Berkshire Chronicle Reading 12-1919

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TROUSER PRESSES,

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NOTE & LETTER CASES,

POUCHES. UMBRELLAS,
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BLOUSES, G~OVES. LACE
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SMART NECKWEAR,
GLOVES, SHIRTS, SLIPPERS

Britiab Made Toy.'
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TRADES UNION .
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TH£ ClUICH AND THE PEOPLE."

Xt:nas Gift

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It WitS a mewhot stronge sight
respected rector Ql the Romlin
at
Cburoh .n Rell<liblJ, the . R~v. Father
at the Trades 'mon Club, Reeding, on SUlIday iilte noon; he .·as there to dl8(ll1.8l; the
q~ tioo of the hurch o.nd the people. The
chair
aa taken 1Iy Mr. P .
nnolly,
formerl
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Labour rev.r nbitiv(l on
H AT question, ("\\,
the Rea ins Town Cou nC11 for
inIIter
Ward. ho prefaced his remarks by flaying
can we give th em
that he a an Irish Catholic, .. IStrcmg
Xmas?"
is entirely solved ,,·
Trade nionist, a.nd a firm upporter of
the Labdur movement.
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a
visit
to
Hope
Brothers.
Fath"l'i Kernan, in opening II. ill leetu re,
said tha he migh.t ~rh8ps bQ permitted
every Department Y OLI \I "
to addrell8 thom as "Fellow llibourers."
find a hos.t of sugge stion ~ tor
si~co th, normal Ii fo of a Catholic priest
was one contin1lJll bum-d urn incessant c»useful and pleasing gilt ,
cupauon from 8ix o'clook iri the morning
distinctive in style and alw ~l\ ~
until te~ or oWven at night. He thought t
the oMi ary man recotPlised that eocietjt
d~aracterjzed -by that excelle;I'
could DO ex; I; long with ut the disciplinary force of religion . Thll w()rker wa not
taste
and sound value wh< 1
at heart materialistic. He saw that the
appeal so , strongly _ to the
purely materialiBtic was not ..-orth fightang fO('. He him80if hod personlLlly no
discriminating g i ft-b u y e '.
politiciit.1 creed, sinee he imagined there
was an ama\i'am of truth and error in all.
Make an early call and \ () .1
and hi8 eongrevation W811 eomnoeed of all:) will find the right present 't" (
from the rabid inn FeinefS to the most
ariBtooratic 04 Torie . (lAugbter.) By the
everybody at Hope Brothe r,.
Church he JIleapt the grlllltest organisation
iD the world, oomPosed of 80me 300 million
members, and which had existed. n9IPJly
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2,000 ~t!IIr. She W88 catholio in ~t
of time and plue, and had seen the birth
ot ail modern kingdoms, .had taught thom
colonisation, the ht.ndicrt.ftll and the arb,
and, although the Church did not hold QUI
If. ~ for every evU, be wanted to r~
Handkerchief..
mind thorn what she had- done for mankind. '
Dainty Handkerchiefs, prettily ~m­
They oould never attain the ideal in thu.
world. Van had a fnrore life. he .r:~­
broidered •• ix in a
boL Bp xes from
to
nilled i-n her u.teeh iSill , however, four
ca.rdinal siN, and they wer~ _ reepectively :
murder, sodomy. opp.wiOll of poor. and d...
~:i~~~~ f!!a~.~ ~~~~~I.i.~~~: .S.i~
pri'fiDa ·labou.rers of their W!l«68. The opo
ion 01 the poor I\.D.d the deprivation of
Scarves•
.bouret'll of lheir .....f!II were cl_ifi..I .
Fleecy Wool Scarves. in a
u t~y would Me, with the a.-ful sioe of
laTge variety of t:tstefu\
murder and sodomy. In catholic days lo~­
bYlOne the uru.l!I'8ities were open IxI evorycolou rs.
body, IUId the cHJD.ooratic nature of th l'
Pure Silk Scarve~. in plain
Church would be 1't!COCnised from the fact
aud [a llcy stripes, fro m
that the last POpe wll8 a pl_ghbov and
Cardinal ;W'o18llY a butcber's 801\ . in tho
Hand Ba8" ~
Churclt aad in the olden days thor
