The Quiet Corner
September I, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 413 THE QUIET CORNER "I counsel thee, shut not...
...I shall hunt him down in history and fiction...
...took down this note: "If you want to feel death's sting just slap a mosquito at her dinner-time, and she'll get even...
...inquired Hereticus, looking up from May are estimate on your printingl the final pages of the week's editorials...
...Accredited Boarding and Day School for Girls I must...
...Irish atmosphere...
...The old Gaelic conception of educa- Anonymoncule, "and I have more than once thought how tion, "fosterage...
...THE LIBRARIAN...
...Chartered by fhs University of Me Stats of New York Could the end be coming...
...at Guatemala...
...J. HUGH DIMAN, O.S.B...
...I Catholic GREENSBURG, PA...
...F. WULSTAN KNOWLES (Prior) O.S.B., wrecked off the coast of Colombia, his long ears greeted the or Rev...
...The BURR PRINTING HOUSE elevator whirled me past the smoking-room where some of Cor...
...Frankfort and Jacob Sueea, New York City , my friends from the hall-bedrooms and the Bowery hotels 414 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 192 were smoking their blackened pipes of peace...
...A depression seemed to be setting in, and he was noticed to mutter a strange word: "Malabara, Malabara...
...Up-to-date, no human being has Address: Sound View Ave., Bronz, N. Y. C. submitted himself to the test of decapitation for the purpose of enlightenment, but"-and here the Doctor's eye took on a forbidding gleam-"I have known journalists, reviewers, and editors, who are doing their best to function without their CONTRIBUTORS WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS was formerly United States Minister cerebellums...
...behaved-" SIR BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE is professor of anthropology in Saint But with a high-pitched scream, Miss Anonymoncule and Michael's College, Toronto, and the author of many books on science and religion...
...Why, millions of these insects and Colleges of the United States...
...BURWAK ELEVATOR CO...
...through the conquistadors and chroniclers of the Mexican, Spanish, and Portuguese litera- PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL tures...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin On the Hudson Never since Dr...
...I may be biased somewhat in their favor...
...But as they never practise blood-infusion with me, ment and he will love and bring honor to his name and race...
...There was another pamphlet which showed that many of Approved by the Regents of New YorkS these insects functioned quite as well after their heads were cut off, as before...
...Angelicus had returned from his week- ACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. end at Long Beach, had he appeared quite as before...
...Head Master) Indians on the coast with such telling effect that they led Portsmouth School-Portsmouth, R. 1. him in triumph into the mountains, installed him in a golden temple, and worshipped him as the great "Sam," until the conquerors arrived, seized the gold for earrings and slavebracelets, and gave Malabara to the cruel fate of pack-mule V to the stout Fray Gumesindo in his parish in the mountains...
...The suspense was coming to a painful point when at last ACADEMY OF OUR LADY the Doctor declared in a climax-in what may be called a 95th and Threop Streets, LONGWOOD, CHICAGO, ILL...
...I caught glimpses Ladycliff Academy of the ladies' room where stout women were resting on sofas, while damsels before broken mirrors chiseled their lips with Highland Falls, N. Y. vermillion and ran combs through their bobbed hair...
...20th...
...Human blood is too thick for the mosquito to imbibe...
...The Chinese physician, G. Lew Chee, whom he had consulted by long-distance telephone to Los Angeles, had resolved that the divinities of URSULINE ACADEMY the salt water and the spirits of the fresh rain were in tem- Grand Concourse (East 165th Street), Now York City porary conflict in the system of Angelicus, and he was recom- PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS mended to cast them out by mind-force-in which the elderly Resident and Dity Pupils scholar has of late shown some diminution...
...inhabit their apartment houses without the slightest clashing or disorder, each in his appointed place, doing his duty and A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL apparently enjoying it...
...This is the reason why those people on country porches are so ST...
...They are creatures of an etherial beauty, Opens Sept...
...avidly...
...Therefore, after she has probed your skin she proceeds to inject a ELEVATORS liquid to dilute your blood...
...LAMB...
...Malabara, young lady, is the Golden Mule of the Andes, Six Years' Course College Preparatory the first progenitor of all the mules, golden or leaden of the For further isfor+nab, aptly to Americas...
...Did you find the Catalogs, Magazines, Books, Commercial Printing Portuguese encyclopaedia you spoke of...
...These Anonymoncule in the angel voice that soothes the angriest con- fathers conduct Downside and Ampleforth Schools tributor into placidity, "Doctor, who is Malabara...
...paroxysmic voice-"I must go to the Public Library-I must...
...GRENVILLE VERNON is a New York critic of music and literature...
...in half with Mamma's scissors, and the unconscious way they ROBERT J. KANE has been on the faculty of New York University, and is now attached to the English department of Ohio State University...
...Health- "We always learn in listening to you, Doctor," added Miss ful country location...
...because of their ability and willingness to make extreme Several hours later, a pale afternoon edition of the Doctor efforts to satisfy our customers...
