Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

the seat gwen MIN that morning by the pr1n-
Cipal His seat mate stranger to him,
and being well up in front, right under the desk of
the principal there had been communication
between them. During the morning recess he had
made friends, standing close against the fence
that divided the boys from the girls, timidly watch
ing the rough games of the others: and at
he had run to the new home to which his parents
had taken him. with boyish dsapproval of the
school and the pupils But now, at three o'clock
of this Friday afternoon, he was compelled to
change his opinion. The weekly exercises had be-
gun. and his last school held such entertain
ment. he was intensely interested.
A girl of sixteen played very pretty march
the piano, and moderate applause permitted.
A boy delivered Bingen on the Rhine" and re-
celved no applause whatever: but the next boy
won little compulsory approval, led by the prnci
pal for declaing the Declaration of independence.
Then followed more recitation, music and essay
reading lukewarmly received: but when the prin-
cipa rose and said, And last, shall have song
by Zenie Malcolm" suppressed commotion went
through the school, and each boy sat straighter.
The boy started, and unknown thrill
surged from heart to brain He seemed to know
that name, but could not recall where he had heard
1t The girl called to sing approached from the
of the school. and he too we'll versed in
school room etiquette to turn and look but when she
into view crossing the between the front
desks and the low stage he half of his seat
his eyes wide open and the delicious thrill of recogni
ton again tingling through him He had known her:
but where. and when! He could not remember.
and sat down under the principals disappearing
frown. staring hard at the girl at the piano.
She was about his age-eleven.-a rather pretty
child with dark blue eyes, and wealth OF golden
hair confined only by ribbon, and hanging loosely
down her back. And she sang, in a sweet, trembling
voice lullaby the music of which the boy seemed
to know.-that is, he anticipated the coming notes
of the tune before they left her lipsbut he could
not recall where or when he had heard it. She
went to her seat at the end of it. applauded by the
whole school, and unaware of the silent worship of
the boy. All his life he had imagined the
angels having hair of this hue; but he had
seen it on human being Dark blue eyes he
familiar with; his mother had them and the
angels too
That night he hummed the tune to his mother:
but she had never heard it, and with motherly in
tuition advised him not to think of girls his age,
and to attend to his studies. The boy racked his
brains for few days, trying to remember where he
had this girl and heard this song then gave it
up. Later with a larger acquaintance among the
pupils he learned that her parents had moved from
a neighboring town only month prior to his ad-
vent in the school Coincidence was large word
to him at his age, and meant nothing; he re-
membered his emotions at first seeing her
But the strenuous life of healthy schoolboy is
such to preclude investigation of mental phenom-
ena. He made friends and joined the games of the
others. From being shy and embarrassed he grew