isa-normaladvance-1903-00025

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE.25Back and forth they marched in endless procession making a gay picture from the amphitheater.When they were worn out and had groupedthemselves about the walls of the city, dancerscame forth to entertain them then there werejugglers, and acrobats, and racing, and wrestlingmatches. Everything was moving forth merrilywhen a rumbling sound reached the ears of thegathered throng. The sound grew louder, thecitizens, soldiers and senators rushed pell mell toplaces of safety, and just in time for from MountVesuvius there began to pour flame, smoke, andashes. The explosions sounded louder and louder,with a crash the center of the citys wall camedown, then another part and another. Thetorches were put out, the beautiful statues werebroken.The terrible sounds grew fainter and fainter,the uproar gradually subsided, and as the smokecleared away the ancient city could again beseen. How different it was! All the torches andlamps were out and the only light came from themoon now high in the heavens. It lighted upMount Vesuvius, changed only in that now andthen, from its top came a roll of smoke at its footlay the ruined city.With a sigh we turned away toward the moving and many colored lights twinkling in thenorth. Following the line of bluffs to the southwe saw again the huge white lights coming fromthe east. The fallen wall of the city was theonly change in the peaceful moonlit picture before us.Emma Mering, 03.Nellies Diary.Nellie gave her curls a disgusted toss, closedher arithmetic with a bang that was heard allover the quiet school room and reached in herdesk for her diary. It had just occurred to herthat Grace was the teachers pet, and as usual thediary was to receive her confidence. Alas, it wasgone! She moved all her books and looked forthe diary again and again until she was quitesure it could not be hiding among them. Whenshe reached home that afternoon she hurried toher own little secretary and threw all its contentsout on the floor in a vain search for the littlebook. She must have lost it on the way to orfrom school.For more than a year Nellie had kept her diaryin her desk at school through the day and carriedit home with her every night. Nellie had nosecrets from her diary her every thought wasconfided to its trusty pages. It knew when shehad had a good time at a party. It knew whenthe teacher had praised her recitation in history.It knew of a certain boy who was in the classabove her and whom she admired more than anyboy in school. It knew her grief at having towear her sisters made-over jacket. It knew hersecret ambition to some day become a great artist.It also knew the many spiteful remarks that shewas in the habit of making about her friends.When Nellie realized that her diary was reallylost she began to think of the consequences.Some one would surely find it. Then not onlywould her dearest secrets be known but also themany unkind things which she had said about herfriends in her envious moods. Suppose one ofthe girls should find it! She would certainlyread it, and she would probably show it to theothers. Nellie recalled all her friends, one byone, and remembered that somewhere in the diarywas a little sarcastic comment on each of them.She felt sure now, that she had not meant allthose things. She had to admit that they hadusually been prompted by envy. She thoughtof all the kind things the girls had done for herand of all the good times they had had together.It would be dreadful to lose all her friends, andall at the same time, too. She remembered that
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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