Cross Bulletin November 1916

--- Page 1 --- November , 1916 . No. 7 . Vol. VII . # THE CROSS Pasionist fathers issue of THE Cross could not at that date have reached the editor of The Cork Free Press demanding an explanation , and Free Press of October 7th without our permission and without an satatic . the slightest acknowledgment or explanation . This seemed hands of many of our readers . We wrote immediately to the to us rather a liberty , considering especially that the October of Miss Mary Brigid Pearse , which appeared in our last three days subsequently received a reply from him expressing " HE much-admired sketch , " An Sagart , " from the pen imber , was , to our great surprise , reproduced in The Cork --- Page 2 --- took Shelley's hint , and in an all-night sitting . " amid orchestr- stars " is in a state of high hysteria after this latest sleepless on the lake of Geneva . For there he and Shelley , driven literature in just such a setting one day by the bay of Ouchy , curious gaze as he lay making fantastic phrases beside a Byron and Shelley had visited the castle of Chillon at the end this hint : " Why not write your poem of the castle now ? " ing a few years ago . ' It was Bernard Shaw , scorning our far from Doneraile , in county Cork . For , living down there over a tankard , he did impart to me a tale of his new play that whelming that none fell to the level of criticising its parts . ashore by a storm from a boating tour , were forced to shelter bathing-box on Glenbeigh strand , in Kerry , one summer mom- at Kilcolman , in his exasperation at being cut off from London , years chained to a pillar in the cellarage there . Now the poet at such " insulting " weather . until the other calmed him with loose , and he debating imagined causes with ghosts and swear- trating wind and rain . " fashioned his famous " Prisoner of rouse himself and came down with me to the ale-room , where . The boy " all pale in limb and cheek from panting at the he worked his suppressed emotions away in the multitudinous ing there was a spectre in the cellarage . Whereupon he did too early and must needs while away the time till breakfast . akin to Mr. Shaw's dissidence and kindliness , made famous Chillon . " More delicious still was Keats " Ode to a Night- was patient and gentle for once , but Byron raged and starred moved by the story of Bonivard , who had outlived his three as that which I have invented ? But Shakespeare was too more modern author scribbling notes as he learned against a ingale , " written at Hampstead one morning that he had risen I did surprise him , his hair discovered , his eyes wild , ' doublet of the lake on the day before , when Byron had been greatly will be of one Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , and must prove , he says , a tragedy of universal reach . ' And beyond the vague detail that he " never blotted a line " all seems to have observed him . His humanity was so over- How Great Authors . e know , wrote much of his " Haerie Queen " in the fields not for two nights and a day in a little waterside hotel . ' Shelley moods of his great poem . Not very far from there I saw a there is little else to tell of his methods . What would the world not give for such a Pepysian scrap painted bathing machine . Byron , who had indeed something We can be more certain of the more political Spenser , who , Wodgings in the Lion Tavern near the Globe , where 66TAST night I did call upon Will Shakespeare at his iversal a man ever to appear singular , and so no diarist at we know , wrote much of his " Faerie Queen " in the fields not 191 . --- Page 3 --- bed till his temporal arteries were like whipcord from the then found on a piece of paper-bag in his pocket , there is yet towards dawn , when the little fellow , having rolled about his Mevnell tells us of his father's receiving on soiled , untidy was undisclosed ; and the story of the poet's entry in rags . shoulders and an aspen-leaf tremor in his limbs , to his friend's doss-house , " Thompson scared the senses out of his fellow- a different direction . Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats have kept umour credits Mr. G. K. Chesterton's shorter work , as a tale without shirt or socks . all his coat humped up about his latest seen . Francis Thompson , wrote down his fame . Mr. study shaping by taper-light shafts that were to fly down the Poste Restante . Charing Cross , W.C. and whose night shelter no record , since these fellows settled the matter with a pro- two of his latest dream . And by candlelight , too , although in Arnold Bennet , who has reduced " or elevated ) authorship to throws the paper fragments into the grade . And there , as rou might have found Wilde at noon in his heavily-shuttered in literary history . Of those other nights when lying in a drawing-rooms of the world , just as more recently , the Irish room , made her bring paper and ink , and dictated a couple or he had visioned during his sleepless torture he tears it up and maker of " Kathleen Ni' Houlihan " draws his purple hangings Such rehearsed atmosphere is not of the kind with which office six months later , is one of the most thrilling episodes Such haphazard writing is no part of the scheme of Mr. ment of night in day is the stimulus , and twenty years ago dose in Woburn Place , by Euston station , and dreams of an magic for you and me . On still crazier scraps of paper that the level of a trust . He tells us how his own day has been methodical ear , until the literary day is a masterpiece of utcasts by cracking matches to read five lines of an odd just genial place , wrote a famous thousand words about " Nothing . " testing oath and did not trouble to enter the detail in any though gold indeed purged by fire . His host recovered the diary . It was a like uneasiness that overcame Pope sometimes vening " full of the linnet's wings " by ' candle-flame while carefully divided up , exact hours striking " time " to his yet the full sun is burning over the square outside . us a column about ' nothing . ' veekly article was due in a famous editorial office , brought THE CROSS . night in his friend's house , and when he has finished the poem will show . For G. K. C. , coming late one day when his no MS. at all . about now . ' their glamorous hours . For these two authors an environ- crescendo of pain , roused the old nurse he kept to watch in his paper a marvellous ode from a fellow whose day address was And so , Chesterton , adjoining for an hour to a more con- Nothing ! " roared the editor back . What ! " cried the editor . No copy ? " 100 Nothing ! " roared the editor back . " Set to , man ! G ' Set to , man ! Give There's nothing to write carefully divided