The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-25
Will Be Social Center of the
 Three Kingdoms
LECTURES THE WOMEN
Judge Says Society Women Are Dis honest and Then Gives His Wife
 Big Check-Receives Two
 Hundred Proposals
By THOMAS EMMETT

Dublin, August 24.-(Special) )-Next week this city twill be the social centre of the Three Kingdoms. It is horse show week, which brings all the great notables ever the little strip of Irish sea and turns the thoughts of rich and poor alike to the steeds and gay games to be seen at Falls bridge.
 The hotels are all full and the man. sions of the Irish nobility on Leinster Ylawn and Merrion square are bright with laughter song and the merrymak- ing of hosts and guests. Dublin brides herself when it comes to knowing how to entertain and the list of state and pri- eate functions for the coming 10 days is enough to turn one's head dizzy.
 LoId and Lady Aberdeen will as usual, dc the Viceregal honors of the horse show, and attend 1t in state on two days, accompanied by party of yiceregal vis- itors are a large staff. The commander of the forces will also be present with a large party and staff, and Lady Paget Is expected to make her first appearance in her new position as hostess at the Royal 1 hospital.
 The show will open on Tuesday and /. last for four days. two of which, Wednes- oay and Thursday, will be formal state days. Race meetings and poio matches [ ih the Phoenix park with its attractive polo ground just outside the viceregal gardens, will add to the festive attrac- lions of the week.
 There is no more dishonest class on earth than the average society woman, 1 said Judge Kenny of the Irish King s bench in refusing an application to set aside an order for replevin issued against a young matron, whose gowns have been the envy of many of the best dressed women in Irish high life. "They think nothing of robbing their dressmakers their servants and their husbands and children so that they can bedeck them selves like Haunting peacocks and make each other as jealous as a cobra. It is scandalous. and then they have the au- dacity to come into court and ask a judge to relieve them of the conse- uuences of their own exaravagant folly Such women are undeservlng of the least consideration"
 Mrs. Kenny, who Is one of the gay est women in Dublin, was in court while her husband was delivering this lecture on the follies of the sex She laughed, later, as she showed a friend a very handsome check -'Froth, my dear, said Mrs. Kenny. That's the way with the men. They scold us one minute, pet us the next; and then they expect us to be reasonably sensible when the best we can do is to be sensiby reasonable.. The judge Is noted for his fondness for l his wife and she rules him, as she says mischieviousy, with a shrug and a hug
 No fewer than 200 proposals of mar riage have been received by Miss Bridget Brannigan, the young woman who first called the attention of the Dunshaughlin council to the large number of unmarried men in the district, and so led to their being requested under threat of eviction from their cottages, where they lived alone, to find wives forthwith One of the, proposals came from young rancher fin one of the western states across the Atlantic, and contained "a draft for 5000, and the succinct message; s'"Come. saw your picture and it looks good to me" l Art in Ireland has been the subject of conversation most in evidence recently in Dublin and our new Lord Mayor spoke forcible words when he received the va- rious deputations connected with mus eums and picture galleries in Britain at the municipal gallery in Harcourt street. There Dublin possesses a wonderful se- lection of modern pictures, many given tsome lent only) by Sir Hugh Lane. with the understanding that they should be properly shown, and suitably protected, for the benefit of the Irish public Five years have passed since the gift was made, and since that time Irish artists and men of wealth QiSe Lord Iveagh). have added considerably to the collec- ition. The present king and queen, too have been donors, as well as many m- portant Irish people. Irish artists like MT. John Lavery, Mr. shannon, etc., at ihome and abroad have been more than generous. but the old Georgian mansion, once the town house of John Scott, Earl of Clonmell Is quite unsuited for a pic Cure gallery. The lighting is all wrong, fand the danger from fire and injury can mot be minimized 84