Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-11
TIE SPINSTER. 's -;


Nv fro ia warm tonight and crnritles
,ocrrllv In the omen CRATE. My cat iscurlcd
nm ON ber soft cushion and Is blissfully
nnrring herself to sleep. Two books lie on
tLa onzy little table near INC, the "Roverles
of a Bnahelor, and tho Love Affairs OF
an Ola Mind. " Nv knitting, with its
halls of male blue and denp wine red. rests
idly i'm nv lap. | lean hack comfortably
I'm my bir chair. and with half closed eyes
let my waywnrd thoughts wander whore
FREQ fancy leads them.
Who knows what tcnder feelings steal
into many a lonely heart when the shades
arc drawn and o brooding silence settles
down on quiet little house? cannot
help wondering whether, after all, my
ncighbor over the way Is moro or less happy
than /, and my mind goes bnck to tho
time when We were schoolmntcs
Tut;,r q. ia ,vos tbc nroitiest pirl in
.,i,s't .,,,,,,' ',,,,,, tl,,o c,cs her soft
ro,nS cbnnts and Lor waving mir p,nds
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,nnrrjod ono M tbc ,'bovs,, and cxncrted TO
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r. I'll 10 ,,irls cn,,isd nor md yvbnt
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mi tbo nrgt venr brought scvero disnn.
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III, ~ bot'.d scsnns and yrcfe,.r,,l IN
80 ~ .i,,,', ,,,tor, bo ,,.,,,,i hot hc mn.
,,n,,o,i I,, tI,.r, Artcr como hitter lessona
Ioci,,s yife lcarrc,I IN kccn within cortain
vii doNnod limits with her fr.sh beautv
sadad o,,d ,,.itb tbo ly,,o,,,lcdac tlst sbc ma
LOST hor hrsb,ndis n,lorntion sbc drngs
,-o,r,. 10 d, ,,,b,,t, thor is ncitbe,.
future. Said to myself, II am far hap
pier In certain loneliness than In such
companionship, and looked around my
coy room with sense Of relief to think
that no Sowing face and no harsh words
marred my odd maid paradise"
Then took up my half finished work
and knitted indnstriouly for awhile. /
was making some socks for little Ted, my
young nephew Who could tell the proud
Joy, tho infinite tenderness and love which
were in the heart Of Ted's little motherg
There was m answering thrill when
thought of her and contrasted her life with
mine. How closely sho clasped the littlo
fellow in her arms as II she would shield
him from all the world. With what eager-
ness she watched for the first RESPONSIVE
look. tho first plain word, and the first
tottering step And there was even an
absurd fondness in those tender mother
ewes as she gnzed on the antics of her younr
son and imagined them vastly superior to
those exhibited by any other infant in tho
wide world. Ted was not commonplace,
everyday baby; not no. His wordless bab-
blings were full Of wisdom, only wo poor
ordinary mortnls could not understand tho
mysterious language In which they wcro
uttered
laid down my knitting and in the red
Goals OF tho opon Arc crate read tho com
ing years, bringing the inevitable changes
for Ted and his mother The bow Is not
satisfied TO live within tho clasp Of those
shcltering arms. He must sec life, be free.
20 out into the world and Judge for him
self. The mothers eyes are dim with gnth-
e ing tears, and she tremblos with fore.
bodings. Her boy, her little Ted is out
there away from her love and watchful
great world is pitiless, and there are many
snares. She reads the pr. rs and trembles
ut every sensational item. oh, If she could
only have kept him as he was. n little in
nocent child, when she knew his thoughts
and directed his actionsl Her solitude is
lar more lonely than mine, and for tho
moment am glad that the tiny sock in
my lap Is for Helen's child and not TO.
rine
But as tho years spin ON 1 sen Ted n
man, no longer Needless child. the
comfort and support Of his mother He
has gone through tho fires and come hanI,
to her, with his boyish fancies. his enotism
and Ignorance replaeed by tho ouiet dcci-
sion and self reliance of tho mature mnn
How his mother nppcals To him. defers To
him and anticipntes his wishes In bcr
eyes he IL tho wisest and the handsomcst
young man in the town. She is nroud of
his loverlike attention to her. and with a
flush on her checks and nm added brillinncv
IN hor dark owes she looks but a few years
his sanior Those are banuv dnys Int I'm
tho height of their enjoyment the shadows
come stealing. 1t Is OF first only thought,
On imagined preference, but it is soon
dcepened into IA reality.
Tod's mother bclIcyos i'm norriage Sbo
would saw So N Won or sb,nld al, bor
She belieyes in it as tho trurst and hnnni.
est condition for man and woman Kind
Sho has dclibcrotclv md flr,nIv s,udjed
the question and decided that there is moi
"A single t,irl in tho town who yvonld mal,
n pogd wife for her boy Tbere orc wood