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Show Life on Great Salt Lake Isle Recalled by Visitor A girlhood spent on a lonely kaaad In the middle of Great Salt lake, with only two brothers to play with, was toid by Mia Blanch Wanner, Wan-ner, Seattle school teacher, who atopped briefly at the Salt Lake municipal airport early Saturday morning. But it was the most romantic and adventurous sort of a girlhood girl-hood imaginable, according to Miss Wanner, and not a bit lonely or monotonous. Miss Winner is on her way to attend her elaa reunion at Wella-ley Wella-ley College, Mesa, Saturday evening, eve-ning, and will apeak on "Nonstop a teacher of literature at the Lincoln high school In Seattle, Miss Wenner was born In Salt Lake City, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. U. J. Wanner. Although the ft-. x- f I BLANCH WENNEB Keeailed Old Days Wsnnera owned Fremont Island, which Is In ths middls of the lake, about six mUes from the Luoin cutoff, cut-off, they only spent the summers there, until ths health of her lawyer-father began to fail and they establishsd their, permanent home there. "We raised sheep," Mis Wenner said, "and my two brothers and I war tutored by my mother, who was educated in Europe." Once she was on the Island for two years without visiting the mainland. main-land. "But I didn't mind ah smiled. "We had book and pets, and a whois Island to play on. I think I had a more wonderful girlhood than any other little girl ever had." To reach Fremont island, which waa) called Wenner Island at that time, they used a sailboat and, in bad weather, It would take them three dsys and night to cross. Sorastimea they would stop at Antelope An-telope island for the night If the weather was too bed. |