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THE BIRD'S ' CHRISTMAS C\UOL :
Myrlacl Songsters of the Irish Way-
Side.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE WRENS.
Christinas Customs of High and
Ijowly , luOabiii anil Castle The
Grout Caiullo The 1'cat Vivo
Christ inns Hoystcrlngs.
1833.
Christinas Tlino In Ireland
For T/ie / Oinnha lies.
UELAND in the
Christmas holi
day-time issceni-
cally perhaps in
its least pleasing
\n s p o c t. The
straits and priva
tions of fully
4,000,000 of her
romaining4,600-
000 inhabitants
are also in their direst bonso and
mood. Uut nature's hand Is a lov
ing ono oven in the Irish winter ;
and the blessed hold that Christmas
time has taken upon the universal
Christian world heart , blended with
that marvelous compensative power r > [
utilizing the most trilling n Vbtlitles
for human joy which Uio Irish nature
. possesscSrpOrTnitsanil provides a quality
of cfu'lstmas-timo cheer which Is
often surprising to those whoso
lives are measurably filled
with bountcousiioss and content.
Of the out-dor Hfo of the Irish winter -
tor , where it ean bo separated from the
unfortunate condition of those to whoso
eyes winter can only bo an added dan-
'Jbr ? tvRfl terror , a Burroughs or a Thor-
. Bail might wrnlsli ft iviiisomu volume.
The IrUh roads , though humid with
wet from froquo nt rains , dusty from a
week's occasional cold and bracing
woalhor , or whitened from center to
wall with the frost of early morning ,
nre over a source of oxhiliration and
delight. Hero ono will swoop up and
on and over Increasing swells of upland ,
to the eye the brown walls of Its side
climbing like delicate russet spires to
where the way is lost in the hazy edge
of a brown-gray sky. A Mlllot , with
his magical power of rude still-
life suggostlvonoss , should have put
this Eoenic reach on canvass. Hero an
Irish winter road swails along and
through an nvonuo of boooh , yew and
sycamore , where twilight always lies ,
where now the brown loaves eddy and
swirl , and spring watchlngly from dark
corners Upon passing carts or humans ,
nnd the bare old limbd above cry out In
their wild keens for the dead year.
There , they creep down together , cross
ing us they pasc a huddled muss of wall
nnd thatch , Over yonder you can see a
chalky way winding and gloaming
through dronry wastes of boggy pout.
Beyond , another thread/a mountain
side , loosing itself In witching dollies ,
or suddenly vouching the edge of prod-
te *
9dty-.T g
ptccs , and then winding gracefully
around lower steeps , as if to reach the
warmest vnllovs. And what entrancing
scenes are ready for him who will walk
these grand old roads ! For nature-lover
or artist within ono short half-day's
tramp , you may feast on gray , drear
crags around which the heather never
fades ; river of murmurous , sinuous
sweetness and beauty ; cabins innumer
able , with their ragged , hopeless , but
over-hospitable inmates ; hamlets with
wonderful old trees , shops , homos , nnd
old , old folk and ways ; manor-houses
with mournful tokens of the rare nnd
roaring mirth that once hold sway , but
still standing sturdy and gaunt within
neglected grounds where cattle browse
for winter food ; mansion of the rich nnd
feared , or fearing and rich , where noble
forests hide approaches of beauty and
splendor ; castles of that ago when Irish
baronies were parclled out to orown-ad-
vonturors , men made serfs , and mighty
structures reared by these now-made
slaves to perpetuate theirown servitude ;
eastlos of a later day raised as exquisite
architectural monuments to enlightened
greed and tyranny ; and both sot deep or
high in demesnes of as magnificent
natural and cultivated beauty as can bo
found by man ; moors of dark , dreadful
blackness and oterility ; bogs , vu&t ,
gurgling , seething , rotting , but hiding
Ireland's solo fuel , and her prehistoric
forests which stand upright and perfect
bcnontn the mire ; bridge of greatest
ago and quaintest arch ; lonesomepallid
crosb , cut clear and sharp against the
hazy brown mnuntain-sido ; deserted
shrine hiding in wretched solitude
nnd decay ; ruin of splendid
proportions and antiquity screamed
over bv daws and half shrouded in
Ivy ; unit bore and there ana all about ,
in brightest or savagcst mid-winter
days , glimnsos of Ireland's matchless
green. When ono experiences it all
and endeavors to hold It in n single
thought , the certain reflection comes
that in no land where ono may wander
ut Chrislimis-timo can there bo found
such surpassing blending of , and such
striking contrast In , the grandly desolate -
late Iji scones of wonder and marvelous
sweetness mid in scones of winsome de
light. But your heart would fasten to
the lowly things of Ireland , instead of
what is impressive and great. It would
find charm in the little places : the tiny
bilrus and dingles' the little struggling
hamlets , where all who give thorn life
must know of you us you puss or linger ;
the quaint lIUlQ chayels ; the low-roofod
huts ; the lowly folk ; ail * , if you lovoil
the road , Hold and sky , the Irish birds
of un Irish mid-winter.
