Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

Fla Eye whose real name was Sophia
Fidelia Williams, lived with Aunt Lou and
Uncle Chad I'm the white house with the
green shutters on Sd street, in Wautuska.
The reason she lived there was because Fla
Eye was an orphan, which means that your
papa and mamma have gone away and will
never come back. But some day you Will
see them agaiu-when the angel takes you.
Aunt Lou was Uncle Chad's sister, and
Uncle Chad was the best man in the whole
world. He worked in the bank where the
bright pennies are. and he laughed great
deal. Aunt Lou did not laugh so much
in fact. she hardly ever laughed-but She
was a dear aunte.
Il am afraid" said Aunt Lou great
many times to Uncle Chad, that Fla Eye
is not a normal child. She is so serious,
and 1 never heard of such good child. She
is almost uncanny."
This was before Fla Eye learned the ad-
vantages OF sin.
Fla Eye was rather uncanny in some
things. Her eyes were too large. People
always said:
''Oh, yes. l know Fla Eye. Ste is that
Williams child with the big eyes
Her eyes We're blue. with a great amount
of white around them, and great black
pupils, and she could look and look and
look without winking. She would stand
before person and stare for minutes at
a time. Aunt Lou said 1t very rude,
but Fla Eye was only trying to solve things.
Fla Eye felt that she was a small body of
girl surrounded by a vast mys. erious world.
and she wanted TO know. She asked visi-
tors questions that were sometimes very
rude. and then the visitors would kiss her
and say:
Fla Eye, you are dear, dear child. L
wish you belonged to me"
Aunt Lou said that Fla Eye thought too
much; that she would be happier if she
nlaNP1 a other children
but Fla Eye was quite happy in her own
way. There Were only two things that wor-
ried her-two terrible mysterious things
she learned about as soon a. she came to
live with Aunt Lou.
There was God, who could see in the
dark and who was everywhere and there
was the angel who stood night after night
by Fla Eyes bed, watching her. God was
the most incompre hensible, but the angel
was the most terrifying thing in the world
The angel was all in white and you could
not see it in the dark or in the light, and
yet 1t was always there. Aunt Lou sc11
the angel there to watch and guard
Fla Eye, but Fla Eye had another idea OF
the angel. She hated the angel. 1t was
the angel that had first taken away Fla
Eyes papa, and then her mamma and
there was no telling whom the angel would
take next.
Fla Eye always slept with one hand clasp
Ing the white iron rods of the head of her
crib, so that If the angel tried to carry
her away she might be able to resist 1t
would need powerful angel to carry away
Fla Eye and the heavy iron crib, too.
Sometimes she would awaken with a
start to find herself far down in the crib
with her hands empty, and Fla Eye would
scramble, panic stricken, to the head of the
bed and grasp it with both hands while her
heart would beat unanimously. And all
the While she knew God and the angel were
there In the dark room watching her. No
wonder Fla Eye had great serious eyes.
After all she was only frightened baby.
So she was a very good girl. because God
and the angel liked good girls She hoped
to conciliate them.
One day Aunt Lou decided that Fla Eye
was old enough TO go to Sunday school.
Miss Grace. who lived in the brown house
across the street had been talking to Aunt
Lou, and Miss Grace taught the infant
class at Sunday school, She wanted Fla
Eye. She loved Tia Eye as everybody
loved her-and she promised TO let Fla Eye
sit right next to her and hold her hand
The next Sunday Fla Eye, in her prettlest
dress, went TO Sunday school.
Miss Grace did not teach her little girls
from leaflet or from a book She sat In