up , exact hours striking " time " to his said G. K.C. Nothing , " said G. K.C. --- Page 4 --- and when I picked up my hat and stick and prepared to to converse with me in the stranger tongue . Among other whereupon she took pity on my ignorance , and condesced many a tale of church and castle and shrine . but the legends the purple mountain range warned me of the flight of time . my papers in their portfolio , as the sun sinking down behind dious Gaelic . ' I was obliged to confess that I had no Irish , Will they rivers silent be An old woman , busily knitting a seemingly interninable curiously while I was finishing a drawing of the central arch ; times . But if we have a few minutes yet I will tell we what no Some years ago I spent a sunny afternoon in September of my own land were dearest to my heart , and I was filled observed coldly . ' It's only the old race that knows the build the water edge ; and it was with much reluctance that I placed stocking . had come down from the roadside to watch me book can tell ye something about the monks who are dust now Welcome your soldier son , Break on my ear most strangely - depart she approached me and murmured something in melo- From every hill , and date , and bog about the stately ruins around us . And all the sounds of native life . hings I told her I had wondered about the world and knew From every rate and dun- The Angel of Tears . A margin time ? Or will try storied scenery , matsup , under ver feet , and thin maybe ye won't be sorry ye came When I return to thee A Matsippi Eine ? Because we didn't know where to look for it , " she one day to Athassel . ' IN winding Suir , are the ruins of the abbev of Athassel A matsip type ? Frongoch Internment Camp . sketching the remains of the cloisters and day-dreaming by THE ANGEL OF I HAVE with regret to find that I could gain such little information By an Irish Doctor . W. J. Brennan Whitmore . TOT far from Cashel of the Kings , on the banks of the 1.000 100 . --- Page 5 --- and when I picked up my hat and stick and prepared to to converse with me in the stranger tongue . Among other whereupon she took pity on my ignorance , and condesced many a tale of church and castle and shrine . but the legends the purple mountain range warned me of the flight of time . my papers in their portfolio , as the sun sinking down behind dious Gaelic . ' I was obliged to confess that I had no Irish , Will they rivers silent be An old woman , busily knitting a seemingly interninable curiously while I was finishing a drawing of the central arch ; times . But if we have a few minutes yet I will tell we what no Some years ago I spent a sunny afternoon in September of my own land were dearest to my heart , and I was filled observed coldly . ' It's only the old race that knows the build the water edge ; and it was with much reluctance that I placed stocking . had come down from the roadside to watch me book can tell ye something about the monks who are dust now Welcome your soldier son , Break on my ear most strangely - depart she approached me and murmured something in melo- From every hill , and date , and bog about the stately ruins around us . And all the sounds of native life . hings I told her I had wondered about the world and knew From every rate and dun- The Angel of Tears . A margin time ? Or will try storied scenery , matsup , under ver feet , and thin maybe ye won't be sorry ye came When I return to thee A Matsippi Eine ? Because we didn't know where to look for it , " she one day to Athassel . ' IN winding Suir , are the ruins of the abbev of Athassel A matsip type ? Frongoch Internment Camp . sketching the remains of the cloisters and day-dreaming by THE ANGEL OF I HAVE with regret to find that I could gain such little information By an Irish Doctor . W. J. Brennan Whitmore . TOT far from Cashel of the Kings , on the banks of the 1.000 100 . --- Page 6 --- their guardian spirits who had conducted them into such goodly and the benefited traveller a generous hospitality to aid him heat of a day in June obliged him to rest his weary horses the shadow of the southern tower , while an attendant pulled entrance hall . To him every visitor was a friend or brother . in the Aherlow valley , and the stars were in the sky before company . Their animated conversation , gentle gaiety , and the chain of the portal bell , whose clamour sent the indignant pletely worn out ; the clansmen were exhausted by the summer figure of an old monk appeared in the uncertain light of the and picturesque imagery . sound a pitying , guidance towards the Heavenly City furniture were of the plainest , but the visitors did ample justice on its way to Ardfinnan and the sea . The streets were com- fully-carved angel above the elevated seat of the Prior , thanked heat and the length of the rugged mountain roads . Neither tedious journey to the little town of Clonmala . The intense at his case and certain of his welcome as he dismounted in MacCarthy More , accompanied by a numerous retime , set firmly believed that the people in the great world beyond the out , and the whole cavalcade turned abruptly down the valley assembled in the dimly-lighted refactory . The fare and she told me the following story , which I am obliged to re- the abbey at Athassel as they would be among their own kit . shelters from the storms of a life or a day , where the troubled on his journey . Consequently the chieftain was completely In a day of the long ago , in the dim and distant past the A halt was imperative . science and sanctity , and the monasteries regarded as certain to their simple repast , and , inspired by the sight of a beauti- The door swung back before the echoes died away . and the and kin in their far-away southern homes . rived " wall were incapable of evil and worthy of all trust and the site of church and monastery . travelled a long and a hard road , and I bid yet a right hearty produce in my own words , far inferior to hers in eloquence welcome to Athassel . ' Those were days when the monks were revered for affection . There was a brief consultation ; then a trumpet call rang I thanked her , and , without ceasing her work for a moment , out from his ancestral home near the Lee on a long and An hour afterwards the guests and the community were THE CROSS . place before yet but all we have is yours . I see you have God save we , friends , " said he . " We have not much to he saw the Suit winding in and out among the hazel groves Frank cordiality showed that they were as much at home in spitable town nor friendly castle were near . for he judged others in the light of his own innocence , an ooks circling wildly around their sheltered haunts . on the left , where the tolling of a