The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
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Paper No. 8.
WAKING.
BY MARY LOWE DICKINSON.

yes. the business depression struck
firm very early and very heavily" said
a merchant TO an early friend who, just
returned from abroad. was making a
visit of a day or two in his home.
1T hasn't forced you to change your
mode of life. L am happy to see. said
the other, looking about the pleasant,
well-appointed room.
mo, quickly answered the merchant s
wife. who had taken little share in the
conversation until now I'VE talked it
! over many night, and my husband
| thought that, i'll debt as we were we
ought, perhaps, to give up this house and
| Try living away up town IN little box of
a fat
And my wife was ready to do it,
broke in the husband Loyalty, but we
couldn bear to make a change because
or Louie. our little girl as we call her
though she has just passed 16; and so far
we have succeeded in keeping from her
all knowledge OF our trials"
curious look of mingled inquiry and
surprise crossed the face of the ..liest. a
lad-I old enough TO be the grandmother
OF That little girl of 16.'
And, you will pardon me- she added
right?'' '-' "
Not an easy thing, 1 assure you,' said
the father. though not bad as a dis
ci-line IN self-control- 1t takes a good
deal of that he said. with weary
smile. TO seem happy when you are
d d with anxiety and harassed by
debt: but if we pull through it will be
a treat comfort TO know that Louie
neve" felt q care.
And if you do not pull through"
asked the old lady, quietly.
Then we can at least be glad that she
mother
But are you sure she is spared2" was
Certainly; how should she know? We
nave gwen her everything she asked for,
no matter what we went without our
Selyes- She has had her little Darties
and journeys. and the house is always
open to her friends, though l must say
she hasn't seemed to care half so much
TO be with them this winter as hereto
A day or two passed. and in the pleas
ant. sunny guest-chamber the dear old
friend stayed on. And in and out a
comfort for the aged woman and getting
better acquainted with her all the time,
until before the freight. on stormy even
inSs the little girl of 16'' found herself
opening her heart TO the woman of 90 as
freely as she might to that other girl
whom every girl confdes in, until into
her life the lover comes.
! have had such a delightful child
hood and girlhood so far. Father and
mother seem to live only to make me
happy, and | would be so if-if-''
She paused, and her eyes moistened as
she gdZed into the fire.
II what?' asked the other, stroking
hand.
Well. I don't think I have any right
to say it. but sometimes l feel as if
must speak to some one, and 1 cannot
talk to papa or mamma The truth is.
they try to make me happy. and they
though they think l do not. | see il
hear II, feel it in the very air. If thew
are talking earnestly. the subject is
changed at once II l come in. | believe
papa is worrying over money and for a
Ion- time | have been saving | didn't
want to go TO the places that reouire
new garments and a carriage For a
, -. tilne l nave been lying awake trying
10 think what | should do if father be-
came Door and mother i'll. and there was
no one except me to support them"
. ism your apprehension and magma
come to them?'
Perhaps so; but what have I done that
L should not be trusted? Do nv father
ana mother think, after all they have
uOne ior me. that am utterly selfish and
indifferent TO their troubles, that they
are to bear them alone? It's all wrong :
she added. vehemently. Il can feel dear
When l an older, and now that 7 am
young and strong 1 can help. or | can
learn how to help, if they will only al
yet L am watching and caring and nIa1
ming all the time, only now | have to do
II all alone, when, no matter what the
trouble is, we ought to bear it all to-
gether.
And out of this confession grew the
frank talk between parent and child that
drew them as close together as if no
School life and no young friend had ever
interviewed. Out of it came the giving up
OF the large house and the life, for a
time, in the little fiat, made charming bv
the deft young hands, and happv nv tho
cheerfulness and even merriment OF tho
brave young heart. Out of this change
and the years of economy that followed
II came an ultimate retrieving of losses
ana reinstatement in lovelier homo than
the first. ''''''-
If this We're a solitary example we
would not dwell upon il. but it is only one
OF hundreds, nay, thousands of cases
where the wide-awake girl who loves
Jointly and action and life on the outside
or surface OF her nature is. on the inside,