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THE BLARNEY STONE WEARING AWAY,
KISSED BY MILLIONS.
Continual killing is wearing "away--this magic Stene of Blarney, says a corres pondent in the Daily Mail of September ist. After years of comparative neglect the world of lovers are at it again-a good omen, surely, of pince anil gol will coming back to Ireland
It is a big stone, but it is being worn- smooth, and Notion by complexaimilliana. of kisses. To-day after a lapse of twenty years. I saw scores of people performing the dangerous ritual, and it seemed to me that since my former visit some partial the stone had suffered
It is only a small nutter of diminution. thousands of centuries before it is kissed completely away.
Kissing the Blarney Stone" requires some show of courage. Not everyone who! makes the long pilgrimage and elims to the lofty battlements eno find the nervel te stretch across that yawning chasm. take frm hold of the iron bars, confite one's legs to the safe custody of frienis. and onlookers. and stretch downwards and outward, on one's back for the chaste salyte.
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Three girls came with us today, and one of them, looking down, was frightened that she could do no more than blow a hand-kiss from a safe lis tarus.
The other two. Americans. dil not hesitate. We men were each entrustesi with an ankle, and one girl kissed th stom so long anul so tenderly that it was a positive relief when we pulled her back a kast into safety,
It is suppered and believed to furstow the gift of works eloquent, enchanting, and wonderful for all purposest (and especially for love,
One kiss is sufficient for a lifetime: but know one tongue-tied lover whos thought that its effect, like strong drink, wore off in time. He kissed the stone mu six different occasions: when the op. portunity for proposat had come he found hiniself each time without inspira-
A tion and as tongue-tied as before, last he contrived to take the girl to Blarney and leaving her in one of the beautiful, groves which surround the place. he rushed off to the battlements, kissed it. al, coming quickly down, pro- posed and was accepted. Soon he was kissing something more responsive than a stone.
Some say that the stone got it enchantment from the magic of some mediaeval witch. Others declare that it is the very stone which served Jacob for a pillow when he saw the vision of angels ascending and descending on the heavenly Inckler.
Whether the legends are true of "false. Josers of all nations will go on believing. in its magic and will continue to kiss it,
WOMEN AND DOMESTIC SERVICE
NOT AN INSTINCT,
"The capacity for damestic work is not necessarily a latent instinet in Women
states the second interim re- port, issued last month. of the Central Committee on Woma Training mi Employment
The committee was appointed in 1920 to devise and carry out special schemes of work and training for, unemployed, women, and die report, reviews their activities up to the end of last year.
The recruits for homecraft training Bere mainly obtained from factory workers. "needle träde workers, clerks, and shop assistants, and in spite of care- ful selection the assumption that domestic service, can be followed by every un- employed able-bodied woman was not borne out by their experience, the con- mitter state. Loneliness is the difficulty which the women find hardest to over-
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"Those who were able to overcome it and remain in domestic work for at least three nonths are in the majority of case, permanent recruits to the occupation.
"The separation from home ties and interests, the loss of fellowship of factory and workshop, the necessary curtailment of hours of liberty, toge ther with the acceptance of unfamiliar! conventions entailed in the entering of homes of other people, were all cut- stituent parts of the problem of pre- paring new recruits for domestic ser- vice.
Mang inistresses showed sympathy ami understanding of the homesicknes and Janelinesswhich have proved to so real cintacles to these, women, al arranged that their new servants should be given pportunities for social inter
COLEPS0_
A study of the evidence has co- vinced the Committee that the personal -element is a dorpinating factor in the domestic service problem. and that it is in itself psychological problem rather than merely a question of dre mand al supply.
Up to the end of last December 2.538 dumestic outfits had been provided at an average cost of £. 19%. 36.
Of the total number of wapen whol eutered..resident domestic service 19.3 per epat. had remained in this occupa tion.
BABY CINEMA STAR'S FORTUNE.
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