appointed time and place, when every precaution and safeguard will be used. All will be required to spend their evenings in common about the camp-fire or mess-hall, and to retire at a reasonable hour.

One of the staff of camp assistants, well versed in the lore of the woods and its life in tree and stream, will help all those whose interest is awakened in the mysteries about them. Music will be a feature of the evenings and occasional disagreeable days, and every encouragement will be given to all to take part in the general entertainment by singing, playing some musical instrument or storytelling. A series of talks, little lectures on subjects of interest to boys, will be given by some of the priests

and laymen who are allied with the Catholic Camp Association. The daily papers and a select library will be at the disposal of the boys.

Parents of boys deficient in school or college work may arrange for private tutoring in any subjects by members of the camp staff at the usual

terms.

the campers who desire hotel accommodation at the Lake, may have the same secured in advance by notifying the Camp Director in time to perfect such arrangements.

The camp will open on June 26th and close September 4th.

The age limit is twelve to twenty years, the younger and older boys being divided into two sections of camp.

The charge will be six dollars per week, and will include use of boats and all camp property, positively covering every necessary expense while in camp.

All applications for camp membership should be made as early as possible, as the accommodations are necessarily limited. The camp will accept members for the whole season O any part of the ten weeks, and applications should particularly state the expected length of stay. Particular endeavor will be made by the camp management to have always in reserve accommodation for those whose vacation time from business is very short.

The patrons and officers of the

movement are:

Patrons Most Rev. John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York; Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Cusack, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.

Honorary President-Rev. William Livingston, P. R., St. Gabriel's Church.

Honorary Vice-Presidents - - Rev. Francis H. Wall, D. D.; Rev. Joseph H. McMahon, Ph.D.; Hon. John T. Meehan.

President-Rev. Samuel P. Mac

pherson.

Vice-President-John Martin. Treasurer-Rev. Michael J. Larkin. Secretary-James T. B. Fisher, 65 East Eighty-third Street.

Further information regarding the camp, its life, organization, etc., will be sent on request. Address all communications to J. T. B. Fisher, Camp Acadia, Ronkonkoma, Long Island.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, as usual at this season, appeals to its friends for assistance in its FreshAir Work.

Last summer 2,467 poor children of the tenements enjoyed a delightful two weeks' outing, and during the year 453 overworked mothers and self-supporting girls found needed rest and recuperation on the Society's Fresh-Air Farm at Spring Valley in the Ramapo Hills. This year we hope to increase the work. It is simply a question of means. At least $15,000 will be needed for this purpose. Will you help us? In doing so, you have the assurance that every dollar contributed will be well spent, as the members of the Society not only give liberally themselves, but their services are also entirely free.

Ten Dollars Will Send One Woman or Two Children to Spring Valley for Two Weeks

Where else can you put that small sum to better purpose? Will it not be a pleasant reflection to you; will it not add to the enjoyment of your own summer vacation to know that, by

your charity, you have helped these children; these poor mothers with sick and ailing infants; these friendless working girls, to get away for a. time from the foul and heated atmosphere of their wretched homes to the green hills of the country where, with pure air, quiet and rest, good, nourishing food and refreshing sleep in clean beds they will all be benefited and made happy for the time being, and the mothers and young girls who arrived in delicate health will be sent home newly invigorated and prepared to again take up their difficult toil to earn their daily bread?

The Society's Farm is an ideal place for such a purpose. Come out and visit it any day. You will be interested and you will be heartily welcomed by the Sisters of Mercy who are in charge and who are devoting their lives to this work. You will be both surprised and delighted, if you have never been there before, to see the wonderful Institution that has been built up within a few years, and the work that it is doing.

When you have seen all this, you

will understand what the Spring Valley Farm is; what it is doing and what it means to the pale-faced children, to the tired mothers and friendless girls. You will see, too, to what good purpose your gift, large or small, will be put. All of this cannot fail to impress the heart of every charitablyinclined person, and to show that to contribute to such a work is one of the noblest deeds that God has implanted in the souls of men. “Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you."

