Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-16
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! THE ROSARY OF a RAMBLER. !


I THE ROSARY OF a RAMBLER. +
Today has been an anniversary of
more than ordinary import to many
people OF the city. for just one year ago
the boys of Company III, after thirteen
months of service, came home again.
1t was a day to be remembered. not by
them alone, but by all their friends as
well, and the bright sunshine of that
spring morning. With the flags itutter-s
ing in the air and the sound of martial
music. was but a prototype OF the joy
i7felt within each heart. A year can not
be said to be a long time, yet when res
Numbering the changes Ii may bring
we can not always call it short. So to
the soldier boys the twelve months
which have just passed may seem to
have been very brief and very long at
once; for office and store and farm
| We're to take the place of the camp;
and the life which had once been so
familiar seemed strangely new after a
year spent in SO different a way. To-
day ii would seem as strange, no
doubt, to go back to the drills and
marches and rations of those days so
gladly endured in the country's SER
vice, but the charm which they held
Will never pass away altogether so
long as a flag is seen or military music
is heard. or so long as memory holds
her rightful sway In the heart and
mind. With recollections of the pleas
ant side of army life and with tender
ness for the sad, the boys will keep
this anniversary, which marks the best
part of the whole year-the coming
home again.
Often times one hears n funny story,
the truth of which can not be proved,
and often times one hears true story
whose hunlor Is a minus quantity, but
Il story told of a Marshalltown young
lady is as true as ii is funny. The
young lady is known among her
friends as one who has desire for all
kinds of information and who is eX-
treinely thorough in all that she does.
a life which has been devoted to exact
ing duties has had little time in 1t
which she could devote to the learning
of the proper way to keep a house, and
that she considers one of the greatest
accomplishments Resolving to learn To-
prepare few simple dishes. she armed
herself with a cook book and an
nounced her discrimination to cook or
be cooked. Her ambition bore its re-
suits. for the food she placed before an
eXpeetant family was both dlgestible
and DAINTY. But how the Nollsemaid
did stare IT the number of utensils
which the would be cook had used.
Nearly a dozen plates were found
bearing unmtstakable evidence that
they had been used for the beating or
eSss. Questioned as this extraNa-
sance, she quoted the cook book as her
authority, for it expressly designated
that the eggs Should be beaten sepa-
ratsiH. And like he properbtal Mis-
sourian. the young lady had to be
shown what the term meant before she
could see anything a all queer in her
having beaten each egg alone.
f There is certain neighborhood
which seems to be teDanted by children
alone, for so many little people are seen
In the Windows on the lawns and rae
Ing UP ard down the walks. A few
Saturdays ago IT WAS as deserted, how
ever, as the sweet village of the
plain. which Goldsmith has made fla
nous, fora little girl a few blocks
away was having a birthday party and
all the children We're there--all but one,
and she the dearest little girl of them
all. Some age d distinction was5the rea-
son that the little girl had been.omitted
from the invitation list and altho she
seemed not to cure in the least her
seroyvn-up sister was offended for herl
and did not hesitate to say so. Content
With her doll, the little mother played
all the afternoon, and when questioned
as To Why she Was not at the party she
said: .0h. they didn't invite me. SO
wouldn't CO.. Years are supposed II
teach US many things, but there are
Women and women. whose years are
than ten#times hers. who have not
learned TO answer. as she did. That
some one whom we know should enter
staineand not include us.-why. 1T is the /
sunpardonnbie sin in social life. We
play With hospitality as If IT. were a
game of give and take and often
times the one who wins the philopen,l
is the one who always takes and never
gives. As we mingle in society, we
shnald grow able to see the relative
values o. people and things and that
We do not Is either a reflection on our
selves or on our society. When NC
have learned 10 do SO, the jealousy and
envy and malice which oftentimcs are
all TOO thinly cloaked by a smile and a
word will have given away to he nns
concern OF that little girl
ii is not alone the illusions of child
hood which we lose. for there is no leg
end or belief so beautiful or so sacred.
but that when we think it most secure
some one breaks ii down. What a cor-
l4ridor of such ruined images must the
minds and hearts Of many men and.
women be! Those who decry the van
ldalism which the one who fondly calls
/ himself an ic0n0clast has done in the
world Of religion should not make the.
mistake OF thinking that the work of
4 destruction is confined to that field
alone; for in the intellectual world
4 many of our choicest fancies are con-
1 stantly being destroyed. The writer,
4 who has just made known his discov-
ery that I3onivard, whom Byron has
made known to the world as The "Pris-
oner of Ghillon,' was a scoundrel and
4 not hero, may think that he has con-
1ferred a blessing on deluded people,
but he has done nothing OF the sort. It
| is we'll to know the truth, but there are