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New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
Their faces from US.
Thro' the death and passion
OF our Saviour Jesus Christ.

The first stanzas are from an old Irish poem
translated by the great Celtic scholar, kuno
Never. and put into metrical verse by Alfred
Perceval Graves. The second was written
down from popular tradition by Professor
MscNeill and is given in DR.. Hydes collection
of folksongs, The Religious Songs OF Con-
nacht"
Even in the most sophisticated parts OF the
country the fairies are spoken OF with respect;
they are the good people" and it Is wise to
say little about them. 1t is known that they
take away handsome children and sometimes
brides They delight in music, and often they
carry off good fiddler or piper to attend
them in their revels under the 'rath," or grassy
mound.
The two preternatural beings most spoken
about in Ireland are the leprechaun and the
banshee The leprechaun is only the artisan
of the fairies. But he knows where their
crooks of gold are hidden. He is very little
fellow, and he is always engaged in his trade OF
shoemaking. II you are near "rath" or an
old castle you may hear the sound OF his ham
mering. If you discover the fellow, draw
close to him without making a sound that
would betray you. If you are lucky you may
be able to take him in your grasp. Then ask
him where those crooks OF gold are hidden.
Insist upon his telling you, and do not let
your mind be dssipated by his excuses But
in the end he will cheat you. He will say or
do something that will distract your atten-
ton, and when you look again the leprcchaun
will have disappeared.
The banshee is tragic invention She
stays near house and walls for the one who
is about to die. Those who know how piercing
it is to hear the keen, or the peoples lament
for the dead, will realize what terrible visitant
the banshee would be. In all respects this
lone. mysterious creature is like the keener
or mourner for the actual dead. Those who
have looked upon her describe her as drawing
comb through her hair. She is probably
tearing out her hair in the manner Of the old
mourners The banshee haunts only the fami-
lies of the high Milesian race"-that is, the
people who are entitled to have an 20" or q
Mac" before their names And she walls
only for those who are descendants cf noble
families.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
"He goes right away to a moving
pictures"

ing to sell customer goods, you natu-
rally don't take him to see Hamlet Am
right or wrong?'
You don't take him to a moving pict-
ures, neither" Zapp said.
Il know you don't Birsky replied.
Asking customer to go to a theayter
and then taking him to moving pictures,
Zapp, is the equivalence of inviting him
TO lunch and then blowing him at drug
store to an egg chocolate with matted
milk"
AT that there's lots Of people makes
luncheon off of chocolate matted milk,
Zapp said
THEY'RE welcome, for all OF me" Br-
sky said, but SO long as I've got the price
would stick to soup, meat, dessert and
coffee, and I'm the same way about gong
to show. When l go broke, I'll be a
moving picture fan too. Zapp, but as it
stands, when feel like taking in theay-
ter / want to see show which was writ
ten bv an author, not truck driver. Also
like to hear an actor as we'll as sec HIM
Zapp."
Me. too," Zapp agreed and if he's got
other talents besides falling out OF an
oitermobile going thirty miles an hour
Birsky. so much the better
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
Who Are the + Aries?
By PadraiC COlum.
are the fairies?"

llVV THO are the tairies'
w asked the question once OF ar
w old blind wanderer l met upon an
empty road in the weat OF Ireland l can still
see his face filled with intensity of conviction
"The fairies" he repeated. II will tell you
who the fairies are. God moved from his seat,
and when He turned round Lucifer was IN It,
Then hell was made in minute. God moved
His hand and swept away thousands OF angels.
And it was in His mind to sweep away thou
sands more. %. God Almighty, stop! said the
Angel Gabriel; heaven will be swept clean out.
III stop said God Almighty. Them that are
in heaven. let them remain in heaven them
that are in hell, let them remain in hell. and
them that are between heaven n' hell let
them remain in the air And the angels that
remained between heaven and hell are the fair
les"
What he said was as true to the man as one
of the Gospels. For those who have kept IN
touch with the Celtic tradition it is necessary
to create mighty origin for the fairies or, as
they are called in Gaelic, THE Shee" (Sidhe).
The names that Shakespeare gave his English
elves-"Pease Blossom" and Mustard Seed
could never be made apply to the Irish tairles,
for they belong to an order only lower than
that of the angels. An old Irish poet wrote OF
them:
Small wonder that their strength is great,
Since royal in estate are all;
Each heros head lions fell
A golden yellow name lets fall.
"Corely and smooth their bodies are,
Their eyes the starry blue eclipse
The pure white crystal of their teeth
Laughs out beneath their thin red lips.
Good are they at thanksgiving feats
Melodious over meats and ale;
OF woven verse they WELD the spell,
At chcss-craft they excel the Gael"
The Irish fairies are the old gods OF the
Celts, and the people have not yet forgotten
that they are representative of great powers
and dominions The popular attitude to them
is shown in the charm against the fairy power
that is still uttered in the Islands of Arran:
We accept their protection,
And we refuse their removal;
Their backs TO US,
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
CHILL CON CARNE,
l5c.

