 With the foundation of an assoclation for do so | women little or no progress has been made. The German University admits women as students, and those who wish to continue thelr education in such subjects as | the university provides have to seek ad- vanced Instruction in other countries. Many petitions have been presented both to the porial Diet and to the Diets of the vari- ous states for permission for women to be allowed to take up the study of medicine, but without success. The General Diet says it is a subject for the government of the dif- ferent states, and the separate governments say they can do nothing without the Im- porial Diot. A fow women have been recelved as assistants in the postoffice, and women aro allowed to practice as doctors of a second class, though they are not acknowl- eged by the state, and cannot be fntrusted with any official duty. These medical women have no opportunity of acquiring a complete education, and they stand in a very inferior soclal position. There Is, how- ever, in Herlin a hospital for the diseases of women under the control of women doctors. soclalist_orators were sen- tenced recently in Vienna for speaking slightingly of the archdukes and of the logislative assembly. It is_interesting to read of the nature of the offenses of these two young and very pretty women who speak in the open air to the people. One of them, Fraulein Glas: according to the Vienna correspondent, ‘‘considors no sub- Ject too tough’—politics and political econ- omy, thq education of women, the army expenses, the liberal leaders and the pres ident of the cabinet. That correspondent ought to take a course at one of our woman's clubs and soe how lightly they play battle and shuttlecook with these that the Austrians call “tough.” The other pretty anarchist, Amelia Rita, Is younger still, not much past 17, and by her firmness caused 600 factory girls to strike for six weeks, by which means they obtained some- what more humane treatment than twelve hours work a day at 6 shillings a week. She Is seemingly so filled with hatred st every man and woman better off herself that she apparently could go inst them for hours and very point. Gorman Two women than on talking much to th The practical ability of women in benevo- lent work has been recently illustrated at Chicago, where, while the “good citizens' committee’ did nothing but plan and talk, Mrs. Mary Ahrens, president of the Cook County Suffrage association, paid the rent out of her.own pocket of two stores on Wabash avenue and circulated requests for supplies. The people who were waiting until the red tape should be sufficiently un- wound for their gifts to reach the needy, resporded freely, and 25,000 men have been housed and fed. The Grand Army of the Republic ladies have a free soup Kitchen at 66 Pacific avenuo, where thousands are fed daily. The Hebrew Ladies charitable sopieties have another. The Catholic La- dies Aid society is doing practical work. The Chicago Woman's club Is doing a great deal of work . And all this while the various citizens committees were organiz- ing and planning and figuring how much money would be needed. Fashion Notes. Handsome Jjet, like real lace and sable fur, has an abiding vogue. A big chou of black velvet on a round tur- ban has a white aigrette planted In the middle. Tiny rosettes of piece velvet are made useful in various ways. Some have the velvet edged with narrow lace. The balloon sleeve is being displaced by the full chatelaine puffs, which are unlined and drooping, and extremely full. Point de Venise lace in five, seven and nine-inch widths will be used for Recamler frilis on corsages rounded on the meck for sleeve epaulettes, berthas and gathered basques. It bonnets are to be de rigueur, then veils come into peculiar prominence. A hat may be independent of a veil ,a bonnet hardly so. Daggers for the hair are again in fashion, these in gold, aluminfum in filigree, silver, paste and amber and celluloid in combina- tion. Both modistes and milliners have, com- bined in great earfiest for ribbon trimmings for the decoration of their gowns and mil- linery for the spring seasom. The neat, lady-like French toque bordered with fur has appeared en suite with very many of the handsome street and church costumes worn this winter. Lace insertions with tiny edges of lace on cach side are used with a lavish hand in decorating evening bodices and for covering the seams of gored skirts. A new beautiful watered silk shows a chine ground of shadowy pinkish mother of pearl, with pompadour figures of shaded pink roses and shaded green leaves. Buckles, with long, oddly shaped jewelled pins, cabochons, twisted gold ornaments with gimps to match, will be greatly used in handsome millinery next season. City modistes especially favor magenta among_their exclusive creations; inded, in some shops the color is almost ubiquitous in spite of its pronounced dowdy ugliness. The picture gown is rauch affected at pres- ent by young women who “‘adore Art,” this latter word spelled with a capital A. Old pictures are studied, and the modern dress- maker, who s nearly always a person of ex- tremely conventional ideas, finds her not always rose strewn path invested with new thorns. The modern young woman is not always as picturesque in her ‘frock as the beanty from whom she copied her garb, and the result fsn't always what her fancy painted it, but the uesthetic desire for something different from other people must be gratified. Femipine Notes. At the University of Berne there are women students of almost every nation- ality. 