Evening star., 1925-11-01
Steps Are Taken to Organize Mothers
Of the Continuous American Revolution
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

T seems where John Alden, the
boy who put the deals in ideals
once said to his girl.friend Pris
L ella. Il hope you realize that
our little group of serious think
erS at the Puritan Club are conner
be the standard for a great country,
its terrible responsibility" And
iris says, law. I got no time to worry
over responsibilities, anybody'd think
i had nothing to do, run along, get
out of this, now-cant you see II :
pretty near 10 o'clock and not a dish
WaShed?"
And how true that still is of
Am. history come to my mind not
long ago, when that uptown act
ing Mrs. Freddy Freenash called to see
me about my becoming a Daughter of
the Revolution. Well, at first l didn't
quite get her, and l says why Mrs.
freenash. | wouldn't of suspected a
rich society leader like you would go
around spreading this Bolshevik prop
aganda. | thought yourself and hus-
band was too comfortably fixed to
wanner upset the poor working classes
and share your all with them while
They shared their over-alls with you
and etc.
And she says no, no, ! am speak
ing about the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. which means the lady
descendants of the soldiers who
fought in the big break away from
England, why. my dear, she says. any
body who is anybody in this country
belongs to it, Well. l says, l and
George, and our Junior are still in the
census, so it appears to me we ought
to belong to this other club, as we'll
tell me some of the advantages.
Well, l have often noticed where
women like to be asked to hand out
instruction pretty near as good as men
DO. so Mrs. Freenash only hesitated
the length of time it took her to open
her mouth, before telling me about the
splendid work this d. A. Il. did. eSpe-
cially as to preserving the memories
OF the Revolution, and how it was
fought, and why-principally why
When Mrs. Freenash come TO describe
why, she got every ounce as excited
as was possible and still remain
good-form, as she herself put it,
L wonder, she says, how often we
remember. that the many liberties we
take nowadays, was made possible by
our aunts-sisters? BY the way they
fought and bled for the grand and
glorious republic. All, my dear, the
men In them days was men, even if
The great open spaces wasn't as yet
discovered by the movies. And the
women done real, honest-to. goodness
work for their country TO make it
what it Is today.
And brave? Why. my dear. can
YOU imagine how brave them men
must of been to wear long hair and
lace rutt1es and silk pants like they
did? Who has got courage like that
today? And did you ever see the
Kind OF ovens and open fire places
them women had to cook with?
just simply can't imagine how they
ever survived-in fact, most of them
haven't, they are dead long ago and
no wonder. But the example they
have left us amt complicated, it is
plain one like two and two make
four. in other words. that all of us
has the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness only provided
we are willing to earn it. And that
Is the idea. she says. which the d.
y. r. tries to keep alive, with monu-
ments, and etc.
WHEN Mrs. Freenash got through
saying this, drew a long breath
as plain a 8 If on a blackboard, on ac-
count / fully realized the truth of all
she says, and how seldom we Amer
leans any longer initiate any of them
old timers except at a. costume party.
But even though I was impressed /
didn't want her to get ahead of me
on anything. especially patriotism. so
] at once went one step backward.
Yes indeed. / says, but how about
the Pilgrim fathers, How about the
Puritan ideals? Amt 1t a shame the
way the Puritans and the board of
Censors gets mixed up in the public
mind these days? Because no kid
ding. that's how the most Of us think
of them. either as censors or as i'm
porters of antique furniture, and we
lose sight of where they originally |
come over in the steerage in order |
people could believe in monkey glands |
or whales or whatever they believed |
in. They were a great people Mrs. |