The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-21
REUNION NUMBER
TIE JOURNAL JUNIOR.

suitable material The last item Of any significance
entered more than fourteen months ago-a minute &C.
count Of Mrs., Billy 3 simple little Wedding She has
dred sixty time and turns back the pages Of
the book artles little stories and compositions
written for and published o her supreme gratfcaton)
in the Journal Junior during her school days; she
reads these again; her eyes wander to the
ing flames in the CRATE and Mrs Billy goes adreaming
of the past = =. .... .. :,~
Those were dear, days. she Thinks SO long ago.
and yet-et's see,-'tis only four or five years Mrs
Billy you know, just turned twenty and SO her school
days cannot be SO very far away. ~ -..'. 80
She recalls with sympathetic pride the labor put
into the poor little stories and now glued into the
'treasure book There is about glass houses and
blue in the world of Mars another about her old
but beloved dolly head and cracked chin;
then little incident about her small brother; patch
work story and dozens of other feeble efforts OF Mrs.
Billys pen and BRAIN all of which, in their day, were
regarded with wondrous pride.
Yes tits true that Mrs. Billy had literary hopes and
be attained for the fates decreed
that Mrs. Billy should pound away her genius O on the
keys of an unaPprecatlve typewrlt1ng machne A1ter
leaving school there had been year at business college
and Mrs. Billy duly instructed in the art OF book
keeping and initiated into the delightfully."- torment1ng
mysteries of Benn Pitmans hierogyphics Those were
happy days. too Mrs Billy Thinks she surveys them
thru the fowery of departed years. She has
cherished memories Of pleasant happenings sleigh rides
dancing parties, skating excursions club meetings. etc
friends cannot forget and who still DEAR
And then satisfied little sigh escapes thru the parted
lips and glad light CLEANS MIS- Blllys eyes as sne
thinks of the real love that has into her e-ths
love that much to her, and that is the whole Of
her existence; a would proclaim to all the world
for tits good, grand, so beautiful and me, her
heart s IDOL husband is coming home tonight She
looks back the year previous to her marrlage,-un-
eventfu and yet pleasant year associated with one
and DEAR year spent IN the othce OF largo
Chicago manufacturing establishment-and then OF the
immediate past yearof the simple ceremony that made
her Bys wifethen of the terrible sickness that came
upon her almost before the waning of the honeymoon,
of her husbands constant devotion and tender care-
how he almost live with his brave good cheer
and merry SMILES his encouraging presence and low
ing words; a its good to live she thinks, when is
50 rich in love- she also thinks with heart full Of
gratitude has reganed her health and strength
she the girl Of old-ony little more woman
ly and happier than beforeoh, happy that sspl'
cious springs into her and the warm dane
ing freight makes then gsten thru the shining tears
It is quite dark now, evening has come but Mrs.
Billy does notice the gloom that has fallen upon the
world without quick step is heard the porch but
her mind goes awanderingthe door IS softly opened
and man enters the room,-a with rogush, Irish,
gray-green eyes and waving black hair satche in
hand He stands looking questioningy at the back of
Mrs Biy's head decked with three white combs
s1Blanchie' he calls softly, and in an instant the
dreams have vanished up the chimney, the Treasure
book slipped to the foo the saehel is dropped and
the head is ensconced the mans shoulder One
bv one the combs scattered the fluffy pompa-
dour is dsarranged, the wet eyeashes are dried with
but watt right tits time to STOP for he has come
home after absence of--fve days!
(Mrs) Blanche Chamberlain White,
s15 N Prairie Ave, Sioux Falls, S. D.
South High School, Minneapolis.
Left School, 1901