The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1904, Page 17

Pages 171020 - THE [ Pages 174020 FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904 CTIVE EFFORTIS OF THE GAELIC LEAGUE PROMISE REVIVAL OF THAE IRISH TONGUE R . DEILAYS VEXING A DUCHESS - Why Royalty Is Absent at Kylemore. 30.—After much de- struc* altera- n u at some months are pleted and it is ex- Duke and Duchess of be able to go into res- the end of the Lon- bish created by the build- moved, but as the sral der way 1 as ven miles 1 be about nds and ely rid of the ess, who is the altera- te, informed ers a month ago that she bag and She re- at the time of to Ireland for their in- e place ready for the his Majesty and the e was so disappointed that angry letters al- ¢ to the steward, who is in ge of the cas my e place f July. them , exhorting him to e work so that she may, at st, be able to entertain some Ameri- here before they return NAUGHT. eved in the neighborhood of t e her for her the King's visit, hess of Connaught, . spend a ylemore imme- and Duchess place abounds in sport in the way of shooting g, t ich the royal party tached. The “house- ted to be conducted he young :eir to , who was born in e of the Duke and time invite to share his ore will find & roof a collection of ats who may live long ke history. The peasant orhood will be party, too, but it “Rt whether they will re in the frolics of the ns. All ‘the promises ple on the estate on anticipated visit last will ngw be e a holiday at party at the ng, at which e wiil be provided able to drink her g from ginger beer to the t is somewhat seriously r of her e is introducing womer as servants. upier a few re English, but the were It it w r popu- y wh Duchess has already k d al examples of generosity the par- Sassenach me- be resented. AN EARLY RISE] to Cover CONSUELO the flower secfion of the mark have been somewhat curious to the identity of g woman who much absorbed in the different kinds of flow and plants that are depos- ted ther n the rly morning for sale. She is ¥s accompanied by terer of flowers to recognized her as the She has taste for early ris- ng and it is not an uncommon thing to find her among the flowers at 5 in ¥ at last hess of Marlborouga. lately cultivated a the merning. She invariably walks to the market and carries her purchases on top of an ordinary four wheeler on the return journey. She says she oves to see the West End thorough- fares when the West End sleeps and it is the only time dur- ¥ that she is actually free from excitement. The majority of her market purchases are destined for her favorite hospitals. Since she has become a familiar figure in the market the flower por- ters, who are generally middle-aged women, run after her, offering, their services in language as polite as Co- vent Garden can muster, because they have learned by experience that she exceedingly generous to her own sex and that the “tip” will be a hand- some one. One of the maids discov- ered after a recent visit to the market that the Duchess had given one of these women a ten-shilling piece in is beer - - + | , DOUGLAS 7TYDEZ, s President” 7 ”‘fiz{z‘c.{«’gw * . walked up ,to her, reminded her of the mistake and offered to return her the ten shillings. The Duchess told her to keep the coin and added an- other similar one to it as a reward for her honesty. LADY CRAVEN'S CHARITY. One of the charities to which Lady Craven and her mother, Mrs. Bradley Martin, have been devoting special at- tention lately is the school for the in- digent blind at Southwark. The Dow- ager Countess of Craven has been for to the it is mainly through her that Mrs. Bradley- its a generous subseriber charity and instrumentality - DR. KUNO HMEYVER . | An Fnlhusrastic German JSygoorter’ | of e . Hraelic Cevival. IR R Movement Started Eleven Years Ago Now Af- - foras [ustruction to Over 200,000 Pupils. DUBLIN, July 30.—Friends of Ire- land have been filled with renewed hope By the remarkable growth, popu- larity and stability of the Gaelic League—the new movement for the Emerald Isle's regeneration—whose an- nual convention i8 to be held here dur- ing the first week in August. The con- vention will bring together hundreds of delegates representing branches of the association not only in Ireland, but in all parts of the world. The chief theme of discussion will bs the best means of reviving the national spirit— and stimulated that disastrous emigra- tion, which has made barren wastes of what once were populous districts. TRISH PEOPLE AWAKE. The Irish people are awaking to the fact that the salvation of Ireland can- not be attained by political agitation, whether revolutionary or constitutional, and are rallying to the support of the Gaelic League, in which ancient ani- mosities are buried and:men of di- vergent creeds and party falths can work shoulder to shoulder for a com- mon cause. Thus it comes about that 18 | | . | | | i - > S 3 mistake for a six-penny bit. The next with which she has influence. The time the Duchess made her appear- in the market the old woman Martin has come now to lend her pat- ronage to it. Blind persons between the ages of 7 and 26 are received into the school for the purposes of educa- tional and industrial training, after which situations are obtaiped for them according to their capacities. Lady Craven has paid frequent visits to the schools lately and has been much interested in the deftness shown by pupils, particularly those whom she sew manipulating the tyepwriter with a speed equal to that of persons enjoy- ing the blessing of their sight. She went through all the workshops and saw men making mats and girls knitting stockings by machinery. So struck was she with the general excellence of the work turned out that she left an order in the salesroom for a number of mats and stockings. She listened to a pupil playing the organ, and she promised fo do what she could to get him a situa- tion in one or other of the churches ance young man learned his music in the school; he is an associate of the Royal College of Organists and an accom- plished pianoforte tuner. He will have all the tuning of Lady Craven's pianos in future, which in itself will be a valu- able asset in the way of recommenda- tion. —————— Gems Cause Worry, LONDON, July 30.