The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-08-04


Declare ton read like that, Phil
no. | never did, and don't want to.
But heard
"Oh, l know. Yes, she did that too.
When she came to the words. we hold
these truths to be self evident she |
paused till all the audience looked up |
at her to see what was coming. Then |
she raised her voice and continued |
Slowly and impressively. We hold
these truths to be self evident-that all
men, including women, are created |
equal; that they are endowed by the |
Creator with certain unalienable rights
that among thes" are life, LIBERTY
and the pursuit of happiness
"By Jove.'
"She spoke that world liberty in a
way to give you thrills down your
spine. She had the Co Ed girls glee
quartet up to help her. They all wore
little silk American flags pinned to
their white dresses just as she did, and
after she finished the Declaration they
sang a new patriotic song ~ of the
club herself had written to the grand
old air of Rally Round the Flag, Boys
words that both north and south could
unite in singing whole hearted. Old
soldiers of the civil war wiped their
eyes, women kissed the little flags they
wore. The girl had got the school chill
dren together--she let the boys in on
that-and dressed them in United
States flag tableau. In the upper left
hand corner of rectangle OF benches
%1n rtula
They wore blue dresses and carried
small white parasols, star shaped. The
boys wore red and white muslin caps
and capes and sat in red and white
stripes below and to the left of the
girls Girls waved the star parasols,
boys waved their red and white caps.
Wasn't it fine idea, Phil? Oh, you've
nothing to say.
Next sweet old saint of a woman
with white hair told the gaping chill
dren what women, too, had done for
their country She told them how in
1777 Esther Zane the first, a long ago
relative of the young lady who had
read the Declaration, volunteered to go
| out from the stockade at Fort Henry
| in Ohio when the Indians were all
around them firing bullets into the fort
and bring from the cabin of Ebenezer
| Zane keg Of powder, for the men In
! the stockade were out of ammunition"
"Wellw
"Well, the white haired old saint told
us next of Mother Bickerdyke, the SOL
diers' angel in the civil war. She saved
thousands of lives. Union and Con-
federate alike. Many night follow
ing fight. even in the storm and bit
terest weather, an officer would per-
haps see twinkling light upon the
battle field after the hospital corps
had abandoned it, and the light would
be from lantern carried by Mother
Bickerdyke, out with an orderly ex-
aiming the bodies If perhaps there
might not yet be a spark Of life re-
naming in some"
"Wellv
"Well, after that the American flag
children sang My Country, IT'S OF
Thee Then while the women's Or
chestra played Yankee Doodle we as
sembled for our basket picnic dinner.
Phil that was the most fetching
Fourth of July celebration l ever at
tended, pestered with not one of your
long winded orators that are such a
nuisance in the meetings of us men,"
Linda Miles, who is that coming
this way with John Marston? Very
good looking for man.
'"rhat. Esther. is Philip Altman. Mr.
Marston's cousin. He is here for the
vacation"
Linda, you don't mean it, Thi'
person looks really manly. Philil
Altman. of all creatures contemplate
He heads the fellows that tried t.
keep us girls off the college campus
and he's written the meanest thing
about us of anybody In the college pa
per Linda, sometimes I'm afraid In
getting to hate men, and I'm sorry 10
it, because the emotion of hatred i
not Il good one to indulge-rcacts psy
chologically on the health. hope tina
shall never meet that Altman
But of course the two did meet later
When they We're introduced Esthe
Zane stitfened her lips visibly; Phili
Altman assumed his Indifferent draw
John Marston smiled.
The two foes met often She treate
him with the barest civility at frs
which Altman was not used to frol
girls. and it hurt his vanity. Presen
ly, however. Esther remembered tht
we should be kind to our enemies $
as to heap Goals of fire upon the
heads. She suddenly turned abo,
and became sweet as an angela +,
r off angel. that Is. and unattainabl
Philip Altman noticed that of all III
v frippery loving sex Esther Zane W;
,e one OF the fripperiest. She wore ye
ID low muslins that envelOped her like
v halo. now again gray that yelled III
l in Il mist. He heard the swish OF
n silk petticoat as she passed him
street gown. She even wore chail