The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-05
The Spring Girl
By MARY CHAMPION.

-ODAY ! want TO talk about A
type Of girl who is rather rare
and altogether lovable. And
Il now that a golden sun is shin
ing and the air Is sweet and
soft. / shall call her the Spring
Girl"
She is a woman OF many names
She IS "a good sort" "a corking
girl" "a darn good fellow" and has
a host of others. curious. slangy and
loving.
But il is not what she is. but how
she is it-how she achieves lt-that
interests me and helps
Ono cannot call her philanthro-
plst, a charity worker or a religious
woman. She is all OF these. and yet
none OF them describe her-none of
these titles conveys the whole Of
her character.
She is impetuous 10 a decroe. she
acts first and thinks afterwards. She
is ruiDously generous and beauti
fully forgivlng. She is so full OF
quick. candid sympathy and under
standing that, as one Of her friends
remarked 10 me, iii she saw an old
omnibus horse limping down the
road. she would limp too, in sympa-
thy with him"
She is courageous, fanaticalIy
truthful and full of animal spirits
spirits that bubble over in laughter.
in sport, in love Of amusement. and
OF amusing and helping others.
Oh, yes! She has her faults. faults
that one may easily see. but TOR
which few can find II In their hearts
to condemn her,
She has a quick. rlotous temper
that flares and flashes UP without a
moments notice and as quickly sub
an inploring for forgiveness, to an
equally intense desire to make
amends, and TO wipe out the hot
words OF moment with the SOFT
kind, loving actions Of DAY OF
week
She is stubborn sometimes, and
flies off rather than give In, but she
never suIks. II is just au April
shower.
Size docs stupid things sometimes
and aggravatins things nj others. but
she does them so inpulsiNely ana
with such magnificent thouShtlessness
that one cannot be bad tempered
a lecture or advice. she has 10 strug-
gle To listen seriously,
Alas, oftencsL she cannot restrain
the laughter. the Impulse TO sweep
seriousness cut of life, and desires
tn finish tle punishment by throw
ing her arms around her acousera
neck aud breathlcssly kissing away
all thought OF blame and every SOL
cmn froWn.
Now. do YOU not agree with me
That the "spring girl is splendid
creature--a being who brings JOY and
n new feeling Of youth and careless
happiness wherever she goes"
Do you not know that hulIdreds ana
hundreds OF people Love her, and say,
''Cb. she Is a darling girl, We love
To have her with rs. That those
hundreds arc ready and eager to vol
como her as often and as long as she
likes TO visit them
cause she is intensely happy. unset
fell. and alive; because the sound OF
ner laughter rs the music Of eternal
youth and ethereal happiness: because
her mcrrimcnt. her sunny en1oNWcnt
drives away the clouds Of worry and
trouble; because she makes others
forget their seriousness and Compeia
them to The Joy oC smiling and
laughing with licr.
She doesn't think all these things.
Probably she doesn't know IL. But
all tlle same ale Is 4 great. good
worker In world that too often for,
gets the glories of tho sunshine mud
looks only for the duh, grew clouds,
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.
Gods WAYS seem dark. but soon or lat
riey touch the shining hills of day.
The eyil cannot brook delay,
Tie good can well afford To wait.
We have tho future grand and great.
rhe safe appeal of ruth 10 time.