Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-10

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| The same rule applies to the lace school
which has been established by the govern
uent through the congested districts
board in the old building used by the
Catholic church before the new one was
erected. The government pays teacher
and advances the material. The girls get
| the price their lace work brings when
| sold in the shops OF London or Dublin
| or at the Eccles Hotel here at Glengarih
Miss O'Donnell tells me that Mrs; Dukc.
| best sales agent, and stock of samples
| is always kept where the guests can see
| them. Fifty-one girls are now attending
the school and some of them Walk seven
rington will not allow them to attend the
| lace school until after they are confirmed.
and 1t is a great inducement, to join the
| church, because they are then able 70
earn $40. $50 and some OF them .tt too
| clothes, better food. and some comforts
| for their families Last year this little
| school sold nearly $4,000 worth OF lace
and the money was divided among n1ty-
one girls who made 1t.
America Means Much to Them.
| Every young person who can get money
enough goes to America. And II 1t were
not for the money they send back here
many OF their parents and younger broth
ers and sisters would starve. gentle
man who handles the postal orders
in one Of the most forlorn and
wretched villages of Ireland told me
the Christmas gifts of money that
| came from America kept many a
family in food during the winter. 1t is
the ambition of every young man and
woman to go to the United States: and
only the lack of steamship fare keeps
| them in Ireland. A sturdy lad OF eighteen
| who guided us across the moor TO the
| that he was going to Arizona as soon as
| his uncle who was doing very well out
there was able to send him the price. He
| asked many questions about that part or
the country. His uncle IS workng IN
gold mine near Tombstone and Is earn
| ing more than pound a day steady, six
days in the week. and they pay him double
wages II he works on Sunday To lad
| whose life is so barren and whose horizon
is so narrow. who sees his father and his
neighbors trying to wrest a scanty sus-
| tenance partly from the sea and partly
| from the soil. and scarcely catch enough
| fish or raise enough potatoes to feed the
mouths Of their own families pound a
| day looks like the income of an earl.
Their Religious Devotion.
The Catholic church at Glengariff is a
brand-new building of stone that looks
| large enough for ten times the population
of this parish, which has only about 400
souls men, woOlen and children. It was
built with American money, raised by
Father Brown, the late priest who went to
| Brooklyn, Boston and several other cities
of the United States and hunted up the
relatives ofthe people who lived here, and
/ those who went from these parts. From
| them he obtained $4,000. He was a good
man and took an interest in the temporal
4 ah NiV.itr, nj ,0If 10 hi
| people. Since his death Father Harring-
! ton has succeeded him and serves four
churches in radius of seventeen miles.
We attended mass Sunday. The church
with kneeling worshipers. and in the
| veSttbule. on the steps, and up to the
very foot of the altar. Around outside
were forty or fifty men and women kneei-
ing reverently upon the sod, although they
| couldn't hear the voice of the priest. One
| of the men told me he believed every
person in the parish was present, and they
always came unless they were too Ill to
| move. No storm could ever stop them. AS
| a rule they came from mountain cabins
| five and six miles away in carts and on
| foot" and some of them carried children
| In their arms the entire distance, Not
wfthstanding their poverty they were
better dressed than the working people of
| Dublin. Their clothes were neat well
| brushed and mended. However ragged
| the garments they wear on week days
may be- they always have decent suit
to wear to the house of God. The solem-
| nifty of the service was very impressive.
To these people the church is the gate OF
| heaven. Its decorations and ceremonials
appeal to their imagination, to their
senses of color and sound, and the mystic
| rites sink into their souls.
But Little Drinking and No Crime.
Although there are six saloons for a
parish of 400 people. the chief constable
tells me there is very little drinking or
disorder and practically no crime. He
| hasn't had case of robbery for a year,
and except upon convivial occa sions like
weddings and wakes they are very order
| ly. Most of the saloons, he tells me.
sell very little liquor and some of their
licenses run back for years being renewed
annually to the same family for genera
tlons. liquor license in Ireland cannot
ne taken away except for serious rea-
SONS sons as long as the annual fee is paid.
They can be sold or transferred. but If
! they lapse they are Cancelled.
An Angel Of Mercy.
In neat stone cottage, surrounded
by a well kept garden, among the rocky
mountain sides that overlook Bantry
oay' lives Lacta Walshe strong in body.
strong In mind and strong Of purpose.
she goes among the wretched novels In
this locality attending maternity cases
wnlch occur with amazing frequency
for the poorer the family the more chill.
dren is the rule. Miss Walshe does not
give her entire attention to midwiferv
however. but treats every case of Illness
that comes within her ken, from sore
fingers to delirium tremens That is not
q figure of speech. but an actual fact.
FOR many time at midnight has she
been called from her cottage to some
miserable stone howell in the mountain
| to quiet with opiates a drunken ruffiian
who Is haunted with reptiles and raving
In his dreams. Miss Walshe belongs to
the poor, and is kept here by society
with name Of fifteen words-"Lady
Dudley's Scheme for the Establishment
Of District Nurses in the Poorest Parts
of Ireland" She wears badge the
shape of a heart, supporting a crown
| and in the center Is shamrock leaf
encircled with the words Of Another One
who went about doing good as she
goes.
Countess Dudley's Poor Nurses.
The Countess of Dudley organized this
work in 1903, beginning with two nurses
in Geesala and Bealadangan, County
Galway. They did so much good that
the number has now been increased to
fifteen. They are located at places in
the poorest districts Of Ireland. where
there are no physicians and where the
people are too poor and the population
too scattered to suDport a doctor If one