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Show AN IEISH VILLAGE. The Emerald Isle's Exhibit at the Columbian Exhibition. Leading ladtutrle of Ireland to Bo Die played by Peaiant Lad. and LaMle. from Their Beapeettv LocaUtlM. All visitors to the world's fair will doubtless want to Inspect the Irish village vil-lage which is being arranged under the auspices of the countess of Aberdeen and Mrs. Ernest Hart. The latter gives the following outline ot what it will contain: "We shall have seven cottages in which peasant girls and lads from Donegal and elsewhere will be seen at work, weaving, spinning, . dyeing, sprigging, carving, etc. The girls will look very pretty in Connemara red petticoats, pet-ticoats, fishwife skirts and blouses, and scarlet cloaks. In the first cottage will be a precise model of a cottage in Donegal, Done-gal, with undressed walls of granite, with a hooded fireplace and dresser full of bright crockery; a girl will be seen dyeing and spinning our famous Hand-and-Heath homespuns, the wool of which she gets from the lichens and heather of her native bog outside. There will be ah Imitation peat fire, and on this the dyer will from time to time place her iron potato-pot, and proceed to dye the woo). This operation is certain to prove Immensely attractive to sightseers, sight-seers, and, as well as the carding, spinning spin-ning and bobbin-filling, which will be shown here, is an extremely Interesting process. "In the second cottage there will be linen weaving and embroidering of the famous Kclls art embroidery; whilst linen" damask weaving on a Jacquard handloom and fringe-knotting will go on in the third cottage. Between this and the next cottage there will be a model dairy, in which dairy maids will be at work churning and butter-making. I can assure our American cousins cous-ins they will have a chance of some good butter, as we shall send over some of the world-famed Kerry cows, which will be stablel at the rear. There will also be a pleasant, cool spot here where visitors can rest and drink iced milk. "In the fourth cottage, which is under un-der the especial care of the Irish Industries Indus-tries association, every description of Irish lace will be shown. There will be a Limerick lace worker at her frame, the Torchon lace worker at the pillow, the numerous varieties of point lace, and so forth. "Sprigging and veining, which are employed in the production of the beautiful beau-tiful hemstitched handkerchiefs of Belfast, Bel-fast, will be shown in the next cottage. The girls of Down are especially noted for their exquisite and delicate work. We have not quite definitely decided about the two remaining cottages, but we shall probably show In the seventh the wood-carving industry in Ireland, which has reached a really remarkable degree of development when one remembers re-members the workers and teachers are peasant Ift3: Yi should see the set of owls carved by some of my own boys for Lady Aberdeen last year. The expression ex-pression of the owls' faces, as well as the execution, was excellent. Other features of our Irish industrial village will be a replica of Donegal castle, an old well and other interesting Celtic memorials.. I believe the Irish village will be successful; we shall certainly do our best to make it so." |