Willi
OM ~at r~n for promotion, a.nd t hat wM
All n.ewest sha pes, from
,.....t. T)ley could not poi:l!.t to a more
MmOOlallio ol'(&llisatiOll where the lowest
Perfume
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oould attain the highest pomtionl!. ~h r
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!lplendid
selection, by the !"Jrl ~
K_1IJl referred .. ,tat....ent. b t....-r.....
mak':l"!I-Roger & Gallet, AI .. ,);, m,
writ.., i1!oluding Cobllett. to iDdieate
elc., etc.
that tbe Cbnrch in ED.I!laad·s olden dal'
wu invaridtb· on the side of the, people,
all.d that in the mil in took a load nd ""'"'
inillepentlent ()f kings and noble8 . . He a180
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quol;ed Itt ~reamble to an Act of P diaJDeDt whe~in beef, pork, veal, and venil!Oll
were q\lOted as .. the food of the poor t, "
Dre.iaa GOWllO, SlDokiuI Jackets.
a:Dd oolltrasted the purchasing power of
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' i~ ,t_hoee dur8 witA .t hat which obSuit Cue.; Totlet and Stetioaery
t .. ined toIday. Under the ~i8 of the
Atlac:ba. Sal., Razora, etc.. by
Church the peop~ ..ere ha.ppy, well fod.
tho best _kera.
and in \11.0 main content. Enj{I'Uld, in fact.
WlUI known at tluu; time as " Merrie R ngHandkercbi~fs .
land _"
ever inee the timf' of Chriet had
anyone hlld more "compassion on t he mulMen'a Initia lled H andkertitude " than Leo XlII. from: wh
w()rldchiefs, fine q ualit ),. s ix in box
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letters :fa.th!'r Kern8n quoted. Thirty
PrintM
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Ha
ndkerch
iefs
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years 811'0. he tate<l, that Pope ~lared
and Cr~pe, latest designs, Old G,y,·II.
for a living 1I'1lI!8, which II{ s now being
inai.ted 1pon. The Holy F.jIther also deftit
Madder. DaTk
to
Blue, Red, etc.
with thl!
of et.pitali1!m and tli e tyranny of ree:pitB.liat, ond poin ted out. the
need of ~gsoeiati'f8 effort!! to better the
",orkers' ot. He also insisted on I\.D. ei ght-hour da~. /lnd aevernl things. which. in
their wisdom, they had latterly been /foroed
d_ I tlltd Outdoor Gam.. \
to adopt l in ord~r that the 'whole soeinl
lilt farlow-a"l. p rica.
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fabric IOf
' ht not crumble to the dUiit. ince
the Refo mt.1iOll th..: hlld miser)' and
poverty
.very hand. :rn: ' no C3thoJio
ooun! rv
·cIt he had vilSited hltd ~ I!fJIlD
Mal1 OnitT D~parlmtnl gil'(
anything. lto parallel the slnms whiett thf'Y
wry spta'aJ.. attenlilJlI 10 ortk,s by
ha4 in tpoi r midst. The Catholic inatitulosf, alii/ m i tOl1ltrs (atl rtly upon
tiOOll Ob~ ~ed it aa an honour to
look afte th~ poor.
I"m;f anti (1ITe/"I tfespdlt/J. CarIn rep . to yarioll8 queStion . Father.
,;a~e laid 011 all orders over 10:"
Kernan
'd h.. held no Ibmf for the
charcbes 118'&111. but could onll Sflt'8k for
th: t 0l'K . tion which they oollld not at
leaat 'a,l to reeogniao hate or fight apinst
it u th
migbt. He could not recollect
eTIll' ref.1ljf to meet the unemployed or
LTQ
to discU.8ll the m tter with them . The dis.. _
co:~Outfitt.,. .
CIIIIIion",\,1\ undoubtedly boooming beeted
",hen th~ time-I,i,mit for the meeting ex- BYlVltMS IhroN:IJ! ,~Lo:doH GIld "'" PrOfl;"" S
lIeartily
pired, and 1\ TO& of thRnks w
paeeed to Fatllet Kf'rn n for hi inteI'MtJng addn!88. 'A , desire WIIJI, in 'fact. I'X- 8,- King Street &: 64, Miuter Street,
pril&Bed tltat he would invite them. to t.
Jaqaee' tq discu
certain, ' qUeStions
READING.
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BUY YQUR CHFpSTMAS GIFTS at 1jULL'S., 4Pliere
amI 'Pjea,; g (ii/t, is aJiureJ ' and at prices . l4ithln the reach of all.
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LARGE SELEqTION OF THE .NEvVE~T

