The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-06

Ing, because, doggoned, after we'd
been sittin' there while II she didn't
have To get out her handkerchief She
kept her face turned away from me
Just the same as you're doin' now to
keep from lnughln'-but honestly. she
cried like somebody at u funeral. !
felt like the dnrndest fool
I'm not laughing" said Fred, but
he did not prove IL by turning So that
his fnce could be seen. what did she
sayY"
"Oh she didn't say such an awful
lot She said one kind o. funny thing
though she said she was sorry she
couldn't quite control herself but II
anybody had to see her cry she minded
ID less because II was nm old school
mate What struck me So kind O.
funny about that ls-why, 1t looks as
II she never knew the way ! always
hated her so"
yes" said Fred. 1T wasn't fiat
tering"
"well, sir. 1t isn't, kind Of" Ram
sey agreed. musingly. 1T certainly
isn't when you look at II that way"
what did you say when she said
thnt7" Fred asked.
"Nothin'. / started to. but ] sort Of
baked again. Wen. We kept on sitting
there. and afterwhle she began TO
talk again and got kind of excited
about how no war could do anything
or anybody any good. and all war was
wicked. no matter what II was about,
and nothn' could be good that was
founded on fear and hate. and every
war that ever was fought was always
founded on fear and hate She said
II the Germans wanted To fight us we
ought to 20 to meet them and tell
them We wouldn't fight"
"What did you say?"
"Nothln'. ! kind o. started to-but
what's the usel Shes got that in her
head. Besides, how are you goin' to
argue about thing with person
that's crying about IT. tell you, Fred.
! guess We got tn admit. after all that
ole girl certainly must have lot Of
heart about her, anyway There may
not be much FUN To her-thouah Of
course ! wouldn't know hardly any
way To tell about that-but there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
Tot Of feeling Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars.
hut didn't fight; they left the fighting
10 the boys. and the suffering TO the
boys mothers"
Eyes - Fred exclaimed. and upon
that he turned. free Of mIrth for the
moment That's the woman Of H. |
guess. Send the old men to do the
fghting' For the matter Of that. I
guess my father'd about thousand
times rather go himself than see me
and my brothers 90: but Fathers so
fat he can't stoop, You got TO be able
10 stoop to dig trench. guess Well,
suppose we sent our old men up
against those Dutchmen the Dutch
men would just XIII the old men, and
then come after the boys anyway. and
the boys wouldn't be ready. and they'd
get killed too: and then there
wouldn't he anybody bur the Dutchmen
left, and thatd he one fine world.
wouldn't it,
"Yes," said Ramsey Course
thought Of that"
"Did you tell herr
"No"
"What did you sayv'
"NothIn' 7 couldn't get started any
h..
But she didn't want the old men to go:
she didn't want anybody 10 go"
"What did she want the country 10
dof" Fred asked. impatIently
"Just what II has been doln'. I sup
pose. Just let things simmer down.
and poke along, and let them do what
they like 10 us"
II guess So" said Fred "Then,
afterwhile, when they got some free
time on their hands. they'll come over
and make II really interesting for US.
because they know we won't do any
thing hut talk. Yes, ! guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora. There isn't goin' to he any
war"
'She was pretty sure there was.
though" Ramsey said. thoughtfuuy.
"Oh, OF course she was then. We
all thought so those few days"
"No. She said she thought II probly
wouldn't come right away, but now II
was almost sure 10 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 II would go on and
on. She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that n feeling like that In her would
never he absolutely wiped out as long
ms she lived. But she said her other
feeling about the horribeness Of war
taught her TO keep the first feeling
from breaking out, hut with other peO-
pie II wouldn't and even II war didn't
break out right then. II would always
he ready 10. all over the country, and
sometime II would. though she was