Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-14
DEsEEET EVENING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER II 1907

but looking Through labor 20 rest.
through combat TO victory" she hoes
her hard row, without a murmur ac-
Quiesclng' In the present without re-
pining, remembering the past with
thankfulness. meeting the culture hope
fully and checrfuly."
Two sisters live GA Gun town. That
is, they think they live, but they real
~ do not. after all. and Oh how much
they miss ana yet, too, there is very
little they do not miss. from their point
Of View. In fact, nothing escapes
them. Curiosity is the sum total of
their earthly Joy and happiness BY
ID they live, breathe. ana have their
being They dream upon % by night.
they feed upon % by day They hap
pened 20 be invited 90 spend "a week
at the homo OF a friend. A new friend.
OF course, and To-. and behold, The
first evening at dinner. there was Moth
ing that had ever happened, about TO
happen, or likely to happen. in the lives
that they did not know about. or talk
about After this, the members of tho
household, sat silently at each meal.
Yet useless was their silence. Tor that
which they were afraid Co disclose, de
vulge, or talk about was already known
by their visitors. For a time. 10 was
"a complete mystery in that family, as
to how AN things were known and
talked about before they had even had
birth in the various household minds.
But after time. light began shedding
its uusuepCCtiug ray about that uu-
comfortable and shrOuded mystery.
one evening all was dark and quiet
boz the house, save for one light up-
stairs and iu the sitting roum-dll had
gone TO bed but father. The tele-
phone rang. The telephone was in the
HAN. and the HAN was in utter darkness.
Father had just taken down the re-
cciver and was in the act of talking,
when "a slit of light shot across dark
wall and through it head in the most
unmlstakablo attitude OF listening.
Light flashed through fathers brain,
and without saying more than. 81 %
talk 10 you 90 the morning, at my of
fee he hung zap the receiver. ono
might Doe safe iu saying these sisters
were behind the office door, next morn
ing.
Now a little balcony. off the sisters
room, proved most handy. and lent IT'S
aid u the way of finding out AN that
was going ON iu that household kind
enough to invite visitors beneath IT'S
hospltahlc roof one evening iu the
mellow twilight, one of the daughters,
who had been IndispOsod au day, and
had taken meals lu her room, was sud-
denly startled by the appearance of a
face at her window. Tho mystery was
again pierced The girl had been
scau. and none were Co see it until %
was quite complete. But what had
been the hreath-taNng disclosure "a
few evenings before az table. Nneu ONE
OF these interested sisters told about
the lace and insertion OF certain gar
mcut that no one had yet seen. OF
course. she did not knuW-the one and
only thing she did not KNOWN the
course OF her whole life one feels safe
In saying-but what the other meme
bers Of the famuN did know. She
gave 10 out iuuOCcutly enough. and as
though 10 had been discussed with her.
Everybody was mystihed. But vine
covered balcony screened from the
street, and giving access 10 window
was too tempting. of course. After
that the window blind was drawn,
which must have been smarting blow
20 that little curiosity 'peeping in al
twilight eve.'
II Mary had a caller an the evening.
one of the sisters would actually 80
outside and look through the parlor
window TO ascertain who Il could pos
sibly be. Yes. she would. for Johnny
saw her once, when he was up 10 In
nocent pranks himself, with Mary S
beau"
The parting word Of these visitors
so full of kindly interest for the fami-
ly's welfare, was to the effect that they
hoped a certain business deal would
go through, all right, The door closed
upon them. Father was very pale
and all eyes We're upon MIN. Mother
had heard nothing IN regard to such
| a deal, nor had any member Of the
family. Father drew a telegram from
| his vest pocket. received but a few
| hours before. and the first intimation
| or suggestion OF the deal 70 himself
| He was merely waiting till the visitors
were gone to mention Il to mother.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every
| secret" LADY BABBIE.