AN OBLIGING WIFE,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 51, 23 April 1897, Page 29

AN OBLIGING WIFE,

A Sharpsburg man, who had been drinking too much liquor for his own good, was induced to sign the pledge the other day. His wife was delighted. She took the document and Baid : " You must let me have it. I will keep it for you." So the paper was confided to her custody. On the next day the man was drinking again as freely as before.

" How is this 1 " asked a friend. " You signed the pledge yesterday and now you are guzzling whiskey again," " It's all right," replied the pledge signer in unsteady tones. " I don't have to keep that pledge. My wife says she'll keep it for me. That's the kind of a wife to have, old fellow. Let's take a drink."

A barrister who is shortly going to enter the holy state of matrimony, was seen scribbling on his brief the other day in court. Later in the day his clerk, happening to glance at the writing, it read as follows :—": — " Fee simple or a simple fee. And all the fees entail. Are nothing when compared to thee. Thou best of fees — female."

The Rev. Prince Max of Saxony, assistant-priest of the German Church, Whitechapel, was received in special audience by the Queen a few days ago. Her Majesty took occasion to compliment the prince-priest on the fluency of his English. The Empress Frederick and Princess Beatrice were also present at this interesting reception.

The subject of Father Joseph Rickaby's first course of lectures to the Catholic undergraduates at Oxford is : " The Attitude of the Church in the days of her Power towards those outside the Fold."

"To visit the Tabernacle daily or times a week, and when in the Divine Sacramental Presence to intercede for the reunion of Christendom. . . . the holy souls in purgatory." " With the advice of my confessor to increase my Communions during Lent ; to attend the late MaBS on Sundays in Lent, even though 1 may have performed my obligation by having attended an early Mass." The se are extracts from "A Lenten Rule," which is printed and distributed at an Anglicanf London I church.