Notes

New Zealand Tablet, 30 June 1910, Page 1022

Notes

Fra Atfgelico Up-to-date -* Apropos of amusing blunders—to which we have referred elsewhere in .this, issuethe Catholic Universe-. is responsible for a story which, if not absolutely historical, is certainly ben trovato. It is about an English newspaper scribe," who,.in describing a new church, indited the following explanatory note for the instruction of his readers: ' The stained glass windows are Fra & Jelico's angels. Fra is, perhaps, the greatest living painter of angels; and his partner, Jelico, has no peer in the background work'.' The Universe thinks that the writer of the above note must be a relative of the local art-lover who f admires Sistine's Madonnas.'

The Retort Sarcastic The Mexican Herald hoses with effective ridicule the Pharisaism of the United States in ostentatiously sending missionaries to Mexico while neglecting the needs •of the home land. Imitating the familiar cant of missionary literature, the Mexican paper says: The Mexican Society for Foreign Missions is going to send its earnest workers into those neglected fields of the northern republic where the muckraking magazines are published, and also where their readers live. " Redlight" districts in the cities demand attention, and also rural lynching regions. In two New England States high officials tell of diminishing church attendance, and in one cultured city women have been murdered in their homes by an educated villain melodramatically gotten up in slouch hat and black mask'. In. a bigger city a sweet little girl of fifteen, trying to earn her living, is lured to a den, her bones broken and her body partly burned. Barbarous Mexico" blushes as she reads of these and other horrors, but declines to call names, and will content herself with zealous missionary endeavor.'