5 Mrs, Ormiston Chant declares that the good humor of the American women under all circumstances is unsurpassed. Paris shop girls get commissions on the sales made by them, as well as their salaries. Wages range from $5 to $9 a week. ady Constance Lytton says that women have no code of honor. Sir Andrew Clark thought women had no sense of justice. The first woman to be elected to a mayor- alty under the British flag is a Mrs. Yates, who has recently become mayor of One- hunga, New Zealand. It seems that Miss Sparrow, a London jour- nalist, took it into her head to sweep a cros- sing, just to see what it was like. It was Lady Georgiana Fullerton who once per- formed the same act, in order to allow the regular sweeper to attend mass. Mrs. Flora Kimball selected the trees and tsuperintended the planting of them on seven miles of streets of Natlonal City, Cal. She was requested to undertake the work by the supervisor, who deemed her the most competent person for the place. The Century club of Joplin, Mo., has, on the surface, no connection with marriage or interest in any such frivolities. It was or- ganized three years ago by women who hungered for “‘serious study.” Three short years have passed, and out of the club's small membership seven have married and three more are engaged. That faithful royal widow, England, always wears on one wrinkled wrist a_bracelet, in which is a miniature of her departed husband. On the other wrist sho wears as constantly a brace- let with the minlature of her latest great- grandehild. The relgn of each baby Is brief, there are so many of them. Mrs. Robert Louls Stevenson, the wife of the author, s gifted with an imagination and has already won encomiums for the clever storles and sketches which she has contrib- uted to various periodicals. She is said to be charming in manner, Is a brunette, and has large dark, expressive eyes. Sho says she writes only when she wants money to spend foolishly, and 18 especlally fond of her Samoan flower garden. Mrs. Ellzabeth Custer {s an accom- plished billiard player. She acquired her skill at the game during her long residence at military stations In the west. It Is raro to find a woman who Is an adept at billlards, and yet there are few more graceful games and few in which the del- lcate accuracy of touch, which s a feml- nine characteristic, 1s oftener called requisition. The only woman admitted to the soclety formed last fll by the sculptors of New York is Theodora Ruggles Kitson. She is only 23 years old and has had the most success- ful career for her age of any woman _who has undertaken that branch of the art. She began her studles at the age of 15 In the studio of Mr. H. H. Kitson, whom she married last year. ovoral of her statues were at the World's tair. Victoria of plump it nto BISHOP'S PASTORAL LETTER Oatholic Parents Should Insist that Their Ohildren Hfl Oatholic Education, DISCUSSION OF THE SCHOOL QUESTION Catholie Saloc Urged to T ~Sncrame Keepers Repudiated and perance and Obedience t of Matrimony—Coul sel a9t Qbscrving of I Bishop Scannell has atiressed a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of the diocore of Omaha, In which he discusses at length some of the mattors which he considers most important to their spiritual welfare. The letter will be read at mass in all the Catholle churches today, and its contents will be of the greatest interest to the mem- bership. The first subject considered by the bishop Is that of “Christfan Education,” to which he devotes a cons ple portion of the epistle. He Invites attention to the fact that during the past year the subject of education such as the church approves and commends has commanded widespread attention. He says: “It has been discussed with much rnestness of those who favor it as well as y those who oppose it. And the chief and most valuable result of this prolonged and animated discussion has been to make mani- fest, in the most unmistakable manner, that the Catholics of the United States, without distinction of race or are decldedly in favor of providing for. Catholic children an education that will be truly Christian and Catholic. Because of this attitude, however, a charge is brought against us that is al- together unfounded, and a little reflection will show it to be Catholies are accused of hostility to the public school system. On the contrary they readily avail them- selves of the public schools whenever they are unable to provide anything better. No douht cases have occurred in which Catholies complained, and complained justly, of unfair treatment, when under the pretense of teaching a common Christianity or Christian morality the public school has been made the ‘scene of a bal sectarianism most offen- sive to Catholic ears. It Is to be hoped, however, that such occurrences are ‘becom- ing daily more rare, and that the day I8 near at hand when the public schools everywhere will be, as they ought to be, truly non-sectarian, so that children of every religion may attend them withoyt fear of having their religion insulted or their consciences outraged.” NOT THE BEST SYSTEM. In the bishop's opinfon, however, it is one thing to say that Catholics are not hostile to the public schools and quite another to say that they approve of the public