Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-30

ing. no matter how tightly she trio,
close them. 'rlec 10
Suddenly the superintendent rang -
bell, rs Rosita Benton here = me
ma mas 9ee9 chosen to sing the chief seS Si "a
"a, zap Clap! Clap. The children ba
joined in and fiually the whole .ea aE
was full of noise like the lettinc, NHlsaIHt
hFeeraekers on a Chinese New w. "a ~
HI Rosita,' whispered Hop Neal .1
knew IL all the time an l never tolJ
How wonderful it all seemed 60
sta, was to march up tbrono,t!Ee' 10
crowded church on Easter nisbt me
on the Platform and sing heforo Soat:d
bishop; the superintendent and aR u, ,3@
people! ' al iAe
hep proudly, standing up very Stiff am4
"Rosita. dear, you're to come ,oo,.
row night to practice your song. III
Miss Cleft. the organst of the LEU
school, as Hop, proudly bore Rosifa 'ar
from the chapel. I'll
Aunt Loo came cantering into for,,, 49,.
Black Bess fcur days later and She ., ,'i
Rosita went to buy the Easter gown +!
was like lovel!, 9early cloud v.;tL
bit of shiny white silk for The o1,; ;,-' ="
just the color gray clouds someti,io..
wear On Top.
Saturday night came, the day hor....
Easter What time the girls ami ,t1
boys had. unpaclling the lilies and ras..
the Jasmine and geraniums tha. con,
from California, which Law iust hoL;'.g
the big mountain chain that bounded ~
little town where all this took Ma
Flowers cover the land of California ~
Eastertide. "-
Think of baskets full OF Gala lilies and
a barrel of roses and jaSminel
lat was what Rosita and her s.ho,,
fellows helped to unpack and make int5
wre9ths and crosses.
When Rosita got home, pretty fired
that night, her mother sat holding tela,
gram in her hand and looking yery
happy Aunt Loo was there II
wouldn't tell her." she was saying, "sbr
might get ratified, and"
"Who might get rattled?" repeated To-
sta, sleepily. but nobody offered To he1,
her to any information on the subject,
So the next day came and the next
night, too. Such a night. Beautiful
clear and starry. The great mountain
peaks, gliStening with snow, keeping
their watch over the valley, and the little
church nesting against the foot hills
Inside of the church what a blaze ~
glory. The lights. shining amid tho
white lilies and turning the jasmine bios
SONS to gold; the class banners in purpIs
and crimson, emerald and orange. blaz-
ing out from the walls. The crowds Of
people, the bishop in the chancel On. il
was glorious sight-to Rosita.
The festival began. The classes took
up their emblems, singing together or re-,
citing poems. Hon marched proudly III,
with his floral sword. Lily Ellis carried
her cross of Gala lilies up to the chance,
Alice Carroll and her class went forward
with flower wands topped by gilt stars
THE Children of Faith" called out the
PM fl,a
Rosita's class. Something that looked
like little gray cloud, with shining
white at the top, seemed to float up the
aisle. The anchor of white lilies it b0ra
sent sweet odor through the air as it
passed by. The organ sounded soft
chord.
Then Rosita began to sing. "T know
that my Redeemer liveth," was the be.
ginning. Some of the people in the
church, who knew what a great song this
was looked amazed when Rosita began
1t. But her voice was strong enough and
sweet enough to sing even this noble old
song and her tones fioated out over the
lilies so beautifully that it made all the
people hold their breath for an instant.
RosltaS thoughts were far away.
! thinking of her father and how she sang
that to him the night he died, and when
she reached the last part and burst into
the phrase, For now is Christ risen for
AiON - NuIiSi I1SSu from the NPdu, IL
seemed as if young angel stood up By
the chancel caroling
The song ceased. The gray cloud moved
down the aisle again. The Sunday school
children rose and sang a carol. The
bishop gave the benediction ana the fcs-
tival was over
Rosita came down the aisle where her
mother sat. A little man, with a sandy
gray beard sat there, too Rosita threw
her arms around her mother, as if she
had done the singing and was the enc
to be Rugged.
"Heighc," said a voice Mt her elbow,
this is the angel. isn't it? And am
the uncle to it. I'm lis Uncle Nick 1ou
don't want to 90 back up there yet do
you?' Here Uncle Nick pointed mp
through the roof to the sky. so you get
ready and come back to New York with
me. Your mother and the children have
all promised to-
Easter and found her uncle nc Nick.- H5I-
en- Chase in Brooklyn Eagle.