silver-mouthed bell may God save ye , friends , ' said he . I see you have s circling wildly around their sheltered haunt --- Page 7 --- and a crystal vase containing apparently exquisite pearls . tender pitying friend of God , the beautiful Angel of Tears . " And the old man heard him saw : ' I am the Angel of Tears . crown of Mr elect. for the justice of Mr. Father : than shall Saviour , and the tears of the sad of heart through the coming ears flowed down his face , tears of love and of sorrow . " Sud- the old woman of Athassel . In the dark hour offer to God centuries to the end of time , for the sins of the earth , for the ring to paper my idea of the angel and his treasure , and I love and repentance , hoping that the angel may come once your suffering for your sins and the sins of the world , but do it comes to all , and then you will remember the last words of tenly a touch like a divine caress passed across his eyelids . of my gratitude . As I bowed and turned away she gave me was at Gethsemane when my companions in happiness and unfolded itself before his enraptured gaze . Then burning offered her my little sketch in memory of my visit and taken in your hour of need will be that glorious spirit of light , that of their tears fall to the ground but are mingled with those of lavs every day at the altar of God the offering of our tears of near the Man-God . Thou will guard Mr tears , said the suffering , and when the sad of heart weed with Jesus not one general conversation . Cahal the minstrel turned it into verse , of the heavy hand of sorrow ; but sorrow will come to you , for sim with mournful eyes . It was an angel , holding in his through the days that are gone . tinued the angel , I approach every sorrow , I am near to every the Man of Sorrows . THE CROSS . The holy monk nearly died of joy as this glorious vision As the narrator finished his tale the prior entered and re- these parting words of counsel : ind thus it has come down to us from generation to generation . sighs and penances of the world below . And some were laden sumed his seat , and immediately the vision was the subject of with palms and chanted hyms of victory . and some awake the sins of men . ' more to place them in the scales of the Divine justice against Sir. your years sit light upon you , and you bear no trace While the old woman was speaking I was hastily transfer- the vision of the holy man that our prior at the very same hour be henceforth the Angel of Tears . And since that day , con- And this is why , " said Brother Kieran , " in remembrance of sked up . A figure of unearthly beauty gazed down upon t your heart be troubled or afraid , for close beside you glory had veiled their faces and fled to the skies ; I was a estial music from instruments unknown to men not let your heart be troubled or afraid , for close beside you --- Page 8 --- old hosting likened the army to a flock of birds of diverse and made him " take the banner of the Cross . " He observed , fighting speed : who stood firm , and who , in panic . ' struck his dumage the effect , of course , of the multi-coloured flags of 129 , he went forth to fight with the Livonian pagans . The and on its strings , it would give forth sweet strains . At any from heaven , as the legend ran , and given by an angel to but the angelic visitant showed him that his errand was evil , republic ) was of reputed supernatural origin , being brought mark be held , like a later Constantine , in the sky , as , in A.D. and some tradition of supernatural intervention " attaches to son Murdagh , and while it stood firm and erect guessed that heir origin-which is , practically . always a religious one- that he would " fall , but win the day . " and " where of the could be told from after the fortunes of the day ; how the that it displays represents the cross which Waldemar of Den- and to have been , in the sixteenth century , in the possession of conquered the island , carried away his relics and perpetrated History of Ancient Ireland " tells how the onlookers at an another skilled minstrel , St. Dunstan , that , without mortal always , as he prayed in his tent , towards the banner of his had been sent to Sardinia to persecute the Christians there , carried a banner with the Sacred Sign against the persecutors , played by banners in early Ireland . Joyce in his " Social chronicler quantity says that even an angel of God , if he tried Good Friday , A.D. 104 ) - wherein it was truly prophesied the different chieftains . By the position of the banners , too , a harper . Probably it was said of his harp , as of that of and died a martyr in Sardinia , whence the Pisans , when they to describe its horrors , would find no adequate words-looked banner of the city of Pisa ( when that city was an independent the memory of his consecrated banner on their own flag . rate , the instrument seems to have been reverently preserved . the Holy See . for according to the story . it was after Henry colours . " The famous Brian Boru , at the battle of Clontarf It is a fascinating task to trace the great national flags to shall ever be revered ! ' Brian , long after his death , was commemorated in a famous its ambulance on the royal banner . Ereso . a Roman officer in the service of Diocletian . Ereso The harp of Ireland blazoned on the British flag is , tradi- ionally , the harp of the old Irish hero who had great skill as hem all . But we will turn now in conclusion to the part remorates a sign from heaven given to a king . The cross Christian symbolism of tradition . " france have for generations led my French to victory , and they VIII had received it as a gift from Clement VII that he placed banner . of his characteristic flashes of generosity . the ancient flag of Denmark the Danneborg also com- all went well with the men of Erinn . We may note that An interesting light on the religious use of banners is supplied by the Irish Cathach or Battler . This cross of hazel . its ambulance on the royal banner . of his characteristic flashes of generosity . " The Allies of " The Allies of use of banners is --- Page 9 --- To One WHO Radio Commission . They way to bless , Though spent he be , he was brought back to Ireland and tried by courtmartial in Richmond military Pray thou for me , Did comfort grave , They tenderness ? They passing bed , Upon thy head . Jesu . Who in his hour consoled , he Look down on thee , jesi and Mary , then , And in this heart her own Nor prisoner be . With her caress . the repose of his soul-is published by the courtesy of the author's friend and That exile I at last noor convict prison . The foregoing poem-which Mr. MacEntee wrote in Staff- Till life be done Who comfort gave : To God , to bless And