Starlings uro seen in myriads. They
are every where , reminding of Stonrno's
starling with its ceaseless wail of , "I
can't ' got out ! " "I can't got out ! " It is
only within a half dozen years that they
have remained all the year. They
formerly only came when the sparrow
departed , and the nature-wisa Irish
iicusant eyeing their rushing ingathering -
ing about the Holds , cabins nnd old
ruins , would savagely mutter , "Tho
dlvll take the same , for it's winter that's
wid 'oml" Beneath the cottage thatch ,
in lonely round-towors , nnd even in
caves , their winter numbers seem
greater than those of sum'mer , as they
congregate within easy observation by
homcsido and roadside fields. Full of
lifo the winter long , gay and bright ,
even almost tiresome witli their thrush-
lllto calls and impish mimicry , they
serve not only for the cheeriest miu-
winter enlivening , but many a brace of
these bravo birds are found within Uia
peasant's Christmas pot , The sweetest
of all birds to poet ordronmor , tho.song-
thrush , is also here at Christmas timo.
Emerging from hidden retreats along
Mith the life andshino of a sunny day ,
it comes to hedge , fir-twig , or leafless
braucli of sycamore , and ever near to
human habitation as if to help and
cheer , pouring upon the crispy air its
golden notes and awakening , like some
sudden sense of absent love , the heaven
of rarest summer days. On every nand ,
nnd strangely enough only on winter
days in Ireland , the beautifully-plum-
aged field-fares gather in meadow nnd
field , timid , hesitant , wary , with alert
sentinels posted to give instant warning
of danger , and one longs to know the se
cret of their pensive , low-toned talcs.
The lustrously-plumaged pheasant ,
scorning the demesne preserves ,
wanders in woods of ancient growth ,
skulks in copse and hedge , or haunts
the borders of meadows and shrubbery ,
Hashing in his bewildering colors before
hungry peasant's eyes , or rising with a
sudden whirr to startle and delight you
upon the road. The rook , that endless
victim of the "scarecrow , " "clapper"
nnd all manner of exterminating strata
gem , more alert , noisy , watchful and
voracious than in summer , helps swell
the Irish midwinter throng. Jackdaws ,
quite us ut homo in unoiont towns us in
mouldering ruins , proud of their station
and manners , contented wltli strong
foreign government or homo rule , have
more to do than any other thing in na
ture in giving the dreary , do&olntod
places of Ireland , and especially of Ire
land's winter , a savor o ! homothincr bet
ter than desolation complete. Their
complacency as they gather upon castle
walls , the jajrgod heights of crumbling
ruins , or within the lofty windows of
gloomy towers , as if conscious
of comprising all the "Mark Tuii-
loys" of the air , win for thorn a certain
admiration and respect. The sparrow
is hero as it is everywhere , with its
vicious , bickering ways. And the sable ,
graceful hosts of over-busy Uves , the
blackbirds , seem to make of Ireland
the continent's blackbird haunt. They
food ohiolly upon the berry of the hnw-
thorno ami holly , but never upon the
black liowthorne sloe. Though full of
.wonderful eccentricities , they nre ever
'eonglcss In winter hero. Along with
these are the wren and robin. The
former has grown into the heart of man
in almost every land. Tiny , hardy ,
bravo. It is friendly yet timid withal ,
nnd while seeking a ncurnoss to the
haunts of men is , as with some human
souls , most plteously alone , when clos
est those whoso love is Bousrht. In Ire
land , the Chrlstniiis-timo "tragedy of
the wren" is ono of the most grotesque
yet pathetic incidentsjr [ \ | US the
olden customs oT" ' , i $ children of
