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AN GAODHAL
INTERESTING TO LADIES.
Our lady readers can hardly fail to have the
attention called this month to the latest combination
of improvements in that most useful of all domestic
implements, the "sewing machine.|
As we understand it, a machine for family use
should meet first all these reuqirements. — It should
be simple in its mechanism — it should run easily —
it should do a wide range of work — it should be
as nearly noiseless as possible — it should be light,
handsome, durable and as cheap as is consistent
with excellence throughout.
These conditions the "Light-Running New
Home" certainly meets. It has also several very
important and useful attachments and "notions"
of its own, which go far to make good its claims to
popular favor.
The "New Home" specially recommends itself to
purchases on account of its superior mechanical
construction, ease of management and reasonable
price. Over half a million have been sold in the
last three years, all of which are giving universal
satisfaction. This unrivaled machine is manufac¬
tured by the NEW HOME SEWING MACH¬
INE CO., Orange, Mass., and 30 Union Square,
New York. (AD)
The Society for the Preservation of the Irish
Language, 6 Molesworth St., Dublin.
We have received the 9th Annual Report of this
Society, that for 1886-7, and is on the whole highly
encouraging. It appears from the report that fifty
five of the National School Teachers have certifica¬
tes qualifying them to teach the Irish Language:
This is encouraging, for if the teachers have, on an
average, ten Gaelic pupils each, there would be
550 between them.
The offices of the society are —
Patron — His Grace Archbishop Croke. Presi¬
dent, Right Hon. The O'Conor Don. Vice Pres¬
idents Rev. Samuel Houghton, President R. I.
A., Rt. Rev. J. McCarthy, Bishop of Clogne,
Marshal McMahon, of France, General W. J. Smy¬
the, R. S. M. R. I. A. F. R. S. Hon. Treasurers,
Rev. M. H. Close, Count Plunkett. Hon. Secret¬
aries, R. J. O'Duffy, Brian O'Looney, M. R. I. A.
F. R. H. S. Sec. of Council, J. J. MacSweeney, R.
I. A.
The membership of the Society is 179, and these
are scattered, we may say, all over the world — from
John M. Tierney. Argentine Republic, S. A., Dr.
Daunt, of Brazil, J. Marshall, Victoria, Australia.
Prof. H. Sehuchardt, Gratz Styria, Prof. D. Arbois
Paris, Prof. Zimmer, Prussia, &c., to Prof. Blakee
Edinburg. The yearly dues are ten shillings. If
Irishmen worked in the interest of their language
as they ought to, it would be in a prosperous
condition in the near future. The list of members
given by the Society contains the names of the elite
of the land.
One of the most interesting and progressive jour¬
nals which exchanges with the GAEL is The Cana¬
dian Freeman. Some time ago it was only a four
page journal: now it is an eight page — and its
make-up clearly shows its increasing prosperity.
It handles matters "without gloves" and verifies the
adage that "Honesty is the best policy" — even in
journalism.
What is the reason that Irish traders complain
that their country people will sooner deal with
strangers than with them? They say that the
Irishman will pass the store of his own countryman
and deal with the German, the Italian or the Swede,
and that the latter will go blocks to deal with each
other. The reason is obvious — The two-thirds of
the Irish people have lost the national bond — the
language. And what are our Irish traders doing
to remedy the evil? Why, nothing. Then, as they
sow, so shall they reap.
But this evil is not confined to the Irish trader.
The loss of the language has caused the loss of the
nation. Ireland, though oppressed, was a nation
up to 1800, when she lost her parliament. If the
Irish had their language to-day they would have
their parliament also.
"Scotch-Irish" (?) and Irish in the Revolution,
is the subject of an excellent article in the current
number of Donahoe's Magazine, by Wm. Collins.
The article covers sixteen pages of the magazine,
and explodes the vaunted boast of pro-English
writers, that this country is Anglo-Saxon. The
single article is worth a years subscription to
any Irishman, and every Irish-American should
make his children study it. They would then
know their proper standing in the country.
The generality of Irishmen now acknowledge
that the want of the language is a national loss, yet
they will make no effort to restore it. The Eng¬
lish language is a greater curse to the Irishman
than English tyranny. The German comes here
without a word of English; he sticks to his coun¬
trymen, and gets rich. The Irishman comes here
with the language of the slave; he does not stick
to his countrymen, (because the link is broken)
and he remains poor.
We have from time to time received a lot of Gael¬
ic matter from correspondents and subcsribers,
which has not appeared in print, because we could
not read it. We cannot be guessing at matter
sent us. If the writers or transcribers sent the
matter so as that we could read it, they would have
no cause for complaint. Those sending Gaelic
matter who cannot write the Gaelic characters of
their equivalent should write the English translat¬
ion under each line.
We have our private business to attend to and can¬
not afford the time necessary to decipher some of
the communications which come to us, and they
are written, sometimes, by men who have excellent
command of the pen. Those who write in the man¬
ner referred to may put their tongue in their cheek
and smile at the thought of having given a job to
he Editor of the GAEL — They mistake. The Edi¬
tor of the GAEL throws such matter aside.
We would remind our New York
Philo-Celtic friends that though féises
and entertainments are commendable
in their way the distribution of Gaelic
literature is much better. What are
you doing, ladies and gentlemen, in
that direction? Are you doing aught
to show succeeding generations that
you ever existed?