place His crown of gold- Mary , upon her throne Sweet pity see ; Why should a prisoner pine . They crown is won , commuted to that of penal servitude for life , which he is now undergoing in Dart's His tender arms unfold tion of 1916 . Having surrendered with P. H. Pearse and others , he was deported Raiseth a prayer above When , by dear thought of chine On thee His blessings shower And till all life be pass'd With His abiding love- so that through life she deign John Francis MacEntee . " Acceptable is the man that shoreeth mercy . " - The Psalmist . Commanders of the South contingent of the Irish Volunteers during the Insurred a complete volume of Mr. MacEntee's poems for the press . And ease its passing pain . Tohn Francis MacEntee , the author of the foregoing poem , was one of the rd prison to one who , hearing he had been shot . had Holy Mass offered up for Keep these and great thee when gland and confined for some time in Stafford detention barracks . " Later barracks , Dublin , and sentenced to death . ' The death sentence was , however thee when erary executor , Mr. Padric Gregory , who is engaged at present in preparing Keep these and great t pain . the banner-bearer hoped to make common . # Or at least ( and this might oftenest be the --- Page 10 --- old friends to notice how much Margaret danced with Bob home , when little Margret was always sought after for her and she had been too much taken up with her husband and her or like the idea of her going to India . She would have but she is young enough to wait for another year . ' would have accepted Bob Moore , but Papa did not fancy him while her memory took her back to balls long ago at their old her mind . ' It was growing dusk , and only the fire lighted up under the new regime of her brother's wife . only George and Jack . I am sorry she should be disappointed , Since her father's death Miss Doyle had " lived with her her pretty little figure and small , delicately-featured face . widowed sister - a home that suited her better than Borrodale , ing her sister , during a visit to Borrodale , after her marriage . ather fell into bad health . would require a chaperon yourself , Margret . ' It does not village near Ardmore , and for a long time had claimed and to India not long after that , then their mother died , and their received a daughter's care from her nephew's widow . should not really neglect her . I find her feelings would be terribly hurt if I went to this ball . ' ' Finola and Jack have been here . to tell me about the ball . " charming place for the girls to visit . " ' If you like . I will go with them . ' until it seemed too late . She had offers , though , and I think appointed , but Mrs. O'Leary is certainly worse , and though I When the two victims had left the room , Miss Doyle did ie was nice enough , and Summer Hill would have been a as well have proposed to send my new dress suit without me ' Oh , yes ; but really I have not left off thinking that you No one that I care to ask , and I do not like her to go with not take up her book again , but sat still a little , making up ' Oh : Mareret was always devoted to Dana , and was such a am tired , and there is such a noise in the nursery . ' married she would have said : een owing chiefly to her quiet , well-ordered life . " You , Margaret ! " and Mrs. Desmond paused , astonished . quiet little thing that no one ever thought of her marrying HERE you are , Margaret ! I have sent for our tea here , for Miss Doyle's negotiations were interrupted by her sister's She was only six-and-thirty , and as pretty as ever she had nothing to say to Sir Harold Dromer , which was a pity , for Mrs. Desmond came back from the past to her sister . Mrs. O'Leary was Mr. Desmond's aunt : she lived in the ' Ah , yes , poor children ! I am sorry they should be dis- If Mrs. Desmond had been asked why her sister never entrance . " I will take great care of her , Mary . " ' Is there no one else to take Finola ? " asked Miss Doyle in it . ' beautiful dancing . One particularly , when she was chapero and their father had been vexed . ' Captain Moore went erribly hurt if I went to this ball . ' 200 --- Page 11 --- soon well filled , and Jack held several anxious consultations of her old partners found her out , she would not dance , but insisted on going through the first quadrille with his music : the waltzes thrilled her a little , but when one or two independent of any interest in the dancing . ' Mr. Doyle sat chatting with her friends , watching the changing , rustling some of her friends , and went off to whist . Finola's card was fatherly care of her if we do not get back in time . They had to wait a little . and the vestibule became crowded ceremony , and the pair went off , looking in their single- to take an ice-place from a waiter . It belonged to a tall man table , wedged in , when a hand was stretched over her shoulder mother watched her , and George and Mary . It did not seem Miss Doyle kept her card to serve as a programme of the dance Jack came back alone saying : I did not expect to be quite so fine ; I am afraid it is too the neighbourhood went , as to a great social ceremony . crowd , or thinking a little of old times , when her father and behind her whom she could not see ; it was ' withdrawn in a ma'am ! " said Jack , with a shotgun's flourish over his aunt . sister , then found her a seat on the chaperons' benches , near girl , and it was she who looked on . ut this was Aunt Margret's partial opinion . After the minded enjoyment as pleasant a couple as any in the room : so very long ago ; but now it was for George's boy and Mary's looks nice . ' partner . a highly respectable elderly party , who will take ike a fancy ball . " replied Miss Doyle , timidly , with an un- dancing , too . ' THE CHAPERON . In this style , two-and-ten : a most elegant article , is your next partner ? " Everyone , " costumes " now ; it is perfect , " said Finola , with his cousin as to the most indigenous arrangement of his . vouted colour on her cheek . Presently Finola missed a dance and came to sit by her ing in a sort of stopor near the door of the card-room . " Who " Come and get an ice . Aunt Margret . Finola is with her Come along . Finola , " said Jack , with consink absence of ful debut . ' ' It is delicious . Aunt Margret . I do so like it ! It would It is the very model of a young chaperon , " said Mrs. the dancers poured in . Miss Doyle was standing near a Desmond . " I hope both you and Finola will make a success - or patronesses , and baronets for stewards , and all encouragingly . The ball was a county affair . ' It had great ladies evlied Miss Doyle , indicating a stout , red-faced man , stand- That is the sort of