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Show . ru " a i . .... . caw Tireaty With lriHQ i" yiosuv" HELPER. ITT A 1 1 Vhi N , B .V " Vt i iV 5 i X h 1 M . Si 1 .11 .. 9 me Mosftone Indians and th whit. "u"""'" f..rth0. aciu recently on the Shoshone reservation at Fort Hall Idaho hon treaty or peace between the Shoshon nation and Preaident Carl R. Gray of the railway, i.m u.um.huwu snowi uiiei lenaoy and A. C. Hinckley, representing Mr Gray at of the ceremony. Historic remnrknwe ceremonial by ID completed a unique nted Pacific bn conclusion cht "American Legion" Plane for Atlantic Flight 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N SUNDAY, May 8, the heart of America will be D first The official flight of the three Wrlght-engtne- d Keystone "Pathfinder" plane was made recently at Bristol, Noel Davis. The plane, known as the "American Legion," la the one in which Commander Davis a nonstop flight this spring from New York to Paris for the Raymond Ortelg prize of $23,000. It is a bj Lieut. Com. attempt destined lane, for commercial use. Tamed Pelicans V. F. W.'S FLAG LADY Are Her Pets It . fll Mrs. Charles Augustine Robinson ot New York, national flag lady of the Nr, rt1 - n. "ere are . , . , Miu ci,,,, nt th hpnrh j Calif. Tlie hlrrta fAiirrar xriaa fiAPinn evprvwhere. even riding in t of her automobile. i back Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, will present the set of flags that will mark the complete restoration of the frigate Constitution, famous In history as "Old Ironsides." Inspired by a patriotic devotion to the national emblem and the Ideals of has liberty for which It stands, she devoted the recent years of her life to the creation of a wider love and ionwt for the Stars and Stripes. She has made scores of beautiful flagi with her own hands. WAS WITH PERSHING. pxth R egiment of Marines on Its Way 1 n quickened at the thought "Mother." of one word For that is Mother's day, an annual event which is generally observed, not by Presidential proclamation, legislative enactment or church dictum, but because sentiment decrees that the second Sunday in Maj of each yenr shall be the day upon which we honor the women who gave us birth. Mother's day this year has a special significance because of at least two distinct projects which are under way to honor one of the most heroic typi8 of motherhood the world has ever known the pioneer mother of America. And In both cases the honoring will be done In memorials of everlasting bronze. One cf them is the announced purpose of E. V. Marland, an Oklahoma oil millionaire, of erecting a heroic statue of "The Pioneer Woman" on the famous Cherokee Strip In Oklaland homa, the last government Twelve of opened to homesteaders. the leading sculptors of America have submitted models from which he Is to select one for the completed work. An exhibit of these models Is being sent to various cities throughout the Middle West and Far West and the public is to be given a chance, by popular vote In each city, to aid Mr. Marland In making his selection, by which, it is hoped, the model best interpreting the pioneer woman will be chosen. "The Pioneer Mother" Is to' be Immortalized In bronze In another western city when the monument by that name (shown in the Illustration above) is unveiled in Penn Valley park in Kansas City this spring. This monument is the work of A. I'hlmlster Proctor, noted for his statue of Col. Theodore Roosevelt as a Rough Rider, which stands In Portland, Ore., as well as for several other tine pieces of work In other cities. It will be presented to Kansas City by Howard who, as a baby, was carried In the arms of his pioneer mother from Kentucky over a westward trail to the Indian lands of Kansas, in Just such a manner as that depleted In Proctor's statuary group. It Is especially appropriate that this memorial should stand In Kansas City with the face of the pioneer mother turned to the great West. For the site of Kansas City Is historic ground. In this vicinity were the eastern termini of two great highways the Santa Fe trail and the Oregon trail over which the stream of emigration poured Into the last American wilderness. The Santa Fe trail was primarily an artery of commerce, hut the Oregon trail was a homescek-er'- s highway to the gold fields of and to the rh-- valleys of Oregon and Washington, The epic of the Oregon trail has been written many tin' nnd In many different ways so that the picture of. the women of the "Covered Wagon'' era Is as clear In our minds as that of the men of those days. Put It should not be forgotten that the mothers of that perlotf were not the first to be cast In heroic roles In the mighty drama of the westward e, ! trans-Missou- f'nl-forn- h v1.-.t,-v',5?,- ' Ihi ,, ..-?f- n - 4 vi v V wllderneea. Only God and she knowa the fullness of her giving to the youngr Northwest. She lived In sod houses and huts, with the newest neighbor often a day's trudge away. She had no decencies. She did not even know the luxury of floor or fireplace. Her meal was ground In a hand mill and her baking' range was a makeshift oven In the yard. She helped in the fields at the plowing" nnd the sowing, and she helped to scythe the crop and bind the sheaves. She watered stock and spun and knitted and tailored. She made a garden and preserved the winter food, milked her cows and nursed her children. The sun found, her alsleepy-eye- d n ready at her tasks, and the heard her croon the baby to rest. Her "beauty sleep" began at ten iiended at four. Year In and year out she never had an orange, a box of sweets or a gift of remembrance. She fought drought and dearth and savages and savage loneliness, her "Sunday bests" were She calico and linsey woolsey. grew old at the rate of twenty-fou- r months a year at the grubbing hoe and the washtub and the churn. She bore her bairns alone and burled them on the frozen prairies. Cut the asked no pity for her broken arches, her aching back, her poor, gnarled hands. Or for the wistful memories of a fairer youth in sweeter lands. She gave America the great Northwest, and was too proud to quibble at the cost of the stalwart sons to whom she willed tt. "She mothered