...Malabara-you don't know him...
...some of the contents A COLLEGE FOR WOMEN were highly interesting, indeed...
...appeared, sank into the arm-chair usually reserved for prelates This feature of our organization accounts to a large extent for the long list of representative concerns that have and persons of title, and called to Tittivillus for his palmetto...
...It seemed Boarders and Day Pupils that, coming out of the sea, he had become thoroughly soaked Apply to MOTHER SUPERIOR in a rain storm on his way to his hotel...
...Chartered Regents School for Girls "Did they find Malabara for you...
...A College Preparatory Boarding School for boys...
...ENDA'S SCHOOL irritating with their constant slappings and pursuit of the The Only School of Its Kind in the U. S. delicate little insect...
...Tittivillus interrupted (the boy is now in the freshman DONALD ATTWATER is a contributor to the journals of England and the United States, and the editor of Pax, the quarterly review of the class) saying, "When I was a kid, we used to cut caterpillars Benedictines of Caldey, England...
...FOR BOYS The Doctor gradually resumed his accustomed placidity...
...This is the hero, this is the deified figure we have so long neglected for brigands, viceroys, and revolutionists in our PRINTING Hispanic studies...
...This liquid is acid and causes the well-known sting...
...They never heard of him...
...in England and Fort Augustus in Scotland...
...With an ugly flourish of his walking stick, Our working force is composed of trained men, selected the Doctor disappeared...
...Headmaster, St...
...continued to send us their printing orders for many years...
...N'EgW YORK CITY If, on the other hand, you smash her, she obviously cannot withdraw it and you know that you have been bitten...
...They continued their daily habits, went Conducted by the Christian Brothers their social round entirely as though they wore their hats only at an afternoon affair...
...Based purely on instinct, the ant and several less known insects have arranged civilizations better adapted for communal relations CLASON MILITARY ACADEMY than anything mankind has been able to concoct through all Member of the Association of Military Schools our boasted ages of progress...
...I shall find Malabara...
...Enda's, Dublin Hereticus, if you regard them merely from a visual point of Give your boy a chance, educate him in an Irish environ- view...
...But they brought me works on the Island of Malabar, on insect life, maladies of the spine, and lives of diseased bishops...
...I had pamphlets piled SETON HILL up before me by whistling attendants...
...Adjusting his PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILL of Russia is the author in English spectacles, the Doctor, with the first smile in several days, of They Knew the Washingtons, and several other books of history and reminiscence...
...settled down to read the manuscripts for the current week...
...Say Entrance not so...
...For several days Boys admitted to the Elementary Departments there had been ominous shakings of the head behind his back...
...ment I" For catalogue, unite JOHN X. REGAN, M.A...
...The heat, the atmosphere, the people, those old books MUSIC--Conservatory Methods in Piano, Violin and damp with antiquity and gummed with the thumb-marks of Vocal ART-Special Advantages...
...Gaelic taught...
...cruel Cleopatra must have been to that scorpion to force Self-help, farming...
...sighing, "I hear you down the Andesyour golden bray comes to me in the sunset over the sea...
...0 Temporal 0 Mores...
...Enda's School, North Barnstead, N. H. "Yes, my dear, and there was another pamphlet in which a wise European-I think he was a German-professor proved that insect life is far superior to our human civilization...
...Miss Brynmarian rushed from the Library...
...Graded Courses in Both SOV) Music and Art Departments Lead to But the Doctor, taking his slender blackthorn stick, stick- Teachers' Certificates and Diplomas ing his old West-Indian panama firmly over his humid brows, declared : "I can rest no more...
...28th, 1926...
...If you allow the mosquito to finish ELECTRIC PUSH BUTTON her meal in peace, she will draw most of the fluid out of your EVEN A CHILD CAN OPERATE THEM WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY blood, thus leaving you little the worse for your experience...
...through the poetry, ethnology, zoology, and sociology PORTSMOUTH, R. 1. (Eight miles north of Newport) of the tropics...
...Three Studios Open to the new and old generations of our Melting Pot city-say not Visitors at All Times...
...asked Miss Brynmarian Military Training in Small Boy's Dept...
...St...
...meekly inquired Miss English Congregation, Sept...
...Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Damps "Oh, say not so, Doctor," exclaimed Primus Criticus, ex- ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepares for College or Normal pert on conditions in public ways and public libraries...
...To be opened by the Benedictine Fathers of the "Who and what is Malabara...
...Six year course...
...What luck, doctor...
...I found everything except the precise thing I wanted...
...He was the sole survivor of a Spanish vessel Very Rev...
...September I, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 413 THE QUIET CORNER "I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.'=C...
...Modeled after St...
...Love of Irish culture, literature, and him to sting her on the right spot at the exact dramatic momusic especially fostered...
...For instance, the report of (Also for girls who want to be treated like women) Major Edwin Skinner to the Gorgas Memorial Institute...
...through the Aztec and Muisca legends...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 17
