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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1923)
ONE OF OURS By WILLA CATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continoed from Yesterday.) SYNOPSIS. Claude Wheeler, living on a Nebraska ranch, with hi* parent*, left Temple col lege, denomination school at IJncoln, la hie third year. In order thnt he might tend the home place while hi* father, Nat Wheeler, and younger, brother. Ralph, •pent moot of their thne on their Colorado ranch. An older brother, Bnyllee, run* nn Implement *tore at Frankfort. In Lincoln Claude became eloee friend to the Erlich I L,ml|L * motherly widow and five eon*. / Ernest Havel and Leonard llaweon, young I farmer*, are friend* of Clande. Claude de I *l»r»u HI* love for Enid Royce, daughter j™ Ja*on Royce, Frankfort miller. Enid 1 tell* him marriage for them would not * or the beet thing. W'nrld war i* waging. Claude and til* mother deeply interested ! in German ndvance on France through ’ Belgium. - (Continued From Yeuterday.) The fall plowing had begun as usual. Mr. Wheeler had decided to put In 600 acres of wheat again. Whatever hap pened on the other side of the world, they would need bread. He took a third team himself and went Into the field every morning to help Dan and Claude, The neighbors said that nobody but the kaiser had ever been able to get Nat Wheeler down to regular work. Since the men were all afield, Mrs. j Wheeler now went every morning to I the mail box at the crossroads, a quar f ter of a mile away, to get yesterday’s 1 Omaha and Kansas City papers which \ the carrier left. In her eagerness she opened and began to read them as shs turned homeward, and her feet, never too sure, took a wajjderlng way among sunflowers and buffalo burrs. One morning. Indeed she sat down on s red grass bank beside the road and read all the war news through before she stirred, while the grass hoppers played leapfrog over her skirts, and the gophers came out of their holes and blinked at her. That noon, when she saw Claude leading his team to the water tank, she hur ried down to him withuot stopping to find her bonnet, and reached the wind mill breathless. “The French have stopped falling back. Claude. They are standing at the Marne. There is a great battle going on. The papers say It may de cide the war. It Is so near Paris that some of the army went out in taxi cabs.” 1 laude drew himself up. “Well, It will decide about Paris, anyway, won't It? How many divisions?” "I can’t make out. The accounts sre so confusing. But only a few of the English are there, and the French are terribly outnumbered. Tour father got in before you, and he has the papers upstairs.” "They are 24 hours old. I’ll go to A icount tonight after I’m done work, and get the Hastings paper.” In the evening, when he came back from town, he found his father and mother waiting up for him. He stopped a moment in the sitting room. "There Is not much news, except that 1he battle is on. and practically the whole French army is engaged. The Germans outnumber them five to three in men, and nobody knows how much in artillery. General Joffre says the French will fail back go farther.” He did not sit down, but went straight upstairs to his room. Mrs. Wheeler put out the lamp, un dressed, and lay down, but not to sleep. Long afterward. Claude heard her gently closing a window and he smiled to himself in the dark. Hia mother, he knew, had always thought of Paris as the wickedest of cities, the capital of a frivolous, wine-drinking, i'at hollo people, who w’ere responsible for the massacre of St. Bartholomew and for the grinning atheist, Voltaire. For the last two weeks, ever since the French began to fall back In Lor raine, he had noticed with amusement her growing solicitude for Paris. It was curious, he reflected. lying vide awake lg the dark: four days ago the seat of government had been moved to Bordeaux—with the effect that Paris seemed suddenly to have be come the capital, not of France, i>ut of the world! He knew he was not the only farmer hoy who wished him self tonight beside the Marne. The fact that the river had a pronounce able name, with a hard western “r" standing like a keystone in the mid dle of it somehow gave one's imagina tion a firmer hold on the situation. Lying still and thinking fast, Claude felt that even he could clear the bar of French "politeness"—so much more terrifying than German bullets—and slip unnoticed into that outnumbered army. One's manners wouldn't mat ter on the Marne tonight, the night of the 8th of September, 1914. There "as nothing on earth he would so gladly be as an atom in ti*it wall of fiesh and blood that rose and melted and rose again before the city which i had meant so much through all the j centuries—but had never meant so much before. Its name had come to ■ have the purity of an abstract idea. :ln great sleepy continents. In land locked harvest towns, in the little islands of the sea., for four days men watched that name as they might stand out at night to watch g comet, or to see a star fail. CHAPTER X. It was Sunday afternoon and Claude had gon# down to the mill house, as Enid and her mother had returned from Michigan the day before. Mrs. Wheeler, propped hack in a rocking ( hair, was reading, and Mr. Wheeler, Ir. his shirt sleeves, his Sunday collar unbuttoned, was sitting at his walnut lecretary. amusing himself with col umns of figures. Presently he rose «nd yawned, stretching his arms above bis head. “Claude thinks he wants to begin building