The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-04-22

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they rule our kitchen, and somehow they
get nearer to US and we are more inter
ested in their affairs than those of any
other people.
The cook we had before may have had
sweetheart, but we never to any par
ticular interest in him, but when Mag
gle, who is a bright-eyed Irish girl, ap-
pears the woman of the house know in
less than twenty four hours that GER
tain milkman is in love with her, and i'm
mediately we change milkmen. That's
to give her an opportunity to see him
every morning.
He may not bring as good milk as did
the other man and he may not give as
good measure, but as long as we are
helping along love affair we don t care.
The night that he is to come we all friv-
vie out into the kitchen and give her sug-
gestions as to her appearance and how
she ought to treat him. and then, when
he is going to be married the household
sews industriously for her.
A visitor comes in and says: "What
are you making?' And we all answer at
once: "A wedding dress for the cook"
Aud then the visitor says: "What is
she?'
We look reproachfully and scornfully
at her and answer: 'Why, Irish of
course!" And then the visitor takes off
her gloves and says: ooh, then it is all
right; can't / help?''
Maggie is up in the feelings of all the
young mon who come to the house. And
when the entire establishment is dress
ing you to go to party she says to you
as she pulls the lacing: "Oh, miss, I
wouldn't be after bein' so cruel to the
young gentleman. Sure there were tears
in his voice when I told him you weren't
at bone the other day, and you just a.
sittin' there a.readin.' Bless his poor
heart, he can't help bein' in love with
you! The very flowers would fall down
and worship the likes of you
The young man never had better
pleader than this.
II I could be born again T would choose
Ireland for my birthplace. The finest
American citizen is the man with Irish
blood in him, for he has all the versatll-
ity Of the Irishman, all his wit, and, with
it, he has that grain of uncommon sense
which somtimes, am compelled to say,
the Irshman pure and simple lacks.
You know they are very fond of an
nouncing that their great patron saint, st
Patrick, was gentleman, and it seems
to me right along from that day to this
the Irishman, be he peasant or lord, has
been gentle. OF course there are excep-
tions, but they only serve to prove the
rule.
Not long ago I met man whose
brogue was as thick as cream, whose
name was Patrick Joseph, who had made
a fortune selling things on the INSTALL
ment plan, and who told me he was not
an Irishman and not Catholic!
Unfortunately for Ireland had heard
of his birthplace and that he first opened
his eyes in shebeen. I say unfortun-
ately because I did not like to think he
was an Irishman, I had so fully made up
my mind that he was knave and fool.
I don't deny that an Irishman may not
be the first, but he is very seldom the
last.
But, dear me, I have gotten off of my
stump speech. I think L asked who
we're the doctors, and lawyers, and good
looking women and I was able to answer
that they were all Irish.
Now 1 wish to know who are the best
bookmakers? The Irishmen. Who are
our best actorsP The Irishmen. Who
are our best writer's? The lrishmen. I
tell you it is a pretty difficult thing to
find best in anything that hasn't drop
of Irish blood IN it.
Sometimes 1t is cross but when you
can combine German stolidity and Irish
vivacity you get future president of the
United States.
Perhaps I am little warm on the sub
ject, but then you see I know them as
they are, and love every one of them in
this country OF over home. know how
they can curse the man who says rude
word about woman, and know how
they can shower blessings upon me when
I take cup of tea with them or drink
glass of milk in the cabin.
I love the perfect gentility ofthe Irish
woman, who, if the Queen Of England or
Empress Of India visited her, could with
innate grace ask her to have bite and
sup, feel perfectly at ease, and conscious
that she was doing the right thing.
The Irish peasants and the Virginia
darkeys have the grace Of hospitality at
it's finest, and either of them could give
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