. Three weeks in the British Isles . n the back of the chair. The customer drieshis own face with the towel about his neck. Thetowel is placed in a sterilizer and used also brushes his own clothes. Alum is dis-played in such liberal quantities as to bedisquieting to a nervous person. A tramway leads to Blackrock Castle, pastsome pretty .villas with high sounding are walled off from the road by stonefences. No strap hangers are permitted. Rule IV onthe card in each car prohibits the playing of anymusical instrument in the cars. Rule XVIIIprohibits loaded firearms. These two
. Three weeks in the British Isles . n the back of the chair. The customer drieshis own face with the towel about his neck. Thetowel is placed in a sterilizer and used also brushes his own clothes. Alum is dis-played in such liberal quantities as to bedisquieting to a nervous person. A tramway leads to Blackrock Castle, pastsome pretty .villas with high sounding are walled off from the road by stonefences. No strap hangers are permitted. Rule IV onthe card in each car prohibits the playing of anymusical instrument in the cars. Rule XVIIIprohibits loaded firearms. These two rules shouldstand or fall together. Blackrock Castle is supposed to be the placefrom which William Penn embarked for is now used as a club house by a rowing club. The banks of the river are walled with solidmasonry within the city. A statue of FatherMathews, the temperance advocate, adorns theupper end of St. Patricks Street. His churchwas Trinity Church, near Parliament Bridge. Once in a while a statue disappears. One of. BLARNEY CASTLE ^rk 291 George II was found in the river one large one to Robert Emmet and the Boysof 98 has never been molested. Again we were reminded that when travelingabroad a wise man and his luggage are neverparted. The hall porter, in spite of our emphaticdirections to leave things alone, had sent every-thing to the station to be checked to hail a jaunting car, drive to the depot, andfind everything labeled Lismore and waiting forthe train to be made up. We have the hotelporter drag it forth and restore it to us. Hestands in front of us, cap in hand, waiting to betipped for his blunder. YeU have plenty of toime fer the Lismoretrain, sorr. Ye have no change, sorr. And we reply with a coarse, brutal chuckle. You are right. We have no change. A tip is a pardonable outlet for gratitude ina case where actual service is rendered. Mosttravelers submit to having tips extorted byservants who have done nothing, except to getin t
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