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...
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