The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28

only way to proceed on late summers evening.
There's tremulous half light, that bobs like
the old flickers in the movies-the sky Is like
ceiling painted with indirect lighting. ;. On the
land below color is Slapped. Dark silhouettes
rise against it. :. Along the sidewalk cricket
squeaks out a doleful night song. Another answers
frog sets up a great TODD in a steady rhythm.
Your feet clatter on the walk It's Monday
and busy housekeepers wash STILL whitley, bangles
on the line. The rollicking laughter Of youth,
rising times to shrekng heights, slips over and
between the houses :. A dog barks across town.
The elevator rears a dusky head, its outline
etched sharply against the fast paling sky
bat ceaves a patch through the sky-a halloween
cut out. . A church steepe pokes cross pointed
finger to night-capped heaven warmth
CLOVIS from the windows lights shatter the dark
ness There is a cool rhine in the air. Up
town maze of colored lights that have brought
back the color of the day, chased nights darkness
languor of summer has almost the sharpness of fall.
Late summer trips the thermostat on the
down grade.
Friend
Mrs w. H. Parker crisp woman, with
an open-heartedness friendliness that was magnet
We got acquainted with her on the telephone,
and soon had lively chats over the wire on
Wednesday mornings our news round OF calling
She had something to tell us often. Few
ducks the lake; new bird she had discovered
on the lawn that morning. She was very roma OF
the out-of-doors. I remember one time in par
tcular a fairly good snow storm was raging with
out and from across the lake it must have been
trebled in volume. She gave me a word description
of what the storm doing down their way that
made me SILVER, and then announced that she
thought she would take walk in it as calmly as
if she had said she going out to get pound
of butter You see, sometimes Mrs. Parker
liked the out-of-doors wild. Her devotion TO
the organizations to which she belonged was even
a greater part of her life. She mad parucuisi
devotion to such organizations as the Wonen's Re-
lief Corps the Daughters of the American Revoiu-
ton. think it is singular that before her death
~ hnr
Louise Back to that historcaly-pocked landscape
of New England from which her stock had risen.
The last time talked with her was the day
before she left. 1t in the bank; she was getting
affairs Strengthened up the trip she was jubians
buoyant the prospect Of the journey she liked
that background of this American nation. I'm
glad that it could have been the last thing she oo'
Ss"s
Flag
From my desk and out the window the most
eye-arresng sight is the flag cast like halo over
the post office. It's in fluttering frame against
a sky as blue as its own field. 1t fhes aally.
On days when the breeze rises to no more than
a whisper, then it hangs limp and apparently
lifeless. You know somehow it isn't without life.
For breathed into those stripes and stars Is the
heritage of AEGEAN age of Americanism tnat
brought up smarty to ocean-lashed coast OF
New England something new and startling IN the
way of government On other days II ines with
blazing triumph rufling out in billowing folds be-
fore the kicking wind. 1t is on those days that
you it the symbol Of something really alive
An inert flag is symbol Of those quiet periods when
the American way works in the home, the church
and the school, when it seeps quietly through the
community, when it rolls through the wheat OF
Kansas, the corn of Iowa. across the rocks and
desert of the west through the lakes OF Minnesota
It's an unseen wave. But 1t is more than
a symbol Of wealth and material. 1t is the American
people . {. The housewife at her daily chores. The
farmer turning up the soil. The parson in his pull
pit. . The doctor, the lawyer, the printer.
For America and the flag is not so much way OF
government under trial under fire. 1t is simply
people spread from end of this country to the
other attempting in varying degrees of simpleness
and complication to make homes.
On this same subject Company c. Home De-
fense has arranged little flag ceremony to open
each drill Tuesday evening you might be inter
ested in watching. 1t is really nothing ne"
been arranged with spot lights and fans behind
Two of the company raise the flag aloft while the
rest stand at present arms the officers salutng
smartly . It's quite thrill that goes surgng
through the outfit the breeze meets the flag and
it sails out full.
Mailbag
A pleasant card in the mail from Marion Arne-
son. down Milwaukee way. On the front Of the
postal is the picture of the building in which she
works for the banking commissioner Of Wisconsin
She has kindly put x the spot where
her office is which I spent some fifteen minute.
trying curiously to find All, there it Is In second
story where the street is going by.
Our erstwhile contemporary in this columnng
business Don the Dope Appert of st. Cloud Is
now a commissioned officer and flyer with the Army
Air Corps. Dope has sprouted wings. We
can well remember when he kicking up his
Sentinel, one Of the most Wnchellized columns in
this section Congratulations to the guy.