Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-01
Miss Florense Minis Writes on
Washington's Birthday.
Dear Advertiser:

VAAoS iOi CINE WILLIS VIAtSo va
Washington's Birthday.
Dear Advertiser:
No inspiration has come to me dur
ing the past past week. The days have
passed with savage sameness. Only
the number % on the calendar has
made any difference. a
| l am not in fitting frame of mind
to celebrate the birthday of the "Fa,
ther of His Country" for the U. P. IS.
did not have a holiday.
The rain poured all day and suddenly
this evening the wind began to blow at
some several miles an hour, and the air
chilled me through and through.
think when 1 leave this profession
that shall go into the banking bust
ness or the post-office. department., for
those two professions have holidays on
the slightest urovocation.
One begins to feel that it is much
more important to get letter to-day
than it was for America to have had
her freedom from tyrannical George
III.
AS l said, we celebrated the day by
going to school, and since Wednesday
is the one day in the week set aside
for chapel, we sang various patriotic
songs in the same way that an Ameri-
can audience always sings them. The
Star Spangled Banner is ever like some
startlingly new hymn, suddenly assign
ed the congregation to sing, we start
out on the first line glibly, rising with
nimbleness to our feet. BY the time
we have reached the second verse we
are standing on tip toe and looking
heavenward as though those acts might
help US to reach the high notes. By
the time we have reached the last verse
we are out with Francis Scott Key.
America and the world in general, hav-
ing so recently split our throats.
Noaune to any patriotic song has the
pep and catchinessE Eof Dixie. / wish
that some public spirited citizen would
put some words to it that would suit all
sections of the country. There is some
thing about the tune that ignites ones
fervor.
Mr.. Gabriel del Orbe, an artist on;the
violin and in Spaniard, has arrived
here from Mexico. City to teach violin
for the restsof the teri,,. He does saSs.l
speak English very well and was s4st.fy-
ing to hum the tune to the different
songs, when we came to America" :"
he asked me if that were not "God Save
the King" and told him that we had
taken the tune from the English,
This reminded me of the time when 1
vas in Canada several years ago. was
attending services in Methodist church
On Christmas afternoon. During the
service they played what / thought
must be America. So began sing
ng Justify ''My Country 'Tis of Thee"
'tc. Suddenly l discovered that the
words that | was singing seemed to be
lightly different from those of the
est of the congregation. l turned to t
isten, and found them to be singing /
God Save the King" to the tune with I
which Twas so familiar. Needless to {
ay l stopped and listened, though l
idn't care in the least whether the
King was saved or not or what hap
ened to him.
1t really seems to me that the for
ign countries have more of an inborn t
ove of their National anthems than we a
0. Perhaps it is because they are S
lore musical, but l know no better 3
,ay of showing love of country in time o
f peace than by learning and singing a
rom our hearts, songs which historical h
and love of our native land a
ave made dear to our hearts. q
FLORENCE MINIS, n
Tonkawa, Oklahoma.
February %, 1922. n,