That's the difference between Mr. Belasco
and moving picture fellers. What do they
care about being artistic if it's going to
cost an extra ten dollars, Zapp? All they
want is to keep the expenses down.
That's where you make big mis-
take" Zapp declared. Moving picture
fellers is eaten up with expenses. For in
stance, the wages which moving picture
fellcrs pays to their actors is something
terrible. Five hundred week IS small
already
We'll, why not'" Birsky retOrted
Look what a moving picture actor is got
to do to earn his money. We will say, tor
example that he goes to work at nine
o'clock. At half past nine he goes up to
Central Park and falls out of an otermo-
bile running thirty miles an hour. The
first time he falls out, maybe the teller
that works the camera wasn't looking, so
he's got to fall out again. This time
somebody moves the camera, so ne tails
out a third time, and one way or another
they keep that actor falling out OF an
otermobile going thirty miles an hour
from half past nine to lunch time. Sup
posing he does get five hundred dollars
week. Is that a life? l ask you
lust the same, it's lot OF money to
pay" Zapp said, "and furthermore all the
moving picture actors gets contracts tor
year already
But what is such contracts worth!
Birsky asked. IF moving picture teller
wants to get rid of such contract, all he
has got TO do is to get the party OF the
second part to play Ned in fillum where
Ned escapes from the Sheriff by leaping
on horseback from a cliff FIVE hundred
feet high, understand and the widow
can frame the contract and hang 1t IN the
front parlor as a sowveneer OF the two
weeks when her husband oiar hdShoiom
used to make five hundred dollars a
week
Zapp sighed heavily.
Il got designer which has me under
three years contract since last Tuesday
already" he said. land if | could hire
Maxine Elliott for a model and I. M
Schwab for salesman, | couldn't get rid
of that murderer's designs for the cost OF
the Innings alone. There's big money in
it for somebody who could persuade that
Kosher to play in filum where Ned gets
locked in a burning ranch by the Mexi
can for thousand dollars a week.
would pay two weeks salary out OF my
own pocket, and if they amt got ranch
to burn | would even schenck the moving
picture concern a house out in Borough
Park which I got vacant on my hands
since 1913
Maybe you think such thing ain
possible that waist designer should get
a lob as a moving picture actor'" birsky
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
By MONTAGUE GLASS,
illustrations by Briggs.

