The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-15

M&&TES4 where all manner OF fanciul woodwork
HBEEG$X was sold 10 the foreigners who came by,
bVllI }3HN or TO the dealers who travelled through
ES$SA%1 the country TO stock their bazasrS IN
2a--AO the great towns. Hanas baskets OF
wistaria stem. gray-grecn and mystic
with the silence OF their birthplace, pure and class
zeal III form. always found ready buyers and the KIND
woman at the wood shop would say, she handed
over the piles of coppers Ground coppers with
a square hole 10 string them by) which represented
1ianaS tiny gains, oh. Han1 San, bring me more ot
tho wistaria baskets That ccsccntShapcd always
liked, and for the gourd with the hanging vine-
why could sell ten OF those for every one you bring
Then Hama would smile her thanks and return 20
kamoyo exactly ten per cent of what she had received
as thank offering for her trouble, and would say,
Very well Kamoyo San, | Will il | make
l am grateful. and my poverty
enriched by all your kiudneSS' But She went away,
after ucing the little packet Of money inside her sash,
she would say to herself rather sadly, "kamoyo san
sells; she docs make the things II the SHIN
ing and the birds singing | the full stems
and think OF pretty shapes for them; but when the
days are short and the rain comes down. the fun IS
cold and gray and l want to work with the
pine needles or those strong brown ferns Ii is strange
ehat kamoyo San does not understand
For Hama an artist in an humble unconscious
evay and the artist is Natures born disciple He may
make or break other acgance but to her he is always
Hama had many things to do beside her woodsy
weaving; there was the house to sweep and the food
40 sec to; clothes to wash the tumbng brook. and
her grandfather pipe and tobacco box with its mimic
suJyama OF wstara ash 10 set IN order against his
homc coming. Now and then pilgrims travellers
would ask If they might rest while on the polished
vcranda scat, and when they did, it was not long
before Hama brought out her tray, carved like lotus
lea and her best blue eacups full of fragrant topaz
oolored tea for their rerchmcnt also the second best
tobacco box with pipe and all complete. Some offered
thanks all she would accept Then when they
went on their way she would wish them gooduck and
smile and return to her tasks by the time they stopped
TO look back at her from the last bend OF the climbing
road. Once dainty lady had come, beautiful
basket-work paanquin, followed by train of
, :2ne was SO ptetty and smiling tnat 1ana had tel,
lmpellcd to make her present OF hanging basket
III the shape of young moon. with trail of wild
IVY dropping over its edge and another twncd in the
delicate chain from which 1t was meant to swing and
the lady had said 1t lovely and fastened it to the
inner roof of her litter; and she gave Hama ex-
change picture book that she had been looking at as
she Journeycd, and the book OF Hanas
greatest treasures. She kept it wrapped in bit of
purple crepe that kamoyo had her, and when her
work was done she would spread IT out the and
tell herself stories about all the pictures Some Of them
portraits of the Emperor and the Imperial family
and the very first time she opened 1t she the gve
own face looking at her from OF the pages. She
unused to the world and ways that this only
struck her most delightful surprise; but when
her grandfather home and she showed him her
treasure he looked quite awe-struck and last told
her she must have made mistake. She shook her
head trumphantly No indeed there was no mistake
The lady in the picture had her hair more grandry
dressed and her robe not the same but that
her face and otherl 1t was rather peculiar face.
with the dark hair growing in five deep points round
the brow; the eyebrows unusually arched and the
mouth smiling, and there quaint dmplc at
corner which the court photographer had caught very
well. Hana's grandfather fetched his horn-rimmed
glasses and began to spell the lettering beneath:
''Hcr Imperial igbness tho Princess Chiyc Takchito
the cousin Of the Emperor
A few days after the Princess has passed that way,
another visitor to the cottage the hill This
a young whom Hama had met two three
times in Kamoyos house, for he a cousin of the
kind shopkccpcr and once when Hama had some heavy
bundles to carry home, Kamoyo had suggested that he
should go with her and take the rice bag and the oll
of mating which seemed beyond her strength. Hama
had laughed at the idea of anything being beyond her
strength but she glad of the young conpanonshp.
and lima talked pleasantly and told her such funny
al shc he
soon again.
He had been with her nearly week when Hana
came down from the hills for of her periodical
visits TO the village; several pretty heads had been
crcised about the handsome lad and all manner of
errands invented to bring their owners into the snop
dozen times day. The country maidens have
liberty than their sisters in the towns; and Alasu
whose father the nnkeeper told her frankly
that she had her way there the husband for her
But lima was not dazzlcd by her preference her
prospective fortune
He did not want to talk tc Matsu or any other girl
they were all silly crcaturesi And then Hama the maid OF
tho woods had come in with her arms ul ot her pretty
wares the soft shadows and sudden sunbcams of the
forest still in her eye, and of its music her
voice her feet fell lightly the leaf from the tree
and in her crown of shining hair baby pine had
been stuck for pin. Her blue and white robe smccd
Of the mountain flowers and lima thought he had
never seen any beautiful in his life His big.
foolish heart (for no heart is wise at twcntyD
jumped wildly and then stood still ana had paused
IN thc doorway the sun behind her framed her in
golden haze. and, indeed the girl was picture Of
sweet and happy innocence
She looked Shyly al tDc young nldn Ucn NdnOPO
had hurried forward relieve her of her baskets and
they Wbcgan 20 talk, and Lima himself
again Then had conc the walk up the hill and the
sight of Hanas forest home Old Sakubei had received
him kindly and thanked him for helping the child.
For the next few days ljimas moods 7lternatcd be-
tween dreams OF ambition and dreams of love When
the stcrncr fit was him he was silent and rather
Iordy with good Aunt kamoyo. But IN the soft sunset
hour. when he would stroll out to smoke his pipe by
The stream that cmptcd itself into the broad lake then
a remembrance of Hanas sweet face and laughing
eyes would back to him. and the pines reaching
down long green arms TO tho water would seem to
sigh her name. 1t only pct name after all, but
lima had heard her called by no other. 1t meant
20 judge by its fitness.
Seen in the light Of those abou, Hama, his mental
Landscape changed The distant horizons looked less
inviting, nearer sweetness more sweet
So it was forcgonc conclusion that lima should
climb the hill the next morning and knock hmidly