Show decoration DAY WHAT a beautiful custom it is for the people once a year year to cover the graves of the lost ones with flowers of loving 15 kindness this idea of decorating the graves of all the soldiers is a very cioper one but it should not be confined to the soldiers who took up arms and fought on the battlefield but the grave of every one who has fought the he t h e greater battle of life should not be forgotten or neglected we as a rule are not a very emotional people and if there is anything which will bring our kindness to light it should be done and so thedac kelday nel day sacred to the memory df f those who have passed away is well worthy of our most thoughtful consideration aide ration it is said that way down south that there is never a grave n neglected egl acted when this d day ay comes about the rich and the pa poor or go to the resting places of their loved ones and there make them a glowing mass of beauty with the crimson crimson roses of love the white of purity and the blue forget me nots bots that look up with an expression that says that where a true love has once existed it never dies the peo people p ae seem to feel that the dead are happier for being thus remembered and really it seems as aa if they are let this day be dedicated to those who have gone to the farther side let the living and the dead be united into a holy bond of brotherhood and let our hearts beat with generosity and loving kindness take plenty of flowers and plenty of ivy with you on decoration day and when you have glada gladdened bened the grave of your loved one after you have thought of all his virtues then turu turn to the sleeping place of the stranger and strew upon his hii lonel lonely couch a fi flowery owe ry token of a kind remembrance no weeping orphan should be heard cosay to say youve put no flowers on my papas grave love should reign supreme on this sacred day and in the beautiful language of loabe ab I 1 dont want to recall anything that gentle and kind we want to make it just a day of I 1 sweet memories demori es a day c a y t that ha cah when en lit is all over can be thought of with pleasure because after ah there is a pleasure in thinking of those who haw loved us for just ima imagine i ni how hov wretched gretchea we should ia all be if gehad we had never had the lovi love at ial all so sutart out to make A e gods goba cre acre a bev beautiful r tt v take the crimson crimson rows roses of love the white teo ones besof of ignoc we the laven y s as V jf T r de gierat rope esst g A llam i far rt rd r d ssi tha d a is ita maus acs ics ic li 1 a there and everywhere make the day one of absolute union union of hearts union of feeling and union of remembrance that is what D decoration ora tion day should be and it all anese ese soldiers who lie sleeping those who fought not only ou on the battlefield of dispute but in the greater one of life will wil when the trumpet call rings out its summons on the great judgment day each stand before the great commander ready to answer the questions put to him and be sure he will not ask his neighbor did you wear the blue or the gray but instead he will say brother we have fought the good fight and may the gods in their infinite mercy judge us |