Her wisdom has as its vehicle the English of a French woman, who is French still. Punctuation, save for periods, is for the most part neglected, and the proof reader did not know his English spelling well.

We can all take a lesson from the following admonitions:

Pessimistes and neurasthenics have nothing to gain by feeding their bile on their black ideas.

People who rush about-agitating themselves and everyone about them-who talk loud and fast, who laugh scream and roar climb up❜lampposts, paint the town red under the pretext of having fun; those who make puns endeavoring to create the impression of having a good time, are only encumbering, they do not possess the real qualities of sociability.

Nothing works more havocs among those obliged to association than uncontrolled agitation. The man or woman who cannot sit still, who cannot talk much less listen without making all kinds of disturbing movements pulling at his or her hands and fingers, crossing and uncrossing the feet, rocking to and fro is a subject of caution-one who should consult a doctor or set about seriously te learn self controle. Wildly emotional people are a nuisance and usually poorly équilbrated.

So the second precept of the religion of good humor is that it is inadmissable that after having dominated electricity and space man should not know how to dominate himself.

Even crossing the streets in large centers has grown to be an art. The modern street is like modern life—a difficult thing to traverse but all the advantages are on the side of the man who quietly surveys the situation chooses his time tranquilly passes in and out among the moving vehicles calmly picking his way through the seemingly hopelessly encumbered thoroughfare and reaches the other side safe and sound and none the worse for the crossing.

But the nervous man who darts here and there in headlong confusion who wants to get over in his own way and at every one elsés expense force himself across impossible barriers . instead of circumventing them, who scolds the chauffeurs and menaces the drivers who bar the way is nearly knocked down and only reaches the opposite side by sheer luck mudspattered and exhausted is an exact picture of the morally nervous person who scolds and rushes along pell mell. If he or she escapes being utterly crushed and trodden down by the trend. of life he or she are at least bespattered and exhausted often a physical as well as a moral wreck.

Therefore the third precept in the doctrine of good humor is that it is surely making a bad start to set forth in a fury and means an equally bad finish.

And we will end with a wise warning:

Times have gone forward however and social conditions despite the croakers so improved that the large majority of the world has enough food and clothes for comfort and is fiighting for the supperfluity. It is not his bread nor his suit of clothes that the socialist is calling for to-day. Both he possesses, it is the frock coat, the dress suit, the game on the rich man's table he craves. And here is the origin of the increase in the price of living, the difficulties of living. Everyone is ambitious to live as well as wealthiest in the land. All want to live on the big avenue and after big avenue style on the small street income. If wants were restrained much of the difficulty in living would be overcome.

There is nothing utopian nor ridiculous in the plea for a simple existence, in the restraint of our wants.

It is certainly better to possess little to want little but to thoroughly enjoy that little, than to have so much and to want so much that it is impossible to enjoy anything for we miss all possible chance of enjoyment we have or could have in the mad chase after things, beyond our reach coveted by unreas⚫onable desire.

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So the fifth precept of the religion of happiness is under all circumstances to practise self restraint and in particular to restrain our wants.

VO pamphlets on Minimum Wage Legislation, written by Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D., of St. Paul, have been issued by the Central Bureau of the Central Verein. They are entitled Minimum Wage Legislation and A Minimum Wage by Legislation. The former sells at one cent per copy, the latter at five cents. A reduction is given when ordered in quantities. The pamphlets. may be obtained from the Central Verein, 307 Temple Building, St. Louis, Mo.

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ROM the Australian Catholic Truth Society we have lately received: The Vision of Peace, by Rev. M. Forest, M.S.H.; Sister Etheldreda's Experiment, by M. Elizabeth Walton; Ghosts in General, by Rev. P. C. Yorke, D.D.; How the Angel Became Happy, by Canon Sheehan, D.D.; The Church and the Foundling,

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HE CATHOLIC WORLD recommended to its readers at the time of its first publication, Kathleen Norris' work, Mother. We are pleased to see that the publishers, The Macmillan Co., New York, have included this worthy volume in their Fiction Library, and now sell it for 50 cents. This brings it within the reach of all.

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BENZIGER BROTHERS have sent us the first part of what

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We are pleased to announce that the same house has published in a very presentable way, and at the exceptionally low price of 50 cents per volume, a series of novels and religious books by the best Catholic authors. Among the novels we call special attention to the following: Dion and the Sibyls, by Miles Keon; Marcella Grace and Agatha's Hard Saying, by Rosa Mulholland; Fabiola, by Cardinal Wiseman; Bond and Free, by Jean Connor; The Monk's Pardon and Idols, by Raoul de Navéry; The Light of His Countenance, by Jerome Hart.

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HOW futile the neo-pagan theories which in many places are

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In a volume, published by the same house, the author says in his preface that the heroes of Ireland's battles should not be allowed to die, and Dr. MacSweeney has done a praiseworthy work in presenting in the one small volume under the title, A Group of Nation Builders, the history of three great leaders in Ireland's fight for intellectual freedom-O'Donovan, O'Curry, and Petrie. The little volume is a valuable contribution to the Iona Series. Price, 35 cents. They have also issued The Nature of Human Society, by Bernard J. Otten, S.J. Price, 5 cents.

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