Show A patriotic program where there are children a patriotic program carried out on the lawn gives much pleasure and sugar coats instruction in our national history build a little platform of boards or boxes cover it with greens and flags and make a background of the same if you have a family friend who was a veteran of the civil war give him a seat of honor also draped with flags and persuade him to give a little talk of his own experiences if you havo have no personal friend you may lind find one at the old mens home and thus annex ono one we have not many years wore more when we can hear the story at first hand and a half century from now the children grown rown and already slipping over the divide will be glad to relate to their children what I 1 myself heard then there should be music the star spangled banner of course with america yankee doodle and as many of the old stirring war songs of the south as well as north as you can manage lot let some one tell the story of yankee doodle and another the making of the first american flag while us as for recitations appropriate to the occasion they are legion ending of course with Long fellows exquisite invocation from the building of the ship thou too sail on 0 ship of state sail on 0 union strong and great humanity with all its fears with all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fatel fate I 1 we know what master laid thy keel what workmen wrought thy ribs of steel wl de dc each mase mas and sail and rope what anvils rang what hammers beat in what a forgo forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope I 1 fear not each sudden sound and shock of the wave and not the rock als but the flapping of the sail and not a rent made by the calel in spite of rock and tempests roar in spite of false lights on the shore sail on nor fear to breast the sea 4 our hearts our hopes are all with thee our hearts our hopes our prayers our tears our faith triumphant oer our fears A are all with thee the eare are all with theol for the tables on the lawn there are red white and blue covers with napkins to match or they may have hav 0 white cloths claths with green leaves or paper doilies dailies in red white and blue |