t'-lC ' peasantry. But tlio robin is most
dearly loved of nil. It lives in under
brush nnd hedges , and boncnth the ivy
of castle walls , feeding upon the stacks
and paddockb and oven about the doors
nnd thatches. The great afi'ection
shown by the people can nny day bo
BOOH along the roads , where , perched
upon window lodges , or even coming
confidently Into the interior of cabins ,
the boggurod , starved peasantry may
bo seen dividing with this trusting win-
torllhg ( lieir scanty food. But the
robin repays all , At tlio approach of
fair wouthor and its welcome prophe
cies never fail it mounts the limb of
topmost homcsido tree , lifts its thank
ful bond , and pours from its shapely
throat a Hood orlute-liko notes. Then
Irish lips will say , "Faith , the robin's
calling , ho sun ! " and Irish hearts uro
glud.
Of the Irish Christmas-tido itself ,
there is little in the life nnd customs of
the great nnd powerful , bettor than the
meanest echo of the genuine Christum *
ohoor which so pervades und distin
guishes the whole people of old Kng-
lund. Truly they uro revelry and mirth
and astounding drinking , but they have
In thorn nil but n sad mockery of the
peace und good will to men which best
glorify the day nnd time. For while
that sort of cheer U iu the midst ot
starvation , eviction and unutterable
wrong , its dreadful offensiveness made
alonepossible by great walls and armed
men , it ia indeed a pitiable manner of
rejoicing. But it is still a time
with the gentry and nobility for great
feasts and magnificent excesses. This
manor-house sends its folk nnd servants
to that one ; or the gentry from a do/.on
congregate at another. With
the gentlemen shooting , coursing ,
uthlotic games , whisky and cards and
with the Indies , ten und spirit gu//.ling.
countryside gossip nnd llirtations , rule
the sweet and sacred time. Great state
and pompousness mark this coming and
going over tlio reawakened roads ; and
not the least interesting study is found
among the pallid , lip-compressed peas
antry , appearing in apathetic resent
ment along the way. At the castles it
is the same , save that the retinues nro
greater , the feasts more tremendous ,
nnd more respect is paid to proprieties
nnd form. It should however bo added
for what good there may bo in it. that
that aside from profuse and extraordi
nary hosmtulity to kind and degree , an
excellent showing of gift-making to
servants , tenants and tradesmen , as
well as charity to the poor , is miido ; u
charity which though seldom refused ,
bears too many scourging reminders
with it to strike ono spark of gratitude
in the consciously-wronged Irish lifo
and heart. In the cities , throngs surge
and crowd with elation or despair in
their faces , as with us. But nowhere
else on this earth does Christmas-time
bring such shuddering , pallid ,
piteous poverty to btand , blare
and hunger for the glorioa of homo-
windows open , or the wonders of shop-
windows ablaze with what those dosper ;
atoly-forjulieu humans havo. not'or
QWi'.efl or known. Ragged , filthy , sodden -
don , forlorn , bare-fooled in mid-winter ,
with the blush and BIIOW freezing to
their bloodless flesh , they are ton times
ten thousand boul-holding monuments
to the surpassing inhumanity of govern
ment by Christian man.
While there is undoubtedly an almost
universal rovoroneo for the more sacred'
side of the Christmas-tido , and I truly
know that nt least the Irish peasantry
have an inn a to rovoroneo for all that ib
sacred and good , Christmas is not gen
erally observed in its high und holy sqasb
in Ireland , lit is a time for much that
procurable ; and u tiny sprig of llT
mistletoe conspicuously appears in all
the homos of the more favored classes.