—Burglars are the bane of existence of the young Duchess of Roxburghe, who was Miss May Goelet of New York. The stories printed of the fabulous jewels pos- sessed by the beautiful American Duchess have apparently drawn the- attention of the knights of the jimmy and at least three attempts have been made to annex her Grace's jewel case. The Duchess is thoroughly alarmed and has not only placed her jewels in safe deposit vaults, but has surrounded herself with all sorts of burglar alarm appliances. of building up an Irish Ireland that will look within itself for its inspiration and its reward. The aims of the league being primarily the “preservation of Irish as the national language of Ire- land and its extension as a spoken tongue,” the popular feature of the convention will be oral, literary and vocal competitions in Gaelic. But its more practical work will be represent- ed by an exhibit of Irish industries, for the members of the association are pledged not only to do their utmost to encourage native products, but to wear only Irish-made clothing and to pur- chase only Irish goods when they will supply the place oI foreign articles. ‘What is known as the Gaelic revival was started in a small room ia lower O’Connell street, DuLlin, barely eleven years ago. The great success which has attended it is largely due to the energy, tact and contagious enthusiasm of its president, Dr. Douglas Hyde, who has held that position since the foun- dation of the league, He is a man of high scholarship and a product of Trinity College, Dublin, where he ob- tained his divinity degree with the in- tention of entering the church and fol- lowing his father's footstep~ But for- tunately for his country, he finally chose a broader field and decided to de- vote himself to the unification and up- building of Ireland, so long distracted by party dissensions and religious strife. That he, a Protestant, should be recognized as the leader and inspi- ration of the new movement is in it- self significant of the breadth of its character, It derives much of its strength from the fact that its plat- form is non-denominational and non- political. For more than 100 years Ire- land has been a prey to ‘agitations, sometimes openly revolutionary, at other times in the form of secret con- spiracies, but always having for their object the overthrow of British rule. These efforts have all failed. They have only increased popular discontent B (3‘1761’?_\? ecrela. of Ye 7 Saelrc L eague * children and see that competent teach- ers are employed. The league itself affords instruction in the ancient language to some 200,000 pupils, young and old, and employs a staff of paid agents to revive interest in the national tongue in districts where it has fallen into disuse. They send suggestions to the headquarters in Dub- lin as to the best means of enc aging and reviving industries in the different localities they visit. They get in touch with employers of laber in order to af- ford facilities for the rn to their own land of you Irish wom- en who are working abroad. tribute literature at fairs and ma in which the as of the league are set forth and emigration is discouraged. They organize athletic sports, 7 dis- Kkets con and entertainments of various sorts, that the life of the peasantry may be rendered less.dreary and monotonous ourse to saloons. IS FINISHED. without having re LANGUAGE The Irish language has beeu spol for over 2000 years, and was a finished speech befo the modern Eu- lispec It has an lary of some 80,000 cially adapted to the formation of new words out of old ones and of “Irishing” foreign elements. The aim is made for it that in linguistical value it ranks next to Sans literature, now ittered to Moscow, is of immense e portion written priof to the century alone it has been estir would fill 1000 oct _ volumes mass of it is of high quality and variety—including story, song, legend, hymn, tracts on religic work: medicine, botany, li nd manners affording much of it, the key to the social origin of the Eur It has attracted to its stu of the fcremost of Continental scholars— French, German, Danish and Italian. One of the most powerful personaliti in connection with the Gaelic revival is Dr. Kuno Meyer, a German savant ntirely at his own ex through Ireland deMverin, he goes lectures on ® & | PROMINENT LEADERS IN C NT. THE GAELIC MOVEME. men like Lord Iveagh, W. J. Pirrie, Captain Shawe-Taylor, Edward Mar- tyn, Lord Ashbourne and others of equal prominence in the professional, commercial and social life of Ireland are now for the first time found co- operating in behalf of the league. How rapid has been its growth may be in- ferred from the fact that whereas a few years ago it numbered 200 branches in Ireland it nmow has close on 1000. Patrick O'Daly, the general secretary, who has rare talent for organization, is kept