The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-22

slider. AZ school Angelinas chief mis-
sion was To fit in. She was a bright girl
She learned all there was TO be learned
In that institution about declcnsions ana
conjuGations and thcorcms. but she never
learned how 10 be popular The other
girls die not really dislike her. but they
never made a friend OF hcr. aud the
only times Angelina was invited any
where was when she was needed to I'LL
In.
'Angclina's social career was regulated
on the same stop-gap principle. In her
whole lifetime she was invited 10 just
two balls and three dinner parties, and
each time she was asked because some
preferred guest backed out at the last
minute and she was convenient TO fill In.
angelina had studied to be a teacher.
and for several years she filled odd places
in different schools NJ last she tried
her hand at newspaper work. She wrote
several nice little sketches and submitted
them to an editor lie was pleased with
them,
81 think he said that you will Sc
able to write very good filters for us,
80 Angelina wrote hllers She had
ideals and wanted TO write something
more ambitious, but. as usual fate staked
off her limitations and she never got
beyond filters.
"One day Angelina met a man who was
on the lookout for wife. lie was 4
very practical man His first wife had
died year before and he wanted some
body TO take care of his five children.
lie explained the situation ITO Angelina
ulspaSsionatelY
'''What want he said. is somebody
60 MI my wifcs place In my home
For the first and last time in her
life Angelina blazed out with real pas
sIUu.
"'Don't you love me?' she asked.
The man had a bristling red beard
aud managed storage warehouse, and
Angelina ought to have known better than
! to put such a question to him. He did
! not answer for about five minutes.
"'Not the way YOU seem to expect me
to- he said, but like you and Will be
good 10 you. and think you will do wei
| to take me,
Angelina realized then that she need
never EXPECT TO De first IN anyrmng. and
she consented to act as domestic filler in
"Onc day Angelina died. There welr
no authoritative records on the subject
but 1t is quite likely that she did ever
| that because there was no one else read!
| 10 go at that moment and she was taker
10 fill i'm the breach. She had asked tc
be taken back to her old home for burial
! Her request caused no end of trouble
The family burial lots were pretty wei
occupied, but finally one cousin lele'
sraphed that there was room for on,
more grave in his lot and he guessed
Angelina could ill in. Angelina's red
headed husband decided to have funera
sermon preached at the house.
"The preacher he liked best had 81
many engagements for that particula
day that he didn't see how he could 1nc
time to come, but upon being urged li'
reconsldered the matter. He coul'
change two other dates, he said and le
Angclna's funeral fill in between. II
speaking the young man received an in
spiration straight from the devil, as So
many preachers are apt TO do. III
knew nothing of Angclna's frustra tee
hopes but nevertheless he wound UP hi!
prayer by saying that he hoped ther'
was some empty spot in heaven wher'
the departed handmaidcn of the LorC
could I'LL in.
and that was the earthly end OF An
celina. She is probably filling in som,
place yet unless she has been promoted
which is not likely. for a woman Of An
gelina's temperament is destined 10 b
Tho fillcr-in TO the end of the chapter.
old ladys story
Il thought" said one OF the ingenuou
young crca turcs. that you were going L
tell us a tragedy"