CopgriqM I9lG-Ihe Tribune Assn.
llT MET Sam Polongin in the subway
this morning. Barnett Zapp, the
= waist manufacturer, said, as with
the aid of his thumb and quart OF gravy
which remained from his portion OF ge-
fadte Mite NIT Fnfel, he demonstrated
The capillarity Of slice of rye bread.
And how is the herring business
Louis Birsky the real estater asked.
What do you mean-the herring busi-
ness?" Zapp demanded The herring
business is now side issue for Sam. Him
and J. Schlapp of Katzberg & Schlapp
in the pants business has formed the
.haroses Fillum Company and next week
they are going to release their first fillum
by the name The Fatal Murder
The way it looks nowadays" Birsky
said, everybody has got two businesses
his regular business and the moving
picture business"
All except the feller in the cheap candy
BUSINESS" Zapp said. There amt moth
ing in the cheap candy business no more.
BrSky, on account if lady gives her six
y.ar-old boy five cents he should buy
himself a tahy on stick, y'understand,
he goes right away to moving pictures
instead and blows in the nickel to see
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors
Wife feature hllum in FIVE reels.
Not alone cheap candy" Birsky said,
Out every business is feeling the ettects
OF the moving picture business few
Businesses favorable, like the delicatessen
and lunchroom business, which the near
st some married men has got to home
looked dinner since the moving pictures
Started is half a pound of sliced lunch
'on bolony NIT Kartofet Salad. linen
mere is the spectacle business, which
while in former times ladies whose hus-
lands made from thirty dollars week
sO"n used to get housemaids knee from
@epng the fiat looking as neat as pin'
understand, they have now got to be
'"ed with glasses for eye strain from
"s'ching moving pictures every afternoon
pto five minutes before six or five min
ives before whatever time the husband
zones home"
We'll, there's one business moving
T''uTes amt improved none birsky
'''u and that's the regular theayter
OaSlness. Even on first nights nowadays
~ehity-cent gallery and balcony is empty
,"'eptng the ushers and couple o.
wen reporters with false mustaches and
smoked glasses which was barred out by
New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
NED DISCOVERS HIS
SISTER IN A FASH
IONABLE B r 0 A D.
w AY RESTAURANT.

and afterwards they show the fashionable
Broadway restaurant, and on the wall Is
sign:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Unable 10 Go to School.

"I am a widow and have two children. They are boy and a girl, 13 and Il years old respectively. Both are smart chil dren. The boy goes to work and helps me in making our living. The girl helps. too, but she is craving for an education. She has been to school only once, for a term of three months, yet she can read and write well and loves to draw. She can draw anything she sees and is anxious to learn to draw as a profession. know she will succeed if she has the chance. but she has never had lessons. Can you suggest or find some way that she can have her long craving for learning fulfilled? I am unable to send her Q school for lack of everything, so write this in the hope that you will find a so- lution. My boy is my only support and I wish I could send him to good school but wishing and worrying don't help.
 MRS. R. C."
 I should think there might be many who would be interested in the writer and in her children and lend them hand toward the education of the boy as well as the girl. In the hope that this may be the case I print her letter and will supply her address on application.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
COMPANY DISHE

into neat round. Dredge flour over 1t after 1t is laid in the baking pan, cover with thin slices of salt pork, and bake at the rate of half an hour to the pound. It must be pasted frequently, at first with tablespoon of butter melted in @ cup or boiling water. after that with a gravy from the meat, When done, take up the meat and remove the bone with sharp knife and fill the space left empty with pint of oysters which have been cooked to p1umpness in their own liquor ana then put with sauce made from a table spoon each of butter and flour, half pint of the oyster liquor, and salt and pepperto taste Thicken the gravy left in the pan with a little Drowned flour and pour over the roast.
 TIPSY CAKE.
 Make custard of two cups of milk, the yolks of three eggs. and half cup of sugar Cook until smooth and put 1t aside until cold. Slice a stale sponge cake, lay it in glass or china bowl. and pour over it slowly half pint of sherry or of liquor from branded peaches. The cake should absorb all the liquor. When it has soaked in pour on the custard. heap on top a meringue made from the whites of eggs beaten stiff with tablespoon of powdered sugar, and dot this here and there with bits of bright fruit jelly or with maraschino cherries
 A delicious dish is made by spreading chopped branded peaches on the soaked cake and putting the meringue or whipped cream on this.
 MACAROON ICE CREAM.
 Beat three eggs light with heaping cup of sugar, pour pint of hot milk upon them, put over the fire in a double boiler. and cook until the custard is creamy When it is cold mix with it half pound of stale macaroons which have been pounded fine or crushed with rolling pin into crumbs, pint of cream. and teaspoon of vanilla. Beat hard, turn into a freezer, and freeze long enough before the dish is wanted to allow it time to be packed down for two hours after the dasher is withdrawn.
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bubbling, and pouring half pint of boil ing water upon them. Stir to smoothness. season with half onion cut in slices, a bay leaf, small bunch of parsley, @ stalk of celery. salt and pepper to taste. Lift out the chicken with a fork. lay it in this sauce and leave it there for half an hour, putting it at the side of the stove or over a low flame, that it may simmer. but not scorch. Shake the saucepan every few minutes, that the contents may not burn. At the end of the half hour take out the chicken and strain the sauce and return it to the fire with dozen mushrooms cut in halves or a cup of cooked green peas. When hot pour over the chicken, which should have been arranged on a hot plat ter.
 LAMBS BREAST OUTLETS.
 The breast of lamb should be trimmed of bits of fat and skin. laid in enough stock or consomme-the canned con- somme will answer excellently-to cover 1t, with @ stalk of celery, sliced onion, bunch of parsley, and slice of lemon, and simmered in this for an hour. The meat must then be taken out and after the bones are removed laid on a flat dish with 8 weighted plate on top and left to become cold It is then cut into neat strips or outlet shaped pieces of uniform size. each of these dipped into cracker crumbs seasoned with a little salt and pepper, next into beaten egg, into crumbs again, and laid in baking pan. A bit of butter is placed on the top of each, they are baked to a delicate brown and served around a mound of mashed potatoes, or of peas, or string beans or sliced and saute young carrots, or fried celery.
 This is another dish which can be pre- pared ahead of time and requires only the final cooking and arranging on the platter to be ready for the table. It is unusual, good. and not so expensive as chops.
 ROAST FILLET OF VEAL.
 This piece should not weigh more than five pounds and the 5one should not be removed but the meat skewered and tied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Needed in a School.