school system as the best means of education for Christian_children. “While it may be the best common system attainable under the circumstances for a mixed population such as ours, no Catholic believes that it can fm- part all needed instruction and training to children who are the heirs of heaven, and whose paramount duty in this life is to know and serve God.” The fact is noted that this opinion Is no longer confined to the Catholic church. “A Christian edacation has for its main object to elevate, purify and sanctify the heart of man, to teach obedience to divine and human law, to inculcate justice and charity in his dealing with his fellow men, and Christian resignation in times of adversity. All this, indeed, is atmed at by every system of edu- cation, Christian ‘arid otherwise, but both reason and expericiice plainly demonstrate that only that system which is founded on and guided by the principles and doctrines of revealed religion is truly eflicacious in accomplishing this result. ~ This fact is made the more manifest by the influence class, which anarchistic and other wild and dan- - gerous doctrines are’ gaining over the minds. of s0o many men: who cannot be called ig norant. They are men who know nothing of God and of map's accountability to Him, or who, If they once possessed this knowl- edge, allowed "1 to- ‘e effaced by moral delinquencies.” © 11 AMERICAN SENTIMENT RIGHT. After calling 'attention to the evils that had resulted from the efforts of Buropean governments to destroy the influence of the church by discouraging the teaching of re- ligion in the public schools the bishop ex- presses his gratification at finding that the Catholics of the United States have been so unwavering in thelr support of Christian education. The Catholics of the diocese of Omaha had during the past year given striking proofs of their determination to provide and support Catholic schools. He concludes this part of the letter by urging all parents to send their children to Catholic schools and exhorting all Catholics to per- severe in the work of providing such schools until all the Catholic children of the diocese shall havo within their reach the blessings of a truly Christian education, Some attention s devoted to “matrimony,” in which both the contract and the sacra- ment are considered essentials. Its threc characteristics are unity, sanctity and in- dissolubility, and these are necessary for the well being of the Christian family, From the sacred character of matrimony and the momentous consequences for good or evil that must result from it, it was obvious that no one should enter into it without careful preparation. A person should on no account choose a life-partner whose religious and moral character was not above suspicion. Young people should consult their parents and their spiritual director before taking such a step. A short retreat at home or in a religous house was gommendable as a means of preparation for the sacred oc- casion. _EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE, The epistle also includes a warning to the church in regard to intemperance, The writer contends that nearly all the scandals that afflict religion amd bring discredit on the Christian name, nearly all the murders and other crimes that are committed in our midst, and much of the pauperism that pre- valls may be dircctly traced to this evil. There has been a great change in public opinidn in the past few years. The drunkard was no longer rogarded as a man with an amiable weakness, but as a disreputable character. Legislation has tried to deal with the evil with but indifferent succe The true remedy was to be found in moral and religious influences. The fact was noted that some of the proprietors of low resorts were nominal Catholics, and posed as politicians and men of local influence. But thelr religion and their politics were only used as a decoy to attract customers, impoverish families and to destroy souls. Catholics were urged to have as little as possible to do with these people and to bring to bear a healthy public“®pinfon that would ulti- mately compel them: to give up their nefar- fous business. ) The letter is concluded by a fervent ap- peal to the church io enter upon the ap- proaching season of Eent with a firm deter- mination to spend if profitably and to let the bodily penances be but the outward ex- pression of the intéfidf sorrow which comes from the heart and’which is always neces- sary in order to obtain pardon for sin. —t———— Nothing is put in’Caok's Extra Dry Impe- rial Champagne to/mpke it ferment, the of- fervescence is ts boquet unequalled. RELIGIOUS. 35 m The pope will shovslg publish o jubilee en- cyelical, which wiliohi a political, veligious and social testament. Among the_men (pepently ordained to tho ministry by Bishog, hupker of Uganda are two chiefs who govern great provinces in that country. According to a recent report therc are 43,824 lay preachers in England in connec. tion with the Baptists and vaclous branches of Methodists, Rev. Deborah Knox, whose pastoral work extends over Rhode Island and Conaecticut, claims to be o descendant of John Kuox, the Scotch reformer. = st It is estimated that there are about 160,000 negro Cathohes in the United States, with 31 sisterhoods teaching in 108 schools over 8,000 negro children, Chicago bas 620 churches of all denomina tions. 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