I am doing penance for my sins this Lent by being off sweets, jam, sugar in tea, sugar in porridge, by going to bed punctually at 9.30 if my exercises are finished, that is, I cannot play after 9.30, and by getting up the moment the knock comes at the door; together with a few smaller things. These don’t trouble me very much, and I should do something more. To-day Nannie, who always comes on Fridays, gave me a page of the ‘Irish Outlook’, a paper which was run in Cork about twelve years ago. On it is a portrait of Mammie and Pappie with a short article on them. ((The Irish Outlook Vol III No 27, Cork, April 19 1913 (Price One Penny) page 1: Portrait of the Week – Herr Fleischmann and Frau Fleischmann Swertz)) Those were better days in Cork then, and happier ones for music. It is said that a new paper, on the lines of ‘The Irish Outlook’, will be out shortly, and published in Cork. Let us hope it will be good, and at all events if it can but raise the standard of the ‘Examiner’ it will be a great boon.
