Moore Maidens

Precocious and frolicsome, all too many Irish colleens get honest Irishmen in trouble every year by pretending to be above the age of consent. Last week the plight of such duped Irishmen was gravely debated by the Free State Senate. As their champion up rose dignified Senator Maurice Moore, brother of the late great Novelist George Moore, a great hand at describing the frolics of colleens. "I propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed at 18 years." Upon any Irishman caught sporting with a colleen thus dressed, Senator Moore proposed to visit drastic punishment.

"I stand with Senator Moore," Senator Oliver St. John Gogarty told a correspondent of London's Evening Standard.

Asked the Englishman, congenitally unable to take the Irish point of view: "What do you think of this measure to protect Irish girls?"

"Bedad, it's to protect the men!" roared Senator Gogarty.

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