person I should have to dance with . " have been dreadful to have missed it ! I wish you were but I could not hear his name . aunt . Mrs. Parker introduced him , Jack , and then a stranger . He is quite mediaeval , but t I could not hear his name . He is quite mediaeval , but The ball was a county affair . ' 211 . --- Page 12 --- had full five minutes for preparation , so the stately little lady grey . A very fine-looking man , though a little too old to be shaped fingers and a long thumb : a hand well used out of was Bob Moore , and Margaret Doyle knew him instantly . She with a complexion that told of India , and dark hair turning doors , yet not unfamiliar with tool and pen . A hand that chaperon . He was the mediaeval party she had so flipped thirteen years . She would have known it without the peculiar not long for Finola's partner came to deposit her with her his Indian brown , and could not conceal his establishment . aged : he was altered in almost every line and feature . but he If she were married , he was , of course , an injured man , in collected than he was : he stam-cred , he fairly blushed through So Jack took his aunt back to her place , and went off to word of meeting again ; but surely we need not quite forget it , little Margret . ' I must go , and I cannot say one hopeful large hand , brown , and wide across the back , but with well - that she had been able to console herself : so Colonel Moore . alluded to . He was , perhaps , forty-three or four-a tall man moment . but she knew it well . though she had not seen it for people I used to know looking very much the same . yet no for anyone , and I had no end of bother to work an introduction dared not turn to see his face , for he must have forgotten , or two of reproach in her faithless bosom , took a melancholy gotten it : perhaps she is married . ' I think she must be I'll one knew me except one man , who knew I was expected . I And she had seen it again , Bob Moore's hand , and she am very grateful to you for recognising me , but perhaps you , Yes . I came with the O'Flahertws , and I find lots of tone as he answered her : find the favourite of the evening , while Miss Doyle waited - I must go , " its owner had said . " There is no help for ing how to tell me . But he need not be afraid , and make such Are you ready , Aunt Margret ? Miss Carlton won't wait to her . ' too , knew I was coming ? ' signet ring , but with it there could be no doubt . It was a a spectacle of himself . ' surely not ! " How cool she is ! " he thought , respectfully . " Of course not a life-time . but it seems long enough for most of a man's friends to forget him . ' each other . " interesting to a girl like Finola . ' for he was certainly middle . 2020 seasons . ' I have been only a fortnight in Ireland ; thirteen years is hirteen years ago had clasped hers for a bitter farewell Oh , no ! I did not ; but I knew you , though you are altered , as we all must be , in so many years . to stepped forward to give him her hand was far more " He is certainly married . " she thought . " He is wonder- ind she had begun to think she was forgetting too inking he would make the most of it and plant a little thorn she means to forget all that folly : most likely she has to though you are she had begun to think she was forgetting too 212 --- Page 13 --- that night , of all nights ? It was very foolish of me to allow and . Mary , you must stop George's teasing , for I am sure Nonsense ! How could you know you would meet the man not looking sorry in the least . Mrs. Desmond was a woman of tact and prudence , so she ate . " said Jack ; but Finola blushed scarlet , and Aunt Margret that carnation affair was far too killing for a chaperon . ' you to call yourself a chaperon . I wish I had gone , and taken there is actually a hole in my shoe , and I feel quite diseraced . " after that brought him for a proposal . I am so glad you danced , Aunt Margret , instead of sitting to run into luncheon . ooked very uncomfortable . stuck up like a beetle on a wall all night , remarked Jack , face and Finola's wondering eyes , the thirteen years might He said no more , but she heard him whistle once or twice Mrs. Desmond , next day , at the breakfast that had managed have been a dream . ' Well , did Aunt Margret make a good chaperon ? " asked least , and Mrs. Desmond was not surprised when the day not getting fast ? ' whispered Finola . " There is nothing to do . I am not likely to see him again : benevolently , as they motored home . The next day brought Colonel Moore for a call , ten miles at Yes , that was the man , " answered his sister quite sharply . You should have lend her your black velvet gown , Mary ; Moore was there beside her again , and but for the lean , brown I'll discuss . to himself before he went to sleep in his corner . What has been the matter , Margret ? I hope Finola is sort of hug , as she wrapped her cloak around her . Oh , famous , never bothered a bit and stayed ever so Mrs. Desmond feared that Finola had been in some way W. I. Brennan Whitmore . ansgressing , but Mr. Doyle said , with twinkling eyes : " Good-bye , " she said at the ball-room door . And what do you mean to do ? " all the story , much as if it were a guilty confession . ropped the subject till she had her sister to herself Good-night . " he answered , smiling down upon her , and Oh , no ! It is not Finola ; it is all my fault : I am very Finola guesses . Oh , dear ! I will never go to a ball again Moore . " Moore . " said Mr. Doyle musingly . " Why " Hush ! don't say anything , " replied her aunt , giving her Miss Doyle told her sister . What is it . Aunt Margret ? not that the man- you . ' sorry , but I have been so foolish ! ' What have you been doing ? " Good-night , " he answered , is all my fault ; I am very smiling down upon her , and d the subject till she had her sister to herself . --- Page 14 --- given , that no stains of guilt disagrees its purity , nor satisfaction with its present condition which is His holy will . being the highest pinnacle of human perfection . But in pur- this very end souls were created . Again , there is in them a pain ; but it means that the term of its waiting and purification deliverance : it does , and this is its extreme and all-consuming a long journey , who has come through the storms and perils accepted with deepest joy and in perfect serenity of mind . As course arrived at its final destination , not yet looked with rap- again be restless or weary , never murmur , nor feet nor com- St. Catherine tells us : " Cleansed from all guilt of sin and more to God its supreme and only blessedness . It has not of purpose of its most gracious and beneficent God . It can never no subtle