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OST Pats in Ireland think they are named after Saint Pat. In fact, most are named after their grand- fathers and great-uncles, -- -
'And their grandfathers and great-uncles had no doubt as to who their patron' was—-~ and it was not Saint Patrick.
It was Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, the bonny fighter who blew up one of King Billy's ammunition trains, and died fighting with the Irish Brigade in France.
Before the Jacobite ware how many Irishmen were named Patrick? We can only teil by looking up some such lists as a catalogue of Irish poets. I have one before
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not one single, solitary Patrick carller than, at most, the eighteenth century. There is every other name, from
Phone 27778/9. Theophilus or Felalimy, to
Farley or Hugh, but no Pat.
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And, in point of fact, the popular name in the eighteenth
century and carlier, with the Says
Irish people themselves, was Thelgue, and the poets spoke of the Thelgues, as the music-hall to-day might speak of the Pats.
PATRICK was not a distinctively Irish name until quite late. One remembers the old border ballad about Sir Patrick Spens.
But, to tell the truth, is he really a "popular" saint in the ordinary meaning of the word? Go into any little Irish wayside chapel, among the rocks and the rowan-trees, with the cows, it may be, moving up the mossy avenue, and what will you sec inside, in the way of "popu-
ar saints?
From Mr. Neville Chamber- Probably not until after the Emancipation of Irish Catholics lain's speech in the House of
In 1820, and the revival of the Commons yesterday emerges ancient, mediaeval pilgrimage to Saint Patrick's Purgatory. one salient point of British
and the establishment, openly, foreign policy: Caution. But it
of churches and cathedrais is not the sort of thing to be bearing the saint's name, did Saint Patrick come into his own. confused with pusillanimity. It
A long wait for a national has frequently been stated- saint sometimes in the way of a
has charge-that Britain foreign policy. But that is hardly correct.
It may shift its direction from time to time, this policy; but it is un-
und questionably there,
its ultimate goal is the preservation of peace and the appeasement of the frequently over-wrought chancelleries of Europe. If it is flexible, to that it Owes its bend strength; for it will against pressure, as tempered steel bends, and presently
straightens again. No-one can
You will find, most likely, a
----- To-day's Thought------H|
THE plant that blooms for
ever,
With the rose combined And the thistle twined, Defy the strength of joes
to sover. -Poem about the Shamrock.
SEAN O'FAOLAIN
Saint Joseph, all in brown and cream, patron of carpenters. You will find a Saint Anthony, wholly in brown, patron of all lost things, who, for a Hall Mary, will find the mislaid scissors or thimble.
Teresa is a most popular saint. So is Francis. But it is quite rare to and a Saint Patrick.
HE is the dificult saint. He is difficult to symbolise; he is old and rather stern;- he did not kill a dragon; he does not carry an armful of lies; his life was frugai and chilly.
He wears a long beard, his in- signia are a bishop's mitre and .staff, a green vestment, a ser- pent, beneath his foot, which is the last place you look, and in his free hand, a tiny, tiny sham- rock.
He is the despair of sculptors, stained glass workera and painters. The result is that he is not really fixed in the popular imagination. He is not formu- lated or not with simplicity, at any rate.
Some artists do not even give him a beard. They make him
young and handsome. Some seo him as a shepherd-boy.
Then, too, he is difficult in his season. March the Seventeenth is a bad day for a procession. It will probably be cold and windy and blow the banners into the air. One cannot even gather a Spring boscage to decorate his shrine.
Yet, for all that, he has a popularity of his own kind; a strange, austere kind of popu- larity.
That is, no doubt, because he is associated in our minds with everything that is unique and local in Irish life and history.
HE, too, was poor. He was a slave. He tended the cattle on
the sides of the hills. That little weed which, because of him, we almost think of as a flower, la so simple, and modest, as it comes wet, and, perhaps, frost-cold, out of the bog- fields." He was unlettered.
He had plenty of pluck and courage, too, and doggedness, and fire. He saw us in our harsh poverty, and he returned to us
"The name sug-
gests pictures too Intimate
expression."
when he might easily have gone off to sunnier lands.
It is not the least of his at- tractions that he, himself, had what has now come to be called. out of Ireland, a "Paddy." He had a temper. On all Irials folk- memories of him he was a fine man to curse.
BUT, perhaps, the greatest reason for hla peculiar kind of popularity or it
would be more correct to speak of our loyalty to him-is that he was a stranger, and our hearts open to him, for his unasked love and kindness.
When all is said and done he was a very human person, this patron-saint of ours. It may well be that his humanity comes between us and our flow of love.
It is so much easier to love the saint who is, or seems to be, beyond a merely human Imagin- atlon. No personal shyness in- tervenes,” there: But Patrick he might be one of our- selves. He might be a rough- cind boy we might meet in a field, an old man bowed over the turf-fire.
say it is weak because it has in danger of attack or invasion? The Latest MEDICAL NEWS is about more, than we love him. never really been tested; and it If it is accepted that the British
is the aim of the British Govern- Government is seeking to isolate
ment to
from the conflicts
of
or
Stopping PAIN
ONE of the big London
'hospitals has just HAMISH Fraser published a report on the good
!
tells you of new research into Rheumatism,
Arthritis in
Lum-
3ometime one wonders why we do not Love Saint Brigid Her kindliness, as of a mother, should break down so easily the sense of nearness that makes us silent about Patrick-silent in spite of all we may feel.
with
WE are silent about Patrick. Mention the name Paddy--which Is associated politica, and nationality, and "The Wearing of the Green," and so forth, and how different it is, for examplel
But-Patrick... That name suggests to the mind of the Irishman pictures too intimate and too moving to allow of ex- pressed emotion. Those pictures are connected with the quiet road to Mass, quiet waters on Sunday mornings, the murmur of childhood prayers by the leaping fire-light.
