The Irish standard., 1897-06-05
great day for them, and we guess that
theyiwill never forget it.

great day for them, and we guess that
theyiwill never forget it.
:. Inspection, is it, Mr.. Commissioner
McSweeney? What for do you want to
inspect them? Can't you pee them as
they stand there in front Of you, looking
straight in your face, and never blink
ing, though some of them are bashful?
There's the colleen bawn, and there's
the colleen rhue, and there's another
whom you ought to know by her looks.
Do you want to find out where they
came from, or where they are going?
Twas ireland they left; it's here they
stay.
They say at Ellis Island that 10000
more passengers are expected this sum-
mer. Well, what of that? and what If
they expected 10000? Isn't there room
for them between New York and Califor-
MIA? Would you let into this country
all the candle ends of creation and keep
out the Irish?
They say that nearly all the 600 young
women from Ireland who landed on
Wednesday, as we'll as the 10000 others
who are to follow them this summer,
will seek for places in households as
cooks, chambermaids, nurses, maids-of-
all-work, or, in the language Of the Yam
KEGS of other days, as "help." That may
be true, so far as we know. But any
one who supposes that to be the whole
of the story can never have heard of the
end of it.
@ We would be willing to put up bit
of the blarney stone for a wager that
nearly every woman of the 10000 of
them will be somebody's wife within
two, three, four, five or six years. The
young women of Ireland believe in mar
riage; they believe. that they were born
SO that they might be married. When
the right man comes along, after the
spalpeens have been sent away; when
he comes accounting In the right way,
Ikea man who means what he says,
yeu< may be pretty sure that the Irish
colleen will listen to him, II he belongs
to a. respectable family. That's one
that causes so much bother In those of
our households that keep ,dopestics who
were born in Ireland.
Often and often, just about the time
when they are at their. best, when they
can cook like the French, nurse chill
dren like their own motherss stand over
a tub like the Chinese, and use broom
like Mrs. Partington, they sgive notice
that they are going to leave; and of
they go at the end of their month; you
needn't ask why. The priest could tell;
but the forlorn mistress of the house.
hold is often left to find out for herself.
That's the bother with Irish girls who
serve out; they don't want to be any
body's servant after they. get pro-
posal Of marriage and can wear an ell
gagement ring. 1t may be rough on
their employers, but it can't be helped,
and it is good for them and for the
country, too.
Nearly every woman of the 10000
women who are expected to come here
from Ireland very soon will be thinking
of marriage before long. 1t is right that
she should think Of it. A very sensible
poet was the one who cried out to all
the Misses:
CHOOSE not alone proper mate,
But proper time to marry"
Shakespeare declared that he would
not to true marriage admit impede
ments; and both his plays and his SON.
nets contain many beautiful expressions
about wedlock. AS for the dolorous old
chap who wanted to be- married to i'm
mortal verse;" it is to be said that his
natural wife was not quite up to the
mark.
1t is to marriage that the damsels of
Ireland look forward. We think it could
be shown by statistics that there are
fewer old maids in Ireland than in any
other country of Europe. Such of the
grown-up men and women there as are
minated could probably give some kind
of a reason, hardly ever satisfactory
reason, for remaining bachelors and
spfnsters.