The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-22
HER JOHNNIE MORGAN.

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almost a year ago when she first heard
and saw him. q very dirty and picturesque
| italian violinist fiddling his way through
the frightened purse strings and into the
| hearts of all the people who heard
! him. she had christened him. and 10 ner-
self had called him johnnie Morgan.
Alraos. year il was. and TO her the
shortest year she had ever lived. for il
seemed as if this Antonio had brought
with him into her life the blue sky and the
sunshine of his own Italy
Miss Anna Gilbert was the teacher of
drawing and painting in the Girls College
at Madisonville. and was more beloved
than any teacher in The college had ever
been before The title which the girls
had given her. Saint Anna was truly
| deserved. for 50 tlickly did she SOW the
| seeds Of goodness about Ter that had her
harvest of thanks from poor struggling
students been wheat at the right time of
the market IL would have been 10 her
princess income
During her youth, for IL must be con-
fessed that her youth was mostly behind
her size had worked and sacrificed for her
parents until their death, and then she
struggled bravely for the education she
desired for herself and her younger sister
J and brother as well.
One gray October morning, on her way
TO work, she had been struck by the evil
| dent genius CT the young Italian who was
PLAYING his violin on the street. Always
attracted by music, she stopped 10 lister
and was struck by the combination Of
poverty and genius in the handsome fel-
low.
He certainly was unusually handsome
and h looked even younger than he really
was. for his face possessed great sin
| cerity and righteousness OF expression
! The soft dark eyes and olive skin were
0r
| face and by the hungry look in the eyes
4 hunger for spiritual as well as physical
| food, which shining from these dark eyes.
| appealed directly and powerfully to this
warm hearted woman Knowing Of an
| opening in the college, she quietly put the
man and the opportunity together. with
the result that he Italian. within 4 month
was giving lessons to class. And the
! class grew Immediately from three to Is.
To his patroness he owed all. and never
| did he cease to pour out to ner his graft
tude He treated her with the greatest
! reverence and when walking home with
| her or meeting her coming TO her duties.
he would open the gate or raise his hat
| as if she were a princess. Then she got
| into the habit of asking him &c come IN
when he walked home with her. and of
taking a cup of tea in her little bachelor
room, which always seemed cosy and
pleasant to then both. and mad made his
| thanks overflow to ..Mees Anna She
/ discovered that he was saving almost all
his earnings toward a sum that would en-
able him to bring over his old father and
mother.
He poured out his music to Miss Gilbert
as he did his troubles. with those fooi-
! ISL girls who VIII not work at re lesson. "
And to all his plans and troubles she lis
| tened with sympathy, as she always had
| done to any of the students in whom she
was taking special interest But SYM
| patty and friendliness in a woman's heart
| toward a man, when a man is young,
| handsome and manly is going to grow
into love as surely as the acorn, which
/ Dame Nature also planted. is going TO
grow into an oak
One June day after he had walked home
with her she sat in her room and with
many bushes faced it-faced the fact that
/ she loved tho violinist Ihe song was all
true she loved ner johnnie Morgan
| Ana why not? over and over again she
asked herself, why not" Had she not
worked hard for others all her life and
been faithful ir all things? Was il not
right that TIE sunshine of love and happi-
! ness should come into her life? She
dreamed that night. of a-cottage- filed with
| the ralsic of violin; and never had she
looked so radiant and so young as she
/ die the next day.
Il had letter this morning from my lit
| tie sister," she said 20 Antonio the next
evening a s he walked home with her. She
is coming next week, TO spend ner vaca-
! ton with me-.
/ "Ah, the little sister; I shall love the
! little child for the sake Of Sairt Anna.
! exclaimed Antonio.
"Oh. she's not so small as that, she
] replied Sadie is IS. and 4 great Dig, tail
/ girl: but I call her my little sister because
she has always been my baby She has
/ been at Normal school, and next season
/ she VIII begin TO teach.
! Sadie came; and rosebud Of rare per-
! fectior she was-a perfect type of blonde
! beauty. with 2 warm heart and vivacity
which charmed all who met her To her
physical charms she added a character
] built on strongest foundations. for TO this
/ baby sister had Miss Anna given all the
/ loving care and earnestness Of thought.
/ all the building up of ideals that she had
missed in her own girhood ana acquired
! in her hard battles with the world.
/ The next time Antonio walked home with
his Saint Anna" size insisted that he
] come in and see her little sister" He
came. and they had cup of tea and An
/ tonic who was prepared to make himself
/ agreeable for the sake of his patrOness
/ and friend soon forgot all about her in
the presence Of the sparkling youth and
J beauty OF Sadls. he CAME H-oIc oAttii
/ than ever after that and sat in undis-
1 guised rapture and alteration at the feet
! Of the younger girl. Nor was she less at
/ tracted by the dark faced foreigner with
the soft black eyes.
( As Miss Anna watched them II all came
! to her and she saw, not as through a glass
darkIy. but IS in the glare of the morn
( ing light how il all was and would be-
/ She had built up these two. had given
them susterance from her own nature,
ha6 fed their souls and warmed their
! hearts for this very thing And what could
4. be better. she thought than that these
two young things, fun OF life and promise
Of the future should love each other.
/ Nothing she told herself. nothing could
be better II was natural. IL was right.
4 As she stood in front Of her glass she
4 looked closely AT herself scanning her
/ features critically.
/ She looked closely al her heavy brown
hair and. noting the few grey hairs about
/ the temples. she smiled sadly 10 herself
/ She looked lovingly at Sadie, asleep on
/ the bed and said softly
He is her Johnnie Morgan" and then
/ with a weary sigh, oh how glad I an
that wellesley needs another drawing
/ teacher net year.
II Sadie had been awake instead Of
| asleep. she might have seen above the
head OF Saint Anna the ring Of white light
/ which crowned the head Of this saint ir
/ this. her supreme hour OF sacrifice.
Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter.
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