am writing from an industrial school to ask If there is not some one who will be kind enough to donate a second hand Greek testament and a typewriter to us. The testament is for a young minister who is unable to attend school, but wants to advance in the ministry.
 Mas. M. B. R. I am not at all sure that the typewriter can be secured, but it seems likely to me that the second hand Greek testament may be contributed by some clergyman or theological student who is anxious to help on the good work of education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Seeks Missing Brother.

"I hope some of the readers of the Cor ner can help me to find my brother. He left my home some fourteen years ago to go west, and I have never heard of him since then. He is tall, has blue eyes, and is about 3S years old. His name is Hiram Jasper Kirkpatrick, and he is sometimes called Hi Kirkpatrick. My two sisters are dead, and I am here all alone and would like very much to find my brother if he is living. I lived in Palmyra, Mo-, when he went away. E. E. K.
 Other wanderers have been found through the agency of the Corner, and l hope the lost brother may be discovered by it's means now. will give the address of the sister on application of any one who is able to put her on the brothers track.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Supply Is Exhausted.

Mrs. A. l.. s. states that she has quan- titles of reading matter. paintings, etc., she will gladly send to appreciative per sons who will pay postage. Please give me her address. MRS. J. R. s.
 Unfortunately the supply offered had been exhausted before the above letter was received. I have placed the writer's name and address on file. Is there not some one who can send her some of the things she asks?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

until smooth, put the oyster liquor and chopped oysters into it, and season with salt and white pepper. Have ready an egg beaten light and stir this into the soup, a drop at time, stirring all the while to prevent curdling, and serve at once adding the juice of a small lemon just before turning out ths soup.
 Ali the preparations fer this soup ex- cept the final mixing of the oysters and liquid and of the thickened milk may be cone in advance. and the two parts put together, the egg added. and the season rs, the last thing before dinner The hsh soup may also be made ahead of time and heated over for dinner.
 CREAM OF CELERY SOUP.
 Wash a small bunch of celery and cut 1t into inch lengths or use the outer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

alone, as her mother is compelled to go out and work, since her father is in such poor health that he cannot earn enough to support the family. Any kind of pieces for patchwork, ribbons, reading matter. or souvenir cards will be gratefully re- ceived by this invalid, whose one joy Is to get something through the mail.
 'E. G. IT.
 The Cornerite who prefers this request is known to us as one who does many kindnesses to those who turn to the Cor ner for help and cheer I hope the case of this young girl may arouse the interest of others of our good workers and that before long she may be cheered by the arrival through the mail of some of the articles which will help her to pass the many lonely hours. In writing for her address ask for that of Nancy D. instead of requesting the signature affixed to the letter. Let me express my own thanks to the writer of the letter for the good deeds she has done to other Cornerites.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Dressing for Housework.


