The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-07-08


mic. Since ancient days it has
rained upon the just and the un-
just, and when the rain desccnds
upon the picnic it rains upon the
country-folks and the town-folks
alike.
And you may not have noticed
that little rain on town-woman
at picnic affects her much more.
than the rain does her country.
sister. The country woman takes
to the picnic only the complexion
that nature has given her. Her
face wears only the tan laid on
generously by the Dakota wi,'ds
and the freckles hatched by the.
warm sun, SO when the rain de-
scends, and the winds beat upon
that complexion, she cares not, be-
cause those freckles are founded
upon a rock. But it is not SO with
the town-woman When the rams
descend upon her complexion, and
the winds beat upon it, it falls,
and great and streaked is the fall
thereof. A perfectly good com
plexion, after it has been taken
twenty-five miles into the country
to a picnic, and subjected 10 thet
inclemency and unkindness of n
rainstorm, does not look like
much.
But the rain drives the crowd
into the barn. and that gives the
politicians chance. All the poii-
ticians in Haakon county go to a.
picnic, and some come from out-s
side the county. When the crowd
is herded in the barn, so that it
cannot we'll get awav, the .pohti-
clan begins to spread the hand
shake. No other hand-shake is in
the same class. The brotheriy
| hand-shake of the church congre-.
CATION is a poor relative, a weak
imitation There. is nothing quite.
like it.
It's warmth and clinging aifec-
tion are equalled only by the fond
embrace which an ardent youth
bestows upon an auburn haired
land equally ardent maiden at a
Farm Bureau picnic. For be it
known that picnic which gives the
politician his opportunity gives the
lovers their opportunity also. Or
at any rate the youth makes it
his opportunity.
/ In the very midst of the crowd.
IweH down toward the front while
the community singing is going
full blast, he puts his arm about
her and presses her to his throb-
bing heart, by all the world OBJ
served They don't care a darn.
Is it not their picnic as we'll as
Iours? So they snuggle closer to
each other, and every nail in that
old barn sings to them like vib-
rant jews-harp by angels lips at
4 tuned. We realize that Romeo had
nothing on that fellow. With sush
an exhibition as that we marvel at
what his clinch would be wheL
i Nick lets the lights go ont. We
are just bit sorry for thar little
girl, because we realize that he
will take her home sometime early
next morning, after the dancing
is over, with her ear chewcd to a
pulp. But we waste our sympathy
on her. She only snuggles closer.
| But even so the American picnic
ljustifies itself. The town-lnan gets
| a square meal and can exist on
salad for many days thereafter;
the politician gets elected to his
office; the town-woman finds an
other complexion equally go,d in
the jar at home, and the pair Cf
/ ardent lovers after their fret
burst of soft, exhuberanr picnic
i love may marry and found 4 home
| that will in due time contribute
i Ispoons, food, appetites, tan. frcck-
les, handshakes and children to
i the American picnic.
4 Yes, the picnic is great insti-
tuition. The country can get on
without president. We arc nat
Isure it could not get on without
congress. But II cannot get on
without the picnic It Is q great
4 democratic institution Of our free
country il it ever falls into dis
use. we fear that revolution and
anarchy may come upon us. Let
| Us therefore rise up and eel the
i Farm Bureau blessed, and pray its
! / picnic may become al annual ev-
ens IN Haakon County.
Will buy horses and mules. from
Iyoar1inR up. Must b fat and priced