continually busy forming new branches. While the league holds itself rigidly aloof from politics, its existence proved almost fatal to the Government during the present session of Parliament. At the behest of the league Irish members divided the House of Commons on the question of educational expenditure in Ireland, particularly with reference to the need of affording greater facilities for teaching, Irish in ‘the national schools, and the Goyernmeént, not being prepared for the division, was defeated by a small majority. A viceregal com- mission was appointed to inquire into the subject, and Douglas Hyde, who appeared before it, made out such a strong case for instruction in Gaelic that at present it is being taught in 5000 schools throughout the country, and the Government has even appointed a spe- clai staff of inspectors whose sole duty it will be to watch the progress of the X the treasures of its ancient literature and revealing to the Irish themselves the value of the herita which many of them go lightly prized. In 1831 frish was spoken in Ireland by 3,000,000 people. Their number, before the formation of the League, had dwindled to 800,000. It Is no mere sentimental feeling, or Iove of scholarship, which prompts the efforts of the league which i cessfully making fon the cultivation of Ireland's guage. In no other way, it is main- tained, can Ireland, as a distinctive natignality, be preserved. s0 Gaelic so sue- revival and ancient lan- “Practically,” says one writ “the whole history of our country during the nineteenth century has been one of slow but steady growth in Ireland of English thought, manners, customs, ideas and ideals. The Anglicizing of Ireland proceeds apace and will pro- ceed unless she reverts once more to the speech which preserved her from it in the past, and has alone the power to stem the tide which bids fair to swamp her.” NATIONALIZATION DESIRED. What the Gaelic League really aims at is to accomplish by educational means that which insurrections and political agitations have so signally failed to attain—the nationalization of Ireland. Its speakers appeal to historic examples for proof that a nation’s lan- guage is intimatély associated with its life and character. Bohemi. a, Hungary, Denmark, elglum, Fir Rou- man Bulgaria and S cited as instances of mnational tences that have been maintained against tre- mendous odds by the triumph of the national guage r an alien tongue. “In ev ne com tor, fc the na of th was by th ational indus 4nd resulted i It pr be given up. is to make I rial prosperity.” s not ual nation, using English mmereial pur- poses, but r ng Irish again the lan- guage of the hearth and hor the fleld and farm, ring, the spirit and inte! 1 “The succe: is un- bted minent member of the les awakened the national ¢ e to sin of the neglect of the old to It has amended the whole popular conception of nation ty. It has shifted the center of gravity of the nation to its proper base. shown val of the Oireachtas that ture in the Irish tong )ssible and desirable. It has a great national and intellectua nt to the lives of the p It has taught Irish- men to be proud of their past and its traditions. It is building up an Irish Ireland.” sy PRETTY MAIDENS USED AS DUMMIES IN ORCHESTRA [erlin Restaurants Resort to Amusing Subterfuge to Attract Customers. BERLIN, July 30.—Berlin is amused over many strange c hat are oc- cupying the attent of the police A number ¢ T s and other similar establishr crease the number of ors by the ras composed of at- The eral of the th dummy background fect time but without They strume hey sev- utterly ig hich the ora public method of with tasci- pression they courts for are FAIR PRISONER CAUS DOWNFALL OF CHIEF Head of Berne Police Falls in Love With Woman and Tries to Protect Her. GENEVA, July 30.—By th tion M. Joliat,-head of police, a remarkable scandal some tim Arrested the aut Mile. Marie heart, and for oner he was )’ instance of , @ young girl, M. Joliat's inating verely censured. She , and after serving her sentence in a German prison, Mlle. M. returned to Berne and renewed her ac- quaintance with the chief pe e, But after their relations had contin- ued for more than three months the discovered that M. Joliat a fresh charge of obtaining es. Their v t had the his post. against his jewelry by false preten orous protests have at sult of making bim vacat —_——————— Dorothy Lewis a Favorite. swe LONDON, July 30.—Dorothy Lewis is one the pr st and petted little girls in London. Her mother is better known in both social and theat- of rical circles as Miss Fanny Ward, once a comic opera favorite in New York. Every few years the old longing for the stage used to draw Mrs. Lewis to appear again in public as a star. Her husband, “Joe” Lewis, who made a great fortune in South African mining stocks, shrugsg his shoulders and footed the bi But now little Dorothy is the favor- ite and rules the charming house at 3 Berkeley only titled n Paris. PARIS, July —A new poetess was discovered in Paris when the poetry prize, founded by Sully-Prudh was awarded by the Scci de Lettres to Marie Dup age. Until recently she was employed as a telegrapher in the postoffice and lived alone in a bo ng-house, her widowed mothe governess with a family tra road. —_— e Find Statue of Apollo. TUNIS, July 30.—A magnificent statute of Apollo of colossal size and in perfect condition has been un- earthed in the excavation of the theater recently discovered at Car- thage. A magnificent cameo, bearing the figure of Pallas wearing the helmet, has also been found.