THE CROSS FATHER The home that has at its head an ill-tempered man, is to be pitied. His wife is always afraid of him and often ashamed of him. His children are on edge when he is in an ugly humor lest he vent his irritation on them. His acquaintances give him a wide berth in social life.

He is a bitterness to himself as well as a radiating center of unhappiness for others.

He should take a look at himself in a rage and resolve to reform. He cannot expect that God will want such a "grouch" in Heaven or that the angels and saints would put up with him, even if he were admitted. He must change himself in order to be received into such good society. And he had better begin at once. A sure way to amend is to utter no words in a hurry or in a loud voice. Speak slowly and lowly, no matter what the inclination to impatience. Count five before making reply to any unpleasant remark. This is practical. It is effective. It can be used to co-operate with actual grace towards patience obtained through prayer.

To know the constitution and the law is good, but without conscience it may be the shield of corruption in the hands of the pettifogger and the politician.-Rev. T. J. Shealy, S. J.

THE BAR (A poet has said of the saloon that it is appropriately called a bar.) A bar to heaven, a door to hell; Whoever named it, named it well. A bar to manliness and wealth, A door to want and broken health. A bar to honor, pride and fame, A door to sin and grief and shame; A bar to hope, a bar to prayer, A door to darkness and despair; A bar to honored, useful life, A door to brawling, senseless strife; A bar to all that's true and brave, A door to every drunkard's grave; A bar to joy that home imparts, A door to tears and aching hearts; A bar to heaven, a door to hell, Whoever named it, named it well.

MEN SHOULD MARRY EARLY No man should live to pass middle age before he marries. When I say that a single life is hades I mean it in its most severe form. This is specially applicable to the man who must live away from home in the surroundings of boarding houses and hotels.

In these environments there is nothing that is conducive to the exercise of the gentler side of a man's nature. He leads a superficial and often very selfish existence, and in the end if he marries this will probably mean the direst unhappiness of his wife.

My advice to a young man is to marry early. After you have reached the age of discretion center your thoughts on some one woman.

When you are making enough money to support two and to save a little, marry. In all probability in this day and age you will marry a woman engaged in business.

I have often been asked if I did not think the increase in the employment of women did not tend to lessen the number of marriages. Not in the least.

Not long ago the man had to wait

until he could earn enough money to support the whole responsibility of the home. Now the wife who earns a living wage can make an earlier union more practicable than has ever been known before in the world's history.

Every young man who is unmarried has certain temptations thrust more forcibly upon him than he would have if he had a home.

Gambling, drinking, late hours and heavy carousing are not qualities generally dominant in the young married man. On the other hand the majority of unmarried men indulge in these to an unlimited extent.

This condition is changed where a home is founded. The home interest is uppermost in the man's mind. He has a real purpose in life outside of the despicable one of utter selfsatisfaction. He has a little wife whose happiness is his and who by her gentler nature transforms the selfcentered man to one of thoughtfulness.

-Judge Luke J. Connorton.

MONEY SPENT FOR EDUCATION THAT DOESN'T ED

UCATE

There is always a tendency to spend more money on schools each year. This, of course, is in the nature of things, but there is a limit beyond which it is not honest or wise to go.

Our schools should not cost the large sum per capita which they do. If the elaborate system we have, renders this cost necessary we should have less elaboration. All the northern states of the Union are overschooled. I by no means intend to say by this that they are overeducated. The two things are very different. You may educate a person by sending him to school or you may not.

The word educate is one of the most meaningful in our language. It means, as we all know, to draw out, not to put it. Now, our (I am speaking of the country at large, please bear in mind) is too much a putting in process, not pulling out-not de

veloping. It consists to a great degree simply of acquirement of information. And how little is really acquired may be understood by the fact that of the appointees to the Naval academy fully 60 per cent. fail annually to pass the very simple entrance examination, unless a remarkable change has taken place in late years, which I doubt.

That we carry the schooling of the great majority of children far beyond their capacity is beyond question.

There is nothing, as I see it, more necessary than an overhauling of our systems and the cutting out of so

much waste effort. Let us recognize more the vast differences between the few who wish to and can go far and the many inert, and not to waste time and money in carrying so much dead weight as we now do.-Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick.

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Morality without God is void of force, as it is void of sanction. As well may you bid the frail reed of the field to hold up against the passing storm as to bid the human soul apart from divine support to withstand the fierce assaults of passion.