The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-24
OCTOBER "a, 1908.

OCTOBER "a, 1908.
da with wrath: faint I done to- how
they've KEEP it from the chile =
Emily Louise was swallowing; har 3:
~Then-then-am ! a r. fepuDl'cah
Aunt Miranda turned a scandahzed
face upon her last baby in the family.
Goose yer amt, chile; huccome yer
think sech er thing? Amt yer done
learned it's sinnahs is Jumped WI pup.
| licans-po' whites, an cuId folks an,
sech?"
The comfort in Aunt M'randa's reas-
surfing was questionable. But-you
said-my papa said Emily Louise.
The tension demanded relief. Aunt
Miranda turned on Tom. I lay l BUS
yo' haid open eff vel, don't Quit yo
stanin' WI yer mouf gap1n' at the
| trouble yer done made
| Aunt Miranda was sparring for time:
/ Don yer worry bout dat, honey"
this to Emily Louise-"hit's jes one
desc here mistakes in Biography, seems
like, same es yer tell erbout gettin
yo' paw, got bawn y'other side de Ohio
river, 'ceptin' was an accident? Dess
tell me dat. But dere's 'nough quality
| dis here side de family to keep yer
a good dem crat, honey and Aunt
Miranda, muttering, glared at Tom.
+; For Emily Louise was gazing into
a gulf wider than the river rolling be-
tween homeland papa, gulf called
. war; nor did Emily Louise know, as
Aunt Miranda knew, that it was a
baby's little fists .clutching at Aunt
Cordelia that had bridged that gulf.
Emily Louise turned away-her
Ipapa was that thing for lowered voice
Low hated hraafh-har-r9n4 q
Republican.
Then Emily Louise was a republican
also. Hattie said so; Aunt Miranda
did not know. At IL one begins de-
terminedly to face facts. D..
Yet the very next day Emily Louise
made discovery that a greater than
her papa had been that thing for low
cred tones. She, was working upon
her weekly composition, and this week
the subject was George Washington"
Emily Louise had just set forth
/ upon legal cap her opening conclu-
sions upon the matter. She had gone
deep into the family annals of George,
for, by nature, Emily Louise was
thoro, and William had testified
that she was conscientious.
George Washington was a great
man, and so was his mother"
Here she paused, pen suspended;
for the full meaning Of statement
in the history spread before her had
suddenly sdawned upon her; for that
history declared George Washington
"a, firm advocate for these republican
principles" >
Should an Emily Louise then turn
traitor to her father, or should she
desert an Aunt Cordelia and an Aunt
I Louise?
Life is complex. At twelve a quicker
of absorption and concentration be-
I rr;,, ~ ~
On the homeward way, William
was waiting. at the corner. what is
a person when they are not either
democrat &sor+$%= republican," Emily
| Louise asked, as they went along.
| Williams tones were uncompro-
| missing: "A mugwump." he said, and
| he said it with contempt l-
II. 1t sounded unpleasant, and as tho
it ought to merit the contempt of Will
liam. - -
| And grammar was becoming as
| complex as life itself. One forenoon
| Emily Louise was called upon to re-
cite the rule: Every day it was a diff
ferent rule, which, in itself was dis
! couraging.:-. But the exceptions were
matter Of a mere paragraph, while the
exceptions are measurable by pages
| But Emily Louise knew the rule
Even with town one background fol
flag and bunting; even with the
! streets one festive professional; ever
| with the advent, in her city, of thu
president of the United States on hi!
her civic precincts, Emily Louise
| arising, was able correctly to recite
l. the rule.
| AN article should only be uset
| once before a complex description O.
| one and the same object"
AN example," said Miss Amanda.
II Emily Louise stood perplexed, TO-
none had been given in the book.
| simply apply the rule and max
your own" said Miss Amanda.
| But 1t did not seem simple; Emil.
Louise was still thinking in the con
| crete. -. "a
Hattie. had grasped distractions
| Hattie waved her hand. There wa
! a scarlet spot upon her cheek. Befor
school there had been words between
Hattie and Isobel. The politics O
e the president of the United States ha
" figured in it, and Emily Louise ha
e learned that the president was a re
publican. And yet flags! And process
Y, sions!
Miss Amanda said, "well, Hattie /?
it Hattie arose. "There is a single
n only, solitary republican pupil in thi
class, = said she promptly and wit
emphasis. - '-.
j. MISS Amanda might proceed t
4. consider the proposition grammatical
l. ly, her mind being on the rule, an
n not the import, but the class inter
& preted it as Hattie meant they should
t. In their midst! And unsupported! >
s Emily Louise grew hot. Could Hat
er tie, would Hattie. do this thing? Hat
lie. tie, accuse her thus? Yet who els
could Hattie mean? The heart of EN-
& ily Louise swelled-Hattie to do thi
l; thing! &Ssss sssz.S.
And Hattie was wrong. She shout
n know that she was wrong. She shoul