South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-25
Attic Surprises in Life
By Winifred Black

I wanted a map this morning. an
old map with streams on IL and
bake and pla1s marked cedar" and
4 spruce" and n streak or two mark
ed "marshland. and 7 went into
I the attic and searched the old trunks
there.
I went 20 that attic at 2 o'clock
q and expected 20 be out by $50
/ O'Clock at the very least. but at II
| O'Clock they had 10 call me. and
down I came, dusty and dishevelled,
tired and disagreed BILE forgetful OF
|time and OF all the limitations or
time
The map Oh. 20 be sure, No.
IL hadn't found that To tell the
truth. had about forgotten all
about II. but just 10 see the old let
tiers. the account book and a diary
ard see the old books. and here's a
faded ribbon. tying some faded
flowers What charming things
these old poems are, What a pity
| to keep them shut up in the attic
even II the binding is shabby.
I,upch time Why. the idea.
didn't think / had been gone half
am hour. What kind Of a day is It
anyhoW-cloudy No, sunshine.
well. " ell-I thought I heard the
dropping OF the rain on the attic
roof-the branches Of the old elm,
suppose. brushing against the
shingles
will have to look for the map
ar other day. I am glad 1 went 10
hunt for il this morning. I found
so many other things. Some Of them
I had put away myself and forgot
ten. and some OF them I had never
seen .before--a perfect treasure OF
beauty and Interest, OF sorrow and
OF iov. And. I never should have
seen any OF them or known Of their
axisterice n ] hadn't started out 10
hunt for the map
How often we do that don't We
start out 10 look for one thing and
come home Juggling so triumphantly
quite another
Seeking and Finding.
know a girl who started out so
pavlv looking for success, and all
she found was sorrow and disap-
pofntment and disillusion. She
wouldn't stay at home with her
mother and her sisters-oh. no. that
vas TOO humdrum for her.
she wanted to see the great world,
TO be a part OF the wonderful glow
Ing times she read about so much
"A the newspaper. So she left her
little home in the country and went
10 the great city TO make her for
tune.
Well. she didn't make her fortune.
She didn't even make a living.
she hlst hunted and hunted and
hunted for the fortune. but some
how she never could find il, and as
for the living, she got so she didn't
care whether she made it or not.
she hated TO get up in the morning
and she hated 10 go TO bed at night.
Life was just a dreary shabby. hun
CRY, tired. discouraging thing, and
one day some one died at home and
sic went back 10 the funeral. and
there she is. as brisk and CHEEKY as
possible in the old town that she
thought she would never want 70 see
again.
SO. after all. she did ind some
thing when she went TO town, didn't
she?
She found contentment and
knowledge Of the real conditions OF
real life and at the very last a cheer
ful and loving heart. She had &C
hunt through a good many dusty
trunks OF miserable experiences &c
find these things. but she found
them. but there they were waiting
fer her and for her eager search
Just the same.
I know a girl who wanted a new
hat and her father wouldn't buy 4
for her. so she went cut and hunted
for a Job.
She found a job and it turned on
to be something TO do with littl,
children.
BY the time she had earned none,