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VOLUME 7. May 28, 1909 NuMBER 22 
May 29—June 4. 
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Memorial Day. 
WitrH Memorial Day hard at hand, 
‘there comes to mind the preachment of 
Mr. Modern Hardsense, that this is an 
idle day of mourning worse than useless, 
doomed soon to pass unobserved, and, 
in time, to be forgotten. 
It is to be regretted that there is not 
more today to disprove Mr. Hardsense’s 
assertions. There is now a sad, but, 
nevertheless, a wide and certain tendency 
wholly to obliterate Memorial Day’s true 
meaning. Inthe infancy of the present 
generation, youngsters were up at day- 
break, to walk, perhaps miles, to the 
nearest city or town, to see the regiments 
of the Grand Army turn out in dress 
parade, marching, with music soft and 
slow, to the cemetery on the hill. And 
in the cemetery—there they stood for 
hours, home and dinner forgotten, 
watching the soldiers pass up and down 
strewing the graves of their comrades 
with flowers. 
But today there is a new order of 
.. G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
Willmonton’s Agency 
OLD SOUTH BLDG., BOSTON 
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things. To the great majority of Amer- 
icans, Memorial Day is only one of 
sport or recreation. Our youngsters are 
up before the day digging worms to go 
a-fishing, and, before the sun is high, 
the streets ring ut with cheers for the 
victorious baseball team on its way to an- 
other battle. Those other battles, Get- 
tysburg, Antietam, the Wildnerness, on 
whose issue the nation. waited breathless 
—why, what are they today, compared 
to victory or defeat for Sox or Giants? 
Well, perhaps it is better so. Wise 
philosophers tell us it is noble to forget 
sorrow; sociologists, that he who mourns 
is dead; and historians that ingratitude 
is the history of nations. All this means 
simply that, if America forgets fittingly 
to honor her dead, she is progressing 
naturally, as nations have through all 
ages of which we know. They tell us, 
truly enough, that we do not grieve now 
for the burn or the cut of a year ago. 
Why then, Mr. Hardsense asks, should 
a nation mourn for a wound that has lost 
its sting? 
There are some hearts, however, in 
which the true memorial spirit still is 
green and blossoms every spring. “They 
are the hearts of the venerable fathers 
and mothers whose once-stalwart sons 
have lain buried on the hillside, these 
forty years and more. ‘The mother- 
heart and the father-heart do not forget, 
even if nations do. Oncea year these 
come to point out where Johnny lies, or 
Willie, or Jim or Joe, to plant a sprig or 
two, to spend an hour in tearful reminis- 
cence of their birthdays, their childhood, 
and of that last goodbye, when, with 
flags flying, drums beating and the tread, 
tread, tread of a thousand feet, they 
marched away to war. The day must 
come when Memorial Day will fail to 
draw forth even these—but only when 
they too lie with their sons on the hill- 
side. 
It is fitting that, this year, something 
exceptional should be done. Behind the 
sorrow of the civil war is a memory that 
consoles and inspires,—the memory of 
the face of ‘‘ Father Abraham.’’ This 
year marks the century of his birth. For 
this once, at least, it is eminently fitting 
that Americans should put aside their 
zeal for business and search for pleasure, 
to observe the day with those rites which 
custom says are proper and all the world 
says are beautiful. 
The Season's Prospects. 
A FEW more days now, and the sum- 
mer season of 1909 will be in full- 
swing. For a month and more, families 
have been arriving at their homes in 
Manchester and the surrounding summer 
places, but the warm weather of the last 
week has started the full quota of North 
Shore residents for the seashore. 
At present there is a prospect for a 
season of exceptional brilliance. At 
Magnolia, there has been an unusual de- 
mand for hotel accommodation and all 
the summer cottages were let long ago. 
The good weather of the last week, 
with Memorial Day at the end, led many 
who had been holding off in anticipation 
of a cold snap, to put aside their fears 
and pack off bag and baggage. Summer 
residents generally Jike to start the season 
before Memorial Day. 
The exodus to the seashore is very ap- 
parent in thecity. A walk up Common- 
wealth avenue or Beacon, Newbury or 
Marlborough streets in Boston discloses _ 
the fact that nearly every other house is” 
done up in its summer barricade of board- 
ed doors and shuttered windows. Very 
few persons are seen coming or going 
on these streets and there is every indi- 
cation to show that the long, dull ‘““dog- 
days’’ are again near at hand. 
Announcement. 
AN important announcement will ap- 
pear in next week’s issue of the Breeze, 
and readers should be on the alert to see 
it. Long-considered plans looking to- 
ward the additional attractiveness of the 
paper and better service to its patrons are 
to be put into effect, with the result that 
the Breeze will become one of the bright- 
est and liveliest weeklies in New Eng- 
land. 
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