An Irish Princess.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4400, 9 February 1883, Page 3

An Irish Princess.

" Prank File" wrifes to the Boston Herald: Down near the lower end of Washington street, not far from the deep hole that has been dug to hold the lower two stories of Cyrus W. Field's great mercantile building stands a-row of cheap tenement houses. In the doorway of one ot these human hives, with dirty children darting past her,- with slovenly women lounging around her, with the stench of the dirty street permeating the air she breathed,l saw an Irish Princess. Her person excited my curiosity before I knew that she was a personage of account. Mie was not much under six feet in height. She stooped and was angular. Her face was large and had striking features, including open blue eyes and a wide sensitive mouth. Her complexion was clearer pink and white tban could be painted, and her hair was flaxen and wavy. I guess that she was 30 years old. She wore an out of date costume of velvet and l»ce. There is no joke in my asserting that Charlotte O'Brien (that is her name) is an Irish Princess. She traces her descent without a hiatus from Bryan i^orou down, and some say a distance of 1500 years before that rude monarch ruled over the Emerald Kingdom. If her brother, who is named after the patriot, his father, William Smith O'Brien, had what Ireland claims as his right, he would wear a crown. The peasantry would have worshipped her on this account alone, but since she has dedicated her life to effecting a proper and humane treatment for immigrants, they idolise her as a saint.