The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-04

Occasionally Il couple strolled past
them-Sam Hold with Alice Whiting
Grace Rawlins with the Whitcoml
boy. Even George Griffin and the
Whalen girl were out enjoying the
! beautiful exquisite summer night.
Where are they all gone now, those
boys and girls of that summer night
in the long ago?
Those that are living now are
tired men and fu1rowed-faced wom-
en- scattered far and wide on the
earths' broad surface. But back
there on this night, in this little
town, it was all so different-so very
different. Life and love and the
mystery of both were deep upon
them. Every hour was a golden
moment and time but thing to pass
away.
And as Jack came away finally
from the Mather's gate, the beauty
and the sadness of the night and the
heart cry of his new-found age-old
/ love came to him as neither had ever
impressed him before And taking off
his hat beneath the stars he mur-
INJURED: ooh if it could always go on
always" But he knew it could not.
And he was miserable and afraid.
The change which came over Mary
caused much sly comment in the es-
tablishment. The pallor left the
girls face. She did her work with
a sudden energy which could have
but one explanation. Frequently she
sang a fragment of an old love song
as she busted herself with the tasks
of the day.
She had developed into the swift
est and most accurate compositor we
ever had but after Jack came and
took his place between the imposing
stones as makeup man, she fairly
broke her own record. There was
suddenly no more tears over the type
cases. There were no more confess
sions to Daddy Joe. There were no
more references to marrying for
money. The girl was in love with the
new man and the new man was in
! love with our little compositor and
the whole thing had happened so
thoroughly that we could hardly as
simulate the strength of that dynamic
attachment For that is the way that
things happen in life.
In the story books the band plays
when the hero enters. There are
chapters of preparation and introduce
ton. There are bushels of moonlit
nights and clinging kisses and doubts
and fears and quarrels and reconcil-
iations and finally we have match
and marriage where both principals
are popularity supposed to live happily
ever after. But in the simple and
awful little dramas of plain people
in a very real and materialistic world,
the thing happens as we have set it
down.
we all knew that Jack Purse was
not only poorer than any pauper at
the town farm but that he had a
crazy idea that it was up to him to
pay in full those creditors who had
lost money by his fathers bank
ruptcy. That meant four thousand
dollars of debt on slender wages as 4
| newspapernan unless he went into
business for himself. But these
| things place no stumbling block in
the pathway of love, at least not the
kind we have up here in New Eng
lard.
IF in those weeks which followed
Mary gave a though to the Truman
| boy, Of wealth and aspiration and the
| great opportunities which marriage
was to open to her, no one knew it
but herself. This goodlooking, open
| faced, tender-hearted, fine principled
but wretchedly. poor young news
papernaan came suddenly into her life
and nothing else mattered Daddy
Joe's prediction was fulfilled.
This, again, is the way of the
world. All Of us have dreamed
dreams and built castles in the ether
and imagined great and glorious ex-
periences for the future All of US
at one time must confess to ourselves
that we thought we were to marry
the superman or the superwcman. Al
of us, up to certain age, believed
without exactly knowing why, thai
| fame and fortune and great vistas OF
opportunity were to be opened to Us
by time alone and that the years were