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Show MIXED HUMOR AND TRAGEDY Writer Tells of Relieving Touch In. tho Midst of Scenes of Revolt In Ireland. Thero Is no country In tho world llko Ireland. Even its serious attempts at revolution havo a humorous side. Just ns there Is a touch of sadness In the wildest Irish merriment, thero Is a bit of good humor In tho midst of its most tragic enrncstness. Miss Dorothea Conyers, In hor Sporting Itemlnlsccnccs, tells an Incident of ono of the Sinn Fein uprisings: Tho barrier on tho Wcllesly brldgo was most Imposing, nnd I remember rushing down to sco Ifand upsetting a nent stack of bayonets, but no ono minded. An Irate old lady In an ass cart wns trying to pass out Just as I got there. Wheeled trafllc had to go roundby nnotjjcr brldite. |