Their Irish Origin To the Editor of the "Nowri-CHINA DAILY News."
SiR,—With reference to the commentary under the above heading which appeared in. Wednesday's issue of your valuable journal; one would' be interested to learn of Lady Adam Smith's authority for the assertion that no other country "has such fine reels." One wonders whether this worthy enthusiasm has ever been present at any of the Irish "Feis Mor," or Witnessed an. exhibition of ree Trish dances. should interest, local music, are stated by historians to owe their origin to the ancient Irish, "The Reel or Cor, as it is known in Gaelic, appears at one have been known as the Nash in his "Sheperd published in 1598 speaks ndelnys and Trish Hays, and in Martin's Month's Mind (1589) "one reads To the Béitor of the "Nowtu-CiuNa Dairy News,"
Sin,—The word "extraterritors ality" calls for a good deal of Imi fas well' as of lingual movement [that the pocket edition "extrality? n'y far preferable, necoring paragraph in the "From Day Day" columns "of your esteemed paper of ester "Ponderous. a8 it is, the original rorm may not be half so bad whet, fused. on our" Chinese friends, a their language is already' brimtut jof verbose and stilted expressions, Tam" sorry, "Sir, your compositor utterly foiled to respect "extra ters 'A Plea for the Farmey To, the Editor of the "Nonta-Cuiva Dany News." 2°
Si—It_ has always been nig desire at this season of the year ta express my feelings for the local country farmer, 1 'The Stewards of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club have not tg this date declared the country open cross. country' riding Dut om! fnnamerable occasions during. tha" past two weeks have T seen rider moving here, there and everywhere cross that popular and "mut Warren Line™ area, 'We have hed warm rain and the country' has been sodden young wheat has grown to a height
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