Show THE OLD FOURTH OF JULY General Leary president of the Society of o the War of 1812 of Baltimore is credited with saying say say- lug ing When I was a young man the Fourth of f July c celebration was a thing always s 's looked Jor forward for ward to by bj men women and children There w was s usually a large military militar parade and often the uniformed uni formed fraternal organizations took part Everybody Everybody Every Every- bod body seemed to enjoy enjo the parade and the spectacle cle do ic of soldiers marching and the days lays when the thc bravo boys fought for the life of the ther r country lmh After the parade i exercises were usually held in one of the parks carks l arks The hc New Nc York Sun reminds General Leary that when he hc was young oung there were no Giants a and d Yanks no prize fights for the worlds world's championship cham to make the Fourth of July more glorious o automobiles no aeroplanes no golf links n no l track hack and sports no iio moving pictures no Coney Cone Island bland no cannon crackers ers and am other devilish devilish devil devil- ish ith inventions t U tt stun creation nothing creation nothing in short t that tbt makes make's the Fourth of Jul July the reel red letter day hi in hf the calendar it is today s sAnd And there WU was wat U h t whole lot more of it People the simple life tile they the ver hard f followed worked very bin ut the history of the revolution wa was known b by every cery man woman and anI child i so also w was s the history history his his- his his- I tor tory of the 8 wai of 1812 Those were times that tried men incas men's 8 souls and even cven the old aid careful farmers farmis farm farm- s ers s i-s were willing that their thou hired men should rest restou pc ou ot the Fourth Fo o of July and help celebrate There were no public resorts invention hadnot had hadnot hadnot not been set bet to work to tomake make entertainment for formen men to make them forget their cares the theatre oven ven was ta by the ruling classes AVe We saw Haw but 1 a few days ago uro a bitter editorial in iii the New NewYork York rl Herald it ir th the early days s 's of James Gordon Bennett in which he referred to a certain man as altogether unreliable because he lie was a mere play actor octor In every town 90 DO per pr cent of the people looked l oli d tH a public ball bon D as 3 a fital starter cr on the ilic road joad ff ill t destruction and the thought of Jf permitting a daughter of the house to attend such a n ball with a ayoung young yg man without a chaperon or even with met with the s sOur ur disapprobation of not only the clergymen cler cler- of the town but of all the 01 oh ladies while the old men in a fit of or disgust t would woul sa say that the thewl wl whole ole country was going to the dogs And had a president done in t his days what President Taft did in New York on Memorial day the news of it woul would l not have reached the thc Mississippi Mississippi l issis sippi river under eight or line days at the fastest and hence it is all foolishness to refer with nn anything any thing like regret to those old times times- because the whole spirit of our nation has changed since then People appreciate the Fourth of July in its holier sense as much now as they the did then but they cannot spare the thc time to make bitch ostentatious ostentatious displays they have too man many other things to do The Tho Fourth of July is better now no than it was then then all all but those Chinese bombs We wish th they y might be obliterated or at least eliminated from that day daj And then we wc must in mind that nowadays nowadays now now- we wo are arc told there is 35 per capita for all the thc men women and children in the country In those days there w was s not over 3 of real honest gold or silver money and when a young man paid 25 23 cents for a dinner for his girl and then in addition addition addition ad ad- bought her ice cream and p paid id for a buggy to drive h her r to the town and back all the neighbors who heard of it predicted nothing but misfortune for that young man maii ma and every old lady in the town lown decided that while he might be bright and honest he was a natural spendthrift and there thereas was as no hope for him I B But t the girls and boys could the girls I and boys of thes these days they were better grammarians grammarians gram gram- marians there were a great many things they cx- cx in although not one of them ever er ran ran a a slot machine or attended a moving picture show And the whole story is told in five words words the the world s moving mo on |