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A concert in aid of tbe Vi800untess Barrington's V ill"8ll Homl!fO for disa bled 8Oldi~
and llIIilol"8 WI\II1J!Y8Il at Brad6eld College
OR Wedneeday "
week, the 8Uae of the
audienee alfOl'ding a very rr.tif)'inc indicaRon of the sympathetic interest arousQd by
her ladyship's bonefioent und~iDg. Th
ViIIclount_ oteerfded the eoooert 'l'lth 8 P""t,- of friends.. and amOllg otbel'lJ 11'11.9 Wen!
eitber pl'tl88,nt (It' ],ad purchased tickets for
the ooC/lSion were Lady .leland, Lady WatlIOn, Major-Geo. Wlld4illgton and Miss
Waddington t and K ills Benyo~. A bight,
atvactive p<'ogramm. had been arruapti,
and, tho1tJh jl:l! ienath did not permit of
&JlClOres, nry hearty applau80 re'W'llrdcd the
elorbl of the 81'n.tes. Not the least appreciative section· of tl:te audience were the Col"1M4_ _IM4_ _~1I!II len h«>f , who made n() secret of their keen
eojoymomt. Mi83 Sybil Cropper, th. ~
lOr of a voioe of warked
/iexihility and
oontributed a number of so118S in
humour and lIeIltim nt were -admirDie......... and ~ioh a«oNed ample seope
oxerciee of her u$lWa.ble 'focal
Ji~bo- Her conlributiOll8 included two Iriah
~la., "My Lapa LMe" (H. Harty) and
II A BaUynure BIIlkd" CR.
HllIhee), and
II Remember " '(lohn Ireland). " Blow, Blow.
tlI1M1 winter wInd" and "Love's PhiJo.o.
ph)''' (Quitter). 'l'he~. H. A. Tapdeki,
",ho haa a voiee of Itlu)81lent ttnality, ,an
'ft!ry pillQ8ing reoderillp of Sir Ha~rt
Parry's "At the hOUf the 10llf 'day ends"
an~ .. I'm _a~nlf .weel: yioleta: hiB treataeat of Charles Wood', .. EtiaioPia saluting
the Oolou rs" bei.nr @Clully IlII tiefaetory. A
.Iectioa of Areuky'l ",IUIO si"ouettes, arnuapd for two iMtrlUlleOts. w~ given by
1IiIit Beatriee Hall
d Miss Eva Ruth
Spalding. who mallifeeted. a vertrE
' telligent
a~iatioo of the ~mP9lM'lr's
as r~
YiaJed in "Le Sevant,l'"
()oqu~,"
.. PoIichinell&," an4 "La Da...,. .... Their
. ()f De1lU8lly"1I "Printemptl," aleo artwo piaaoa, we8 an
_tiu,lale perf~..ee..
D. Ji.
muter lit
the war,
He &leo

TOyS, · GAMES, poW.s,
Leather Good.. Failey , UseEal Preseau.
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