Photograph by A. W. Cutler 

 THE DINNER POTS ARE NO LONGER EMPTY IN THE COTTAGES ON THE CON NE MARA 



COAST OF IRELAND 



Extreme poverty reigned in the Emerald Isle years ago when the potato crop was a 

 failure, thousands dying when resulting famine set in. Happily, conditions are greatly im- 

 proved among the Irish peasantry today. Although it is apparent that she could use them to 

 advantage herself, this mother is probably knitting socks for her soldier son in the trenches 

 of Flanders. 



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