The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

I'd have shamed the while she
gives me und my mamma whole bun >i!-
es OF things already. She could TO
think, maybe. I'm gree ~. .3ut needs
that paper awful much. 1 needs shall
go on the country for see mine papa. :
NO, she don't thinks you are greedy
Am you monitors on the back of her
waist! You should come up here fore
the children comes for see how her
buttons stands. You go und tell her.
Ieacher,' she began. 'buttoned-in-you
needs that paper
very automatically Yetta did
res, honey" Miss Bailey acquiesced,
SO thought when I saw that you
wear one"
Ony they opens" Yetta went on.
all flushed by this high tribute to her
correctness. "All times they opens.
yours ana mine, und that makes us
shamed feelin's".
again Miss Bailey acquiesced.
"So-o-oh," pursued Yetta. with fast
beating feart; don't you wants Won
should give me sonethinss from uarer
nit writings on 1t so | could come on
your room all times for sea h,,,y is YOU.
buttoned-in-back dressas?"
"a beautiful idea cried teacher
Wen take care Of one another's but
tons. I'll write the card for you now.
You know what 10 do with It ="
"Yiss ma'am. Eva tells me all times
how l could come where I wants sooner
you write on papers how 1 is good
girls
I'll write nicer things than that on
yours" said Miss Bailey. You are
one of the best little girls in the world.
So useful to your mother and to the
babies and TO ME, Oh, yes, I'll write
hQ1nfifrI1 thsnou
dear"
When the Grand street car had borne
Miss Bailey away Yetta turned to Eva
with determination in her eye and the
paper NIT writings in her hand.
I'm goin' in the country for see nv
papa und birds und flowers und all
then things what teacher tells stands
in the country. l need 1 should sec
them"
"'Out your mammal" Eva remon-
strated.
Sure, 'out my mamma. She amt got
no time for go on no country. 1 don't
needs my mamma should go by my
side. Amt you said 1 could to go all
places what l wants 1 should go, soon
er teacher gives me paper nit writ
ings?"
Sure could you," Eva repeated SOL
EMMY. There amt no place where
you couldn't to go NIT it."
I'll go on the country" said Yetta.
That evening Mrs. Aaronsohn Joined
her neighbors upon the doorstep for
the first time in seven years. For Yetta
was lost. The neighbors were comforI-
ing, but not resourcefuI. They all knew
Yetta; knew her to be sensible and
mature for her years, even according
to the eXacting standard of the east
side. She would presently return, they
assured the distraught Mrs. Aaronsohn,
and pending that happy event they en-
tertained the bereaved parent with de-
tails of the wanderings and home-coSn-
ings of their own offspring. But Yetta
did not come. The reminiscent mothers
talked themselves into silence, the de-
serted babies cried themselves to sleep.
Mrs. AarOnsohn carried them up to
bed-she hardly knew the outer aspect
of her own door-and returned to the
then deserted doorstep to watch for
her first born. One by one the lights
were extinguished, the sewing ma
chimes stopped, and the restless night
of the quarter closed down. She was
afraid to go even as far as the corner
in search Of the fugitive lest she could
not have recognized the house which
held her home.
All her hopes were centered upon the
coming of Miss Bailey. When the chill
dren of happier women were setting
out for school she demanded and OBJ
tanned from one of them safe conduct
to room Is. But teacher. when Eva
Gonorowsky had interpreted the tale
OF Yetta's disappearance, could suggest
no explanation
"She was here until half-past three.
Then she and Eva walked with me to
the corner. Did she tell you, dear,
where she was going?"
Teacher, yiss ma'am. She says she
goes on the country for see her papa
und birds und flowers"
When this was put into Jewish, Mrs.
Aaronsohn found it neither comfort
ing nor reassuring. Miss Bailey was
puzzled, but undismayed. We'll find
her" she promised the now fearful
mother. Il shall go with you to look
for her. Say that in Jewish for me.
Eva"
The Principal lent a substitute: room
IL was deserted by its sovereign; the
pencils were deserted by their monitor:
and Mrs. AarOnsohn, Miss Bailey and
Eva Gonorowsky-offici interpreter
set out for the nearest drug store
where telephone might be. They in
spected several unclaimed children be-
fore, in the station of a precinct many
weary blocks away. they came upon
Yetta. She was more dirty and be-
draggled than she had ever been, but
the charm of her manner was I'M
changed, and. hung about her neck
Upon a dirty piece Of string, she wore
pOliceman's button.
"One of the men brought her in here
at ten o'clock last night" the man be-
hind the blotter informed Miss Bailey.
while Mrs. Aaronsohn showered abuse
and caresses upon the wa1derer. "She
was straying around the Bowery and
she gave us a great game of talk
about her father being a bird. ] guess
he is"
My papa und birds on the country.
/ likes l shall go there" said Yetta
from the depths Of her mothers en-
brace.
There, that's what she tells everv-
body. She has card there with a
Christian name and no address on It.
was going to try to identify her bv
looking for this Miss Constance Raj
ley"
That is my name. / am her teach
er. l gave her the card because"
I'm monitors. l should go all places
what / wants the while I'm good girls
und Teacher writes 1T on pieces from
paper. On'y l amt want 1 should come
on no cops house. / likes / should go
on the country for sec my papa und
birds und flowers. 1 says like that ON
a cop-I shows him the paper even
und he makes I shall come here on the