The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07

seriously. "Pansies are for thoughts
you know. l think thoughts of you
must be pansies-"
What a garden you must have with
You all the time" 1 laughed.
How irritating it is TO have things
around you that remind you of one you
dislikei
And so John Stanton did not intend
to come again oh, 1 suppose he would
come fast enough if 1 had straight
nose, and did not wear spectacles. i
am not going TO wear them any more.
But / am glad-I am glad my nose is
not straight-that is, quite glad. Well,
l don't care for him. anyway. There are
plenty of young men in the world, and
great deal nicer than John Stanton.
L wonder If he thinks he is the only
man on earth. No doubt he considered
himself second Adam. with the whole
universe Garden of Eden; but / will
show him 1 am no Eve. No-I will
will go to church-with Mr.. Sylvester
Barton Donahue, and let him see me,
too. What do / care for him?
l went out and dug those pansies up
and planted them again.
Then I took John Stanton's photo
graph from its place of honor, and
threw it into my bureau drawer, where
l keep all my old matchleSs gloves,
rumpled ribbons, soiled collars, curling
tons, hair pins, powder, letters, chew
ing gum, pencils, buttonhooks, and sill
the things girl has to hunt all over
the house for when she wants them,
and finds them six weeks later in that
particular drawer-and that shows how
much 1 care for John Stanton After
that, whenever / took my basket TO
Aunt Amy's. as soon as l caught sight
of Johns brown hair | turned my face
away; but don't believe he ever knew
it, l also went to church-but not with
Mr.. Sylvester Barton Donahue.
John was not there, but his sister,
Ruth, the poor consumptive, sat near
me. She looked very happy, and some
one said she was going away for her
health.
l wish l were going away. l never
saw such a poky old place as our town
is. l guess John must have been call
ing on that hateful Mag Thurman that
night. Mag is such an outrageous flirt,
she just leads a young man on and on
and then drops him. ! just wish she
would drop John right hard. But she
wouldn't. You would know that if you
had beard her rave about his kissable
mouth at the last academy dance.
1 never saw such long days as were
those days of that spring. | guess il
was because the volunteers were going
away. but, oh, | had a set of deep
indigo blues, SO that my father sent ne
to visit with Aunt Amy-the change
would do me good, he said. 1t was so
good of father to think of that; but
Aunt Amy is an old maid, with a shiv-
cry, HamletOnian.- Iam-thyfather's
ghost way of saying: All. child, this is
a cold, cold world" and l soon turned
my face towards home.
The evening / returned from Aunt
Amy's, ] heard a shout behind me:
Hello. there; can't you waltz
1t was small Bobby Stanton, with
freckles as big as gingersnaps fairly an
initiating his small nose. and with his
face in the contortions of chewing gum.
What you set in that basket?"
Nothing. Bobby / answered, gra-
ciously.
I did not think it necessary to extend
my hatred for John Stanton to the rest
of the family.
well. what did you come OUT fur?''
(Man is the most curious animal on
earth-except woman.
~ came out, Bobby" answered, i'm
pressively, '"to look upon the country
which has produced so many brave VOL
untee-s."
oh. voluptaires-John's one er-um-
one ur the brave voluptaires, n har
We beard about Ole Donnerhue? HOLY
er-pad, The men bluffed him into
thinkin' he'd have to go-be drafted, We
know, n his hair s stood up ever since.
n he left town sayin' he had import
ant biznes-wouldn't be back fer time
indefinite scared ur the Spana-ds. He
tells SIGH stories bout KILN Injuns n
Nuke Barney what's knowed him all
his life, says he never seen a Injun, n
he's scared err dark.
Johns paid off the morguge. he has