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Show 4. ! AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES MARY'S n UN t;iN. n Ron nee Da h - i A good many years ufco, .Mary and I Martha tnviu-d in some of th?tr I friends and starts I a woman s tlub Mary, as eery one knows was an i Idealistic sort of person, very, much interested in beauty and poetrj and( palntihjT and good looks. Being a pretty good talker anl I something of an organizer Mary na-! na-! turally got herself put on tlie program pro-gram committee and proceeded ro vrlt down all the beautiful things she could think about. I Martha, being of a practical turn of mind, came to the nv . ting and wrote her papers but failed to flndBrowu-I flndBrowu-I ing an effective antidote for the ty-ph ty-ph ild epidemic1 that swept the town because something was wrong with the I water supply and a poor suostttuto for the miserable street lighting sys-j sys-j tern of the town. And so Martha, halns gone out I land gotten the otc for herself mean- ' while, took courage and wrote a few I programs herself In fact, she poked a little rather Innocent fun at Maryi I and her poetry and even went so far ! as to laugh Mr Tennyson right off I the boards. Then. In fact, tho day of Martha I dawned full and glorious. The cluoj grew und prospered and bent Its j Splendid energies do fixing up the house and aweepinsj down the front waik. There wasn t a crack or cranny of that old town that Martha and hor r iub sifters didn't explore and aro ( stlil exploring to some good purpose. pur-pose. . . Mary Is a back number by this; time, with her poetry and paint-1 lugs and her programs on the lakej pOOfS of England. But Is there really no place for her, after all? The lake poets of Isnfr-, land really did do something. yo i know. They helped to break away from some of the old hide-bound ira- ditions which tried to hobble art fjfta a lot of rules and limitations, and Ifj they hadn't made that little break, perhaps Amy Lowel and Robert Frost and Vachel Lindsay nnd some other more or less emancipated sou.s wouldn't be BS fur along as they ar-; ar-; today. Certain It is. at any rate, j that one won't understand these peo-I peo-I pie of our own day any less clearly for having found out what Mr. Words-, Words-, worth was about long ago. Writing of one of these old fasn-. fasn-. lonei literary clubs, an editor in a current magazine referred '.o It as a I rflgn that people still believe in life 1 us something more than meat and drink and that thinking about tho old Ideals Is still one of the chief pleas- ures of men." And II is. you knot- in spite of our : urge to be jp nnd dotnf and vote into I victorious accomplishment many , much needed reforms. So don't be iifrald, Mrs. Program 'Chairman, to give us a title old-fashioned cillture this year and spell it With a capital C If vou want to. too. It won't hurt anybody. |