Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-09-03

ut HAS been said that Dublin has
more the character of CONT
mental than an English city; this
Is true in way, but 1t is not
the first thing that strikes the visitor
from across the Irish sea. The most
striking thing about Dublin is that its
architecture bears traces of being all
OF one time. says a writer In the Chris
tian Science Journal. To us who are
used TO the extraordinary hotchpoteh
of London, deriving It's Characters
tics of brick and stone from every
conceivable century. there u.s. something
peculiarly attractive about the street
upon street Of square Georgian houses.
London always seems to be in a state
of violent reaction against everything
which is called eighteenth century"
so that those parts of London which
most resemble Dublin seem most for
elgn to our conception of London IT.
self. Perhaps II is because it isGeorg-
icu that Bloomsbury attracts a par
ticular type of inhabitant, as often
as not a cultured foreigner, not to
be found In the urbanity of Mayfair,
nor in the banality of Mazda Vale.
And If You maggie a city where all
the streets arr like Great 0rmond
street and the squares like the Blooms
bury squares, you have an honest con-
ception of Dublin.
Nor does the eighteenth century APP
pear in the houses alone; there are
those in Dublin who carry on the ira
dition CT old world courtllness which
has long become rare enough to be re-
glarkable even In Bloomsbury; 1t Is
true that they are few in number even
here, but they are sufficient to leave
certain fragrance OF other days in
craving room and coffee house
Clad In Romance.
Before getting on board the boat
eft Holyhead, Great Britain win leave
memories Of abject Anglesea in the
travellers mind, and when the waste
of sea reveals ahead of him the first
contours of Ireland, the mountains
rise up TO greet him with very diff
ferent face from that of the fiat
and cherries little island he has
just crossed, They are almost bla-
family green. so that he must per-
force murmur platltudes beneath his
breath about the emerald isle"
Dubliners are forever conscious of
those mountains near by. they escape
70 them as often as they can and
endow them with a symbollcal mean
ing. The Dublin mountains seem TO
have got misplaced from the far
west; they are that part OF primeval
Connacht which has set itself at the
door OF Dublin ia order TO turn the
heart OF the Gael west rather than
east In the Dublin mountains there
travel to and fro the old Migrants
with whom fingers the memory of a
Celtic poetry and from whom Synge
and Yeats and the rest have gathered
so much local color,
In Dublin itself this old culture
fingers alongside of the modern and
English industrialism Of the Life
and the quaysldes, and in the dirty
streets on the north side one can
stu come across a ballad singer with
little group round him.
Charles Lever, when he was at
Trinity college, dressed az q ballad
singer and earned 30 shilliEgs in the
Dublin s:Tee1s- and another and even
more famous Trinity college student
earned a crown every now and then
for street song. This young man
was Oliver Goldsmith, whose statue
now graces the entrance to the uni
versity, than whom no man could he
found more typical Of the best perioC
OF Dublin's prosperity.
The Bohemian Quarter.
Today all the varied energies, po
htcal, literary social, are concen
trated into space bounded by Graf
ton street Stephens green, Trinity
college ratings and Merton square
within these limits there Is Scarcell
a house that does not conceal som,
enthusiasm. Not the least interesting
are thg little shops where enthusiast
seek to turn business into an art
the "Sod of Turf" where you car
talk and eat and drink In Gaelic
where the fire Is a real turf fire. ant
the waitress real Kerry Gael; IN,
Crock OF Gold" where the genius
which produced James Stephens
masterpiece is turned to the making
nf homespun Jumpers and the like
e, that the streets of somber eight
zenith century Dublin may blaze witt
calor that would delight a postum
presSionist; then there Is the IrisI