Show A responsive CHORD 1 i utah recalls j chood das it the edito 1 vp djs of the story that a chicago ii ha mat auk school the bab i fa tt calli ailin b a nickname the liner ocean says in et feet somewhere in an old trunk where the mementos or youthful days are kept there will be found in the home of aery man a package of faded well worn letters and these letters will road very like the following well skinny im glad to hear that you are doing so well and I 1 hope that some time we shall all bo able to get together again I 1 saw Bucky Williams when I 1 was in new york a few weeks ago and who do you suppose is his wife flabby martins sister I 1 bucky is doing a we commission business had a long talk and he gave mo a lot of news about some of the old crowd chuck johndon ia vice president of a life insurance company hunky collins Is freight agent of the P W and T C wall eyed is preaching in newark shorty armstrong Is counsel for the sixth national bank and gingerbread brown has an office on wall street and is coining money I 1 waff glad to hear from you that has caught on in chicago alff ou ever that that dub would amount to anything the day that ho licked fatty hutchen sofa and knock kneed gave the thing away to old windy is as fresh in my memory as alio day goggio eyed killigrew closed your lamps I 1 wonder what has become of batty and pimples and scar faced russell it you hoar from any of thorn let me know skinny old boy im glad you mar lied FTc ckles I 1 was kind agone on her myself once yon know give her my best and write soon to your friend LON WATSON perhaps once year perhaps ofton cr tha letters are read by their owners and ath the reading thero comes trooping ul before the mental vision the beenes and incidents of a time far bade in tho pasi and faces and forms long since lost of on the journey of life these references by nick name many of them arc to men and women who are now sta id and dis citizens with boys and girls of their own who now in their turn attend school and who perhaps are thoai aehl called by names quite as euphonious as those which their parents knew in ibe long ago others mentioned in the letters may havo departed thy life long but tho sight of their once familiar names awakens memories of past in which they were actors and ahey live once more if tin in memory |