Her Father's Daughter

the kitchen, prepared for what she would

pounding of Katy's most delicious brand of fruit punch. Without a word, Linda stepped to the bread board and began slicing the bread and building sandwiches, while Katy hurr

and into the street, Donald looked

c Valley for young ladies to kiss th

OT the cook, alone. Katy's my father, and my

out to the car with the canteen, and when I offered to help her, without any 'polly foxin',' she just said: 'Su

ience with anybody's cooking except Katy's and my own,

ed to have the carburetor adjusted, while the mechanic put on a pair of tires. When everything was satisfactory, she backed to the street, and after a few blocks of experimental driving, she headed for the Automobile Club to arrange for her license and then turned st

rget it any more than I could forget how to walk, or to swim. Sit tig

he wind might have full play through his hair. "But remember our tires are not safe. Bet

nd started down the broad, smooth highway, gradually increasing

ied to Donald. "If you hear

ind. When they approached the entrance to the canyon, gradually Lind

what I'd give to have a car like this for my very own. I'll bet

said Linda; "but since circumstances make it mine

dy fool you out of this car, because if they wanted to, it would be just

stication than any girl of my age in the world, and I probably know more about camping and fishing and the scientific why and wherefore of all outdoors than most of them. I just naturally had such a heavenly time with Daddy that it never has hurt my feelings to be left out of any dance or party that

Donald. "There are mighty fi

nda, "but I am so lacking in feminine graces that I haven't known how to make

e not so much older t

our sister?"

y," said Donald; "and of all the nice

ard your sister mentioned. But didn't you

he majority of other girls were dressed, but I didn't say she had been reared for society. Sh

f you. Now forget everything except your eyes and t

before, but seems to me I | never

on as she swerved from the road and started down what appeared t

"The Bear Cat just loves its ca

by the sheer sides of the! canyon reaching upward almost out of sight, topped with great jagged over

?" she asked

shing tiny flowers of white, cerise, blue, and yellow. Big ferns grew along the walls, here and there "Our Lord's Candles" lifted high tor

one driving along here at an ordina

ting her idea, "I don'

even and I'll race YoU to the third cur

t a track meet. He ran with all his might. He ran until his sides strained and his breath came short; but the creature beside him was not running; she was

, to keep my muscle up, but this is the first tim

lack floor between the canyon walls. As they cross

care about 'nose twist

at watercress?

Linda. "Anyone at y

e of something! If you know so much about this canyon and everything in it, is there any place

d Linda careles

"Mother and Mary Louise were discussing it the other day at lunch, and they said that some of the recipes for dishes to be made from stuff

ou could give me a pretty good i

you wouldn't know other things in yo

e had overdone her dis

e there's some, but you will want it as fresh as possible if you take any,

rilliant, her lips laughing, Linda was showing Donald thrifty specimens of that Cotyledon known as "old hen and chickens," telling him of the rare Echeveria of the same

him how to turn his back to the canyon wall and come down with the least possible damage to his person and clothing. When at last both of them were tired they went back to the car. Linda spread an old Indian blanket ove

y. She knows how," he

has principles; she is intelligent. In her spare time she reads good books and magazines. She knows what is going on in the world. She can talk intelligently on almost any subject. It

rough on your sis

re so different. She never has made the slightest effort to prove herself lovable to me, and s

chanic. She told me I would find you working on your car and for goodn

prised eyes in which a trace of in

ted young lady. If she saw you, she never in this world, thought you we

ice in the big blue-gray I eyes that

er glove. She appraises every thing on a monetary basis, and when she can't figure that it's going to

unch Linda began packing the b

Linda, "Daddy always

of deeper color i

young lady who should have known, insinuated that it was bad for the nerves, and going on the presumption that she kn

way accessories thoughtfully. The

hat I thought you were. If anyone had told me a week ago that you would take off your coat and mess with my automobile engine, or wear Katy's apron and squeeze lemons in our ki

llow with you, and somehow you make everything you touch mean something it never meant before. You have made me feel that I would be a

of georgette and rouge, and one who has grown up in the canyons with the oaks and syc

that you would make the finest friend a fellow ever had. I firmly and finally decline to fight

You can't beat him legislating against him. You can't beat him boycotting him. You can't beat him with any tricks. He is as sly as a cat and he has got a whole bag full of tricks of his own, and he has proved right here in Los Angeles that he h

, Ancient History, Astr

se the same as hi

"We have been in the same classes all throu

ean," inter

then he has announced what he would take. He probably figured that I had somebody with bra

, and by amalgamating the two, build higher than we ever have. There is just one way in all this world that we can beat Eastern civilization and all that it intends to do to us eventually. The white man has dominated by his color so far in the history of the world, but it is written in the Books that when the men of color acquire our culture and combine it with their own methods of living

t Linda at the side of the canyon as if he had seen the same handwriting on

said. "I had thought that there m

beat him, but you have got to beat him in an honorabl

t isn't grinding me and humiliating me properly. Maybe you think Father and Mother haven't wa

back of Donald as if she hoped that Heaven would intercede in her favor

hing great of their own in their own country. They are spreading all over the world and carrying home sewing machines and threshing machines and automobiles and cantilever bridges and submarines and aeroplanes-anything fr

What is your deduction? How the devil am I to beat the

ened their widest. She leaned forward, and with

y, "you have got to do something new

plus?'" gas

out till he has got it absolutely right, you have got to go further than that and discover something pertaining to it not hitherto t

d up and drew

at," he said. "Who do you

get at it from a new angle. We must dig into higher authorities. We have got to coach you till, when you reach the highest note possible for the parrot, you can go ahead and embellish it with a few mocking-bird flourishes. All Oka Sayye knows how to do is to learn the lesson in his book perfectly, and he is 100 per cent. I have told you w

you realize that you have been saying

omething bigger and finer and numerically greater than this yellow peril. We can't take it and pick it up and push it into the sea. We are not Germans and we are not Turks. I never wanted anything in all this world worse than I want to see you graduate ahead of Oka Sayye. And then I want to see the white boys and girls of Canada and of England and of Norway and Swede

n," said Donald. "All of us did not happen to be fathered

ir great achievements in mechanics, science, art, literature-anything you choose-when a white man is constructive, when he does create, he can simply cut circles around the colored races. The thing is to get the boys and girls of today to understand what is going on in the world, what they must do as their share in making the world safe for their grandchildren. Life is a struggle. It always has been. It always will be. There is no better study tha

you are recommen

other words, and to be concrete, put these things in the car while I fold the blanket. We'll gather our miners' lettuce and then we'll go home and search Daddy's library and see if there is anything bearing in a h