The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-08-26
JENNIE KNEW RUFUS 4

JENNIE KNEW RuTH's N75
Saw It Unexpectedly IN a Swiss I'm nd
Recognized It.
had they been men they would
not have met, bsftas they were girls
they did meet and had "a just too
lovely time. huggingy kissing and
telling each other what they bad
seen since they parted, tearfuI1y yet
joyfully lin Anerica
Ruth sailed from Ne3< York for
Antwerp on the Wesfernland, ard
Jenniewent out for Liverpool On q
Cunarder. Ruth went with q party
Whose Itinerary was fixed, and Jen-
ME with relatives who had no def
mite plans. Soitwas doubtful when
and where they would encounter
each other IN Europe, Of whether
they would meet there at all. Ruth
and Jennie had formed a friendship
while at school in Naffbampton,
which seemed to groW iron&er Is
time passed and which, lis pleased /
to relate, never was frlher The
is today. AS Ruth was not comm
home that year, and, as fear whfs.
pered to her mothers sad heart
might come home never, the gArls
vowed that they just would /nlaet
somewhere on the other side.S A
Some months passed, and Ruth's
party chad "done'' the Rhine, Ber-
lin, Vienna, Rome and intermediate
points of interest and was going to
Paris and London by way of Switzer-
land. 1t was late at night when the
party reached little inn in view of
the Matterhorn, the objective point
Of their next day S efforts. Its mem
bers were tired, but they were even
more hungry than weary. So they
ordered supper, and Ruth, removing
her hat upon entering the dining
room, placed it upon a receptacle
near the door and gave her atten-
ton to what the bustling Swiss land
lady had hastily provided upon the
table. Little dreamed she what
that simple act of removing her hat
was soon to mean!
The wearied travellers, prosaically
discussing their meal, were startled
by shrek of incredulous delight
from the hallway, and into the din
ing room door rushed the appari-
ton of Jennie, her face ablaze with
the wonder and delight of it all.
Ruth's answering cry of Joy was
instantly smothered in kisses. The
two girls for the nonce forgot place,
circumstance and conventionality.
1t is doubtful if ever since this world
began were there poured forth in SO
short a time so many Ibid you
eversr' and "No, neversr" when
one considers the number of inter
ruptions for the indispensable hugs
and kisses.
When reason had resumed her
calm sway and the girls and their
mothers were together in the pri-
vacy of their rooms, Jennie told how
she, becoming thirsty, had taken a
pitcher and sailed forth in search
of water. From the hallway she
had seen Ruth's hat and instantly
recognized it, for she was with Ruth
in New York when it was chosen,
and the two had taken counsel to-
gether as to its trimming, and then
the fact came out that it had been
the intention of Jennie and her
friends to leave the inn early the
next morning, long before Ruth and
her party would have arisen. But
for that blessed hat the girls would
have spent the night under the
same roof, unconscious of their
proximity, and each with her heart
longing for the others presence.
Had they been men, you see, they
would not have met, for what man
under like circumstances would have
known another mans matthew
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