The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-17

weather, let him browse
Go dreamin' with the daisies, or
or loafn' with the cows.
Though he thinks it's time for bliz
yards. an the heat should call
a halt,
Yet. the good Lord runs the wather
an it amt feller's fault,
If Teller feels like singin in this
weather, Rst him sing.
An roll in summer sweetness, where
the honeysuckles swing
If we ntsyer know it's winter-if the
SUNNI rs never halt.
The good Lord runs the weather an
it amt feller's fault!
"Brooms is the title OF thu, adj
dress given by Bessie Tate, at THE
graduating exercises on Friday evan-
ing, June &c, in the opera house:
The broom, like most a.yicles of
the kind has gone through several
changes since it came into use.
In the olden time, when woman
had comparatively few aids to hrr
household labor, the broom was SIM
ply a bunch OF branches from some
pliable shrub, tied to a stick.
am afraid that the modern
woman. USED to the broom of today,
would find it difficult to work, and
accomplish good results, with such
a primitive article.
Webster defines a broom as fol-
lows: An implement for sweeping
floors, etc. To what does that etc,
apply? Does it refer merely to tan
gible objects? No, we are all brooms,
and it is our duty to brush away any
thing that is detrimental TO mankind,
1t would be, much more satisfac
tory to US if we all were those big,
long handled brooms, that can ac-
comp'ish SO much. But that is not
what the Great Ruler intended. There
must be big brooms and little blooms,
soft brooms and stiff broOms. 1t
every ono were doing big things,
where would the little things come
in? There are some places where
only a small flexible broom cam be
used, and is not its work quite as
important as that of the harger?
Then there are carpet sweepel's.
many who know just how they do it..
All their actions are hidden from
sight THERE are people just like
them, who have smooth ways OF
working, and mo one knows what
those ways are. Let us hope that
they are the ones who do THE work,
always, without letting the right
hand know what the left does.
Woman used to be of no more use
in thu world than the chatf. which
goes before the broom. Man was her
lord and master, and the only place
for her was the home. But things are
changing and, nowadays, there are
few vocations into which a woman
may not enter and be just as sue
cesstful as man. Woman's rights
are SLOWLY, but surely coming to be
recognized. She is getting to bic a
broom.
In every walk of life, there are
some brooms that stand out with spe-
cial promnench. Abraham Lincoln
was such an one.
Although people did not always
give him credit for it, he knew, bet
ter perhaps than anyone else, how
the affairs of government should he
managed during the period of our
great civil war.
One cannot always TEN an effective,
powerful broom by looking at it.
Often times the nublest minded per-
SONS have few outward attractions.
1t was SO of Lincoln. Almost with
out EXCEPTION. people met him for
the first time with disappointment.
Intemperance is one of the great
est vices of modern tNimes. and more
people are ruined by it every year
than by any other one thing.
Frances E. Willard did more, per-
haps, than any other person, in
sweeping away this awful curse to
civilization, and the work has not
stnpped with her death. Other prom
inent persons both in Europe and
and America, are talking it up and
following her example. The echoes;
of her appeals will, as Tennysor
fays: Roll from soul to soul and
grow forever and forever
In the field of literature today
there is need of much, vigorous
sweeping Although there is grea'
deal that Is worthy our reading, there
is much more THAT is utterly worth
less, and worse than that, 1t lis harm
ful.
The duty of an author is not com
pleted in simply writing book o
poem. He should strike, not merel
to pleasa the public, but to produc
something that will uplift literatur
and all humanity There are Yer
few writer's today who are doing SC
and none who are producing masten
.,;oroc cn,nh aS those of ShalZeSDpaT