enemies in last its new abode . that its sins are for- gatory the soul can not think , or wish or desire ought but that perfectly conformed to the will of God , and so rests in perfect of the sea and has many times escaped destruction , so to the which is now by perfect conformity its own , and the life and scious too what a thing it is for them to enjoy God , that for sound , that no description , no figure , no example can give a more fall from the grace and friendship of God . As the near turous gaze on the face of the All-Beautiful , who made it for nor adopt , nor dispute-anything outside or beyond His Will The joys of the Holy Souls . conscious of being in close proximity to that glorious vision form the least idea of it . if God had not made it known by and remains of sin , though it involves interest suffering , is does not long with incessant and irresistible longing for its conformity of will so uniting them to God , so drawing them contrary that it is ardently and inseparably united for ever- ing to the degree of light He imparts to them ; they are con- its selfishness and rests " immutably in the adorable will and special grace , which idea , however , God's grace has shown life , but from a variety of reasons hardly to be attained : it plain , nor be anxious ; never contrive nor choose , nor judge which is to be its meat and drink for eternity . approach to the harbour is delightful to a man who has made Himself , and without whom it could never find rest , but it is that at all events its dangers and temptations are over , that to Him , through which God is , as it were , bound up with the centre of its own activity . This does not mean that the soul knowing that its salvation is secure , and that it can never And next , according to the Saint . the soul in purgatory is extreme that no tongue could describe it , no intellect could pressible iov is not at all incompatible with " a torment so The soul in purgatory has the supreme satisfaction of sound arrived in purgatory it is exceedingly grateful and lawful my soul . ' united in will to God , they ( the souls ) see God clearly accord- This is a state which it is possible to arrive at in the present oppresses its conscience , nor impedes its love-but on the as it is ordained by God , for the cleansing away of the rust the holy will of God be perfectly accomplished in it . It loses which is to be its meat and drink for eternity . --- Page 15 --- eventually lost to Him , and by their loss of faith , or by final impenitence are generally excluded from His Kingdom . In to life . But what we call " death , " ending the term of man's probation here , is in reality only the sitting and winnowing sorrows of life . St. Catherine describes the unifying and anguish of the soul in purgatory . Just as love is with us on to annihilate it , though it be immortal : and in this way so sound a certain attractive impulse of His burning love enough passions and " affections of the heart , and all the boys and but far more fully and splendidly living than we on earth are . it , until He has brought it to that state of existence whence love is the real cause both of the supreme joy and the supreme that they should be comforted in their sufferings by the whole it came forth-that is , the spotless purity wherein it was relative sense , for to Christ and His Church they are not dead , and the latter to be burnt in inextinguishable fire . The souls that Our Lord Himself visits and comforts His beloved suffer- in the Kingdom of the living and glorified Christ , who has abundantly in the life of the living Christ and of the Body of in puratory living more intimately with Christ share more mortal sin-but by true repentance is mercifully raised again self , straightway there springs up within it a corresponding although they have not yet attained to the highest and most ceives that God is drawing it with such loving andour to Him- perfect life , where suffering is no more . Death has no place members . We speak of them as " dead " only in a loose and language of one who has experienced it : " God imparts to the fire of love for its most sweet Lord and God , which causes it earth the supreme passion from which proceed all other THE CROSS . which God at once attracts and imparts to the soul . St. alone are dead in the real and awful sense of the word who are continued and most intense act of love . This tremendous the bad-yielding the former to the heavenly husbandman rately and with what unfailing Providence God is ever leading nothing but God , who goes on this attracting and inflaming parts to the holy souls . He has further graciously ordained Thomas Aquinas tells us that the holy souls love God with a wholly to melt away : it sees in the Divine light how ronside . which He is the Head . It cannot therefore be otherwise , ' but it to its full perfection , and that He does it all through pure Besides these consultations which God himself directly im- consciousness . ' clear idea of it , as it is actually felt and appreciated by inward All this follows upon the great and uninterrupted love with created . And when the soul , ' by interior illumination , her- once and for ever overcome death for Himself and us . They love . ' urch-in heaven and on earth-of which they are living separates the living from the dead , the good wheat from orms the soul into Himself . Its God , that it sees in itself unstorming effect of the Love of God upon the soul in the e present life a member of the Church may die through said to --- Page 16 --- ever enjoyed any summer so well as the last , and I am sorry to say it is reads in that enchanting dell . " May Morris asks for prayers for a special it the other side are beautiful sandhills . At the back of the sandhills is the empt I have heard the censor is very busy lately . Does his presence explain ired of her introducing new members , but the fact is , they now ask her to and still anxious to help in recruiting . Some North names that are rather Francis dear this is not a writing day . The series are weeping : we or her lapse by a long and interesting letter . from which I must quote : " I tact , there's no getting away from them . But before I take them up seriously . re absence of my little message to you ? ' Wicked censor , to deprive me of be joy of meeting myself in the dear Guild with a happy company of Blessed and the beloved dead " I was surprised when I saw no essay in the Guild Mairead Ni Bhudan . Seasainhin Ni' Chuilinn , Rita Aren't there boys' schools to recruit in as well as girls' schools ? I hope my send in their names instead of her asking them to join us . That is what I requisite lake in Castlegregory , which can be crossed by a motor boat , and