Show le 1ve1ii8 of Josie l fJ Jr tI Arthur Vorgl l ngwolthy c 1 1 i r = 1 = 7 i Irpft r r 1 i I r 1 r > f1 t I 11 < ff m rJ < If fi c4 = < if It i y tffi = 1 Z I J 1 fiI j 1 I I M n 7 t 1 J S = f S ttZ tQt2 7 1 t r trR n 4 f I i I I 4 cJI l LI o f rJ I nIJ 1 11 f 1L y 21 r f t Wittf 1t lY rtj1 r tfl T lJ f r7 1 cr = 1J Tt llI V J Pft > t1 Co t il J 7 Jfm Wr p tbk > J2 y of w > < 7df1 c5 Io = = = > o 2 11 I A long time ago it least It seemed so to Joslcs seven years her daddy had ridden In front of a lot of men H 11 1 dressed alike mounted on prancing horses and catIylng shining swords She wondered why her pretty mamma cried so much as the days went by and he didnt come back and when she asked where he was mamma told her lie had gone way across the water to icflp make some bad people stop hurting hurt-ing others who were not as strong as hey She Immediately thought of that jullying little Willie Johnson My how her daddy must be whipping all he boys over there like him Hut she Mlvalcly wished daddy hadnt gone so far to do that wlKn It mado mamma feel so bad and Willie was so near home One morning at breakfast uncle rend for a long time out of a newspaper I and she listened Daddy mine was repeated over and over and her puz led little mind tried to gisisp what tIt t-It all meant but all she could make out was something about being pro noted on he I field for medals and then he read one part lit an undertone which made mamma cry and uncle vipeil his eyes loo But Josie noticed that they looked very glad and proud even through their leYiri Then uncle I caught her up and they followed mam ma Into the parlor where Daddys plc ure hung undle made a low bow before be-fore It so low Indeed that Josles golden gol-den curls dusted daddys face and mamma kissed It saying General 1 salute you At last Daddy wan coming home Dressed In her best frock Josle with mamma and her nurse took a long ride on the train until they came right clown on a 1 long wharf to a big ship where the happiest meeting took Place you can think of She noticed something some-thing funny though Daddys sleeve was empty so when she had a chance she tusked him Daddy where have you hidden your arm f and wondered why tho lively chatter and conversation conversa-tion vat suddenly hushed and mamma and everybody looked l so sad But the trip back home was the grandest thing little Josle had ever experienced A tel t-el going a little way on the t steam cur they came to a great large city and met oh so many soldiers And then the soldiers all formed In a long line stretching so far away that she could not see the end of it Pretty soon Daddy Dad-dy I mounted I a beautiful white horse nnd started to go to the head of the procession proces-sion and Tosle got so excited that she ran right after him but the crowd was so dense that It was all the littlo girl could do to keep the white horse Insight In-sight and Daddy had reached the front and was Just about to start the pro t cession when she got to him He could not leave his position but he said something t to a soldier who lifted her right up on the pommel of Dnddyn saddle and then went oft to reassure Mamnm and Mlna the nurse Then they started on their long I march through two solid masses of people packed between the houses and the cuib for miles and mile and bow they did cheer as I Josle and Daddy passed She showed herself the true soldiers sol-diers daughter she was by the way lit held up her pretty little head never looking either to the right or left l a nit sitting up straight as an arrow steadied I stead-ied J by tho single arm of the wars greatest heio In charge of Mina Tosk 1 had been all that long summer day I at the large covered shed In the middle of the square watching tho men fit huge formless pieces of bronre together find finally when the last section had been put in its place and the mass resolved Itself Into the noble forms of a horse and rider her wonder and amazement grew intense for she saw that the rider was Daddy It was Just as he looked on the day when they had taken that glorious ride together and being a very sensitive little mite Josle felt rUUc I hurt to hind herself out t for had not she been part of It all So that was why the family couldnt understand the reason she looked so grieved when the statue was mentioned as she had not told anyone about her fancied sllght She did a great deal of hard thinking however for ono of her years and finally hit upon a grand idea so brilliant that L 1 t Josie Watched the Workmen rven a grownup might well be proud af It This I she kept < ill to herself How slowly the days passed But finally the great lay did arrive a line nif and then Fourth of July too The shod had been torn down and Die t outlines out-lines of the bronze horse and Ito iMder Lould 1 br seen under the draperies of time grent battle flags which veiled It from times gaze of the t assembled thousand thou-sand ciowdcd Into I the square Here find there the golden bronze shone through great I rents In the banners catching the rays of the noonday sun and Itn I glitter would attract the crowds attention to the wounds of the flags and then people would tell In what fights they were made how this one happened In the charge up San Juan hill I I and that one it m Ci an mm tin na mo nod then their individual histories were each recounted by a selfappoint ed speaker to the cheering people Mamma sitting in the I great stand opposite was very much worried Just before they had started from home Jonle had been missed There was not enough lime to I wait until she could be found so Mini was sent scurrying1 around the neighborhood after her and as the lime for the unveiling ceremony rapidly approached she fHL sorry to think tint her own little daughter might not bo present at the proudest moment of her fathers life She tried to listen to the spceche1 and tho time passed until it lacked but five minutes of the hour set for the unveiling Then she caught sight of Mlna l all alone forcing her way through the crowd and the t whole day seemed spoiled for of all things she had wished to have Josle there And now the perverse lillle lot had wilfully hidden herself away So It seemed to cross and dis a P p01 0 tad mamma who walled without herSoon Soon the drapery began to tremble and the starry folds gradually dropped away accompanied hy the booming of the saluting cannon and the hut nihs of the people as the horsemans magnificent head and shoulders came in sight I But something else is glistening too A roar that drowns out time whole artillery ar-tillery battery goes up from the multitude multi-tude os another head and shoulder comes In view A very little head with a halo of shining curls And the flags drop entirely away showing Josle l perched up in front of bronze Daddy on the statue horse waving A timmy flag with all her might That was where she had been hidden hid-den She managed lo get a workman to smuggle her up under the flags and there she had patiently walled all through the long speeches And as she was tenderly lifted down Into mammas arms she said In a tired but happy little voice I didnt think it 1 1 was fair i to leave I me out when I waq In It too 1 Jt a I t 4 W 7T < I 1 7 1I1IidI 4 r 5 L Josie Perched in 3Tiont of Bronze Daddy |