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of the institution run by the orders with intelligence, suggestions, cooperation, financial aid and a whole lot of other things. I remember Father Keenan telling me about the Archbishop's idea that the Sisters of Charity ought to change their habit. They had a huge bonnet that went way out and obstructed their view so that they had a very high death rate from automobile accidents. What it took before they could effect that change in habit, Which merely meant paring down the bonnet so that it wouldn't obstruct their view when moving on sidewalks and crossings, was terrific. It took several years of recommendations by the Archbishop, resolution by the chapter, resolutions by the mother house. Finally before it could be effected there was a long procedure with the mother house in France, which was after all the parent of the order. That was very difficult because the French Sisters of Charity hadn't yet seen the need of it.

That was a very amusing story that Father Keenan told and an illustration of how difficult it was to reform some of these institutions, even though it was all printed in black and white what a diet ought to be. It was a very difficult thing to move them along, but it was done, done very well indeed and done quite brilliantly so that I always have felt that the argument of John Purroy Mitchel that the Catholic institutions ought to be first class was