Lower coast gazette., 1913-08-02
poINTF!A. IA.HACHE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST = 1910.

!. LOUISIANA, SATURD.
..patriotism-that wrd always makes
me think Of makini bandages."
Maybe you've noticed that we some
times find out the most important
things by just a luli or a little Oh
hand speech like thar? It came over
me like a flash owblind I'd been not
to see that Janet really did need me,
after all. It was made plain 10 me
that in her mind patriotism belonged
to war, and not to Ter everyday lie.
1t was something hr OH to ner-
nothing that meant anything special
except standing up p sing America
or celebrating the Feurth OF July.
"Janet," / asked, With a new tingle
in my blood, what y patriotism!
.novot;on to the s.ation-the pas
sion that inspires one to serve ones
country" she iblyfansWered' Quo'-
ing the definition from a dictionary.
"And what's serving ones country"
"Why-doing what you did, grand
father-going to war;
Anything else"
Janet puckered her forehead. BE
inc President, or what people call q
public servant / suppose she ven
tured.
.And hasn't patriotism anything t
do with Janet Bradley? Are you pa
triotic??"
Her eyes opened vide, "of cours'
I'm patriotic" she said. Il think tnl
is the grandest country in the world
I'm perfectly devoted to it; 1t coudn'
be finer. Just let anyone try TO say
. word against it!'
"Do you think passing over u
;. faults and weaknesses Of your countr
is being patriotic?
The look of a new idea came III
;. .Janet's face. I'D never thought OF
d that way before. grandfather. s.
what you mean now. Mother didn
:. shut her eyes to my faults; she I
ways told me about them, and neip'
me to overcome them; and that's q
:. wav we ought to do for u country
Exactly. You can be loyal to 20
:, country-proud Of what's worth Wn
in it. and at the same time do 70
part in getting rid Of the things II
oughtn't to be-" r.
"But what can do-a glrl y
Elmer" she asked. I'm afraid ! 90
- know much about, being patriotic
/. way you mean, grandfather. Yo'
:, have to teach me to be your kind
patriotic American girl
..Joy bells a-ringin'! | cried, vi
% heard the words | vas waiting
"You make you'd old solder graadfs
er the happiest man OF earth
e. rrc,, .h.a do d:vssrneant4sn
thing to me. Teaching Janet patr
. ism wasn't easy; there was SO M
!, : for her to learn.
patriotism is a good deal
that vase you call %cloisonne," ! s
eve been studying up q little a.
that ware. It's made OF a lot OF
- cious things, and it's so with pat
~ ism. It's a virtue made up OF VIII
To make yourself a patriotic An
can girl you'll need, first OF al
VA think Of every single thing II
-, make you as good and capable q
-, man as you can be, then add the y
to the bread-ask yourself, How
Nc / serve my country? and set to J
10 to find out its needs"
ond "But, grandfather Janet {
,or,d with CONSERVATION in her voice,
needs are too big for me to help
"Never mind about the big !
! lust yet-there are plenty OF
1ahn ones. Everything that threaten
keep it from being the best coun'
, ~. could be-that's for you to fnd.'
,orq. Before long, Janet found a pie
a,an patriotic work to do. i've
Lotto something to begin with
: FIR yards" she announced, jubilantl
. not Gay.
10 Her crusade against the tin
oror the flies, and the rubbish in the
yards Of some parts OF our ltttl
h.rd meant something and before tn
80 90 mer was over there was a Dig
50
try ence not only in the appearance
:, fort. in the health Of many homes.
to "Why. just persuading some
! Md to get rid Of flies works VOL
) mo Janet said. "For one thing, the,
,ntion. to be clean, and If people are
6 that clean, they can do almost any
But In her work among the poor
IN 40 pie, Janet found out that the
that hood Of all the women OF our {
the is part Of the abe of patriotls
"You don't need to be bound
what bylaws OF sociess' o"As
aunts TO Know VIVA unl.eu in'o1.0s