The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-07

FAMILY
By OSCAR cox

BY OSCAR cox
Warringham was wealthy young
man with nothing 20 do 10 kill time
There was nothing but war talk In the
city, and IL tired him. 1T was spring,
time and every one was going into gar.
dening. Though It did not make any
difference TO him whether he paid
or 80 cents for cabbage. he concluded
10 go In for gardening too. Looking
over a catalogue OF farms for sale and
finding one that seemed about right,
he took a train to so and inspect the
premises.
When he alighted at the station and
went out on to the street he saw a girl
sitting in an auto. She wore an alpine
hat with a feather In II and tiny
American flag on her corsage.
Can you tell me-" he said to her,
handing her the ad., where can find
that?'
She took the slip, glanced at 1t and
said: That's the Erskine property.
I'm going there In few minutes and
will take you with me in my machine
IL you like"
Warringham accepted the offer, and
after every one who had come In on
the train had passed out the girl re-
marked that she reckoned she hadn't
come on that train" and turned her
car away from the station.
"Who did you say owned this prop
ertyf" asked Warringham.
1T belongs TO Major Erskine"
whats he major off,"
1.-THE Pittsford battalion"
Everybody here is preparing for
war, them"
"Yes, everybody that has any spunk.
There are a few slackers among the
men,"
When is a man to be considered
slackerT'
when he's young, ablebodied and
don't go to the war"
Warringham WINGED The cap fitted
him exactly. He noticed that the girl
wore leggings, which were plainly Wis
ible beneath her short skirt
1T seems to me-" he said, that you
are got up In soldierly fashion. l
reckon you're not Stacker"
you bet
What are you going to do to help
the cause-fght?"
II don't know. I'm going to do some |
thing. You see, I'm the granddaugh- |
ter of Union soldier in the big war
fifty years ago and the granddaughter |
of a Confederate soldier. So you see,
it won't do for me to shirk."
did you have any more GRANDPA
theirs in the Cuban fracas?"
mo. You don't suppose could have
more than two grandfathers, do your
But my father and four uncles were In
that diminutive fight"
women are not now what they were
in your grandmothers' time. Then they
were feminine"
my Confederate grandmother wasn't
a coward. She drove some Federal
soldiers out of her potato patch with
gun" !:
How about your Union grand. |
"she stood off a mob in the draft
riots"
you do come of a fighting family,
don't you? Do you think you could !,
stand up to be shot at without show. :
ing the white feather?'
II don't know | reckon 1t would 3
depend on how mad / got. Both my G
agreed that when they Y
first went in to fight they 'heaved Jo-
nah,' but when they got mad they s
scared bit" t
"On that ground they should make t
soldiers of women My experience P
with your sex is that when a woman is d
mad she's mad from the crown of her
head to the tip of her big toe"
BY this time the girl was turning in
o grounds with house and big pole 1,
rom which fioated the Stars and h
Stripes. Women in feminine uniform II
we're walking about, and before the s
iouse paced n sentinel. d.
whats this?" asked Warringham. Of
"The barracks OF the Pittsford bat ell
alion." fc
She drove up to the house and alight- te
d, while the sentinel faced and
,rought his musket to present" A al
Dung woman came out of the house
With a lieutenants straps on her shoul. ~
ers and asked: q
Where's the recruit you were to l,
ring, majorT' -,
"She didn't come / reckon she's ec
ding to turn out a Stacker"
Are you Major Erskine" asked fir
eli,
yes. at your service. Do you want tn
, buy my little farm? I've no use for an
this year. I'm preparing battalion an
Dr. active service" pu
mo" replied Warringham, 81 don't
link l do. Your two grandfathers pr
tho fought in the war between the err
.ates. your two manly grandmothers, rel
our father and four uncles who in'
,ught in Cuba. have produced that In gu
Du which merits emulation. / don't ne
e why l, a man. should be raising
Ibbages while you, woman, are pre-
lring for war I'm going back home
"a ,anly ,,rfr, fOr DIE