The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-08-27

wv ELL, when that was
>AAI little tiny GIRL to paraphrase
" the epilogue from Twelfth
Night" and when my best
girl friend was just not quite so little
nor quite so tiny, it CHANGED one day
that the wind didn't blow and the ram
didn't rain, and SO the thing we had
been planning for weeks happened. 1t
was a foolish thing and a naughty
thing. But we were very young and
very foolish too, and, as look back on
it now, it was so ludicrous that the
folly of it and the naughtiness OF 1t
are lost in the humor of it. That phase
of it, however, could not have suggested
itself at the 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 simmered down and all was well
again, realized that during our eseapade
we had had one experience worth treas
uring, because it proved that the rough
est human exterior may hide beneath
it a gentle and kindly nature. That ex-
perience and is sequel are what lead me
10 tell this story Without them it sim
DIV would have been an escapade of
two foolish young girls, With them it
has a touch Of something very human
and in the end something very I'm
,-. understanding it seems to me worth
the teit;rg. l presume Il that by this sme
escapade to Witch have referee and
that I may venture to whet cfr;os;tT
bv stating that, when we werc 81.
back in the folds of our respeetf sS
lilies. our people advertised far az iaiL
bu. vainly, for a tramp who hsa WIZ WIZ
toward us like knight of ~ actee
whom, ten years later, discoyold' an.
formed in appearance and fgs' trans
changed station in life. who'll!
| come from "the coast
time when what I am al np at IN
bare-srrr, was living with to relate
in San Francisco: ! wasny parent
that time in San FranciseoEere was a
French school kept by Man excellen
ans vas to her schoodame Zitska
gong ns,, NO member of II that l wa
but seem gnH to 1hi have faiaAr family wa
for it. San Franeisco's ne Inc sag ip5s,
then was Ellie Witonn lIDorn low
heroine in my eyes, 50 rs 80.
natural that xhsps vas caa vas gut
OF my ciasS ,nd hes. out for my. fas
niece atAe Slnegliffls at schocaunt, adore'
friend. She adored hefaat drew us 81
her aunt: and l think W, the opportun
strongly to each other waS.o ADORE ne
4 1ty OUR IrlenuSLlp So'N "SN =,
aunt together. lJ'iG u
for the tseas-.-N Th.,s eres.seeyerag
about the same manner thaV SD,
theatregoer does, apd-they 1T rafhe
not encourage me to go to 1T h's nice
the reverse. But Ellie win np NOR
being my best friend and gd.9wed +,
or less to see her act, l was atrchestr.
go too. To US little girls the cnd III
stalls were seventh heavens, Nh w,
sta<c realm far beyond this earl foot
made no allowance for tinsel gel
lights. 1t was real to us and we ll1;9t,,
to be part of it. believe .myhn :.
friend had thrown out suggestS. ~
home that she wanted TO "becoml az
actress like 'auntie," and had S on.
promptly squelched," and by no yh11
more promptly than said "auntE
never dared breathe a word at honts
about my own burning ambition, bu!
] know both my friend and myself
drought II very queer that the mint
she had thrown out had met with such
an unfavorable reception from her
people. However, we 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 linking of them.
Madame Zitska's school was situated in
what then Was known as the Western
addition" 1t 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 are being I'm