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Show .... I. -Ml ' " I ! ! QUIET LIVE8 OF IRISH WOMEN. Absence of Worry Said to Tend to Preserve Youth. "Tho Irish women never worry," said a woman who has mixed much in the upper circles of tho little green Isle. "Therefore they preservo their youth better thun the women of nny other nation, A peculiar type of personality per-sonality has been loft in li eland. England Eng-land and America hae drained off the progressive nnd hustling, England Eng-land from the upper classon, America from the lower. Those who are left aro of a plac.d, contented typo, from whom the restlessness of present-day civilization seems far removed. The dullness of tho life led bj tho avorago well-born Iilsh phi would be pathetic If It were not th it shu seems to thrlvo mi well on it. Year after year she follows the samo monotonous round, mooting the sam people nt tennis hi summer ur hockey matches In winter. win-ter. If her home Is In a hunting district, dis-trict, no matter at how low an ohb the family finances may be, they will manage to give licr a good mount. Hut for girls who do not hunt, tho long, wot Inter, with few nclghhois and fow bookn, passes almost as drearily ns in a medieval castle." |