Evening star., 1926-03-14
Land of the Shamrock: Its Village Green,
Backbone Clubs and Irish Bull Farms
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

S Arrah Gawan, the great Irish
~ general, said at the Battle of
"A Oranges, which turned out TO
4 A be grapefruit for one side or
the other, well anyways, as
he said, eff you see a head, hit 1t, but
remember, two heads are better than
one"
And the truth of whatever that IS
supposed to mean certainly come over
me strong the other day when our
cook give me notice and not biscuits
for lunch and I didn't know really just
what to do as she was pretty near
the last of her race and l certainly
wished / had George. that's my hus-
band, there to put his head together
with mine and figure out some ways
10 keep her. But for the moment she
had me down. without a word TO say.
I mean down and pretty near OUT,
too. on account ! had my hat on all
ready to go to a league meeting with
Miss Demeanor, that bottle blonde. the
one that's engaged to DR.. Salary, and
the cook knew it and took advantage.
She was wise to the fact l wouldn't
have no time just then to answer her
back, so she spoke with considerable
of this Irish freedom you used to hear
SO much about and which they have
now got a great deal of. as l realized
No, mann, / wouldn't stay another
week in this house, she says. the
way the electric lights is all the time
going out, but I get no time out at
all and as for the garbage man. he
amt been here in three days. / been
waiting to kill him when he does
come. I hope nothing happened to
the poor man since we seen him, but
can't go on all the time carrying out
hot 30
And she says, the water from your
taps is hard enough to break my
hands, washing in 1t and my back is
broke carrying up coal. I'm no OK to
do work like that. I'm sick and tired
of that bad kid of yours. he don't
mind nobody. trapsing in dirt all the
time and me Wore out cleaning up
after him. The place don't suit mo
at ALL I'm leaving in the morning. But
before | go | want you to know my
people was kings in Ireland, they's
better then the whole pack Of We!
Well naturally. this was an awful
depressing thought, and II made me
mad as we'll Here I had been Just
crazy about Mary and now I was just
crazy, in the other sense. and as soon
as ever Miss Demeanor come for me
and I and her had started out to our
meeting. I told Miss Demeanor all the
things which I would of liked to Of
said to Mary
OF all the changeable peonIe, L
says, you can't count on thnn two
minutes. here I thought I had Mary
all sewed up for the season and now
she goes asking for ticket of leave
] wisht I could think II was really a
rain check she wanted, Wen. saws
Miss Demeanor. servants is like the
rest of life. here todav and gone to-
.fr~1,
be philosophical about 1t as try and
fight the inevitable.
X X *
WELL, didn't know exactly what
she meant by them big words.
She is always using them long, medi.
cal terms, on account of being en-
gagged to NJ. D. So I merely saws
yes dear, believe you're right and
let her lead me to the meeting Miss
Demea nor is simply wonderful about
getting IN meetings and organizing
leagues. bet she was the originator |
Of the seven league boots, she is for. |
ever running from one to another. |
The month before this she had been |
awful busy forming a league to get |
up Rescue Home for Fallen |
Arches, but this month it was a
league for the Return Of the Snakes |
to Ireland.
Naturally, on the way to 1t I got
to thinking about Ireland. and all 1t
had done for the world. OF course
/ would, with St Patrick's Day al
most here the cook almost gone and
this meeting directly ahead. And the
more I thought Of the Emerald Isle,
the more I wished I could see it,
especially since it got its freedom and
become a reconstructed Emerald Isle.
For a sample. understand that In
Irelan nd the dancing is son hing won |
derful. They say they do dance
over there called the Shilleh that's