right away, Up on the quar ter next the timl>er claim. I've been figuring on the lumber. Building ma terials are cheap just now. so I sup pose I'd better let him go ahead.” Mrs. Wheeler looked up absently Jrom the page. "Why. I suppose so.” Her husband sat down astride a hair, and leaning his arms on the hack of it, looked at her. "What do you^ think of this match, anyway? I don t know n« I’ve heard you say.” “Enid is a good, Christian girl. . . ." Mrs. Wheeler began resolutely, but her sentence hung in the air like a question. He moved impatiently. "Yes. I know. But what does a husky boy like Claude want to pick out a girl like that for? Why, Evangeline, she'll he the old woman over again!" Apparently these misgivings were not new to Mrs. Wheeler, for she put out her hand to stop him and whis pered in solemn agitation, "Don’t say anything? Don't breathe!" "Oh, I won't interfere! X never do. I'd rather have her for a daughter in-law than a wife, by a long shot. Claude’s more of a fool than I thought him.” He picked up his hat and strolled down to the barn, but his wife did not recover her composure so easily*. She left the chair where she had hopefully settled herself for comfort, took up a weather duster and began moving distractedly about the room, brushing the surface of the furniture. When the war news was bad, or when she felt troubled about Claude, she set to cleaning house or overhauling the closets, thankful to be able to put some little thing to rights in such a disordered world. (To Bo Continued.) Unde Sam Says All American citizens should know more of the history of their country than can be learned from the meager outlines of the textbooks used in our elementary and high schools. Only out of the history of the past can come an understanding of the prin ciple* by which they must be guided if they are to work wisely in the future. The United States Bureau of Edu cation has prepared a list of 23 books on American history with the hope that many person* may be stimulated to learn more about this country’s past. Readers of The Omaha Bee may ob tain a copy of this booklet free as long as the free edition lasts by writ ing to the United States Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., asking for "Reading Course No. 10.” Our Children By ANGELO PATRI. The School Program. Of course we must have a program of work. To be without one would mean' waste effort and time, and more or less confusion. But there is no good reason to have the program so fixed and so specific that it comes before the child's work, hindering his progress rather than helping it on. Every teacher knows how the routine program works. At 10 o'clock reading begins. Now one child reads fluently and intelligently and another scarcely knows the words as he painfully calls them in their print ed order. Benjie’s mind was in full pursuit of that example in arithmetic when the clock called him off, and he hasn't adjusted himself to the reading at all. He" feels that example slipping away from him and he longs to follow it and drag it back to safety. His posi Hie Liver Is the Road to Health (I the Uver to right the whole ogetaa ia right. Cntire little Liver Ftila will gently awmkrn your iluggiah. dogged up liver and re- | Have eooetipa tion, atomach trouble, inac tive hew eta, STABS. echo and dlriineaa. Purely vegetable. !You need them. What to Eat and Why “Proteins” in Your Food Important for Tissue-Building The Proteins in our foods are in charge of an important work for us. They are a necessary factor in building and maintaining the body tissues. 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And Caroline, th* studious child blinking wisely behind her ‘‘specs.” doesn’t know the place. She is re membering that story about the key and the lightning and wishing the bell hadn't rung just when the kite was loose in the storm. And what Is that job that engrosses Peter? What is he scribbling so mad ly behind the sheltering reader? An idea for his composition for Friday has occurred to him and he is catch ing it before it in lost! Friday is a long way off. The teacher, patiently helping the halting reader, shakes her head at Caroline, frowns at llenjie, taps with her pencil at Peter. At last she can stand it no longer and calls out: "Class, sit up. Hold your hooks in po sition. Pay attention to what you are doing! The child that doesn't know his place will get a bad mark. Jacob, go on!” It Is Impossible for 40 children to keep their minds in step for five hours a day, day after day. It is impossible for any teacher to hold their attention as a unit on any particular point for more than a few minutes. Then there must be a good deal of waste in a uniform program? There Is waste in the uniform pro gram—exactly nn there is waste when there is no program. Something must be done to stop the waste, for school time grows more and more precious and a child's learning time must be conserved to his greater good if he is to be fitted fairly for the complex life ahead of him. Couldn't we vork a little easier If the program called for a week’s work Instead of one day's at a time? Couldn’t we get further If we stayed on a Job until the children who had it In hand mastered It? Couldn't we save time this way and let the child who did not need the lesson take a wider view of it. helping himself while he searched for it? Loosen up the program and give the children a chance to work with out Interruption and with a definite notion of accomplishment. 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