Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-05-21

father had to borrow backing from
the neighbors Sunday morning in or
der to make genteel appearance at
church service.
Next Imogene taught me by divers
insinuating remarks, whispered across
the aisle, to keep my t1ngernails clean.
Mother marveled! She had labored
tenaciously to this end, without avail.
Imogene's teeth were as white az
pearls and showed cleaning and pure
between her red lips. She had q
pretty way of exhibiting them, even in
those days-and one day I awoke to
the realization that mine were neither
white nor pure. How the gums gave
up their blood that night!
And thus, little by little, a boys
love was modelling me into a beau
ideal. To be sure, the promptings
were all given clandestinely across the
schoolroom aisle. On the school
ground my preference for 1mogene
was now and then exhibited by sud.
den twitch at her long braids, at which
she always assumed great indignation
and called me a BOBBY, or something
equally despicable. But in her heart
of hearts knew she was only trying
to hide her confusion at loves first
awakening.
And then one night, under the CLINT
ing stars, I walked home with her
from party!
That was the beginning Of the end.
In another month or so she had
donned long skirts-and mercy, how
that girl did rush into womanhood!
was still in my baseball age when
she married telegraph operator and
went out of my life forever!
can see her now as she looked the
day before her wedding, which was In
June. She was beautiful and there
was a glow Of health and Joy in her
face that BODIED i'll for me. passed
her house and saw her emerging from
the garden, radiant and happy.
slouched by with my baseball mask
under my arm, worried and sick al
heart.
what makes a girl grow so much
. faster than a boy?" I was asking my
self over and over. And all day Ions
l was disconsolate and sad. 1mogene
the girl who had taught me to KEEP
my hands and my teeth clean, the girl
who had instilled in me neatness and
pride of personal appearance, limo
gene, my first love, was going away!
Five years later when l saw her, she
had a face like a Ratchet, a sQuallina
baby and waddled when she walked!
Phyllis and !.
Phyllis lives upon the hill
Where the sun is glowing.
She has caught the roses flush
From the zephyr's blowing.
In a garden Phyllis sits
Preening to the breezes-
She is rich and Phyllis does
Anything she pleases!
am just a lowly maid,
Neither rich nor witty.
Phyllis clothes are made in Frances
Mine are merely pretty.
She has lovers by the score
/ have none but Billy.
He WILL have me, yes or no,
Sure or willy-nilly!
Phyllis does not know her heart
Does not trust the suers.
When a maid has wealth and place
She has ardent wooers!
But simple maid like me
Knows, though willy nilly,
There is no one in the world
Quite 80 nice as Billy!
9 @ @
A Minnesota woman lost a diamond
from her ring. Just as she caught
sight of it in the grass, a bluejay
darted in front Of her and swallowed
the jewel She. offered reward Of
$3.50 for the recovery of the prize and
after all the town boys had failed, 8
country boy caught bluejay in a fig
ure four trap. Upon killing the bird
and Investigating, the boy found there
was no diamond in the birds interior
BYRON WILLIAMa