The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-04-25

face. pink and white as their petals
framed in bOugh of apple blossoms
Her eyes were as blue as forgetme
nots, and her hair was like the COLDER
tasses of the corn. "The name fits
I haven't any sense, you know"
That's one of your attractions,
drawled Dick. when woman hasn't
any sense. it's really a drawing card
know. Women are so awfully wise
and clever that they put fellow to
the blush"
They were sitting on the green grass
within fragrant bower of pearl and
rose. Something like dewdrops gath
cred in the girls forgetmenot eyes.
Whats the matter, sweetheart?"
Dick, it's the name and the fitness
of the name. 1t seems so absurd to
! care about it. But | do. When l was
little, it seems to me they might have
cared enough about me to let me keep
the sweet name my mother gave me.
suppose they thought it was waste
of time on me to say PRISCILLA If
had been their own child, they'd never
have called me. Silly. And to think it'll
| stick to me all my life!'
IF it were your last name, now"
said Dick, 81 could change it for you"
Don't be silly"
You're that when you laugh at my
lovemakiug It's poor, but honest"
Dick, do you think, like all the rest,
that sensible talk is wasted on me? Do
you, Dick? oh, what would not give
to be wise, clever woman with dig
nitied name! Nobody in the world will
ever take me seriously as long as. | am
called Sillyr'
"Pll take you seriously if you'll let
me; take you and never let you go"
"Dick, would you be willing--you,
varsity man-to have wife called
Silly? You wouldn't 1 can see it in
your eyes. Oh, to do something very
wise and learned! I'd die happyl'
'For heavens sake,' cried Dick in
alarm, don't do anything wise and
learnedr
"She never has a serious thought,
that girl her aunt remarked. IF her
name don't fit her to TT
She was coming up the walk, her
arms full of apple blossoms, her hat
dangling at her side, singing one of the
ragtime tunes with which she scandal
lied the town.
"She do seem to be light headed" OBJ
served her uncle, Samuel Morris. "But,
then, she's 4 good hearted thing"
=,
They had died when she was so little.
She seemed to be sort of accident in
her uncle and aunt's family, rather
burdensome and unpleasant one, which
by Gods grace they must put up with
They lived in an old, old house on the
outskirts Of quaint, rambling old vii
lage. 1t was set about with orchards
where many birds loved to nest. Silly,
when she might have been embroider-
ing herself petticoat, making crazy
quilt or doing some other sensible
thing, preferred to stay out in the or
chards with the birds.
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Mr.. Samuel Morris dreamed that a
burglar was pressing a pillow down
over his face. He tried to cry out, but
could not. He heard a great banging
at the door and voice calling:
"Uncle, uncler'
Somebody is killing poor Silly" he
thought, but he could not move.
Then some one was pulling him out
of bed. There were smoke and a CLEAN
of shooting flames. Something wet was
slapped over his face. He was being
dragged over the floor and down the
steps by one who painted hard A voice |
-SHly's-was screaming:
"Help me save unclel Somebody go
back for aunt! couldn't find herr'
mo use! voices cried back. Come |
out quick! The house is about to fall |
inw sse
"PH.save her or I'll die trying. Take
unclep
They told him afterward, the few
neighbors who had seen the fire after
1t was well under way and had come to |
help if they could, that as she went |
back the steps fell down behind her.
She had Jerked the wet blanket from |
around him and thrown it about her
self.
How she found her aunt in that
smoke filled house, with the roar and
singing of the flames in her ears, the
fash of fire in her eyes, she never
could tell But find her she did, lying
insensible on the floor. She jerked the
sheets from a bed, tore them into
strips, tied these together and bound
one end around her aunt's waist, think
ing as she did so:
"Ah, how can l lift her and lower
her from the window without killing
herp'
But she did 1t, this wise, strong young
Silly, who looked to those below like a
goddess of the flames Younger and