nind you , a spurt , but a steady effort . What an example Mary has set us and all through she has been one of the faithful friends who write cherry wilders not tell of the thoughts that come before them as they say the Rosary Walsh and Nellie Walsh , who are very welcome , and from each of whom I ends the names of three more new members , namely , William Walsh , Patrick at month . Had they not many things to write about ? Could our little izzie Malone and Katie Doyle are also pleased with the badges sent them heartening letters . Her new members this month are Mr. Hilda Ashcroft and numbers of ' The Cross , ' and I never enjoyed anything better than those quiet to take it easy and let the work come in to him , for a time , of course . beautiful wood there , with a gushing river flowing through it . In this wood ittle villages situated near the seashore and mountains in the West of Kerry , to Mary our Mother . who stretches out lovely her beautiful hands to receive Leonard , Lizzie Kiernan , Mary Frances McLeer , Mary" Branigan , labriel's children . During November let us pray to our dear Saviour and of them have written , and written nicely , but what a small minority they are Jhorra . Julia O'Brien , Eichlin N. Rathallaigh , Little Clinton , May Collins , Annie Bannon , Mary McFay , Lizzie Monaghan , Maggie here's a sign of slackness he hustles mind and takes another push , not and there is nothing pleasanter than mountain climbing . There is also a imilar seem to have got mixed last month : as all are enrolled this will not for our dear prisoners-visions of the great white-robed army of martyrs everes until his business is so well known and appreciated that he can afford lads will talk of the Guild to their friends ( that must be the secret , after all ) it places by the names of Camp and Castlegregory . You might be curious sea , and a grand strand where the waves come in mountains high . Camp is May Morris and Bride Sweeney are of his number . Bride makes up this month ! Are they going to allow the girls to keep so very much ahead ? intention , and a like request comes from Mary Rennie , ' Aime Nic Raghna to account . The newcomers from Drogheda number twenty-six , namely , I must ask one question . What has become of my boys ? Yes . I know some a very nice seaside place also . From it the mountains can easily be climbed , terself . Kathleen McCloskey and Maggie McGlone . Welcome also to Florrie and others . Kathleen Hardy sends a note of thanks for her badge , and also stening as we tell our beads , and Blessed Gabriel presenting our petitions take any difference . Mary Rennie tells me she is afraid I shall almost be Killeen , who promises to get her school companions to join , and to the Other old friends who had not written for long claim a welcome . " May Firm , who joined some months ago . I welcome these , and also a letter from past now . It was too good to last . I spent most of my time at the seaside Annie O'Farrell , Ethnea O'Reilly , Agnes Manning , Mary Brigid McCloskey , who writes from Emyvale , Co. Monaghan , to know something of these places , so I will tell you . ' They are two nice ask Him to stretch out His arms and take our loved ones to His Heart and pe away their tears and make them happy for evermore under His smile . " winds are meaning , and sadness fills my heart for the dear absent ones Cissie Wilcock : the former sands a letter , and there is also one from Winnie an be reached by the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway . There is an Drogheda recruits . You see , I've come back to the Drogheda l en sat on a mossy tree-stump near a lovely waterfall , reading some old ject to hear in accordance with the rules . Marie Antoinette Dunne , and try to find the literary talent and persuade its lucky possessions to turn it in business - a good business person just pushes along and per shall expect to hear in accordance with the rules . Marie Antoinette Dunne , call success in business - a good business person just pushes along a often sat on a moss tree-stump near a lovely waterfall , reading some old 220 --- Page 17 --- Mary Carton , Letia Savage , and ' Caitlin N ' Thighearnain , O'Reime . Nettie Dempsey , Nancy Dolan , May Carroll , Sarah Halgin to pin on the hat , ' I wonder ? ) And yet another makes mysterious allusions Children's Congress at the Catholic Truth Society's Conference , at which she company of such a folly crowd would be sufficiently exhilarating without the their competition papers , asking to be admitted to membership of the Guild . had met those girls what a time I should have had ! They would . I'm given ( Imagine your poor . Francis in a lady's hat and costume ! Should I have Patrick Henry writes to acknowledge his first prize . I hope it will prove the dear , ch. dear : I wonder now if a number of my boys were told Francis had Bhudan , Seosainhin . ' Ni' Chuilinn . Rita Mc which . The ten last named have been introduced , and I have pleasure in dds it was very dear , and another , not to raise my hopes too high for a resent rule must be adhered to , otherwise the printers would not take the been in their vicinity would then prove so imaginative . Eichlis Sealge is Carroll , Nora Ni'Chorra , and Little Duffy . Feis in Dunleer . and have got a strange idea into their heads . It has got another callin who announces her intention of writing in Irish in future . that a look at me might have inspired her with some ideas for last month's future occasion , explains that they're all " t.t.s " and couldn't offer me But although I'm not exactly bashful . I feel myself blushing when I think of to a missionary priest whom she believes she noticed on the platform . Oh. rem one to another . " dubhait bean lion , go ndubhair bean lei Most of the cailini above mentioned were competitors at the recent Co. Fourth si bean a rash . " that poor Francis was down at that Feis . Well . I may due course , and give still more pleasure . All the others send not alone letters , into the Guild go to Drogheda this month , one each Yandy , Nellie Hall , Josie McQuillan , Leila Savage , Mau anything stronger than tea . Well , I'm a " t.t. " myself , and I had I was on ' holidays about that time , but I won't say more . But if I as to the merits of each . In the Senior Competition Kelly . Philomena Johnson . Daisy Flanagan . Monica Shiels , and Kathleen rize goes to Kerry to Christe Sweeney . Basin View . Tralee . If the Editor verse to waste and want permission to write on both sides of their paper . attended . I shall certainly pray for your intention , a fine , and feel sure it denswledging the introduction : their letters will , no doubt , come along in the prize again goes to Ada