Gunnison news-champion., 1922-06-23
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Arms and Kissed Her.

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Arm, and Kissed Her
Why II made so great an impression
up0n me. I, wss very quiet we'd
ding Of cOurse-just the members OF
the family present But shall never
forget tie fine. sweet lovclIncsS OF
Mothers face. nor the splendid
strength and tenderness o; Fathers.
And the way he drew her into his arms
and kissed her. after II was all over
well. remember distinctly that even
Aunt Hattie choked up and had to
turn her back TO wipe her eyes.
They went away at once. first TO
New York for a day or two, then to
ARdersonville. 20 prepare for the real
wedding trip To the other side of the
world. I stayed in Boston at school.
In the spring. when Father and
Mother returned. and we all went bacl;
10 ABdersony!lle, there followed a long
period Of Just happy girlhcod, and ]
suspect ! was too satisfied and happy
60 think Of writing. After all, I've no
tlced it's when we're sad or troubled
over something that we have that TN
Cling To cover perfectly good white
paper with confessions" ard stories
o. my lifc" As witness right now whR;
I'm doing.
had Just passed my sixteenth birth
day when we all came back 10 live In
Andsrsonville. For the first few
months suspect that just the glory
and the wonder and Joy OF living In
the old home with Father and Mother
happy together. WAS enough TO hIl all
my thoughts Then, as school began
in the fall, came down 10 normal Iiv-
ing again, and became girl-jus;' q
growing girl In her teens.
How patient Mother was, and Faith
er. tool can see how gently and
tactfully they helped me over the
stones and stumbling blocks that strew
the pathway Of every sixteen-year-old
girl who thinks. because she has
TUNED down her dresses and turned
up her hair, that she is grown up. and
ean do and think and talk as she
pleases
II was that winter that went
chlidhood's measles and whoopIng
cough. It seems TO come TO most Of
us-us women children. wonder
whyf Certainly II came to me. True
to type l cried by the hour over fan
cied sights from my schoolmates. and
brooded days at a time because Faith
er or Mother didn't understand" l
In hA
beneath and the heavens above: and
In my dark despair over an averted
glance from my most intimate friend,
I meditated on whether life was. or
was not. worth the living. with a pre-
ponderance toward the latter.
Nother-dear mother,-looked on
aghast. She feared. I think for my
life: certainly for my sanity and
morals
II was Fnther who came TO the res
cue. He pooh-poohed Mothers fears:
said II was Indigestion that allied me.
or that was growing too fast: or per
hsps / didn't get enough sleep. or
needed, maybe, a good tonic He took
me out of school. and made It a point
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talked with me-not to me-about the
birds and the trees and the sunsets,
and then about the deeper things Of
life, until. before realized II. ! was
sane and sensible once more. serene
and happy in the simple faith Of my
childhood.
Iwas seventeen, II I remember right
". when I became worried. not over
my heavenly estate now. but my earth
y one must have career. Of
course. No namby -pamby everyday liv-
ing Of dishes and dusting and meals
and babies for me. II was all very
wen. OF course. for some people. Such
things had to be. But for. me-
I could write. Of course. but I was
not sure but that preferred the stage.
AZ the same time there was within me
Asep stirring a. Of q call to 20 out
asd enlightea the world. especially
that portion Of II in darkest Afriea q
dsad1iese fndla- I would b 4 missioo-
S.eor. i vas eighteen. howev,r. I
hsA ahanAeped IN tAis. Yash9 put
hi foct down hard % the missionary
pseJset. and MoeAar pst hefs down On
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