The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-02

with red, white and blue bands stuck in
the middle and crossed cannons all
mixed up with anchors that showed they
belonged to the navy.
Thes we're eating ice cream and talk
ing wa-. Of course.
Papa says If they had been Cubans
they would have been shot''-Hobson
inferred-"but, oh, my dear, to think of
Harry eating crackers three times q day
with Remember the Mainev stamped
ON them, with me sitting here eating ice
cream IN the most heartless fashion. "
From the way her saucer was being
emptied should have called it the most
hearty fashion. "
Then my own ice cream was brought,
striped red, white and blue, and the
napkin l took out of my tumbler was a
paper affair bordered with red, white
and blue and flag in the middle. Some.
where among the palms and mirrors in
the rear OF the parlors band discours.
ed the "Star Spangled Banner"
Dixie" and the RED, White and
Blue" while gulped down my dose of
patriotism with growing sense of the
had the purchasing of some wall pa
per for an aunt in Arkansas still on my |
conscience and from the ice cream par.
lor FASTENED to a big dealers in that
line
New designs? Indeed he had. The
very newest. All the rage, and with a
proud air Of invincibility he unrolled
scroll after scroll for my inspection
flags crossed, flags solitaire guns, can.
mons, little fleets of ships chasing them.
selves over paper oceans and everywhere
patriotic designs, nowhere the dear old
fashioned posies knew my aunt dotted
on.
Might l write to my friend about
the new styles? Certainly. He seated
me at desk with stationery all capped
with flags or Names or Indianas, gave
me pen fashioned like cannon and a
blotter with crossed flags all over it.
Signing over the futility of hoping to
get away from Old Glory, / used his pa
triotic stationery and wrote my letter
while he softly thrummed ON the win.
dow and whistled the "Red, White and
Blue. -
After having bought box of candy
put up in flag box and few other
nementos OF the stars and stripes
'eally felt as If / had done my duty by
DID Glory for one day-not even forget
ing to pay tribute to the fleet of war.
hips tossing on green calico sea under
glass case for the financial betterment
II an old man on Fourteenth street
md l went home.
When l got there, / found my girls
lad taken down the white lace curtains
rom the parlor windows and hung Old
ilorles in their places. 1t made the
Dom frightfully dark, but was too far
pent to protest.
flung myself on lounge to rest be.
ore dinner, only to find that my favor
re sofa cushion had q new cover Of
arsh denims on it, bound about with a
ord Of red, white and blue and all
hobby in the middle with big en- 8
roidered flag and eagle. II
closed my eyes with o sense Of sur-
elt and exhaustion and fell asleep to
ne tune of yankee Doodle Dewey.Y -
ing by nasal voice in the Cat above. q,
dream that / had died, but was re.
ised entrance by St Peter because I
ldn't have an American flag pinned on
le somewhere or a Remember the -,
-aineV' medal visible, so I turned
ournfully away from the gates of para.
se, beyond which could hear the in. :
sible choir singing-the "Red, White
i'd Bluel''
JEANETTE II. WALwoRTH.