O'Neill , of 24 William- one side of the paper is always rigidly observed by aspiring authors . among others , the following : Eiblis Sealge , Cattim Ni" Thighear but well-written essays , and the letters of the first four. namely . Mairend N of Mary Morris , May McQuail , Winnie Andrews , May Allen , Maureen O will be granted . Maureen O'Brien writes to explain that she was away last All newcomers will please write a personal note to Francis , apart from are awarded to members bringing five new members commended . street , Drogheda . Very good work was done by . Five of our pretty badges containing the portrait of Blessed Gabriel . which And here I must reply to the query of some of my correspondents who are dventitious aid of even champagne cider . What a pity I missed the treat ! to May Carroll and Nancy Dolan , and the other three There was a heavy entry in the Junior Competition also , and in this Marie Antainette Dunne , Katie Doyle , and Josephine Dunne is specially to be cut for by the newcomers . 1910-cross . Badge Winners . criticism I should have been subjected to . One young lady slowly remarks to ghreidhin thu . a ' Eiblis ! ' Beich atlas om an find space for it . Chrissie's letter will be printed this month . The work I had an arduous task set me in reading over all the essays and deciding The Awards . month . s of course , they can do in writing letters , but in competing for prizes the manuscript , even if the composition won a prize . ' The rule to write a in Irish . I have also received letters from Eva Dempsey . Maisle Carroll , Nora Ni' Chorra , and Willie Duffy ) - stand , have entertained me at a splendid tea , although one of them any , Patrick . Aime Nic Raghnaill sends a nice accol igh . Kate Mulholland , Julia O'Brien , Florrie Killeen , poetical competition ; another is wondering whether I'm a man or a woman . competition ; another is wondering whether I'm a man ( others the fairs Street . Drosheda . Very mind work was done to 322 . --- Page 18 --- Francis , I hope that this Hallow Eve will be a very happy one for you and all splutters and squirms away , they will " quarrel with one another and finally coast without shifting their positions all augurs well for the future of the pair , senarate , while if one falls into the fire and so meets with an untimely end , greedy . He" always gets the bites , and I have very little chance with him . ally groups round the fire to beguile the evening hours eating apples and course the one who picks up the shilling is the owner . We then play another custom is the boiling of lead on this night , and it would well repay a search associated with this night , and these are but the fragments which we lovely I am sure you know something about all these games , as they are the ones there is a ring , and whoever gets the ring is the next to get married . We face , for a long , deep breath , and returns again to the perilous occupation of launched on this miniature ocean . Again , with pinioned hands , a group and not forgetting " Blind Man's Buff , " the best game of all . Well . Francis , kind fairy played a part in the moulding of the little figures . ' so varied and and try to snap at the apple , and whichever one gets a bite of it falls in for changes since last Hallow Eve , especially in Dublin - a great many who enjoyed poured through a door-ker , and " when cool it would almost appear that some begins . ' Mother ties our hands behind our backs and we all gather around of chocolate . We play a great many other games also , such as " Buzz , " dives down their head into the water and brings up a bite of apple gains a box shovel over the fire , two at a time , representing some couple . If the nuts largest haul . Much laughter is caused as someone emerges , with dripping backs , and we go and kneel down on the ring of the chair and try in take long time until our jaws are almost dead from keeping our months open . friends and go to bed quite tired after our night's enjoyment . Well , now , dear last Hallow Eve in their own land are far . far from it now . Hoping , dear is placed on the top of the back of it ; our hands are then tied behind our year . On that night we invite a great many friends to our home . We open and so in this war he manages to get a fine bite . This game goes on for a cherish . But this does not detract from the cheeriness of Hallow Eve , and Kingdom of Heaven . I remain , dear Francis , your sincere little friend , wash-tub is half-filled with water , and apples , hits and sometimes silver are called , is fast approaching . It is a night of great enjoyment , especially in He is very tricky , and has a way of knocking the apple against our cheeks . Presentation Convention . ada O'Neill . chrissie Sweeney . Ireland . I think that Hallow Eve is one of the most enjoyable festivals of the Dear Francis-Hallow Eve , or " Snap-apple Night " as it is commonly Another more bisterius came is that of dismiss in the rub . A common Basin View , Tralee , Co. Kerry . f one could discover how it originated . While the lead is still ' boiling it is s and cracking jokes . Chestnuts are placed either on the bars " on a finish up with a meal of nuts and apples , after which we part with our played . Of course you know about the ' Hallow Eve cake , in which that we may all meet above some day and enjoy Hallow Eve in the game . An apple is ' placed in a basin' which is full of water , and whoever hilling with our months taking care not to tumble chair and all . Of evening's fun by the hanging of the scale from the ceiling : then the same and so in this war he manages to get a fine bite . This game goes on for a the person whom it represents will die before his partner . Another treasure-hunting . After these somewhat arduous diversions , the Francis , that we may all meet above some'day and enjoy Hallow test apple on the dish . But , dear Francis , my big brother is very there is no gainsaying the fact that it is one of the jolliest festivals of the the rosiest apple on the dish . But , dear Francis , my big splatters and squirms away , they will quarrel with one another and small fantastic do they appear . Doubles there were numerous up the shilling with our mouths , taking care not to tumble ch nting . After these somewhat arduous diversions , the party gener- always played . ' Of course you know about the ' Hallow Eve is placed on the top of the back of it ; our hands are then tied behind our game . An apple is placed in a basin which is full of water , and whoever om it represents will die before his partner . Another curious e play the next game . We turn a chair down on its front : a shilling round the tub , and each vines with the other as to who shall get the