Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-04-20

ana nOtnln COULD De GOOD that was
founded on fear and hate. and every
war that ever was fought was ALWAYS
founded on fear and hate. She said
If the Germans wanted to fight us we
ought to go to meet them and tell
them we wouldn't fight"
what did YOU say?'
"Nothin'. I kind O. started to-hHt
what's the use? She's got that in her
head. Besides, how are you goin to
argue about thing with a person
that's crying about it? tell you, Fred.
l guess we got to admit, after all. that
ole girl certainly must have a lot of
heart about her, anyway, There NAV
not be much fun to her-though of
course I wouldn't know hardly any
way to tell about that-but there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
a lot of feeling. Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars,
but didn't fight; they left the fighting
to the boys, and the suffering to the
boys mothers"
"Yes!" Fred exclaimed, and upon
that he turned, free of mirth for the
moment. THAT'S the woman of it, !
guess. Send the old men to do. the
fighting! For the matter Of that,
guess my father'd about thousand
times rather go himself than see me
and my brothers go; but Fathers so
fat he can't stoop! You got to be able
to stoop to dig trench, guess Well,
suppose we sent our old men up
against those Dutchmen; the Dutch
men would just kill the old men, and
the boys wouldn't be ready, and they'd
get killed. too and then there
wouldn't be anybody but the Dutchmen
left, and that'e tie one fine world
wouldn't it,!
eyes," said Ramsey. course
thought of that"
''Did you tell her?"
mo"
"What did you say?"
Notnin'. I couldn't get started any
way, but, besides, what was the use?
But she didn't want the old men to go;
she didn't want anybody to go''
"What. did she want the country to
do?" Fred asked, impatiently.
"Just what it has been dom, sup
pose Just let things simmer down,
and poke along, and let them do what
they like to u.s."
II guess sol" said Fred "Then,
afterwhile, when they got some free
time on their hands, they'll Come over
and make it really interesting for us,
because they know we won't do any
thing but talk. Yes, guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora There isn't goin' to be any
war;"
"She was pretty sure there was,
though" Ramsey said thoughtfully.
ooh, of course she was then. We
all: thought so those few days"
"No. She said she thought it prob'ly
wouldn't come right away, but now it
was almost sure to come sometime
She said our kilograms and all the talk
and so much feeling and everything
showed her that the war thought that
was always in people somewhere had
been stirred up so it would go on and
on She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that a feeling like that in her would
never be absolutely wiped out as long
as she lived. But she said her other
feeling about the horribleness of war
taught her to keep the first feeling
from breaking out, but with other peo-
pie it wouldn't; and even if war didn't
break out right then, it would always
be ready to, all over the country, and
sometime it would, though she was
goin' to do her share to fght it, her.
self, as long as she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't be one Of the ones
to help her."
Z He paused, and after a moment
Fred asked, "WeI? What did you say
to that?"
"Nothin. I started to, but
Again Fred thought it tactful to
turn and look out the window, while
the agitation of his shoulders be
trayed him.
10 on anu ldugH! wen, 50 we
stayed there quite while, but before
we left she got kind Of more like every
day, you know, the way people do. 1t
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and l was commencin'
to feel kind of hungry, SO / asked her
If she wasn't, and she sort of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed Of it, as If
1t was a disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so
left her by that hedge of lilacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the TERRA and the fruit store, and got
some stuffed eggs and olives and half
a-doZen peanut butter sandwiches and
q box O. strawberries-kind of girl
food, you know-and went on back
there, and we ate the stuff up. So
then she said she was afraid she'd
taken me away from my dinner and
made me a lot of trouble, and so on,
and she was sorry, and she told me
goodnight"