Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-14
cheap in your attitude. Est

sentialIy cheap In your attltude. Est 4
specially about, religion.
II you aus know. our not 2
sound reforAner at aii. you're an l11s
possibilist. And yo'' W. up AS
ily. You gave Up on the new city
hail the anti-fly campaign. club pa
ners the nbrary-board. the dramatic
pssociation-just because we didn't
oraduate into lbsen the very first
hing. You want perfection all eat !
once. Do you knoW what n finest
thing you've one is--astde from
bringing Hugh into the world! It
war the help Q gave Or. VIII dur
inr hahv-welfare week. You didn't
demand that each baby be a philps-.
opher and artist before you weighed
him. MS YOU do with the rest OF us.
"And now I'm afraid perhaps I'll
hurt YOU. We're gong to have q new
schoolbuilding in this toWn-in Just =
few years-and We'll have IT without
one bit Of help or interest rom you!
professor Mott and q some
others have been dinging away at the
moneyed men for years. We didn't.
cali on you because you would
stand the pound poupd-poundtng year
after year without n bit OF encour-
agement. And we've won! v got
| the promise Of everybody who counts
that just as 0 as war-condtuons
permit, they'll vote the bonds for the
schoolhouse. n We'll 9 won
derful building-lovely brown nric5
with big windows, and agricultural
and Misunderstanding departments.
When we get it, that'll be my answer
to all your theories!'
I'm glad. And I'm ashamed I
haven't had any part IN getting 1t. But
--- Please don't think I'm unsym-
pathetic if 1 ask one question: VIII
the teachers in the hygienic
building go on informing the children
that Persia is a yellow spot on tho
map, and Caesar the title Of a, book
of grammatical puszles?"
VIII.
Vida was indignant; Carol vas
apologetic; they talked for another
hour, the. eternal Mary and Martha
IAN immoralist Mary and a reformtst
Martha 1t was Vida who conquered.
The fact thai she had been left out
of the campaign for the new school,
building disconnected Carol. She laid
her dreams of. perfection aside. When
Vida asked her to take charge Of u
group Of Camp Fire Girls, she obeyed,
and had definite pleasure out Of the
Indian dances and ritual and cos
tunes. She went more regularly to
the Th~anatopsis. With Vida as lieu-
tenant and unofficial commander
she campaigned for a village Nurse 10
attend poor families, raised the fund
herself. saw to it that the nurse was
young and strong and amiable and
intelligent. 8
Yet all the while she belaeld the
burly cynical Frenchman. and the
diaphanous dancers as clearly as the
child sees. its air-bornf playmates; she
relished the Camp Fire Girls not be-
cause, in Vida's words, this Scout
training will help so much to make
them Coco Wives" but because she
hoped that the Sioux dances would
bring subversive color into their dingi-
ness. E
She helped Ella Stcwbody to set out
plants in the tiny triangular park at
the. railroad station; she squatted in
the dirt, with a small curved trowe1
and the most decorous Of gardening
gauntlets; h talked to Ella about
the public-spiritedness OF fuchsias and
cannas: and she felt thai she was
s%crubbing a templa-deserted by the
gods and empty even of incense and
the sound of chanting. Passengers
looking from trains saw her as a VIII
laee woman of fading prettiness,. in
corrupttble virtue, and no abnormali-
ties; the baggageman heard her say.
"Oh. yes, I do. think it will be a good
example for the children ind ali tho
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