The Bozeman courier., 1926-07-30
published by special arrangement viii
the Chicago Tribune Syndicate).
IN TWO PARTs-PART ONE

r DID not raise my boy to be a
fringed gentian," said Erskine.
4 Ordinarily he does not raise
his voice. He did so now. Every one
hearing that he did, knew he was
mad.
Don't be unreasonable" said
Edith. Edith is Mrs Erskine JudsOn.
''It was an accident. Your daughter
is temperamental."
''My daughter is like her mother,
who will take care of her." said
Erskine. "The blame does not lie
with her. It's deeper than that. I'm
not worried about Pat. I'm worried
about my sons. I'm prepared to have
them wild at times as they grow up,
but not as flowers"
"It was 80 warm a day." said Luella
Prone, that the ladies thought the crepe
paper might be pinned or seWed over the
indies"
Lueila was Patricia's governess and also
the teacher Of expression in che Harlow
/ Hills school.
! "I'm with you, Erskine," said Edith's
sister, Sherry. when Dickie came boiling
through the hedge in his B. V. DIS and
that ludicrOus yoke Of crepe paper about
/ his neck, / wanted to send lot Of women
/ back to the harem."
"Iu go in and get ready for dinner, A"
said JGrskine abruptly.
He smiled and thus seemed to ask every
body tc forgive him for raising his voice,
Edith followed him. Erskine was to be
modified, but managed and made urbane
for dinner.
said Luella PrOnze. Patricia heard Of Billy
Rabbit in French, and hated him and It.
So, also, did Luella. Luella was lady and
hated herself She hated herself as Patri-
cia's gOverness and also as teacher Of eX-
preston in the Harlow Hills school Some
times she thought the only thing she die
not ever hate was KayO Williams, the br1zC
fighter, whom she had known as Percy II
the old home town Of PlainsVille when sht
and he were kids. Percy as KayO was com
fOrtably realistic. His occupation recOg
nized facts and did not deny them. On'
more fight and he would be middleweigh
When Erskine and Edith and Luella haC
gone into the house there were only sever
of US left on the lawn. In addition t
> Sherry Allison, there were six Of he
beaux. Erskine once said he knew hOv
i the caretaker at Gaunt Ithaca felt abOu
Penelope when the suitOrs came and re
mained for dinner. Marriage at any price
}, II
> All our north shore villages love viii
o. flowers and beace, the shade bush bios
e sons the hepatica on the hill slope and tn
}, blOssOming thorn, trilliums under the OAK:
1 sanguinaria, the beds Of viOlets, My Lady
Bed Straw, and the Devils Paint Brus
: win king at the edge of the thickets. AIS
- the rare lady slippers, the fringed gentiani
J. and the hardy wild geranium and phlOX.
: The realtOr ADVANCES in muddy DOOC
IS The pale faced FOrdite parks, altghtS, an
T picks His heavy wife and his elfish Of
spring grab. The hepatica is dying rae
= The Greeks of the woods retreat.
2 We try to stem this tide. Once year tn
resistant villages unite and organize vii
Il flower pageant. 1t satisfies the hlgnC
ideals Of the mothers, and it is Preseume
D to teach the young cittzenry not TO maj
: DicEie hudson had been a fringed gentia
in the great wild flower parade. He led Il
- procession Of 1000 little living wild tlOWel
out OF the woods into the stadium. ii
n little sister, Pat, walked with him at Il
ar head of the parade. Pat was wild geral
1r ium. Occasionally a gerantum, always VII
As Luella Prone had explained 70 Il
. skine, the day was warm and the lauleS
Harlow Hills who had made costumes ns
= decided that the crepe paper could be pl
u ned or sewed over the underwear.
Dickie, with green leaves and blue, co
. vOluted petals over his summer snOrCs' w
n an inwardly surging male victim Of an o
a., Lressive matriarchate. The knowledge Tn
IS, his elder brother Archie had escaped tn
to and probably was jeering in the stands !
us furiated him.
= his sister Pat and thus proceed out OF I
- woods towards the stadium in the pre-
mt ence Of several thousand fatuOus adu
It. and at the head Of one thousand 1mbec
in his hand to bury it in the bosom
.er whatever adult god it was who sat
% nights thinking Of ways to humlh'
sc children.
Dickie was a snarling curly wolf as
I'm paraded into the stadium holding III
az sister Pat by the hand.
IL IL The fatuOus adults thought 1t was sWe
~ They murmured and clapped their han
"a softly in applause. The orchestra play
.19 "Siegfried in the Forest" -,
Little sister Pat, an angenc c1llq,
SSSS serene as a daisy in a July field, kn
he Dickie was in a raging torment and
,o9 was haIny because he was. She could
ffv happy as a wild geranium if he were III
ne GUS as a fringed gentian.
To- 'Pie face" she said. .
AO' "Cut it out" said the fringed gent
. cor I'll bat you one"
The little wild geranium made snout
-~SS him, and the fringed gentian gave hel
,,P short arm punch in the ribs. 1t was adj
N and not observed. Neither was the tug
y u gave at his envelope Of cerulean petals,
it was observed that they came on.
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