The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-28

moved. and Mrs. Shanklin brought her
back to Pennington in ample time TO
enter her for the September term II
was then that DR. Peterson spoke
Course you can send her to school
if you want" he said in the give or
take way that he had Il amt saying
but what YOU can, but you might as
well put her in the cellar and snuff
her out hathaway It'H be quicker, and
it wont hurt her so mUch-nOT so long
He pinched up d frazzel from the edge
of his cuff
q guess I might as well put stop
to Eliza beth-s schooling as for neT-
vous prostration TO put a stop 10 it.
Mrs. ShankIin,' ne said, as though h
felt justified i'm saying it.
wei. you mean she better not go
! to school for a year, There was
something like supplication in Mrs
Shankiin : voice.
i mean she better never go 10
school again." said the doctor teTsely-
Mary ShankIiu was a good mother
according to her lights. and Elizabeth
was not entered at the academy ia
Eeptem5er- Just how much il cost Mrs
ShankliH to see Eliza beth reduced to
the rank and file of girls who stop
school when they have learned to read
and write it would be hard 10 esti-
( mate Like many another mother she
had hoped her daughter could DO what
she herself had never succeeded in do
ing. and il was as hard TO give Up the
hope aS though she had heavily en-
dowed Elizabeth for this very achieve
meut. Elizabeth's young face was still
rather pale, however so Mrs. Shank
lin kept the disappointment conscieu-
/ uously 10 herself the rather that Eliz-
aDeth Certa inly did not look much
/ grieved over the doctors decision.
The next two years were, on the
/ whole pleasant years for the Shank
! Inns Mrs Shanklin had Eliza beth take
1 up music. and. although it was rather
/ hard TO stand the practice. when Eliza
! beth got so she could play ''Silvery
Waves even Mr.. Shanklin felt in a
measure TecOmpensed- II was pleasant
TO sit on the front porch and hear the
/ piano notes float out One evening
I while she was playing. and her father
and mother were listening outside.
/ Elizabeth heard her own name mem
/ toned Her wrists were not strong. 50
/ that she never made Il great deal Of
/ noise at the piano. and now she let
/ the notes trail off very pianissimo. Her
! father as usual, seemed to be protest
/ ing against something that her mother
had brought up.
oh she don't want any beaus yet
I Mary he was saying. shes too
( young. Let's keep her TO ourselves for
while longer"
Iueu her mother said Trouble Is.
I If we don't get her started out while
she's young we can't get her started
I when she's old. She ought to be max
/ ing friends with the young men like
/ the other girls of her age We got to
I think of her future. We don't want her
/ TO be an old maid
shes too timid, Mary Mr..
] ShankIin had at last found his side of
+ the fence again. Shes 50. timid that
/ I don't believe she ever viii take to
/ men much. / don't for my life see how
/ you are going to get her started cut
/ with these boys Maybe you know:
I don t..
/ From the picture galleries TO Penang
/ ton, from the knights TO the young men
/ OF the academy. was q long journey
( Elizabeth's father had upWittinglv
/ turned the key on the door of her ru-
/ mances, and the knights stepped dis
! consOlately back into their frames The
1 little maid whom they had thus deserted
/ felt very much shaken and afraid. as
/ she hardened on to her father and
! mother, and her hands rested quite idly
/ on the piano keys.
/ y on leave me To manage, Edward. -
/ said Mrs Shanklin. III get her start
/ 60"
Whether the assured determine ton
[ of her mother reused some latent force
! of hOmUloSous kind in Eliza beth. or
I whether Mrs. Shanklin had at last set
/ Elizabeth's face toward something in
! heTently impossible. certain it is that
+ Mary Shanklin had never in her life
1 undertaken a task 50 utterly difficult
/ as that Of getting Elizabeth started