by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
That settles it!
Not until one or the other of us
should see or hear geese
flying over us from south to
north would I change the
painted picture Catherine made
.and gave me a year ago of geese
flying, three flocks of them,
from: north to south. But on
Wednesday morning while
Catherine was walking Tuffy,
and I was going across the road
to mail a letter I thought--and
cupped. both:my ears in my
hands-and looked skyward and
was sure it was the familiar
sound of geese. Catherine was
shouting to me, “Go change the
picture’! Well, it was the 14th of
March and about time those
flying vacationers from the
south should be coming.
375 Attend Luncheon
At Gate of Heaven
Three hundred and seventy
five members of Gate of Heaven
parish. and their friends
gathered March 18 at the
church for the annual Family
Communion. Luncheon, which
followed the 12:15 Mass.
Mrs. Robert Cartier, general
chairman, welcomed the group.
Mrs. Joseph Gryboski acted as
toastmaster and included in her
remarks was recognition = of
Saint Joseph, whose feast day
was observed March 19.
The third grade of Sister
Shaun of Gate of Heaven School
provided musical entertain-
ment and a rousing rendition of
“The Candy Man’ proved to be
the favorite of the audience.
The "Rev. Thomas Jordan,
pastor, congratulated the
committee and entertainers on
a job well done. Members of the
committee assisting Mrs.
Cartier were: Mrs. Walter
Weir, co-chairman; Mrs. Albert
Bellas, decorations; Ann
Balutis and Mrs. Carl Siracuse,
tickets; Mrs. Joseph Turpak
and Mrs. Matthew Evans, reser-
vations; Mrs. Thomas Havrilla,
waitresses; Mrs. Joseph Mec-:
Donald, tables; Sister M.
Shaun, R.S.M., entertainment;
Mrs. Arthur Prutzman,
programs; Mrs. Donald Hale,
publicity. Lorraine Hawk is
Altar and Rosary president.
Every First Lady has served
as honorary president of Girl
Scouts of the U.S.A.
So-1 went upstairs and took
the geese picture down from the
eastern wall and transferred it
to the other side of the room,
and just. as I expected, those
birds had reversed their
direction and now are happily
headed north. And the wintry
looking tree picture which
Catherine had painted once to
typify bare trees in March I
hung oa the eastern wall to help
cool us in the summer!
Summer is coming,
know!
What a difference even some
slight indication of spring
makes when we begin to tire of
winter! For instance, there is
more activity in and around the
pond. Two ducks have .begun
their annual inspection of our
facilities here and have been
paddling up and down, back and
forth, so ‘they are well
acquainted with our environ-
mental conditions. They usually
favor us for a few days or weeks
by their own domestic aware-
ness of possibilities of housing
development in the midst of
food, shelter and friendly atmo-
sphere.
The muskrat, too, has been
busy, not always in plain sight,
but often enough that our ima-
ginations try to follow him when
he disappears into his hole
under the edge of the parking lot
where we have been delighted
to discover a few bright-eyed
snowdrops in bloom. But what
does the muskrat care about
such things? His interests run
much deeper than even the
roots of posies beneath the sur-
face.
“By the way, friend Musk-
rat,” I want to-ask, “How far
this way and that way do your
travels in the dark subterran-
ean rooming house go?”’ But he
will not let me in on his secret
plans. He knows I will not follow
up my questioning. My nosiness
gets me nowhere in his affairs.
We suspect his own nosiness is
much more to the point. What 1
might ask, however, would be,
“What do you do with the dirt
displaced by your shoveling
yourself a passageway among
the stones down in there? Aren’t
you ever afraid that sometime
when we drive in with a | carload
of pebple which must cause a
rumbling sound ‘down in your
dark caverns that your house
roof may fall in?
Reply is as follows: ‘‘Nope,
mister, whatever it is you are
trying: to tell me, when I'm
down cellar I never worry what
is going on upstairs. If I get
you
tired all I'need to dois curl
one of the handy
the corridor and ta
most refreshing aft
two of digging.’
And solr
worry too much
plans and programs are.
pect that he has sox
tions with that above
level hut he has erec
there wheres=the lar
more peryranent
swimming pool exte
level to the other si
below ‘surface tr
encounter the paddling
footed friends above him he will
not be disturbed.
It just oceurred to me that
some of you might be interested
in- what our missionary Dorothy
is up to. Just got a shorty from
her written mid-Eeb., from (for
er an hour or
EA 3
just as well not
ont what his
about what his
ground
ted over
anda
stretch: of
ds at eve-
his just
seem (0
of web
avels
a change) her station at Wembo
Nyama.:
“Dear Family: T spent nearly a
week at Tunda working on mj
Executive Committee minutes
and seeing the Leprosy work
The patients who are well
enough have planted a big
garden to feed the
is’a most remarkable project
for here where people are not
the greatest on helping each
other.
Karon and DeLyte from
Lodja went with me and we
a great time. The various ladies
ice
LICE
invalids, This
had
naa
on the station fed us three huge
meals, a day, some of them
going all-out to show wus
authentic things like i0¢
and rice cookies {remembe )
wheat flour) and millet
porridge, the most delic
cooked breakfast food I
tasted--something like
Wheatena only better. I have
given my cook orders to give me
that every morning from now
on.
The road was fairly bad
because of lots of rain and I took
a good chauffeur with me who
prudently ~~ had all his
passengers get out: in’ the
delicate spots. He did not
through the bad bridge near
here and he did: not tip all the
way over on’ the slippery
down to the ferry at the
Lomami.
Plane ahout to comes aus
Love; Dottie”
We thought that was an in-
I wondered if
any. of © our ‘natural foods
stores!’ might have millet
porridge material. Of course
could not have.it if all
rough, but it would be nice to
taste it.
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