Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
ETCHINeS OF LIFE IN CORK
Features of the Irish
Town, as Noted by an
American.

All sorts of uniforms you will see-reu'
green, plaid, with a variety of trimmings
that only women folk can remember AFTER
ward. And the children very often aAect
the military especially in the matter OF
navy caps with the ribbon carrying the |
name in gilt Of some warship Schoolboys
generally wear the little cloth skull cap |
as in Boston, very often bright red; but
many of them wear these sailor caps. ana
no doubt they rather envy the grownup
soldiers themselves, who swing along with
lighted cigarette and nobby walking stick,
the head often topped off with dtnky
little hat about the size ana shape of a
charlotte russo box
Honesty shines in the eyes of the people
here, grownups and immature. Thus, one
of us bought ha-penny paper, the Cork
Echo, from a poorly clad newsboy. The
buyer handed him half crown, all the
change he happened to have
A quick word and the boy darted off,
and though we knew that he knew he
would never see US again, somehow we
knew also that he would come back And
he came back with the change that he
had gone after. 1t isn't everywhere that
YOU would have that confidence.
And courtesy? The children of Cork land
Of Ireland generality will shame American
children in that respect. We ran across
a boy coming from school. Elton collar,
sailor hat, the words II. NJ. s." on the
band. books slung in a little sack over his
shoulder, so amusing altogether was he
that we had to stop him, and when we did
we found an innate courtesy simply unsur-
passable Hia "sirT was no confession of
civility it was mere good breeding, and
with our camera we added his photo to
our collection
Which reminds one that the children of
Ireland are getting plenty of schooling
these days. Compulsory education is now
the law, so that in twenty-five years Cork
and the rest of Ireland will be quite a diff
ferent country in that respect from what
II has been under the harsher laws Of the
past.
| And speaking of education, we ran down
! to Black Rock a suburb of Cork, to see
/ the famous Ursuline convent, some of
whose scholars are today making the en-
viable records in our own Wellesley back
home. It is a beautiful place, close by the
salmon fisheries of the city. Hereabout
live what the natives call 1.-THE quality
who sometimes pay a high price for those
same salmon in the spring, as much as
2 and shillings the pound.
| In the evening the crowds swarm over
st. Patricks bridge, the jaunting cars run
ming in and out between the moving lines
Now one will not see so many shawls as
before-even in the two years since our
last visit here the difference is quite no.
ticeable, due probably TO the example OF
the tourists landing here in such great
numbers of late years. There are few
automobiles here as yet compared to the
number on the continent
OF course the best known trip from Cork
lis the one to the Blarney Stone, which you
will find at the very top of the 12O-foot
4 castle nine miles out from Cork. fine
old castle II is, too, once a stronghold Of
the MacCarthys. The country all about It
Is beautiful. notably on the way out,
around the pretty 81. Anne shandon
church, where for a sixpence or a shilling
to the sexton you can hear again
The bells OF Shandon that sound so grand
/ on
The pleasant waters OF the River Lee
But do the Corkonians kiss the Barney
Stone? 1 put the question to one man
there A twinkle came into his eyes.
Sure" said he. what is the good at all
to be kissing an ovid gray stone when
Cork is full Of pretty girls waiting to be
kissed7"
Something in that, too, we thought as
we hurried for the train that was TO take
US 10 Killarney-T G. Connolly in Boston
Traveller.