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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1896)
6f ME mmm l 4 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. iJL w. y Vol XXVI. MNCOLtf , NlSBltASKA.. NOVEMBER 12. 1896. Ko.tf TELL ME. h litt lebaby sister, Little Rogue 'Hint time 'I 'kissecl 'her., Laughed an (I crowed; 'She 'did 'not ik'now That my heart was longing so Un that sunny Summer's 'day, The lirst time Invent away. I have knocked around since 'then, Seeing many kind's of men, Good and had; and weak and strong; And I have many 'times k(fo'w'n Vrong Since my little babysitter Laughed good 'bye, wlien 'I 'lnsl 'kissed 'her. Bab, baliy. 0 yon know Why you laugh and cry and -erotv? Does this world seem 'bright uu(l 'new1? Do all hearts seem fond and 'truo'V Tell inn. tell 'me! !Bu'by! Ihtby baby. N it NO.- That Imaven makes your'eyes 'aglow? Nail love and lifo and glee In this mrange, strange lliiudyoirseey T.'lluio. tell'mel'Ha'by! X'KflOK I wns up I'm 'out yitjuifi o'n 'Sunday 'oaiHy it spring. The day was 'brighT -and Miuiny out side, hut The attic was cold and gloomy The Three small windows with then- odgingoi 'colored glass, "were open, iul 'the wind, .chilly IhoTo, 'blow in, Killing tliMiirwitli fine 'dust from The low eo'b wobbcfl rafters. II if dl t depressed and mtlKM' blue that day and wanted eongon Hil surroundings. The attic would tfuT hikIi Uj(W, I felt sure. What -old alT-idis ft gloomy? Who ninety, inonldy smell f uge and desoj'tedness is always pras ,ll'i and There something supremely 'topiWmg ifn mho very words "'.ago' ' and lPBrtofl-ii(i8s.rt liDnk is Always itlhare roo.tn ifinrftimimt reminder of The -nasT. And the past why is it so sad? Or is it simply the word? 'Over in one corner -of the attic, beneath -a pile of Totting 'carpets, I found a paper hoxof old letters left "by some former 'occupant of the house. 1 read them all. Wrong? It may be. They were all dated 1886 and wore from a wife to her bus Kind. The envelopes wore gone, and I could 'find no cine to the name of either wife or hnshand. except that she was "Alice." Most of them were common every day letters, such as even 1 may receive some day; but two -or three made me angry .; '1 'look so nglyaud -disagreeable when my 'eyes are rod. iProba'bly both husband and wife aiv 'dead now she is,T'm -quite sure so what harm could come if T-copiod two or three -those Two orThroeThatmade'me angry? 'Dear husband : flam feeling so winch 'better Today That 1 -can write -quite 'a long letter. My hack seems to he wmch stronger, and T feel almost as if I -could walk about a little. How T" wish I-cou'kl go out in the sunshine! Sometimes when II sit at the window and look out at The people walking hriskly past how strong They look! my (heart seems -out There.; never mind what 'I say; it's only a hain't, II am so foolish and weak hut T am goT Ting stronger, oh yes. much stronger. You'll he surprised when you see me again. Do you know you have 'been gone a .year tomorrow? 'IT has heen so flong. 'Sowidtiimes !1 wonder H'f we shall over huT'of course you will he hack soon and Then 'f i -i 4 1 f ii . ui 4 v i. M fl hi