The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-10-26
IRISH HOSPITALITY
Party of Americans Attest Its
Real Worth.
NO ICE BREAKERS NEEDED
Ride Through q Rain and Han storm
Causes CONSERVATION which 70
Turned Into GIadness by the De-
Ijohtful Welcome OF Countryro'N.
NJ CHARLES eArTELL LOOMS.

L
n;tality" have often heard the term
used but did not suppose that l
should get such convincing evidence
NJ II within IL hours Of my arrival al
this northern port.
This is to be a straightforward re-
lation of what happened to some nail
dozen Americans. strangers 10 eacn
other, a week ago, and strangers u
all Ireland upon arrival.
In details 1t is somewhat unusuai
but in spirit am sure 1t Is character.
istic of what might have befallen good
Americans in any one OF the iour
provinces.
To be dumped into the tender that
came down the Foyle to meet the Cal
edonia at Neville at the chilly hour OF
two In the morning seemed at the
time a hardship. We had wanted to
see the green hills of old Ireland ana
here we're blackness and bleakness
and crowded humanity!
But the loading process was long
drawn out and when at last we De-
gan our ascent of the Foyle there
were indubitable symptoms OF morn
ing in the eastern skies, and we saw
that our entrance into the tender was
like the entrance of early ones into
a theater before the lights are turned
nm. After awhile the curtain is lifted
| and the scenic glories are revealed 10
| ewes that have developed a proper
amount of eagernoss and receptivity.
With the first steps of day young
freshman returning to his native land
| mounted a seat and recited an apos-
trophe. THE top of the mornin TO
We" and then mist lifting suddenly,
Ireland, dewily green and SOFT ana
fair. lay revealed before our appreci
alive eyes.
The sun, when he really began his
morning brushwork, painted the trees
and grasses in more vivid greens out
there was a suggestiveness OF early
spring in the first soft tones that was
fully valued by eyes that had been
used to leaden skies for more tnar
half the days of the voyage.
But l am no poet to paint iano
scapes on newspaper so we will con
slider ourselves landed and furnished
with a few hours of necessary sleep
and anxious to begin our adventures
Our party consisted of half dozel
whose itineraries were to run in paral
lels for a time. There were fou
ladies and two of us were men. On
of the men had to come to Ireland o.
business and he found he had avail
ing him an invitation to lunch tina
day with a country gentleman wit
whom he had correspondent on BUS
ness matters.
AS the one least strange to the coul
try this American had rendered nj
good offices, American fashion, to tn
ladies WHO would be travelling wit
out male companions after we lie
them, and so he dispatched messe
ger with a note to tbe effect that
must regretfully decline. and statir
his reasons for so doing.
While we were lunching at the hot
a return note came to him. this tin
| from the good mans wife. corS'al
! asking that we all come and have a
ernoon tea.
Here was a chance to see an lri
/ household that was hailed with q
: light by all, a delight that was
t unappreciatiye of the warmth of t
invitation.
We would go to the pleasant cot
try house but-our trunks had
come. Would our travellers to
y worthily represent our country?
:. But our friend said, Don't
. clothes stand between us and Il
= thing. I'm sure this lady will be 81
to welcome us as Americans and
:. nv part l never reflect on my tai
~ and people never clamor for his
- dress when they see me. As for
ladies I'd think any tea OF mine n
D ored by such fetching gowns, II ths
- the proper term. I'm going to WI
~ her that we're coming just as
are"
So he sent another messenger
- into the country--telephones seen
-. as scarce as snakes here-sayi
=, well. he used a good assortment
~ words and arranged them worthil!
The two young girls of the pa
nd clamored for jaunting cars and SO
~ we're ordered for four o'clock. One
,es them had red cushions and was
ba glittering in its glass and gold a
in circus wagon.
My friend on ordering this one
ch- TO the '.jarvey" Thy the way. they
a them drivers here in this part OF
in land. but jarxey has always seeme
ice delightfully."- Irish that prefer to
raw to it,, Get another car as nice
this"
Sure, there's zone as nice as Il
said he. pride forcing the confess