And all that came out of far- off days, autumnal i the memory, and in the memory as chaste and austere as our scat- tered images of the foreign shepherd-boy who prayed for us in the cold of March among the bare grasses of the mountain
avold that test, itself for it might well lead to Europe it must be supposed that trouble. It seems that Mr. real danger to the nation, Chamberlain is anxious to avert some part of the Empire, is en- any real challenge, to get down visaged. But in spite of Mr. Chamberlain's cautious words to plain statements, but that he and the lack of assurances given
results it has achieved in the re- is cautiously planning to rush to France or any other power, lief of pain-pain that we all the already brsy armaments it is fairly safe to say
that know
so well in the form of industry 80 us to be prepared Britain will march in Europe rheumatics, headache, backache,
circumstances. and burns.
numes for the same condition-rheu- for it if it comes. What form under certain
When and where British force Now here is medlen】 news of great matie irritation of the tissues. that challenge might take it is
might be employed in the de- importance to you and inc. For if bugo affects muscles, especially of the there is one thing that defents us back, and as these are employed in hard to determine; but there is fence of minor states or friendly quicker than anything it is pain. almost every movement of the body, one thing certain, that Great nations no-one outside
And strangely enough doctors in its presence is soon felt. the
the post seem to have been seared of
joints, neuritis in Britain will not tolerate inter- Cabinet, and perhaps not even taking an interest in pain as pain. nerves, of which sciatic nerve-the At last, however, it has been biggest in the body-fibrositis in ference with any of her posses-all of the Cabinet, can safely realised that we have left unexplored tendons and connective tissue that sions. The defence of the predict. No-one can say what one of the biggest fields, and the bind the muscle together are still League Covenant is another Britain would have done if, for hospital I refer to above is devoting the same process in different locall-
the energy of its clinical research tea. mintter; and while it is sure that instance, War had actually department to the study of pain. Now what can we do pending the
utrival
of further knowledge, to Britain would frown upon any broken out in Austria as a re
avert
These evils? What chuses them? further use of threats or force sult of the German crossing of Deceptive Aches against any of the minor powers the frontier. But if common-
Homes
[EADACHE, it has found, Certainly cold and damp are im- often from the portant. A damp house standing on of Europe, such as Czecho-senso has anything to do with
glens. a water-logged clay soil will not muscles of the scalp, Slovakia, it is by no means cer-politics in Europe most of the Muscle pain, like lumbago or agree wit everyone, whereas tain that she would feel called leaders will recognise the risk Abrositis, is a deceptive thing. You quick-draining gravel soil helps to
painful
Vitamin deficiency in blamed by places that are upon to fight in their defence. they take in bending the blade my feel pain all down your leg; yet keep damp away. Many individuals would be of Britain's policy, for it the origin of the pain, but one or others. The reason for this is the
tender spots higher up.
success in the treatment of arthritis anxious to; many of the Govern-can snap back with devastating The hospital investigators were that has been achieved on a diet ment's Ministers might favour force. There is no power on able in two cases to abolish pain that rich in vitamin C, or in other words,
had tasted more than six months. fruit. drastic action; but it is not earth which can risk punish- This they did by locating sites of The cures that have most success possible to tell whether even ment from Britain, in spite of irritation in muscles remote from the are based on drugs similar to aspirin, an armed invasion by Germany the necessarily scattered and pain and injecting local anaesthetic to relleve pain, and on others related to quinine and colchicum which or Italy or some other power of extended defences of the Em- No one knows yet where this new climinate uric acid from the blood. neighbour state would bring pire. Britain may be depending development will lead. When the Diots which diminish the amount of work has gone farther it may mean sugar intake, physical methods of Britain to a declaration of war. upon other nations' awareness a revolution in the treatment of the massage, and the application of For what, then, is Britain' arm of hor strength to keep a sem
electriélty and heat have also been. | ≈2 obscure rheumatic diseases.
At present theumatism costs Eng-
found effective.. Ing? Does she see in the rest blance of order in Europe, and land at least £14,000,000 a year in Self Treatment lessness of certain powers a to some extent the general pan of wages arid tick, benefits.
There are many allied complaints threat to her own colonial doubt as to her attitude in any for which the now research may BRINE baths are valuable
Because when possessions or to any of the given contingency may serve bring welcome results, Dominions? Is Britain herself the same purpose.
|---Lumbago, arthritis, neuritis, relati- stiff-it-obviously requires:
cu, andy fibrosdtisfare hik rooge phical toit Brat warmui." But
wo
there.
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IRISHMEN do not talk about these
things. They do not talk about religion.
It is a thing of the e heart, too secret for words. **
Bo, the little sprig in the hat, or on the lapel, and nothing said. As you might think of, but not speak of, somebody who was loyal to you, and whose loyalty you return, quietly remember. ing him in the heart..
be achieved until the muscles are relaxed. A warm bath us wait as the Dead Sea given support to the Limba so that relaxation is obtained and manipulation and