Breakfast

Detroit folk rose last Saturday week for their Lenten breakfasts. Most of their Catholic concitoyens, they reflected, were already at mass--breakfastless. Beautiful conception, commendable observation,-but . . . They were going to eat their own breakfasts, would study the Free Press, that carefully edited journal, then to work.

An article caught the eye: "NOTED PRELATE HERE SUNDAY. "The Most Reverend John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, will arrive . . . early Sunday morning . . . will breakfast at the temporary episcopal residence in the Chancery building . . . and will say mass at one of the churches."

Was this eating before mass some innovation in Catholic observance? Was so high a prelate as the Archbishop subtly establishing a new custom? Silly idea! The esteemed Free Press, under normal newspaper pressure, which is inconceivable to the uninitiated, had made an error, an error easily forgivable when the reader reflected.