The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-09

Tell me, Aunt Prue." -
II had name that I didn't like
should establish synonym"
I'm sure shouldn't know where
to start to establish synonym for
Sarah Brown"
You might start almost anywhere.
Sarah Brown might be somebody's
word for cheerfulness, for instance. .
ooh! see"
You can't be sure yourself what
your synonym will be, but Sarah
Brown will stand for something to
everybody that knows YOU"
Il think Dick would say that I'm
in for the sermon, don't you. aunty?,'
What was my text?"
Putting in. must go now. Good
night, Aunt Prue!"
A weary head lay on Sarah's pill
low that night. The WEAKNESS of
eighteen may be as the WEAKNESS of
eighty. for the tide of life is greater.
Sarah had not been comforted, and
she was hardly ready to be urged on.
But morning brought courage. and
resolution shaped itself.
I'LL try" she said. Then her eve
fell on the journal that she had be-
gun at New Years.
Make record of your efforts, Sa-
rah Brown!" she exclaimed. ''If you
can't stand for anything else you can
stand for effort. Go on, Sarah
Brown!"
L wonder what Mrs. Wilson would
give as my synonym she said to her.
self as she went down stairs. 81
think I'll start her on cheerfulness. .
She smiled rather grimly at the
thought. But her smile was pleasant
when she went into the dining room.
and she talked to her father a little
more than usual.
Having made this effort she found
herself looking for another, and the
result OF her search appeared when
she told Mrs. Wilson that she would
dust the parlor every day.
Now I'll go over to see Margaret,
she said when the last chair was
| busted.
AS she was starting, Mrs. Wilson
asked her to do an errand for her.
For moment Sarah rebelled at the
hindrance to her plan, but she re-
membered her determination, and an
swered with at least degree of will
Hngness.
Looks as if you would have to
keep this thing up, Sarah Brown.
There's some kind of a law about
bodies that can't stop if they once
get started. Good use to make of my
training in physics, SO long as / can't
make any other use of it,
There were days, however. when
she seemed almost to stop, but the
record of her efforts served to steady
her purpose.
One night, as she wrote in her jour
nal, Took care of the little children
at the picnic while Aunt Prue read
to the rest" obeying a sudden i'm
pulse she signed her name, Sarah
Brown" The name seemed to mean
something.
Margaret asked her once in letter
filled with an account of her own
work at college, what she was doing
to keep up her English, and she
wrote, smiling over it, I'm doing
special work in synonyms
Her chief effort" during the win
ter was an old woman who lived a
mile from the village, and whose un-
happy disposition offered special OPP
portunity for conquest. Sarah had
determined to make her smile.
| Late one afternoon, when she was
hurrying home from visit to this
woman, she heard call for help.
Looking toward the river she saw
that some one had broken through
the ice. She ran down the bank. and
found that it was Dick Thurston.
Help q fellow out. can't you. Sa-
rah? I'm caught here. Get q fence
rail or something, quick"
She found e rail, and soon Dick
was safe. How long had you been
there?" she asked.
Seems as II I'd been there half an
hour" answered Dick, sbut I sup
pose hadn't. can tell you one
thing. Sarah Brown. il you hadn't
come along should never had got
Lout alive!p
Everybody talked about how. .Sa-
rah Brown had saved Dick Thurston
from drowning, but Sarah wrote ia
her journal that night. Went out
land spent the afternoon with Old
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