The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-14

wv r ELL. when that ] was a
AI little tiny girl, 70 paraphrase
" The epilogue from Twelfth
Vv Night" and when my best
girl friend was Just not quite 50 little
nor qiiitc SO tiny, il CHANGED one day
that the wind didn't blow and the rain
didn't rain and 80 the thing We had
been plapi,ing Tor weeks happened II
was a foolish thing and naughty
thing But we were very young and
very foolish too. and, as | look back OH
1t now it was 50 h,iicrous that the
ftIly Of il and The naughtincss Of il
Nc LOST in the hunor OF IT, That phase
OF il. however, could not have suggested
itself at tho time to two families who
for forty-eight hours nearly distracted.
Or to the newspapers that were printing
big headlines about us.
Yet even the families, after everything
had simnercd down and all was well
again realized that during DIR escapadc
Nc had had one experience worth treas
isr'ng because it proved that the rough
eh human exterior may hide beneath
III gentle and kindly natrre That ex-
peficnee and Is sequel are what lead me
tp tell this story Without them il sim
ply would have becn an escapade Of
two foolish young girls With them i
has toticii OF something very human,
and IN the end something very ua-
iisual somtlhiag il seS;sis 10 ME worth
the telling presume that by this time
the reader has guessed the nature Of t!s
escapadc to which ! have referred, and
that may Venture q whet curiosity
w stating thai. when We were safely
.ar the folds of our respective lam
s~...s,. Ssir people advertised lar and wide,
b,d rainly, iar a tramp who had acted
toward sls like knight Of Old. and
whom. len wears later, discoveFed amid
strangely different surroundings, trans
fornrd in appearance and ii d wholly
cly..ged station ii HE.
come from THE coast and at tle
tine when What am about to relate
happened, was living with my paTen.s
IN San EraacSco was only eight
years old schoolgirl. There was at
that time ia San francisco All excellent
French school kept by Madame Zitsla,
and il was to her school that ] was
going No member Of my family was
m any way connected With the stage,
ont seem 10 have had an inborn love
sorgit San Francisco's fayorite actress
then was Ellie Wilton She was a
heroine in my eyes. SO II was quite
natural that whep discovered that one
Of my classmates was Ellie Wilton
i;iccr. ] singled her oat from among all
fhc other girls at school for my fast
friend She adored Der aunt. | adored
her aun; and think what drew lis so
strongly TO each other was the opportun-
nv our friendship gare US to adore her
aant together
My parents had no special fondness
.iof tile theatre They enjoyed il II
$borf the same manner that the average
thcatrcgoer does. and they certainly did
rot encourage me 10 70 to il. hst rather
.f'lt reverse But Ellie Wilton's niece
beng ny best friend and going more
or less to see her act, ] was allowed 10
20 Too. To rs little girls the orchestra
sstalls were seventh heavens, and the
xtagsa realm far beyond this earth. We
fnaadc no allowance for tiusel and foot
fights Il was real to IS and we longed
b be part Of il believe my litte
.fricrd had thrown or a suggestion At
home that She wanted to hecome all
actrcss like arntic." and had been
promptly "squclcied." and by no one
more promptly than said "aunie.p
never dared breathe a word al home
about iils own burning ambition BIT
J know both my friend and myself
thought il very ''quc2rT that the hint
she had thrown oat had met With suc
an uniayorabc reception from hel
people. However. we were close mouth
Cd little cor SpiFators, and however much
we talked between ourselves about ON
plans, ant that was almost constantly
we gave no one else an ihklalg OF them
Madame Lilska's school was situated ii
what then was known as the "ANes,err
addltinrl4 Il now il a residence section
The house in which the school was helc
IN tinae went The way Of most house:
in city sections tina. are being I'M