Toast: To St Patrick *y jiM Durnr Next Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day. the anniversary of the death of the Patron Saint of Ire land. I know very little about th« life and activities of this vener able patriarch but. after conduct Ing a miniature Gallup poll a mong a sizable number of mv a'X|uaintances, I am convinced that my ignorance on the sub. ject is shared by an enormous percentage of my fellow Ameri cans. Will Rogers, the cowboy philosopher, once said "Every, body is ignorant, only about dif ferent things." And, even to Ir ish Americans. Saint Pat is gen erally accepted as the priest who drove the snakes out of Ireland —and a very valid excuse for a big annual celebration. There is so much legend inter twined with the history of this man that it is difficult to sepa rate fact from fiction. It will be a great shock to all of you Kel lys. Murphys and O'Learys to , *hat St. Patrick was no irishman. He was bom in Dum ar,on- Scotland during the dos ing yrars of the Roman Ocrupa lion of Britain, probablv of Ro man parentage, for his father was a decurioa. or colonial sena tor. While still in his early "teens" he was picked up by a ma rauding band of coastal pirates, carried across the Irish Sea, as a slave, and sold to a Druid priest, to serve as a swineherd for the next six years. At this point hisrory clouds up and legend takes over. While tending flocks and performing menial tasks, Patrick began to see heavenly visions and hear celestial voices which command ed him to break the chains of slavery, to run away and join the missionary movement then getting underwav. It was an era when superstition was strong in all religions, when fervent belief In visions and miracles was pre , valent among all peoples. Wheth er Patrick saw the visions, or whether they were later suggest ed to him as a valid excuse for committing the heinous offense of fleeing from slavery Is, of course, more conjecture. But, at any rale, ho did run away, lirM to England, thon to Franw*. where ho took rofugo in a Cath olic monastery and was befriend ed by benevolent priests. They save him shelter. They gave him food and protection They also gave him an opportunity to ob tain an education and enter the services of the Church — oppor tunities which he eagerly grasp ed and magnificently employed. After eighteen years, the Hope delegated lum as a missionary to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity. St. Patrick's transition from slave boy to saint, in one gene ration, U a success story with out parallel; but his accomplish ments in converting a whole hea then population; in lighting the lamps of Christianity throughout a pagan country, so brightly and firmly that they would continue to burn, without a flicker, for more than sixteen centuries — that is nothing less than a mir acle. It is a tragic oversight of his character to remember him only as "the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland" when the only snakes Father Patrick tried i to destroy were those which ap pea red In the bools of his eon tankorous parishioners on the "m min^s after." Our own history is full of >u. h . paradoxes Abigail Adam*, wife of cur second president and mother of the sixth, was a worn- j an of great talents. She was the first avowed proponent of woman suffrage, the first woman itu sader lor public schools and free education In 'America, and her wi ly, illuminating letters weave a huge, colorful tapestry into tjie moving panarama of Early Amcr- [ Icnna. Yet, for many years, she was remembered only as “t h e president's wife who hung her washing up to dry in the East Room of the new White Mouse " j Martin VanBuren was a typical j sett made man. Born in a ricke ty log cabin in the Dutch village ( of Kinderhook. N.Y., he spent his boyhood mopping floors, scrub- j bing spittoons and shining - up| beer mugs, while hr- eagerly eyed i the swashbuckling politicians who frequented his father's tav- ‘ ern. He too would be a great politician — one of the greatest and our first real political boss —and he spent every available hour studying law and govern. merit. He went on from flover. nor of New York, to U.8. Sena tor, to Secretary of State, to Vice President, to the Presidency. Yet he wan defeated for a second term by a rumor that tie hail fen trodueed finger bowls into t h • White House William Henry Harrison, wh defeated Van Buren. came from one of the mkoIicM and most aristocratic families of Virginia. Born in a mansion *e t|ve dressed as a gentleman, drank imported Madeira wines, dineu on the finest silver plate and never did a full day's labor in hi* life. At the age of seventeen, family political influence sccur rd for him a commission in the U.8. Army and he went forwar.. to carve out for himself a cred liable reputation as an Armv of ficer. It was this reputation which won for him the nomina. tion a* the first presidential can didate of the newly • organized Whig Party; hut his election was largely influenced by a calculat ed attack on him by a rival Democratic newspaper in Balti more. which suggested: “G i v e General Harrison a barrel of hard cider, and settle upon him a pension of $2.00 per year, and he will be happy to sit - out the remainder of his days in a log cabin." Log cabins and hard ' iU aster.. and the best of everything Our store's one big Easter basket filled with the best of everything fashionable for spring! Make sure you'll be the prettiest girl in the parade by choosing your Easter outfit and accents now from our new collection featur ing all the soft feminine shapes, light and bright co lors. and exciting textures of the season. 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Harrison, hailed working man's triend a: 1 pion of the -ommoti p pi. v j catapulted into the Wi. i! and served until hi> it! one month later There- are man\ more such incidents of buffoonery i lean politics, but l«-t us . t - to His Keverel. e. the I Saint of Ireland. March IVIs ; his day and. while ' bands boom out ''Th.- \V. of the* Grcvn;" while- e ity hod from coast to coast r- nain <■ s eri; while countle-ss tiia- I politicians of ril i t id<-s an tionalities in green .« ist -ii,. hats and borrowed t’aelids - are leading parades. f< !!■• -. i a million shined up p->!i • high • stepping tally down the main streets of towns >nel title let us lift our eyes s ^ y \\ , r f| raise our glasses and br. ie a toast to a gr«-at man who has made all e*f this p. -sible 1 toast him in the* Ian • w . : he knew he-st, anel wit’ a Hoc I which he* rarely drank .ind per haps seldom ti'e-el except I . r baptisms and bcntHlieti.-ns; "To Saint Patrick: ‘Schlancha! ‘Schlancha. gomalican! • - . and may the Luck o the Irish be with ye still." ’Gaelic for: "To your h • i • - - the host to you. • v i.o plans and pn* '■ * l> > !I.gh null • >* ■ 'u<\ » lility in ai ■ ■ u illy i* imli-il in ir- n * and other s;»;v:j| the 1 • it, d tv V'.'l A V: It itamins th amine, ri 'flavin. 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