The Quiet Corner
June 2, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
...Send for illustrated circular to the heads of the Wush-Kush Liberal congregation...
...June 2, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL II THE QUIET CORNER I tae-nsel thee, skut not thy heart nor thy library.-C...
...A few and belts on...
...Far illustrated catalogue address terrific excitement...
...sistent note than that heard on earth...
...A PEDIFORMB...
...And still no thunder-and still no thunder...
...Didn't they know the prestige of SETON HILL heaven was at stake...
...after eleven, the Powers wished to strike Mr...
...Why did he not hurl it, instantly...
...Why didn't the workers hurry faster...
...what a triumph if this arrogant fellow should be struck dead ! or Bunions...
...One-half minute to eleven...
...A giant attendant Conducted by the Christian Brothers sought vainly to espy the midge that he might effectually squelch him...
...That was the finishing stroke in the fashioning of the bolt, `powerful enough,' as Ilo described it half a minute GREENSBURG, PA...
...Bachelor degree in arts, sdence, and music...
...and Catalogs, Magazines, Books, Commercial Printing he was heaven's blacksmith...
...Should wear . his watch for all the world like a jeweler indifferently ap- The Correct...
...Ballantyne Glenn held his watch-the congregation Entrance held their breath-and it was so silent in that hospitable temple MUSIC-Conservatory Methods In Piano, Violin and (where even the most radical thinkers were asked to air their Vocal ART-Special Advantages...
...43 minutes from Pittsburgh later, when he had lugged it for inspection before the Archangelic throne, 'to flatten out a mountain, and yet of such an attenuated selectivity that there need be no fear lest any but MOUNT DE SALES ACADEMY the one man be destroyed in that church!' At CATONSVILLE, live miles from Baltimore cc 'Good,' said Michael...
...here in Paradise all was bustle and confusion and noisy clamor...
...then pocketed his watch with the discreetest smile...
...kind all Men...
...If you wear .. . Still, he did not look so arrogant...
...Room only the other day, amidst a raging thunderstorm, to sour 700 206, The Catholic university of America, Washington, D. C. gallons of watered milk which lay consigned in the creamery next door.' CAMP ON-TI-ORA IN THE CATSKILLS "'Good,' said Michael quietly, 'to your task, then.' A SUPERIOR CATHOLIC CAMP FOR GIRLS `But calm as Michael seemed, he was not so within...
...of-fact he appeared as he stood there in the pulpit, gazing on Therefore . Woman and Children...
...It was then, by Affiliated with the Catholic University of America earth-time, three minutes to eleven...
...Very modest and matter- and forbear...
...Graded Courses in Both the choir-loft could be plainly heard...
...Michael hearkened-and hearkened...
...profession...
...NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMP FOR BOYS Permanent Buildings...
...ELEVATORS "Two minutes to eleven...
...Home economics department...
...After that, he must be about his writing...
...And the roar of the heavenly bolt was not intermingled with them...
...B. W. FEENEY, 1004 Grand Central Terminal, NEW YORK, N. Y...
...IL the celestial, ticked also--but with a louder and more in- THE PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...In Horseback Riding, Swimming, Tennis, Field Sports, Camping fact, no one in heaven was calm but the One...
...The weakest of faith trembled a little...
...Three minutes to eleven...
...Ballantyne Glenn had given heaven ten minutes...
...Cyril B. Egan," announced Dr...
...The dock struck, the 300 Acres of Play Land, Golf, Horseback Riding and AU chimes rang, in heaven and on earth...
...Glenn dead, Accredited Boarding and Day School for Girls they would undoubtedly find the gentleman out, insulated, or Conducted by the Sisters of Nom D ease in conference...
...Ballantyne Glenn, who now stands in the pulpit CAMP SWASTIKA of the Liberal Christ church of the municipality of Wush(For Boys 8-18) Manitowish, Wisconsin...
...The angel hung his head...
...The choir dock ticked...
...O. Address Cowvewt Statim) "Mr...
...There was Trips, Handcraft, Dancing...
...At ACADEMY OF OUR LADY eleven o'clock sharp, the bid would be closed...
...There's stl minutes' time, and their God might be non-existent...
...I had occasion, bountiful and scientifically planned, A Close-to-Nature with home care...
...Kush, Alabama, in the United States...
...mission...
...Why, oh why, did the Archangel hear no thunder...
...For every use...
...and still not a sound of the blightBERCHMANS BOWER ing bolt...
...Excellency, this request is the thousand-and-first.' This feature of our organization accounts to a large extent for the long list of representative concerns that have " `Dear, dear-as many as that...
...Grand Consomrse (East 111th Streat), New Yeek City No-not a second more...
...a man PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS of affairs...
...before the throne of Other Outdoor Activities...
...Bravo l" cried Miss Brynmarian and the Editor in a breath, and the Doctor began at II k URSULINE ACADEMY "Mr...
...S. Seed foe...
...But oh, And Corns...
...give heaven to assert itself...
...Your feet...
...And still no thunder...
...Bing-bong, bing-bong, bing-bong...
...Ten minutes l Music and Art Departments lead to "Time precious as that snatched by the condemned before Teacher' Certificates and Diplomas the execution...
...Up in heaven the clocks which reported mundane time to Shoos that fit...
