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Show SCOTS CELEBRATE THE BATTLE OF BANN0CKBURN Lads and lassies of bonnie old Scotland, Scot-land, nearly 200 of them, enjoyed a genuine Scotch entertainment last night at the headquarters of the Thistle club. The entertainment was given by the club In celebration of the Scotchman's Fourth of July, the anniversary of the battle of Bannoekburn, the club members mem-bers having invited a number of their friends and countrymen to parlnke of their hospitality. The progz-amine of the evening wan distinctively Scotch ln its character. President David Henderson of the- Thistle This-tle club opened the exercises by apologizing apolo-gizing for the unavoidable absence of the orator of the occasion and then proceeded to demonstrate the fact that ho was himself considerable of an orator. ora-tor. He spoke of Scotland's heroes In a way which aroused the patriotic enthusiasm en-thusiasm of his hearers, comparing Sir William Wallace with George Washington, Washing-ton, and pointing out that the days of that patriot and Robert Bruce in Scotland Scot-land wjjre similar In many respects to the colonial days of this land. Washington, Wash-ington, he said, would have been the hero of Scotland had he lived there, and he had no doubt that had Wallace Wal-lace been born on this continent he would have been the father of his country. coun-try. Nicol Hood, vice-president of the club, also spoke of Scotland's successful success-ful struggle for liberty and read a poem on the battlo of Bannoekburn. The remainder of the programme included in-cluded a song, "Bonnie Sweet Bessie," by William Russell; recitation, "A Man's a Man for a' That," by Mrs. Lillian Schaofer; song, "Wallace's Lament," by Martin Llndsey; aong, Joseph Poll; violin solo, Alexander Sneddon; song, Katharine Ryan; song, "The Old Scotch Songs," by Mrs. Katie Henderson. Following the serving of refreshments refresh-ments by the ladies there was dancing, and this was Scotch, too, the sailor's hornpipe, highland fling and skip rope dancing having been among the numbers num-bers which most pleased the happy crowd. |