Rich or poor , catholic or prolostant ,
every faintly will possess n "Christ
mas-block" of't'ash ' , which is the
favorite , or "bog-deal" found in the
Irish peat nanks , and bogs. This is to
Ireland as tliolVulo-log to England , and
it burns br'.ghHjj for the homo coming
of every hearttho ; homo may own.
Passing the Cjiristmns at homo , is a
sentiment unilplotoriniimtion moro im
pressive nnd unvarying , BUVO with the
Irish nobility , than in nny other land
I know. And on Christmas eve itself
there cannot bo found ' among the lowly
classes a human 'soul not n lost ono ,
that is not there or sometime there
within the glow nnd warmth. With the
humbler villagers everywhere nnd
always with the peasantry in the south
and west , the "Christmas mold , "
or huge , long candle , weighing
from ono to two pounds , if its price
needs bo begged or stolen , ia u priceless
requisite for Chrlecmaa eve. It will
simply irrevocably bo had. The bog-
doul block is fired ; the doorrf nro Hung
wide open for friend , mendicant , or
enemy to enter with cead mile faille ( a
thousand times welcome ) ; the mam
moth candles is lighted to burn out , but
never bo extinguished ; and while there
is constant going uud comlug it is
softly done. There is always n circle of
eager faces about the liro-plnco , where
blrango weird , over old and ever new ,
talcs , abounding in religious sentiment ,
are told , while the half-lights dunce
fairy-like among the blackened , cen
tury-old thatch-rafters above. To mid
night mass nearly all repair ; then the
' 'tea-breakfast" is had ; those who have
saved enough brow grow bowls of
punch ; these who have not , got along
quito as well upon the stirring poteen ;
and us the day comes in , Irish royster-
ing with all its liberal hilarity begins.
But Christmas time in Ireland is ono
of unspeakable loss to the bird families
of tiny wrens. This tragedy of the
wren should have a luminous nlaco in
literature. Half a million Irish chil
dren with kippons and clubs are beat
ing about the bodges for victims. Sa
credly protected during every other
day of the year , the wren is now sought
with ferocious yelling of
Como Imutin' the wren , says Robin to Bob
bin ;
Como lumtin' the wren , says Hichard to
Kobin ;
Come huntin' the wren , soys Jack Tilaono ;
Como huntin' thu wren , suys every onot
The wren is hunted , for , according to
the superstition , it must bo found ; its
mangled litllo hotly is bo-ribboned and
dangled in a rush cage , or hung from n
holly branch ; and with this strange hint
to alms-giving swaying aloft , hordes of
youngsters blirioking :
Wo hunted the wren through frost and snow ;
Wo hunted tlio wren seven miles or more ;
\Vo knocked him down and ho could not see ;
And wo brought him homo in a holly tree !
crowd the streets in Irish Christinas
days ; knock ut homes , and nro given
" iojir , und when night comes hold such
"wnkoi over the dead wrens as only n
master-hand could paint or describe.
Thoorigiuof this strange custom can
not bo found. It in lost oven in that
rare and fecund birth-spot for so much
that gives Ireland surpassing interest
that wild , weird , whimsical , loveable
phantasy culled "Irish tradition. "
EIHIA.K L. WA
Hcv. Dr. W. Uo gs , of Memphis , has uc-
ccituu [ tlio chancellorship of the university
of Georgia.
The Georgia legislature tins npnroprlntcrt
lialf a million dollars for the niiblfu schools ,
if such a policy ia persisted in in a Cow yo.irs
there will bo no necessity for uu education
test for voters in Georgia.
The petition ol the Harvard Glee club and
JLv s -
taintlt-
. iromls'ed :
Nqw York , December 23 ; Philadelphia , De
cember 21 ; Cincinnati , December 20 ; St.
Louis , December 2Si Chicago , December 29.
Brooklyn's special committee on Industrial
education reports to the board of education
In favor of touching sewing in the public
schools. There uro about 'i.'j.OO.t girls in these'
schools. Thu above committee has existed
two und one-half years , turn lias ucted de
liberately In this matter.