...sped with the swiftness of one of his Gorses in Music, Languages and College Preparatory Write Directress for Catalogue own thunderbolts to the edge of heaven...
...say they're the...
...Outside the smithy, the heavenites talked and talked, glancing anxiously between sentences at their watches.-Five minutes had passed...
...address: Sound View Ave., Bronx, N. Y. C. "'But,' groaned Ilo, 'I could not see the man...
...Three Studios Open to views from the pulpit) that every tick of the big dock on Visitors at Ali Times...
...Frankfort and Jacob Streets, New York City , bolt, carry it out to the edge of heaven, and hurl it upon the 112 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 head of Mr...
...The sceptical smiled...
...CLASON MILITARY ACADEMY "'Well?' said Michael, angrily frowning when Ilo had come before his throne to report upon the failure of his Member of the Association of Military Schools and Colleges of the United States...
...Personally Conducted by Professor and Mrs...
...THE LIBRARIAN...
...Well-why was BURWAK ELEVATOR CO...
...Harder Chambliss...
...The State buzz grew in clamor, became annoying...
...the feet...
...College of Saint Elizabeth MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY (P...
...Whereas, over the 36 West 36th Street 322 Livingston Street little all-welcoming church, and almost over the strokes of its New York Brooklyn, N. Y. dock, there prevailed the dread hush of anticipated annihilation...
...Like the wind, Ilo flew to his smithy and MISS JOSEPHINE COWHEY put a thousand angels at work on the forging of the thunder1061 St...
...And Ilo should have finished the ELECTRIC PUSH BUTTON study of his earth-map, and located his target-and now he EVEN A CHILD CAN OPERATE THEM WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY should have aligned the eye of the target...
...Ilo,' said Michael, when the former had come to him, BURR PRINTING HOUSE will you kindly, within ten minutes' time, forge me a thunder- Cor...
...In half an hour he must have lunch with his pub- Resident and Day Pupils lisher...
...It Has Everything a Camp Should Have "One minute to eleven...
...LAMB...
...for College or Normal "Mr...
...Yes, Ilo would be on the brink now...
...Improper Shoos...
...Ten minutes...
...Nicholas Avenue, New York City Telephone, Billings 4370 bolt...
...STYLE BOOT...
...Always select...
...216 NEW YORK CITY he holding the bolt...
...ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepare...
...It was ten to eleven now...
...You know the place, Motor launch, out-board motors, row-boats, canoes, homer, athletic I10 ?1 fields...
...I located the place, ExcelA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL lency.' FOR BOYS "There was a long silence in which the only break was the buzz of a fly, admitted to heaven for a life of blameless purity Approved by the Regents of New York and now sailing in seraphic triumph around and around...
...The unsanguine, but pious, of the congregation shook their heads-it was such a short time to Rings on your Toes...
...Ten strokes of grace Mr...
...RESIDENT AND DAY PUPILS "And Michael, with fingers drumming in anxious tattoo upon the arms of his heaven-seat, watched the great earth-clock which hung from a cloud over his secretary's desk...
...PEDIFORMB...
...Resident Chaplain "Eleven ! Bing-bong, bing-bong...
...If at one minute 11th and Threop Streets, LONGWOOD, CHICAGO, IL1...
...too---ta =...a...
...For the Archangel Michael had said (at ten minutes to eleven, stifling a yawn) 14 "'I am getting a bit tired of this sort of thing' ; and he RINTING had called in his secretary, asking him " `Azrael, since the beginning of time, how many have there SERVICE been to put in their request for a sudden and dogma-demon- Our working force is composed of trained men, selected strative death?' And Azrael had answered, upon ruffling the because of their ability and willingness to make extreme pages of his encyclopaedic notebook: efforts to satisfy our customers...
...God, the chair of the Archangel, and high in the steeple above $250 per season...
...there were but five to go...
...Ballantyne Glenn gave heaven...
...Intensive courses open to students preparing for the teacblng and interesting chronicle, which I should like to read to you...
...Then tell Ilo that he may continued to send to their printing orders for many years...
...Glenn was a busy man...
...Better .and Doctors...
...Meals "'Indeed, Excellency, I do,' boomed Ilo...
...answer this one!' May ells estimate on your frintiftyf "Now the angel, Ilo, was as tall as three cathedrals...
...after that, Boys admitted to the Eleaaentary Departments dinner with a debunking historian who should provide him Chartered by the Uwivwdy of OW State of New Yerh with much necessary data for a biography he was undertaking in his spare moments (if any) and after that-to a party given by Grayling, sprightly columnist of the Blade.' Hence it was that Ballantyne Glenn could only give heaven ten minutes to strike him dead...
...and corrective...
...The Tiffany of Women's Colleges" "Clang...
...The STRAFFORD BOW LAKE A MOUNTAIN-LAKE face of Michael grew dark...
...swift-winged as the soldier's breathless preface to the zero hour...
...praising its surface worth...
...Angelicus, "always A Catholic college for women, teg~stored by the New York State University, and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Hoards of Edua welcome voice in the library, has sent me a most amazing cation...
...Hurry now, Ilo!' Under the auperwision of the Sisters of the Visitation "And Ilo hurried...
...And yet-did not Omnipotence dwell there...
...Competent staff, including resident priest and physician...
...Bing-bong...
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