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Irish housewives bridled last week as gossips repeated to them a doctor's scorn: "You will not in the length and breadth of the world fine worse cooking than in Ireland or a worse lot of housekeepers...
...rebuttal is that vegetables are too expensive in Ireland for the poor or ordinarily well-to-do. But the criticisms of poor cookery and housekeeping went uncontroverted. The women's association has started to get better domestic science instruction in the Irish schools, to induce housewives again to bake at home...
...Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland, 168 ft.,718½ in. Four-Hundred-Metre Hurdles. Won by Lord David Burghley of Great Britain...
Irishfolk applauded Charles A. A. Bennett, Yale faculty wit and philosopher, last week, when he said in Dublin, Ireland: "The British humorous weekly Punch presents distorted, snobbish, and inaccurate pictures of American life and manners in its cartoons. . . . Wars tend to be provoked by such fostering of ignorant prejudices. . . . Much of the American slang distorted by Punch is vigorous and expressive instead of vulgar...
...whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town, take up her abode at the workhouse, but carouse nightly at cafe and dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema; all held hands. "Nine Catholic priests, and you in the middle?"-"No, at one end. Father Michael and I holding hands, and all the other eight too in a chain. Very intriguing...