The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-02

Close Second 70 New York S
East Side
FALSE ILLUSIONS CORRECTED
No Pigs In Same Room with Families
Are seen-Poor Excuse for Circus
Parade Attracts Throng Of Eager
siahtseers.

Are Seen--rooF EXCUSE Tor ~iFCAA /
Parade Attracts ThrOns Of Eager
siahtssers.
By CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Dublin, Ireland Galway comes as
near as any Irish city that ever saw,
to rivaling New York's East side, for
dirtiness, and yet fair-minded OBJ
server would be compelled to tell Gal
way, when the time for awarding the
leather medal came, that she was only
a close second.
This does not SO much mean that
New York is dIrtier than realized
she was when was there, Is it means
that Ireland is not as dirty, as Eng
lish and Irish and Americans writer's
have pictured IT,
Perhaps, In some parts Of Ireland,
the pig still sleeps IN the room with
the family but as a faithful chron-
icler Of actual sights, cannot say
that / saw such sight, In any one OF
the many slums and villages visited
In 20 counties. / hate. to destroy go
poetic an illusion. There was some
thing idyllie in the thought Of pink
little pig, and a pink little boy, the
two Of them, the pink Of neatness,
lying side by side in happy-heartcd
Irishmans cabin while pig and boy
and Irishman starved to death, but
the truth was something better than
that.
There we're pigs. and little boys, but
they we're not neatly pink, and they
were not starving, and the old man
did not swing shillalah, or sing
songs as was passing by
Shillalahs were never so plentiful
as they are now, but they are made
to supply the foreign demand for
them, and the Irishman is amused and
perhaps bit contemptuous, as he
sees Americans, with never dropsoi
Irish blood in them, buying shillalahs
TO take home, for the sake Of senti
ment.
| wish ] might write that ! saw evi
dences Of destiution on every side
It would please the sentimentalIsts-
but | did not There we're beggars
but not so many as I had feared
would see, and they did not chase nj
any harder than youngsters havi
chased me in City Hall park in New
York demanding a cent to buy stef
ilized milk
In Sligo, l was followed by a poo
woman carrying a baby, and as sh
raised her hand for aims her shaw
dropped Of, and disclosed her naket
ness to the waist. but was assure
BY a Sligo gentleman that she was
professional beggar from out Of tow
, and that possibly the baby was nc
!, hers, and / know for fact that SD
went to a public house with th
, money gave her.
= And all the time was fumbling
3 my pocket for coppers, she was wisl
= ing me happy days"
y She stands out in my recollection q
Il the most abiect beggar I saw.
a But in Galway there is dirt an
g squalor, and It is picturesque. Thei
n IN the Claddagh, one meets with O.
a hags who are hideous enough, al
k. Spanish looking enough, to have iu
ID left helasquez' studio, where one CT
a imagine them posing as models. 4
Is some masterpiece Of the great res
n ist
e Barefooted they are. ana the hon
e ~ ones have a great desire 10
u photographed.
III Many and many wee the pret
women saw IN Ireland, but my car
era recorded but few Of their line
ments. while was asked more hi
=. once by plain women to take their p
lures.
One nailed me as I was passing h
n vegetable shop in the Claddagh. S
6o was cross-eyed. poor thing. and. In
u. land where pretty features are as pie
- tiful as blackberries she was pla
~ but she besought me to take her .
ne ture.
ed Now. when woman asks you
he photograph her. you don't feel II
as refusing her, and I was too much Of
ne novice to make feint Of swapping
w. shutter and passing un, so | stopp
he and tried to see a picture in the c
Ity rots and cabbages that were display
he at the door.
as Such a simpering, conscious fl
as she displayed / tried to enga
-th her in talk, so that she would at ie
mt look naturally homely. but It was
nd use. Every time my finger strayed
IVY. to the little lever. her lips would
ma come set in a mile. one eye wo
he look at the camera. and one wo
as look at me, and she would become
It's, incarnation Of consciousness.
IN At last / snapped her and passed
me After that took good care to hu
'ce past plain women
40 The day before. at a railway stati
I had gone in to get a bit Of lnn