Show itell net wedding journey A personal friend of bill nye the humorist who asked that hia his marne be not mentioned told a touching little story of an incident la in nye life he ile was on a lecture tour and as its success was much greater than he had bad anticipated he wrote to mrs nye to come to him and take her r edding tour for aben bill waa was married he be could not afford that luxury she telegraphed that she would join bita blin at once and bet out to do so her journey being one of two days as he was in the west somewhere beyond chicago two hours before her train was due at the little town where she was to join her husband lie received a dispatch saying that both hia his children had been stricken down will with scarlet fever and had been moved to an Isola isolated td house ft A mile or r 0 o from their home where they would receive proper attention tent lon but could not be seen by their parents it was a great fiock to bill and all he lie could do when his wife arrived was to take her aside and tell her the sad news tb they ey took the first train back and tor for bever beveral al weeks bill at home with her both suffering terrible anxiety as the children were desla bately ill As soon as they were able to listen to the reading the little ones got it i letter every morning from their father telling of the wonderful things b he 0 and their mother were seeing out west thus not letting the youngsters know that their mothers wedding journey in which the they y had taken a deal of interest had been broken up tip by their sudden illness I 1 bills bill unlimited imagination made the letter writing an easy task and their dally daily arrival kept the children in suc such hagood good humor that when the turning point was reached and they began to mend they did no goat at a rate that astonished the doctor in charge 0 of their u case subsequently mrs nye had her wedding journey chicago faal mall |