 AGREE with your friend and your ee | self that when a woman becomes
 careless about her dress she has
 ! lost something of value to both her.
 self and those about her. But how in the name of everything that is right can you condemn woman for untidiness sim ply because of the fact that she has no cellar on? Who that has common sense will wear stiff1y starched collar on the neck when bending over a steaming hot wash tub or cooking at a hot stove? For myself, I have never yet worn collar when doing housework, having my house dresses cut with either a low round or square neck. If your friend had found run down heels, spotted dresses or aprons, or uncared for hair, would not be sur prsed at your exclamation of. %, l am so sorry! That is too bad!' But in con- nection with her not having on any col lar your dlismay is simply ludicrous.
 "B. " l." Was there anything said about stiffiy starched collar in the talk to which this letter refers? When I spoke of a collar I had in mind something in the line of white about the neck. Again and again in this department I have advised that work dresses be made with the neck cut low, but have always taken for granted that there would be finish of some kind other than plain binding. For myself, have neat white collars, which turn back from the throat and do not imprison the neck in the least would agree with Mrs B. " J. in describing the collar she assumes I call for as ludicrous. but the fact is that asked for nothing of tine sort. only as have just said for something that would rive touch of neatness to the dress and would not have the bare and unattractive appearance always offered by frock or waist absolutely lacking collar of any kind.
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stalks of couple of punches, reserving the white inner stalks to be served sepa- rately or for salad Put the celery into a saucepan with enough salted cold water to cover it, bring it to boil. and cook for three-quarters of an hour, or until it will go through colander or vegeta- ble press. Cook heaping teaspoon of butter and one of flour together until they bubble. Pour upon them three cups of hot milk, stir until smooth, add the celery pulp. season, and serve.
 Boiled carrots, asparagus. green peas. spinach, onions, and other vegetables may be made into cream soup by the same process and are improved by the addition of tiny squares of bread, fried crisp in butter and passed with the soup. so that each guest may take what he de- sires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

n WEEK ago I printed couple of A letters I had received asking in T structions for entertaining with
 out service and gave some sugges-
 tions for doing this satisfactorily. At the time it occurred to me that not only the young housekeeper who desires to give small dinners in an attractive fash ion but also the older woman who may have fallen out of the habit of entertain ing might be helped by recipes for cer- tain dishes suitable to serve at company meals.
 When refer to dishes for company do not mean that there should be a line drawn between those offered at such time and those provided for the family when alone. But we all have tendency to slip into rut, and it is salutary once in while to widen our bills of fare and put into them dishes with which we have hitherto been unfamiliar. The occasion of inviting guests to our table furnishes us with a chance for doing this and, so to speak, 5ogs our inclination and shakes us out of our regular habits.
 The dishes for which give recipes need not be expensive or difficult, although perhaps little more elaborate or costly than we can afford to have for everyday use. Let me repeat my warning that all new recipes should be tested before they are used for company, that the house. keeper may have confidence in her re- suits.
 CREAM OF FISH SOUP.
 For this can of salmon may be used or one pound of solid fresh fish-cod or r.. -~~SIt FTJt.~ a must be faked to pieces, all bits of skin and bone thrown out, and it must then be put into a saucepan with enough boiling water just to cover 1t, simmered in this for twenty minutes, taken from the fire, drained, and the fish rubbed to smooth paste.
 Three cups of milk should be heated in double boiler with tiny rinch of baking soda and this poured upon a tablespoon fiji of flour and two tablespoons of but ter, which have been cooked to the bub- bling point in a saucepan. When the milk and thickening have cc oked together to creamy consistency. stirring con- stantly. the fish should te added. all cooked until boiling hot, pepper and salt put in to taste, and the jui,,s of one lemon, and the soup may be served at once.
 This is so heavy soup that 1t may we'll take the place of both a soup and a fish course.
 OYSTER BASQUE.
 This Is another soup which will serve for soup and fish course. Drain the iiquor from pint of oyste: and put with this liquor enough water to make pint of the fluid. Chop the oysters small, turn hem into the liquid, bring to boil, and cook for three minutes. Cook together a tablespoon each of butter and of flour, pour upon them a pint of hot milk, stir