The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
~ vt isn't of soldiers t are in folks
min on Memorial Day says
Mr.. Schultz to me, says he. but
picnics an dances an sech car


= ryin's on. There aren't many It
do much remenberin'.' says he.
.'Mr. Schultz was an OF soldier, an he
don't let anybody forget t. he was at the
should. Hos the only man In the neigh
horhood who was, an how are folks to
know you've done things 'less'n you tell
'em? The days aren't long nough to asst
Questions when SO many folks are willin'
to talk an it's the man who keeps still It
you never hear of, seems If. An autymo-
bile horn may not be music, but you can't
help hearin' it. dunno as jes admire
talkin' bout yourself, but I dunno but
what it's full as pleasan' In the long run
as alys hearin' bout somebody else.
80 IT dunno jes' what Mr. Schultz wants
to do Memorial Day, tho I've heard him
talk bout 1t evry year since I lived
neighbor to him.
Il !" You don't aTys talk bout what you
remember says to him, when he was
talkin' again folks, says I, an you can
carry as many troubles to 9. picnic as you
can to church. The war isn't anythin'
bur story to the young uns Nowadays
SAYS I, an tot him Of Mrs. Dale's little
boy who asted his ma II Grant an Lincoln
really lived.
says he, weren't ever anythin' at all.
There was Santa Claus an the Easter
bunny, an I wan to know If these Grants
an Lincolns were jes' like EN- says he
Schultzr thought was Scard' lOuS
It Children wern't born 'th a knowledge of
the civil war. It changed the hist'ry Of
Z the country, says he.
As. I. 80 it did, says I. but you see it was
2 changed fore these youngsters came into
& jt,asays I, am you can't really 'preciate a
thing 'thouten you've been In 1t. notice
s.i.t when Mrs. Schultz has the toothache,
!. you don't suffer much. You can sympath-
"A lie It'll other folks trouble, but you can
: feel your own seems if # folks had for
5 gotten bout the War we Wouldn t be havfn
any kin Of Memorial day. says I. We
don't forget, but we don't al'ys remember.
That soun's some the same, but it isn't
It isn't our way to talk bout the things
It mean the mos to us, an when airs
2 said an done I'd rs soon be remembered
when I'm gone tn a laugh as cry, seems
Il il. The main. thing Is to be remembered
at ALL says I.
.3 There isn't one of the school children
- what's been zraisin' their geraz1iuns for
Memorial day but what hasn't thought Of
N what 1t means. You can't water a plant
ev'ry day 'thout thinkin' Of what's goin'
. to become Of it any more n you can take
s care Of chill 'thout speculatin on what
he'll grow into, seems. If
d. Well says Mr.. Schultz. after he'd
thought 1t over a spell, you may be right.
but f1earin's believin', says he IAN IL yon
who's goln' to bserve the day as I think
II ought to be. why II take you an Mrs.
Schultz an the children out to the GEM
try in the dliv'ry wagon s
That seemed fair enough to me an one
everin Mr.. Schultz an Title an jes'
walked down the street.
Linda Schmitz,' says I, when we met
her. comm home from the store, what are
you goin' to do Memor'a al day?' says !.
I'm goif' to Lake Como on picnic,
says she, 'thout wastin' any time If it
don't rain. Me an five others, an Tn
hopin' my new dress II be done in time
An the Oh soldiers, says I, when she
interrupted me.
- Are they goin' to anythin' at Mime
haIla,z for go there jes' as well an
.s dunno but I'd ruther. There's al'ys
somethin' to see at Minnehaha; the ami
mails an the soldiers.
eve got wit 'nough to know when to
talk an when to save my breath an ]
take her on don't dare look at Mr..
Is Schultz. for I could feel t bis thoughts
wouldn't make me comfortable il, they
were expressed. We met Mr.. Iunkins
mex,
81 Z. Well says he a-rubbin' his hans
says he, Tn goin' to get up early an gel
In good days work in the garden
thanks to the on soldiers TIL get my
weeds all pulled. This kind Of weather
they grow worse n children. says he, a.
pinchin' Titles cheeks.
That was the way with 'em all, they
were goin' to picnics, OF parties or fisfiin
Or gardening. all but Mrs Sanders she
was goln to clean house cause Mr.. Sand
ers d be home to help her. Mr.. Schultz
81 was thinkin' more an more It he was
right an was wrong, an It was in my
mia. Mrs. Schultz an I have to wall