The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-26
MRS. WALTER HARDY TELLS OF HER VISIT TO BOSTON, THE CRADLE OF
AMERICA HER VISIT TO PLYMOUTH ROCK TO HOME OF LONGFELOW
AND HER MEETING WITH MADAME CURE CO. DHCOVERER OF RADM

over the Tory oppresSor
Inscribed here are lines of Emerson
Iuoting which. Here was fired th'
hot that was heard round the world.
And, on soiiloquizing on these
events Of the past, was born other
thoughts of one August morn not
50 very long ago when was fired
the shot that was again heard
around the world, and this time
by handful OF brave Belgian
soldiers into the midst Of the
mighty army OF the great oppres-
sor, the Lord OF Berlin
Never was there such an Op-
pressor, ravaging conquered
country, conquered by reason of
his great preparedness and ag
gressivcness, destroying its art
treasures, its museums, its beau
tiful edifices, its women OF their
virtue, where justice and reason
ran rampant and were felled by
the point of the bayonet. innocent
harmless civilians; and il was this
same war lord. this monster, this
iconoclast. who was the founder
OF this Germanic Museum, the
purpose, TO perpetuate German art
cultures, here in this seat of learn
ing Of the American youth.
"0ne thinks, and one thinks,
and thinks, and one must think
sometimes on the days of 1914
l5-l6-l1-lS. And then magina-
ton gathered one into its arms,
and there on that spot | became
victimized, for there came to me
ON that fresh morning air the
sound vi music, faint at first and
then growing louder. II was the
music OF the Marsellaise, and in
every bar of its martial refrain
was borne TO me the spirit of that
pleasure loving, light hearted re-
public now aroused 10 a patriotism
that caught them in its grip and
carried them to a great victory.
And then the music changed. Ii
was now Il rOllicling air, It's a
Long, Long Way To Tipperary,'
but il was played with such vim
and doggedness rellecting the ten
acity and intomitableness of the
army that marched TO its meas
ure. And louder grew the music,
and now heard as | never
heard 1.-THE Star Spangled
Bamer'-and then from the past
10 the present again, and looking
with misty eyes across the COM
mon beautiful, | saw the top of a
mighty column. II was the. mon
ument on Bunkers Hill!
After all, have Il Germanic
column il you want il, but put
il in Chicago-New lork-any-
where hut there in Cambridge in
the cradle of American Liberty!
Why?
Flower Bound Roads
One afternoon We had the eXclu
i've use OF 100 motor cars. furnished
With 4 driver. and We We're taken .
cute through the Arnold Arbotem
park of over 200 acres, where wer,
yrown all the trees and shrubs tina
hat latitude favored The shrubber!
vas well in flower and presented ;
sight. We went from
lere through three estates OF Bos
on millionaires which We're als
opened 10 US. and these estates seem
d TO vie with each other in tn
of their rural splendor
through flower bound roads, and sta
ioned all along this line OF trave
we're Boy Scouts. who directed tn
course Of the drivers and made
possible that a return journey coul'
De- made by another delightful route
This treat happened during the mos
delightful time OF the day, from
o'clock 10 o'clock p. m, and afte
4 summer shower and the atmospher
was charged with that refreshin
earthly smell and mingled with II IN
fragrance Of rhododendrons, lilacs an
roses.
We ltlA pbHAoh kAt AbilOMlAE Aas
My memory Of this. the cradle c
America, Is OF i sedate city. II
people extremely courteous. its me
of the old-time manners. its wome
natural charm unaide
by any artiricialence and who excl
cised In dress q quiet slmple and cl'
CANT taste. believe saw NOR
flowers in bloom at one time than
ever remember seeing under tropic'
sun.
And here at home my little hbrar
has come to life. Lougfcllow. TtS
teau. Emerson. Hawthorne, Louis
VI. Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes an
james Russell Lowell. all VINO live
In my heart and mind. have stvppe
down frCm their book bound recessS
and greet me In a new scmbl.nce.
So TO Boston and environment
nesting by the sea, TO where wei
drawn sturdy people seking libcri
and whore first was unfurled q
flag proclaiming H. | wave you
ANUN AN IfNollF NNA alt ANbi
setting Tor the resting places OF m
heroes, that Of my reincarnatcd
brary"
Meets Madame Curie
"Coincidcnt upon our sojouu ca
to procure rad,um ana at the sau
time umiharize ourselves with u
therapeutic methods " Udium. v
saw Madame Curic. u was at
public reception held at the Art Il
stitute. Chicago. The time wa thr'
o'clock and the day Monday Jul
18th.
When We arrived at the Hall
Fine Arts on Michigan Avenue the
was large and motley crowd gat
erred and one saw In the many eaF
faces the foreign type-for MADAM
Curie was a Pole. and these h
country women, mostly
Madame received at first a ~
cisl few. admitted by ticket. and 4
ter that the public that cared
call.
The big corridors of the hall We