The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

stories that your brave papa tells, for
the Intermountain Catholic.
Aunt Busy thinks you are a sad fat
terer Charles. OF course she is pleased
to know that you thought she looked
swell" but she is very far indeed
from being anywhere near sweet six
teen"
Tell your friend, Willie L.. to write
soon again. Study hard, Charles. and
graduate from the High school, and
please. please do not wait so long again
to write to your affectionate Aunt
Busy.
Dewey, Mont, Nov. II, 1901.
Dear Aunt Busy:
Am l too old to write to you? / was
Is on the 9th of last month. AS l
want to tell you of m "Trip, l thought
the other little folks might like to read
it. / believe my sister, DOdo, wrote
you from New York, so will start in
where she stopped.
OF course you know all people visit
Coney Island. We spent one whole
afternoon there, looking at all kinds of
fake amusementS. and heard some
very fine singing at one of their the
atres. My cousins. Mr.. and Mrs. Fitz-
gerald of Brooklyn, who were well ac-
quainted there, took us to the beach,
the many bathers. and we would have
liked to join them. but my mamma
was afraid it was too late in the sea-
son. as my lungs are not very strong.
We children-that is, my cousin Stel-
la and my sister and myself-rode the
iron horses, also some half-dead ponies
which kept step to the crack of
whip and We're not one bit like our
Montana horses.
park by some friends; from thence to
Greenwood. where we saw some of the
finest monuments in the world, among
them being the Mackay, the interior
being large enough to hold 100 people
at Holy Mass, which is said there ev-
cry Sunday. The monument is beau
tiful white marble and the lawn in
front looks just like velvet.
We also saw the monument of
young French lady who was killed by
her horses running away 1t is just
beautiful. Although her body has been
moved to her beautiful France, the
authorities refused her people permis-
sion to remove the monument; it
stands there with her name, age, etc.
Then there is the Matthews monu-
ment, erected before the death of the
owner the famous soda water man.
He is represented as lying on his bed
plain to be seem, while his wife stands
on a kind of platform above him,
weeping. There are also two children
standing, one on each side, who died
in early childhood.
l could name numbers of interesting
things, but space will not allow. From
Greenwood we went to Evergreen,
which is much smaller and less pre-
tentious. but nevertheless very pretty.
IN, - Of 70
matte. a man whose wife died eight
years ago and to whose memory he
has built a vault where her casket,
containing her body, is on one side,
while the husbands, awaiting his final
dissolution, is on the other We all
entered and had quite a talk with him.
He calls himself an agnostic Il don't
know what that is), but mamma told
him it must be dreadful not to ex-
pect to meet his wife in the hereafter.
He seems to be after notoriety, as he
told mamma people come to see him
from all over the world. His appear
ance was not very good. as his cloth
ing was not orderly or clean, while he
wore a large diamond ring on his
finger. He had a number of articles
of furniture, pictures, etc, all over the
caskets. Mamma asked him what he
did in winter time. He said, looking
dIbuuu dt SOUls young SlflS WHO nap
pened to be there: Il live on love"
Mamma told him if he lived where she
came from his love would soon reach
zero in a tomb.
This letter is so long already, Aunt
Busy, that will put off the rest of
the story until next week. Your af-
fectionate niece,
MARY JOSEPHINE PATTON.
Indeed little niece you are not too
old to write to Aunt Busy. She re-
grets that she cannot induce the girls
and boys of your age to write to her
more than they do. Bless their hearts!
They think they are too old for such
Well, the world will teach
them the folly of feeling old when they
are only children yet. Aunt Busy is
glad that one little niece has set the
good example to other 13-year-old
young people and has written to her.
Aud such a Very interesting letter,
Mary! Aunt Busy read and enjoyed
every word of it. She is proud to have
such bright girl for one of her
nieces. Now you really must write
often for this department. Don't say
that you cannot. because your inter
esting letter proves that you have I'M
doubted talent.