Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-05
WINIFRED BLACKS
w SPECIAL ARTICLE

The FOOLISH AND BLIND

THE FOOLISH AND BLIND
How happy she is-the little young
wife. i,
She lives in a tiny little bungalow
with only four rooms-but there's a
porch-Oh, a beautiful porch!-and
| She and Mr.. Newlywed have their
breakfast on the porch, and their sup
per there at night, and the wild cucum-
Der vine foams up over the lattice:
like the crest of a green wave flecked
| with delicate white, and the morning
glories are beginning to peep through
the lattice, too-blues n and white
ones and soft rose-color ones, all hold
ing up their little cups as If they never
could get enough dew to drink.
The tall, yellow primroses-the kind
| that blossom only after the sun has
zone down-fairly crowd around the
little porch, as if they loved it and the
people who spend SO many happy hour
on it. And in the evening, when the
sun has sunk back into the ocean, and
the evening star sparkles In the
friendly sky
Pop" say the evening primroses
and they sound exactly as if someone
was kissing someone, and all the air is
! full of a sweet, mysterious fragrance
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and the sweet alyssum! They were
| planted only this spring, but, dear me
| thew grow as if they were magic flow
erS.
And all along the fence the pink
geraniums flaunt their gay banners
! and lean over and seem to try to listen
| to what people say about he little
| bungalow as they go by.
And in the back garden, there is a
goat, Betsy Trotwood, by name--quite
a human creature is Betsy, with /:
waggish look in her eye and an I'M
expected sense of humor.
They Pitied Her
Honest L~ydesdale, the drake, oh
he's a great character! 1t is he who
leads the Charge of the Light Brigade
when the little wife steps to the door
| of the porch and beats an enhancing
tattoo on the dishpan with a wooden
spoon.
Alyce, for short-the gray kitten
is the real pet of the house-she and
Bobby Burns, the w~ire-haired Scotch
terrier. ,
The husband is away all day and
there are not many n%eighbors near the
new little bungalow-but lonely! Why,
the idea!
There's the sweeping to do, and the
| busting and the little sewing, and the
| ducks and chickens and geese must be
fed. and there's the new book from the
library to read, and at half-past four,
| who's so busy and so earnest as little
| Mrs. Newlywed, in her blue bungalow
| apron and her funny little shoes tied
| with blue ribbons?
There's q new recipe TO try-how
| will it turn out!
There's a new story to tell Mr..
Newlywed when he ONE home, some
thing about the drake and his golngs-
| on when one Of the ducks did not an
swer when he called to her in a lordly
voice.
And. in the evening after dinner,
| there is the ride in the cheap little car,
| and the sound Of the waves breaking
on the beach. and the small of the yell
low primroses when they turn into the
gate again-ob, little Mrs. Newlywed
is so sorry for everyone who is not as
happy as she!
And, the other day, some friend who
used to know her when she lived IN a
big house in a big city before she was
| married, came to see her. and they
were shocked and Mortified and they
were. oh, so tragic about 1t!
And little Mrs. Newlywed didn't kno
what on earth they meant. But when
| they had gone in their smart car n
| had taken their smart frocks and their
empty chatter and their high-pitched.
/ silly voices way with them, she
thought it all out and then she laughed
and laughed-for it came upon her
suddenly that she was being sorry for
her cousin, who lives at home in a
great empty. lonely house, and cannot
call her soul her own, the rich cousin
being very sorry for her, because she
lived in a bungalow and had TO do her
own cooking.
The Saving Laugh
Little Mrs. Newlywed is learning
very fast-that this is a strange and
puzzling world, and nothing made her
begin to learn it any faster than the
visit she had the other day from the
restless. dissatisfied. cold-hearted
scheming people who went to the little
bungalow to see her and who couldn
help showing her how very sorry they
were for her-in all her simple happi'
ness.
I'm glad she had sense enough tc
laugh.
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