Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25

terrupted view. 20. dear. the nice.
shiny ones have ali gone BY" she
said, as II she had been speaking
OF pebbles.
The procession changed its char
acter. The horses. the glitter and
the dancing drum major vanished
and other men were coming now.
walking abreast In Fights /; marching
men I'm ordinary drab clothing; red
faces, pale faces, awkward hands.
Some or them shambled: some lift
ed their feet efngerly as IL they
hardly knew how 10 use them. Like
n long. gray turgid stream they
merged into the dimneSs OF the
street that was presently lost in
the cavernOus distance. These out
numbered their gay leaders "A hum
dred, ten hundred 10 one. yet they
were content 10 follow dumhly try
Ing with a sort of pitiful eagerness
TO keep step 10 the music.
"Who are theyf" cried little Lin
an with "A child's e~agerness. Then
she drew a vivid picture with a
couple OF words. They remind me
of "A grub and a butterfly. Those
men"
Jim Haverhill looked long and
steadily at the n~ever-endlng process
sion.
"The first Monday IN September"
he said slowly, Labor day. The
one day IN the year when the work
ers Of the world come out TO show
themselves and see what they have
done"
Linda lost interest. 20. they are
Just workingmen." she said. How
many there arel Where do they
live? What do they find 20 dog
Haverhill gave her a strange look.
ri may have been that I'm that mo-
ment he glimpsed her profound
ignorance and glimpsed his own
iniquity In leaving her so. But IL
was too late. He uttered his short.
hacking laugh. the most mirthless,
sound lima ginahle.
"DO? They do everything. Liver
They live everywhere" He sent
his long. white hand. fine as a won
ans, III u gesture that indicated all
that vast sweep or the city apart
from their own environment. "They
have been around you. child. all or
your life. only. OF course you never
saw them, you never wOuld-yOu
never will They built the houses
you live ln-they paved the streets.
They spun the cloth you wear. the
food you eat is handled BY them IN
N hundred Wavs-all this passes
through their hands. yet you have
never knowingly seen them! He
stared, struck with this stupendous
thought.
Linda looked puzzled and family
distressed. She felt a. In she had
been caught mocking at something
which after all was not amusing or
ridiculous. She was more thought
full than girls OF her age usually
are. and there was novelty in this
viewpoint that caught her atten-
ton. But before she could reply
the procession. changing every min
ute. yet always the same, had
claimed her wonder again.
The music came fainter and
fainter from it's distance. The best
and showiest Of the bands had gone
BY. and the tail az the comet was
escorted by the %leftovers OF drums
and flies. There was not a splen-
did automobile 10 TX seen-and no
bowling. The tall silk hats had be-
come extinct. Patr0lmen appeared
on corners. They shouldered the
crowd, and women and old men BE-
gan 10 garner their flocks of star.
tied awry children Before long X
was impossible to tell where the
marchers and the crowd were III.
vided, for the street was a mael.
strom or pushing, worrying bodies,
striving against one another for the
right OF way TO nowhere. Author.
ity lost patience.
Behind the brown awnings. safe
and sound from all this furry. in
Cousin Any's fine house On tha
dNNAACr jill E~14FCLIlAl HlkGn To hW
daughter and used the sight they
had just witnessed to point his les
son and send II home.
Look down in the street and vor
will see life. / could not show vor
q filter picture III we waIkeC
through all the galleries OF tbt
earth. Those poor fools-grubs-
you called theml Would the Grove
come out TO watch them march.
Who cared or watched. after fhs
band and the airs and the uniform,
went BY? It's their one dav ~ wv,
year when we-our klnd-are on
Of the city and they can play A
calling IL their own. Yet even thpr
they've got TO resort to fine feath
ers 70 make their own little show
worth while Poor grubsl Smar
butterflies. Let EN- dig and sweaI
and struggle until doomsday AND
they'll never be half as importanr
TO the world as u red coat with \
| dancing stick Thafsu Hfo Ts~l- :