We respectfully ask you to aid us in this work. Every dollar will be spent with care.

Contributions sent to Mr. John J. Barry, Treasurer, Finance Committee, 375 Lafayette Street, New York, will be gratefully acknowledged.

THOMAS M. MULRY,
President.

HENRY HEIDE,

Chairman Finance Committee. 缨

A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

When a girl gets to the age of sixteen, she has left childhood behind her and is well on the way to womanhood. A hundred temptations beset her. Dangers threaten her from many sides. Her very innocence is a peril to her, because she does not understand the meaning of some things that relate to her welfare, because she does not see at a glance the character of her acquaintances, because she does not know how to take care of herself. She has yet to learn the way of the world. She has still to stiffen her own purpose to say No persistently to every suggestion of wrong.

In the ardor of her own warmheartedness she thinks that that is affection that is only selfishness seeking by artifice, by flattery, by gifts and by other attentions, to find the way to its own gratification.

In the years of emotion between sixteen and twenty-six, a girl's best friend is her mother. She is safe who

obeys her mother. She is protected who tells her mother everything that happens in her presence. She is fortunate who has a wise and determined mother to hold her in check. She is safeguarded who is not allowed to run wild-to choose her own companions, to keep late hours, to do nothing useful, to roam the streets at night, to visit other girls without restraint, to have company before her time.

We cannot do as others do. We are children of the Blessed Virgin. We are brethren of Christ.

DON'TS FOR THE SUMMER GIRL Here are a few "don'ts" which it would be wise for the "summer girl" to heed: Don't forget that a thoroughly "good time" is not incompatible with dignity and a proper reserve. Don't do things when you are among strangers that you would be ashamed to have your mother or friends at home see you do. It will lower you in your own self-respect, and then it is very imprudent, for the world is not so large after all, and we never know when we will meet people again or in what way things will be found out. Don't accept invitations to go on picnics, boat rides, etc., unless you know with whom you will be thrown and that such excusions are to be properly chaperoned. Don't be hasty in forming acquaintances at summer resorts or public places. Don't exwith a man change photographs whom you have known only a week or ten days. One who is accustomed to the usages of good society and who has the proper respect for you will not ask such a thing. Don't make the mistake of thinking that all country people are ignorant and that you can noke fun at them with impunity. Green fields and forests have a much more refining influence than dingy brick walls and vulgar signs, and you may lose the opportunity of making some delightful friends among country people.

THE BLOOMING HAWTHORN Once St. Patrick was filled with a yearning to see his relative, the good St. Martin of Tours. So he sailed from Ireland to the coast of France, and then journeyed laboriously on foot, as needs must be in those days, to the banks of the Loire. It was the month of December by that time. The saint's journey had been none too easy all along, what with storms and cold. Now, however, he came to the worst part of all. The river was so swollen by the rainfalls that no one could be hired to row him across. Then, with saintly meekness, the good bishop knelt down and prayed to heaven to send him help in his plight. After that he calmly spread his cloak on the river and rowed himself across with the black-thorn which he carried. After he reached the other side of the river in safety, he stuck the branch that had served him so well in the ground, made the sign of the cross over it. and knelt down in front of it to give thanks to God for bringing him safely across. The while he

was praying he had left his cloak spread over a hawthorn bush to dry.

When he rose and lifted his cloak, it was not only dry, but he found, to his astonishment and joy. that the hawthorn bush over which it had hung was covered with blossoms. Every year since then one hawthorn bush blossoms on that hillside; only one, though the whole country around is covered with hawthorn bushes. At the time of St. Patrick's visit the people erected a chapel to commemorate the miracle. The chapel still stands to this day, a venerated shrine and the chief reason of the existence of the village of St. Patrice, which takes its name from it. About Christmas time, when St. Patrick's hawthorn blooms, learned men from many parts of the world have visited St. Patrice over and over again, and have tried to explain the miracle. No explanation has ever been given, however, that satisfied even the learned scientists for the blossoming of this one hawthorn at a time when all nature is black in wintry cold.

PIANOS

THERE IS

ONLY ONE

WHALES FOR