ght in wasteful or sinful ways so
that he gets to bed at one or two o'clock in the morning and sleeps
until nine or ten o'clock the next day? Why, bless your soul, the
street cleaner and the 'garbage gentleman' are worth a dozen
good-for-nothings like that!

"Then why look down upon the poor man--the laboring man? Why not be
just as polite and respectful to him as to the college president? God
made them both, and each is filling his place in life. Each man whose
picture we have drawn belonged to a different class of people, just as
God designed they should, and each, if he did his duty in life, had
just as important a place in the community as the other.

"Abraham Lincoln said that 'God must think more of the common people
than He did of any other kind, because He made so many more of them.'

"Surely, all this is reason enough for the best of us to be kind and
considerate, respectful and polite toward people whose hats would not
suit us at all!"

OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG
--Flag Day
--Patriotism

A Little of its History and of its Meaning--Some Interesting
Facts.

THE LESSON--That loyalty to the flag means the fulfillment of duty
to God and to our fellowmen.~~

"Flag Day" suggests a patriotic demonstration, and this talk will
harmonize well with your decorations and the other features of your
program. The talk calls for the drawing of four flags. It is suggested
that you prepare in advance of the talk all four flags of Fig. 102, as
the drawing may require more time than you can spare during the talk.

~~The Talk.~~

"We have about us today some of the flags of the United States of the
present time. I believe you will be interested, though, in seeing some
of the flags of our country of earlier days. I will present them to
you.

"Before the Revolutionary war was begun, and at the time of the
beginning of the trouble, some of the colonies had flags of their own,
and some of them were very curious indeed. However, when General
George Washington took command of the troops at the beginning of the
war it was decided to adopt one flag for all the united colonies, and
so a committee was chosen and a flag like this was designed: [Indicate
flag "a."] These two crosses represented the crosses of St. George
and St. Andrew, and the thirteen stripes represented the thirteen
colonies. You see, they patterned the crosses after the British flag,
because there was no certainty at that time that the colonists would
b