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Show IRELAND AS IT REALLY IS. Irish Less Criminally Inclined Than the Inhabitants of England. The accepted Irish type of the masses the stage Irishman many be amusing, amus-ing, says The Outlook, but he smacks also of indolence, thrlftlessncss, a tendency ten-dency to drink, and even a lack .if certain cer-tain primary virtues. Fortunately these failings are not characteristic of the Irish people as a whole. In every quarter of the globe Irishmen and women wo-men have shown themselves hard workers; if they have not displayed the same energy at home it is because of the agricultural oppression and depression, de-pression, because of unsanitary dwellings dwell-ings and insufficient food. As to drink, contrary to the general supposition, the Irishman spends a lets average on its than dees the Englishman English-man or Scot. Furthermore, and even more surprising to many, statistics show the Irish to be less criminally inclined in-clined than are the inhabitants of Great Britain; in particular, us to sexual sex-ual morality, the stranger in Ireland Is invariably surprised by tha rectitude of the people. In 1841 Ireland's population was estimated esti-mated at 8,100,000; in 1901 at 4.400,000. Thus in sixty years the population fell by nearly 4,000.000. America has won what Ireland has lost. But this Is not all. QuaJity as well as quantity is involved. in-volved. The emigrants have generally been in life's full vigor; most of those who have remained have been physically, physi-cally, mentally and industrially deficient. defi-cient. Meanwhile the burden of taxation taxa-tion has enormously increased. It is surprising, then, that with the exception excep-tion of France. Ireland's birth rate sohuld be now the lowest in the world. The White-Headed Boy. The phrase "his mother's white headed head-ed boy" is as old as the hills in Ireland. Ire-land. It appears in many of the Irish fairy stories of the last century. Irish mothers who knew good fairies always kept the secret for the "white headed boy" of the family. Gerald Griffin in one of his best short stories years ago used the phrase as one he had borrowed bor-rowed from an old Celtic book. Many Irish Heroes. The Carnegie yearly award for heroism, hero-ism, made recently, reveal that people with Irish names are splendidly on the roll. Twenty-four were awarded prizes and the Irish names run thus: William J. Breen, New York City, bronze medal; med-al; Thomas F. Maher, Boston, bronze medal and $1,500; G. Farrell, Somerset, Mass., bronze medal and $2,000; James T. Farrell, Somerset. Mass., bronze medal; William J. Higgins, Boston, bronze medal; Joseph Grady, New York, silver medal; John Byrnes, Brooklyn, silver medal; Lochlin M. Winn, Anniston, Ala., silver medal. Nine out of twenty-four is pretty well for one year. |