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Show Irish Colleens Will Be Seen Here & & .& To Demonstrate "Making of. Lace EMERALD ISLE GIRLS WHO WILL GIVE INTERESTING EXHIBITION. gz0? isw They Come to the City as Representatives of the Gaelic League. "The soil 1h rich and fruitful, The air is mild and bland On the fair hills of Erin, O' Her barest rock Is greener To mo than this proud land O' the fair hUls of Erin, O' " SO have sung true bohb and daughters daugh-ters of Ireland throughout; many generations past in exile from their native land, and today the same song wells involuntarily up from native Irish hearts that carry a mem ory of tho "land where the Shamrock grows," no matter in what adopted country those hearts are beating. Beneath the hrathe (Gaelic capes) of the rosy ifaced Colleona who have come to Salt Lako City to conduct an exhibition exhibi-tion on behalf of tho Gaelic league, there is no doubt a ceaseless longing to go back home to Erin, where the birds make sweetest music, and the lields are always rcon. Howboit these girls are giving a most entertaining and instructive glimpse of tho industrial and artistic side of their native country in tho citios of the United States. They come from Ireland at the request of the American branch of the Gaelic league to demon strato the skill of tho Irish people, in the making of Irish laces and embroideries, embroid-eries, and the weaving of band-tufted rugs and other ornamental art industries. indus-tries. The exhibition, which is to be given in "Walker Bros, store, is under the personal per-sonal diroction of Fionnn MacCollum of wwmmmW j Iveraugh county, Kerr-, who is head organizor for tho Gaelic league for the whole south of Ireland, with headquarters headquar-ters in Cork City. Object of League. Mr. ATaoCollum speaks Gaelic fluont-ly fluont-ly and English with a musical Irish accent. Tho objects of tho Gaelic league aro to preserve tho Irish language, lan-guage, cultivate Irish literature, foster Irish music and pastimes, and to pro moto Irish industries. With Mr. MacCollum aro Miss Bride McLoughlin of Dublin, the Irish metropolis; me-tropolis; Miss Una McHalo of Sligo, and Miss Mary Cassidy from tho purple pur-ple moorlands and bluo lochs of Douo-gal. Douo-gal. all of whom will oxtend "coad mille failto" (a hundred thousand welcomes) to their exhibition any da' this week. Miss McHalo is an export lace maker. ma-ker. It is faBciuating to watch her pretty nimblo Angers weave the famous Carrlckmacross and Baby Irish crochet lacos. Miss Cassidy and Miss McLoughlin aro skilled in tho weaving of rugs and embroidery work. For tho rug weaving weav-ing they oporato on the old-fashioned type of hand loom, such as haB been used in Ireland for generations past. Tho dosigns of the rugs mado by these girlB aro on the intorlaced stylo of work typical of Celtic art, tho Trinity Trin-ity knot representing Etornity, and quaint figures of dragons and allegorical allegori-cal birds worked in hy moans of colored col-ored wools. Work in Costume. In kcoping with tho gonoral programme pro-gramme of the Gaelic league, which tis to cultivate as far as possiblo the distinctively dis-tinctively Celtic features of Ireland's historic dress, these young ladies while in charge of tho exhibit wear the ancient an-cient picturesque costume of tho women in Iroland. . These costumes woro specially designed de-signed at tho Dun Enier guild in Dublin, Dub-lin, Iroland, and aro richly embroidered with designs takon from tho famous book of IColls. Tho girls opoak Gaelic and English and aro accomplished musically as well as in their rospectivo arts and crafts. Tho oxhibit is eont from city to city by the Gaelic league, 62-1 Madison avenue, ave-nue, Now York, to intorost the American Ameri-can publio in tho revival going on in Ireland and In tho other Coltlc countries coun-tries in arts, crafts, language, literature litera-ture and music. In addition to tho work done by tho girls in demonstrating tho making of lacos and rugs, there is a very interesting interest-ing display of tho finest laces and lin-ona, lin-ona, and also of tho famous Bclleok china, Oonuomara marble ornaments, Irish horn rosaries, artistic Celtic woodwork, an Irish harp, collections of Trish music and literature and views of Irish sconcry. Fionan MacCollum arrived in the city on Friday afternoon and later in tho evening mot a number of sympathizers sympa-thizers with tho Gaelic leaguo, and dis-cussod dis-cussod with thorn various plans for helping tho campaign which tho leaguo is undertaking In Ireland." |