Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-08-18 | Page 4 | Just Folks

JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A A. GUEST Copyright 1931 by Eds Edgar A. A Guest INCIDENT There was a lonely woman in a cottage Day by day Alone she walked her garden round to pass the time away Alone she brewed her cup of or tea At nine o'clock at night Alone she walked from room to room to lock the tho windows windows win win- dows tight She heard the neighbors laughing but she Ehe never turned to see sec Nor ratted raised her head nor took a step to share their revelry Her hair was thin and silvered and her face was lined with care And only little children ever found a welcome there For them she fa fashioned cookies to resemble polar bears And sugar dates dares and walnut cakes and other sweet affairs And every ery little boy or girl who passed her threshold L Loer oer o'er Could eat her stock o of goodies till they couldn't swallow swallow low more She paid no heed to ups grown and the neighbors wondered why Alone she choso chose to keep her house alone she sho chose to die The men folk thought her crazy and the women often oHen stood And wondered who had wronged her but the children children chil chU- dren thought her good We never learned her story All alone one night she died And when the children missed her men were called I Ito to break brenk inside They found her lying on the floor her voice forever stilled And in the room the cookie Jar which she had just refilled