The Vnlo corporation consists of twenty
member * . Ten must bo Connecticut clergy
men. Of the others six are elected by the
graduates of live years' standing , two are
always ttiu Governor und lieutenant gov
ernor of the state of Connecticut , and the
remaining two uro the president and secre
tary of the university.
About twenty-live students will m
the Yale Glee und Banjo clubs on their west
ern trip during tH6 holidays. Beginning
with n convert on Christmas night ut Cleve
land , seven performances will bo civen , In
cluding concerts at Chicago , St. I'nul und
Denver. Thu clubs will bo entertained by
the Chicago nnd Denver Alumni assoclu.
ttons during their visits to those cities.
There Is again to bo a quarterly connected
with Princeton college , us well as ono luitned
nftor It. The Princeton College Bulletin ,
shortly to bo Issued , will contain Bummuries
of pnpers , reports of public or special lec
tures , notes on original work or Investiga
tions. and Information about college work.
President Pattou will bo the general editor ,
and others of tUe faculty will edit upoolal de
partments ,
STORIES OF FOYER AND STAGE
News and Gossip of Actors and
Actresses , Plays and Authors.
JOE JEFFERSON A SPIRITUALIST.
Booth and Barrett and Their 1'ccu-
Haritles Blanchu Konsovclt's Fas
cinations Crane in the Hen
rietta Notes.
Booth and Barrett. .
The Broadway promcnadors of Now
York city , says the Chicago Uorald ,
most observed uml identified just now
are Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett ,
and it is truthful , though heretical , to
say that they look like a pair of negro
minstrels. It is all very well to think
of Edwin Booth possessing the ideal
face of a hamlet , and of Barrett as au
embodiment of dignitybut that is their
aspect on the stupe , whore their lack of
portliness is not observable , and where
their costumes do not consist princi
pally of high , shiny silk hats and plaid
overcoats reaching nearly to their heels.
Their clean-shaven faces and complex
ions , muddied by long use of paints , add
to their uniqueness. Booth looks som-
hro and roticeni , while Barrett is still
more stiff and reserved. Those actors
arolong past the ago whon'actors uro foua
est of showing olT , and it is not to bo
presumed for an instant that they aim
nt the poi'tioniU'cxliibitinn in thus con
spicuously walking in Broadway.
Blanche Hoosovolt.
Current Literature : IJlujichc Hooso-
yolt , 0110 of mu' ftvraous American girls ,
is fatuil to b6 ono of the most inlprobting
girls in Europe to tulle to. It IB doubt
ful if a celebrity has appeared on the
other side during the last ton years
whom BIO has not met. She knows1
every crowned head in Europe. She has
reminiscence ! ) of every courti She lias
boon feted in every ctiyitul , and she is
the only porsou living who oyor at
tended a ball at Bnttonborg palace
without the previous formal presenta
tion. She has some literary reputation ,
but it Is not this to which s > ho owes her
remarkable position. She has a genius
for universal fascination , The person
i yQt. lp ] jo hoard from who has over re-
fllstgu BJftncThTo HOOSSTQlti J&Vi'oovfir.
oho has hlumck ai always knowing the
right pot-son. If sio | wants a thing
done , she immediately moots the per
son who can bo of ube to her , 1'coplo
tr.lk about her , but forgive her every
indiscretion. She doubtless conquered
Surdou , and he Raid : "I will make
you ; I will write a play with you. " Hhe
is about thirty , and very handsome.
A MoiHI mid Hnlly Scene ,
Edmund Yntoa ] London letter to the
New York Tribune says that Mine.
Paul's performance in Purls had eou- ,
Hidornblo pecuniary giifC' fS. > . a that
the "la i" representation on Friday
will not be the hist after all. "During
the entr'acte M. Gounod fell on MB
knees in the diva's dressing room and
shod salt tears , crying , 'Do not leave
me. Juliette ! if you go I bhull be In the
situation of a. futhbr , who sacs his
fifteen-days' old child perish before Ills
eyes. Come back to mo , Juliette !
