The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21

TO bring us Joy. and what can do
more than that?
The great silver and violet bubble
that floated so gracefully in the
draught before the leaping fire. the
laughter OF the children all about, the
honest house dogs puzzled face, the
winds outside in the tormented
trees-tbesc | shall never forget, But
the little worry that nagged at. my
heart. the foolish fear that haunted
me-G can't even remember what they
were now-they weren't half SO real
as the bubble after ali.
Your first sweetheart-the boy
with the brown eyes-he moved to
town after the spring vacation. He
brought you the first spring beau
ties don't you remember and he
had TO fight all the rest OF the boys
In school for laughing al him and
his bouquet
How brave he was, how gentle,
why. he was the purest. the noblest
the finest human pelng who ever
lived; you could tell that by just
looking at him. How good you
wanted TO be TO be worthy OF him;
Mary Smith. or curly hall like EIiz-
abeth Brown. but he liked you best
anyhow, oh, marvel OF maTyels'
Poor boy he's commonplace enough
now. You wouldn't know him if you
should meet him. He's a money grab
have gone up the chimney. far. far
out OF his sordid life. He doesn't
know or care FOR a thing but making
money and saving 1t. and once he
dreamed of being good man and
great one so YOU would be proud of
him. He wanted 10 help the sorry
and save the weak You could see
II all In his wonderful eyes Which
way would YOU rather remember
him as he is now or as he was then
ltn hui. u IL
The girl YOU sworc eternal friend
ship for in the old days where Is she
now? she wrote In your secret al
bum, and YOU mustn't open II TIL
ten years from the very hour IL was
written. How ages long II seemed to
wait. and when the ten years were
up you'd lost tho album and couldn't
have told positively TO save your life
whether her eyes were blue or brown.
Yet on that day she wrote YOU
could sCarcely live twenty-four hours
through without seeing her and tell
ing her ali the mysterious secrets OF
Your heart,
They said at home. don't YOU re-
member. that she WAS stupid little
thing. and rather selfish too but YOU
didn't see II. Do you wish YOU had?
MY husband" said the woman
at the partv to YOU the other day.
and her eyes fairly melted as she
spoke the words my husband" and
dinarv man getting Il trlne bald and
not particularly brilliant. Would YOU
dim the light in that woman's eyes
bv telling her how he looks To YOU.
that wundrous husband OF hers?
MY son" said the mlddle-aged
man on the golf links the other day,
and his whole personality seemed 10
expand Yet my son" is the round
shouldered young man with the
heavy jaw and the stupid, dull and
uninterestlng eyes-but he's the core
Of his fathers heart Would YOU take
him ont II YOU could?
My nnncec." brcathes the boy
home from college for the vacation,
and as a great favor shows YOU, the
photograph Of a pleasant little per-
son with small ewes and silly
mouth. What did YOU say 10 the
boy about that picture? You just
gasped as If overcome and almost
binked with the beauty OF II. and
the BOYS heart leupcd and YOU
blowing bubbles again. weren't you?
Pretty, gay, graceful bubbles-why