Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-10-28

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1t is come to light that there are, I'M
fortunately, Irishmen living in England
who have been pressed into the English
ranks that are going to fight the Beers.
There are always men to be found who
have no backbone, no honor and no re-
sentiment. When the Irish and the Scotch
let Englishmen do their own fighting
John Bull will be more cautious and
count his probable losses often enough
over to induce him to let his neighbors
alone. That an Irishman should fight
the unholy causes of an unjust, blood
gorged, greed-gutted nation that has done
everything in the calendar of crime
against him, his ancestors and his child
rem, is a phenomenon impossible to con-
slider, much less to understand. Be it
said to the credit of the Irish-Americans,
and let it be proclaimed in trumpet tones
loud enough to be heard by the Beers,
that the pulse of the Irish heart from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
parallel to the Gulf of Mexico throbs in
sympathy with the brave Kruger and his
little colony.
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Nature, in tropical countries and in
regions bordering on the Mediterranean,
seems to treat the human race with re-
markable kindness, providing many
things that we of paler skies have to hus-
tie around for in order to have. In
Algeria, for instance, there is river of
ink. 1t is formed by the union of two
streams, one coming from a region of
iron ore, the other draining peat swamp.
The water of the former is impregnated
with iron, that of the latter with gallo
acid. When the two mingle, the acid
with the iron, they form a true ink.
Then there is species of plant growing
in New South Wales whose snowy flowers
contain large proportion of mucilagin-
GUS juice of glossy, v1rnish-like appear
ance. Chinese ladies use the juice for
dyeing their hair and eyebrows. In Java
the flowers are used for backing shoes.
The gorgeous begonia leaves of the Orient
furnish the East Indians with the re-
markably pleasing patterns that adorn
cashmere shawls. Sometimes the design
is varied slightly, but every cashmere
shawl that is genuine represents design
adapted from the wonderfully varied
tints of the leaves of the begonia.
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Several Egyptian mummies of animals
brought to light by the Egyptian Explor-
alton Fund at Dendereh have just been
presented to the Natural History Muse
UNI, London, by Prof. Petrie. The skin
on these mummies has been X-rayed, and
though it has presumably laid dry and
dead on the bones of its owners some
where in the neighborhood of 1900 years,
it is as transparent to the Roentgen ray
as is the cuticle on my lady's hand be-
meath which rushes the warm life blood
through vein and capillary. Thus laid
bare to the eye the bony structure OF the
mummified dog shows that the structure
Of that animal has not changed in 1000
years. 1t would be possible to find in
London itself today hundreds of dogs
that are the exact match physically of
these pets of the long ago.
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A life-size bronze bust of Edgar Allen
Poe was unveiled on October at the
University of Virginia. Though honors
often come too late, yet they are always
welcome.
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Mr.. c. v. Fox, the young Oxonian
who has just carried off the French scull-
ing championship. is an Irishman.
Though not yet twenty-three, he has al
ready captured many of the leading
prizes of the rowing world. Previous to
going to Oxford Mr.. Cox was student
in Ireland at Clongowes Wood College
of the Jesuits.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox has issued a
warning" to the "up-to-date woman"
the woman who believes in such athletic
sports as scorching, century runs, ETC.,
the woman who doesn't care to destroy
every vestige of health by destroying
nerves, beauty of body and mental and
moral strength as well. She says: "The
bicycle has been boon and blessing to
wowankiud in permitting her to enjoy
out of doors life to greater extent than
was ever before possible for any save the
possessors of independent fortunes and
large leisure. 1t has, too, made dress
freedom inconspicuous. Woman is no
longer compelled to drag heavy skirts
through muddy streets as a shopper or
shop worker or else suffer the penalty of
unpleasant comment and observation.
AS the trailing garment is attractive in
salon or carriage, so the short skirt is as
graceful, as sensible, in its appropriate
place. Health is the first
requisite of beauty and the chief hand
maid of morality. Temperance in eating
and in drinking. in work and in amuse-
ment, is the foundation of good health.
Beauty is the music of the eye. Wherever
beauty exists it is an assertion that truth
and harmony have existed before it in
past lives or in the lives of our predeces-
sors. If we ignore the beautiful we in
insult the Creator God loves beauty or