MEN! Herbert Kaufman In the Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune. hay-roof- mid-moo- -d H H-M l-l MM Mil H -- push of the dominant white race. History Is full of the pioneer fathers, but, except for a few outstanding Incidents and personages, it has said little about the pioneer mothers. To trace their history It Is necessary to go back 300 years to the first settlements on the "stern and coast" of New England and to remember that every privation, every suffering from cold nnd hunger, every danger from hostile red men which the Pilgrim Fathers e Pilendured, was also endured grim Mothers. The first American frontier was the gloomy woods which fringwf the shore of the Atlantic seaboard and held the first settlers close to the water's edge. This first frontier produced the American frontiersman, one of the hardiest types mankind has ever known. And It produced, too, the American who was a fit mate for such a man. She did her share In making n home and when It was necessary she could handle the rifle and the ax to defend that home. Who has not tnle of Hannah honnf the Dustln (or Dustan)the Massachusetts heroine of King Philip's war In New England who proved with her good right arm the heroic quality of the rock-boun- d by-th- grandmother will know It, cook knows It, ami even God knows you were naughly and had to be spanked." Bobby, showing the first real InterBobby, age six, had been quite naughty, and had received a rather est: "Oh, has He a radio, too?" spuiikflig. .Ime, recentWilliam B. Prosser, Omaha mailman with ly started to Su::d,iy school, was horPoint West nt cadet a was , was a rified nl Hobby's quick recovery from Babies Should Organize f.enernl Pershing. Pershing lilin a freshman. the'nfTnlr, and, we Icok we see underto was bring Everywhere when Prosper, rnlor , class were to deeper asked him hand cracks being taken at children Mnonc those In Prosser's Poore. Prosser whether he were not sorry to have The Chart of Table Manners In the (;eneruls Duncan and second year been .' bud that tie had to lie Woman's Home Companion says thej his in left the academy "should not be permitted to le:iv Hie he got the ...... Then il.U. , II . L. a VI be policeman. .. i. , . ...... . .. l alii "i ii: .wx-hli e ... .. to -rw'll to pluy or read bel ween courses." in hi l.iior s:i!d: She it, he's "Daddy M ... ry I.nS AliL'eiCS admits, He of Sin, the munu.ou- - mall route. Its with ns hoi,, w..l,lurl' the steamer loaded took the step. ,n" for the trip to Shanghai. China.. Modem Babes Ay repc-jt.ince- . ' ' The Prairie Mother She came to roclt the cradle ot a new empire. Adventure calls to men, but duty summons women. And so, when the time wan ripe, to breed new stars for the flag-ehe set forth from Maine and Ohio and Klllarney's lovell-neo- a nnd her Swedish village and her fjord home to mother the II l" o'" pioneer mother defending her children? When the frontier was pushed back to the summit of the Appalachian mountains the pioneer mother ' stood beside her man and looked down Into the fertile Ohio valley and saw with him tlie vision of their future home. She also faced the .unknown terror of the "Dark and Bloody Ground" of Kentucky and helped hlra nolo It against the frenzied attempts of the Indians to eject the white man from d his hunting ground. In that dark period of 20 years from the outbreak of the Revolution to the time of "Mad Anthony" Wayne's victory over the confederated tribes of the Northwest when the fate of the white settlement In the Mississippi valley hung In the balance, It was the pioneer woman quite as much as the pioneer man who decided the Issue. Put not all of the courage of the pioneer mother was shown when It encounter. So came to n long as Kentticktans repeat the stories heard at their mothers' knees, so long will they tell of the women of P.ryant'a Station. These were the women who, when the station was surrounded by Indians, volunteered to go to a spring nearby and bring the water which the defenders of the fort would need so Inbadly when the battle began. The dians were "lying low" preparing for a surprise attack. If the men went for water the attack would be precipitated. If the women went as usual, the savages MIGHT refrain from revealing their presence by attacking the Again they might not. It wns a fearful chance those women took. But they took It, walked steadily down to the spring, conscious all the eyes glittering at time of snake-lik- e them from the bushes close at hand, filled their buckets and walked steadily back to the safety of the stockaded walls. And they didn't split a drop of water I That was the type of courage these pioneer mothers possessed. But hostile Indians were not the only terror which the pioneer mother faced and conquered. She faced nnd conquered the terrors of loneliness In isolated cabln-- , of starvation, of bitter winters nnd sultry summers, whose Btaguntlon brought sickness and death to her nnd her family with no doctors within hundreds of miles. Too often was tt true that My mother she was merry and brave. And so she came to her labor With a tall green fir for a doctor grave And a stream for a comforting neighbor. -The Ballad of William Sycamore" best-love- hand-to-han- d water-- bearers. Benct. When the American frontier crossed the Mississippi and the last westward push bean, in the forefront of that long line of historic figures which make tip the splendid pageant of the West was the figure which dominate.! the group by Proctorthe figure or the pioneer mother, her baby in her arms and her f;ice turned toward the west. Forgetful of the terrors she had known In the forests of the Fast, she braved the terrors of the great plain- and mountains of the West. Flooded mounrivers, prairie fires, snow-filletain passes, Indian attacks, hunger an I thirst and sickness could not hold her back. Her face was turned to the west and when ehe had followed tin "star of empire' to her goal she had helped build a nation. If you can't give them this relief, then set a table for them In the kitchen, which Is really the nicest room In dm house anyhow, full of delicious spicy smells. 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