The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-05

Wv 7 ELL. when that l was ;
NA| little tiny girl 10 paraphras,
W. the cpilogue from "Twclftl
Night" and when my beS
girl friend was just not quite so httlC
nor quito so tiny. II Glanced one daj
that the wind didn't blow and the rain
didn't rain. and so the thing we had
becn planning for weeks happened. II
was j foolish thing and Il naughty
thing But we were very young and
very foolish too. and, as ! look back on
it now, II was so ludicfouS that the
folly of it and the naughiincss of j,
are lost in the humor of 1t. That phase
OF II, however. could not have suggested
itself at the time 10 two families who
for forty-cight hours nearly distracted
or to the newspapers that were printing
big headlines about us.
Yet even the families after everything
had simmcrcd down and all was well
again, realized that during our escapade
we had had one experience worth treas
urlng, because II proved that the rough
est human exterior may hide beneath
IL gentle and kindly nature That cx-
pcrience and is sequel are what lead me
TO tell this story. Without them it sim
ply would have been an cScapade of
two foolish young girls With them it
has a touch OF something very human.
and in the end something very un-
usual-somcthing 1t seems TO me worth
the telling | presume that by this time
the reader has guessed the nature OF the
escapade to which | have referred and
that | may venture to whct curiosity
by stating that, when we were safely
back in the folds OF our respective fam
lies, our people advertised far and wide,
but vainly, for tramp who had acted
toward us like a knight Of old, and
whom, ten years later. discovered amid
strangely different surroundings, trans
formed IN appearance and In a wholly
changed station III lie
| come from "thc coast and at the
time when what | am about to relate
happened, was living with my parents
III San Francisco was only eight
years old-a schoolgirl There was at
that time in San Francisco an excellent
French school kept by a Madame Zitska,
and It was to her school that | was
gong No member of my family was
III any way connected with the stage,
but | seem to have had an Unborn love
for it. San Francisco's fayoritc actress
then was Ellie Wilton. She was
heroine IN my eyes. so 1t was quite
natural that when ] discovered that ono
of my classmates was Ellie Wiltons
niece. ! singled her out from among all
the other girls az school for my fast
friend. She adorcd her aunt I adorcd
her aunt; and | think what drew us so
strongly to each other was the opportun-
ity our friendship gave us to adore her
aunt together.
My parents had no special fondncss
for the theatre, They enjoyed it in
about the same manner that the average
thcatregoer does, and they certainly did
not encourage me to so to It, but rather
the reverse But Ellie Wilton's niece
being my best friend and going more
or less to see her act, ] was allowed TO
go too To us little girls the orchestra
stalls were seventh heavens, and the
stage realm far beyond tins earth. We
made no allowance for tinSel and foot
10 be part OF IT | believe my little
friend had thrown out a suggestion at
home that she wanted TO become All
promptly "Squelchcd,' and by no one
more promptly than said "auntie' |
never dared breathe a word at home
l know both my friend and myself
thought it very queer" that the hint
she had thrown out had met with such
an unfavorable reception from her
people, However, VIC were close mouth
ed little conspirators. and however much
We talked between ourselves about our
plans, and that was almost constantly.
we gave no one else an inkling OF them.
Madame Zitska's school was situated in
what then was known as tho Western
addition" II now is a residence section.
The house in which the school was held
in time went the way OF most houses
IN city sections that arc being "im-