Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-12

the band should strike up to fill IN the
intermission between the number pre-
ceding met was a shorter in the
mother tongue that pulled all OF the
pinochle players out of their seats
and my presentation by the master OF
ceremonies. Jokiugly, I suggested
THE Wearing OF the Green" I did
not speak that day or for several days
,afterward The attack was not direct
led at me personally, but some Of the
missiles hurled at the musicians miss
ed their mark and landed on me.
Thus, 1t strikes me that a young
man, just coming out in public life, as
1t were, meaning you, while feeling
Ehonored at an invitation to deliver
st. Patr1ck's day address, ought to be
iguarded in his attire and in his re-
marks. You say the organization Is
the Irish Fellowship club That sounds
well, but it permits of such elasticity
of sentiment and opinions that you
might unconsciously drop into an OPEN
ing you would spend the remainder OF
your life pulling yourself out OF.
am reminded OF a young friend OF
mine who took his girl to an Orange
mems picnic While he knew that 1t
was the annual observance of the bat
tie OF the Boyne, he did not appreciate
the significance OF colors as appertain-
ing to the occasion, and so he thought
it nothing unusual that he should have
picked his green socks when he was
dressing in his room in the morning
before calling for his lady friend. The
latter had been invited to be the guest
of a family that had been intimate
with her parents back in the early
days. The dinner was served In the
woods The girl and her friend with
the green socks sat down as two OF
the members of the family. The young
chap presently, in moving about, drew
I'D his trousers Did you ever see how
one of those gentleman cows acts when
a red flag is in sight? Not quite that
bad, but the young man learned more
that day about the battle of the Boyne
than he ever dreamed before.
So my bunch to you is, to study the
guest list In advance and learn where
they do their praying. There's whole
lot In that. Get list of the commit
tees, and pay particular attention to
the work OF the committee ON decora~
itions- By some pretense make it a
point to get peep into the hall where
the banquet Is to be held a day before
the doings Is pulled off. If the red,
white and blue and the green and the
yellow are punched, it's a split ticket;
I'm other words, the flag of truce is up
accordingly. II the green is above the
yellow, you can easily guess which
party is IN power. If the yellow is
above the green, remember the chap
iat the picnic dinner.
IT'S not a difficult matter to take
middle ground at a blowout of that
character. My advice to you is to
keep your chapeau on straight and
sit steady In the boat. In other words,
make your trip over the Emerald isle
as rapidly as possible. Picture it as
the home of one of the bravest of races
of the age. That line ought to har-
monize, and get you a hand Then
get across the ocean as fast as you
can, and start after the American
eagle. Fly her as long as you think
they will stand for 1t. Take the Turk
into the different walks of life where
he has made good, throw out a string
of Irish names - balance up the
churches as evenly as possible-and
TIL wager that you'll be one Of the
most popular men In your burg the
next day. Be sure and have a couple
of copies ready for the newspapers,
and give these out the day before the
doings in order that they can have