Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01


GUS occasion. The scene is somewha.
different from the one we went
through on the day we moved into
Palisade, April II, 1905, but no less
happy The day had been one of
mingled sunshine and shadow. 1t
was day full of April pranks with
marvellous blue sky and scurrying
white clouds, with high winds and
snow fiurrleS, and these followed each
other as fast as the brightest OF sun
SHINE could break through and beat
| chem BACK. Inc w4nu caught up the
SHOW, Ealing tn4t-A ana last DIS Jand-
it along the loeuways like 90 many
WHITE V1oletS CHASING and tumbling
over eacn other, unUll when nlght1ali
came, when twilight cropped her
curtain down ana pinned IL with a
STAR, we saw the sweet heavenly
ceremony that closed with a Palisade
rosy sunset, ana realized then mat
we mad gone TIM ougn DAY OF mlnglea
emotions and Wonderment-our first
DAY IN a country home of our own
with not nelghbor except the birds
: and trees ana bugs, with everything
| IN place except the contents OF one
moving van With much OF our table
ware and a great deal OF old silver,
and which has never yet arrived in
| fallSade. we had had real home
made evening meal, and were sitting
| IN the library shortly after the
| things were put away, when the small
boy of the family, still in knicker
pockers, stole from the tireside circle
and went on tour of inspection, adj
venture and investigation. lie wanted
| to see how it looked out of doors IN
the country at night, and was OUT
| on the back lorcn when strange
sound met his ears. He listened
awhile, then hurried back into the
house and cried, On, fardle, come
out and listen TO the BIRDS singing.
| went out and heard the sweet music
Of the many hundreds of frogs that
at that time filled the woods and little
ponds that were everywhere around.
They were piping their shriI evening
| lay, and the little boy had taken his
| nrSt singing lesson from the depths
of nature in the softneSS OF our nrSt
ralisade night.
Like ali loyal Palisadians, | want
to see the right KIND of development
here. we have line material IN our
| citizens in the many lovely children
and cultivated women. There is more
| talent here th.,n one can often find
III village, anu if it were only all
| directed IN the channel OF making
! PaliSade model residence suburb, IN
thought and Ieellng and impulse, we
would not find it long before we had
four OF five thousand people here and
values would soon be mounting to
where the charm o. this location
should carry them, and where it will
carry them in time. | want us to
persevere in this feeling until our
| tondeSt hopes ale realized. There Is
no word more important to the hui
man lace than perseverance. 1t does
more for progress than all other
| words. You must have read of the
Belgian who was captured by the Ger
mans, who furnishes vivid example
of what may be accomplished by per-
| severance. The German captain heard
the Belgian shouting, "Hurrah for
| Belgium and told him he would have
TO desist, or take the consequences.
But the Belgium persevered and still
shouted for his native land. Finally,
he was told that if he did not cease,
he would be shot, and he replied,
We'll, if | am to be shot, will stop"
Then his captor told him he would
have to take the oath of allegiance
for Germany or be shot, and after
| this ceremony was gone through
rather unwillingly by the Belgian, he
was told he could go back home. AS
he left the door of the tent, he looked
back at the captain and said, ''But
didn't the Belgians give us a HI of
a fightw
That's the stuff. Be game to the
last limit. We ought to fight to the
last ditch for Palisade. Go to bed
thinking of it. Get up in the morn
ing thinking Palisade. Teach your
children to talk about and believe in
Palisade. Tell your babies to lisp it.
We all come home nights too tired to
do much work here, but we can do a
great deal on Sundays, Saturday
afternoons in summer, and on holi
days. Never get too tired to talk
Palisade Remember the tired father
who was told to put the little daugh-
ter to bed after dinner one evening.
They went along off up stairs, and
after about half an hour the mother
reading the evening paper heard tiny
footsteps on the stairway, and the
little one called out, "Mama h u h !!
l have dot dad off to sleep at last"
A very pretty feature of the deco
rations were the garlands of Chinese
lanterns that hung from the top of
the flag pole on the school house
lawn. They were draped in four diff
ferent directions, and when the crowd
came along Anderson avenue the eff
feet was most pleasing. Each garland
was $50 feet in length and the liant
| orr,c 1uaro St1.1l1a o. thrna foot anart