Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1918 — In Defense of Her Flag. [ARTICLE]

In Defense of Her Flag.

How the union jack was ably defended by an Irishwoman in the streets of Paris on July 4 is amusingly told: “Otftside one of the biggest drapery shops of Paris two ladies handled a union jack which lay on a great pile of flags for sale and remarked in French on its cheapness. The salesman, unskilled in accents, was rash enough to explain the low price by saying that ‘the union jack wasn’t in season.’ He received in reply the most eloquent discourse attainable by an indignant irishwoman of unblemished loyalty; and an Irish brogue speaking French is an engine of war before which the most intrepid must quail. There is one Frenchman who will never again suggest that there is a close season in union jacks.