Swear you will return1 ! Tlnirauppu
Mmo. Pattl also burst into tonra. The
atmosphere of the dressing room be
came molsty and steamy from excess of
laehry matfon. In a voice quivering
with emotion Mine , Pattl said : 'Ohor
grand maitre , Je roviondrai.1 Then M.
llltt , the manager , rushed along the
lobbies announcing the happy noivs ,
having first informed President Curnot ,
who wit in a state box. M. Cnrnot wan
so touched by the gracious condescen
sion of Mmo. Patti , who agreed to re
turn on December J7 , Unit ho , too , shod
tears , the llrst ho over shod in pub
lic. "
Crane in tlio "Henrietta. "
"Some of us are accused of manner
isms and of playing all parts ulilco , "
said William ( Jrano recently , in an in
terview , "but at the door of no come
dian who over won a nnmo for himsoll
could such a charge bo rightly livid. I
trust un anecdote , which on the spur of
the moment occurs to mo , will not
sound egotistical If I point this moral
with it. Last summer I formed the ac
quaintance , on the steamer in which I
crossed from Europe , of a charming :
young Englishman who was visiting
our country for the third or fourth
tune. Wo become quite intimate , and
every night joined in n game of cards ,
the name of which escapes mo it begins -
gins with a lp' Patience it must bo
und during the day time saw much of
each other. Finally wo arrived in Now
York , and the few days ho was in that
city our intimacy continued. Finally ,
on the day wo parted , wo were talking
'theater'and I happened to refer to the
'Henrietta. ' lie had seen it , ho said ,
three times , and had seldom enjoyed a
play moro. I said I was gratified to
hour this. 'But you didn't piny in it ,
Crnnu'i" I assured him that I did , and
specified the part , but bay what I would
I could not got that young man to bet
Hove that the Crnno of tlio play and
the Crnno of the ocean Blcamor were
one and the Hume person , It was grati
fying to my yrlistiC prldo , but mortify *
ing to my innocent vanity regarding
my own fame. "
The 1'rlmn Donna and JJor PotH.
Manloson's Memoirs' The prlina
donna gunorully lins a parrot , a pot dog
or an upjvhloh oho loves to distrac
tion , and carries with her wherever she
gCbs. lima di Murska , however , trav
eled with a menagerie. Her iminoiifio
Newfoundland dog , Pluto , dined with
her every day. A cover wns laid for
him as for her , and ho hud learned to
eat a fowl from a plate without dropping
any of the moat or bones on the floor , or
oven on the tablecloth. The intelligent
animal haled traveling in the dog truck ,
and ho would Vosort to any device in
order to join his mistress in her first-
class carrago. Onoo ho sprang through
n closed window and cut himself se
verely ; but ho gained the companlon-
BlHjT $ f tlfd fiovytod di Murska.
The most oxnoiituvo of MUo. di
Murskn's pota were the pnrFofST * Once
nt n hotel In Birmingham , England ,
they tore with their beaks the Ida oft a
valuable sot of chairs for which the
hotel-keeper ohiirgod 3Q. The hotel
bills of this reckless prlmu donna were
always of the most alurmlng proportions
tions , She had the most extraordinary
whims , and whoa a friend , In order ( n
show the effect of parsley ypni n ; TJarrols
gave to ono.oj her fitrUs onourh parsley"
to InU it , nothing would Satisfy the ais-
coiiHolato lady but a post-mortrtm ex
amination of the remains , Tills was ( it
Glasgowand the examination was mntlo
by two very grave mid no doubt learned
Scotch practitioners. Finding In the
parrot's maw gomo green mailer for
which they could not satisfactorily ac
count , they came , after n long delibera
tion , to thu conclusion that the bird
had boon eating the green unll paper
of the aittlng room and tllat the nrsonio
contained in the coloring inatler hnd
caused its death. The cost ol this opin
ion wns three guineas , which Mile , dl
MursUi paid without a murmur.
The trustees of Cornell have appropriated
$80,000 for H ue\y chemical bbrjlitol'yi
also KO.CGO to complete the eu lruerintf
bulldiujf.