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Show Of Perfect Type, but Is Not Real "Colleen" Say nothing about it in Ireland, but the secret has leaked out that "the typical Irish colleen" whose face figures fig-ures on the new Irish Free State bank notes is an American girl. The colleen, which is merely Irish for girl, maiden, has been such a popular pop-ular theme In song and poetry (due partly to the ease with which the word can be rimed) that it was natural for the gallant officials to wish to immor- I talize her by stamping her features on the new paper currency. Sir John Lavery, a painter, was commissioned to paint the figure. He did so, and the result was a tiling of beauty which was hailed with delight. All Ireland was not only satisfied but highly pleased. Later Sir John admitted that in looking for a model he selected his own wife, formerly Hazel Martyn of Chicago, and that it is her features the Irish so admire Pathfinder Magazine. |