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Show 132 the Horsemen, and they weren't long putting in appearance. War, famine, disease, and death. We watched the headlines day after day, and were first-hand acquaintances with Trotsky, Lenin, Czar Nicholas and the infamous Rasputin. We saw the famine sweep Europe and gather in starving Armenia. It took a little longer for Spanish Influenza to catch up with us. We saw it coming from as far away as Europe, and creep forward through New York, Philadelphia, to Utah, even to little Joseph. The schools were closed and meetings cancelled, but we secretly met in each others' homes. Eldon was the first to come home with it, but I got it simultaneously from a different source. I was isolated in the parlor, he across the dining room in the bedroom. I lay there listening to the family in the dining room and got more and more delirious. It occurred to my fevered brain that it would be extremely funny if I got up, tip-toed to the door and opened it a crack. This I did, giggling crazily, raced back to my bed when someone saw me, convulsed with insane laughter. One by one every member of the family succumbed, even Papa, except Macel and Alva Charlesworth, who was living with us then. Vetris and Eldon got pneumonia and Aunt Jane Rawlinson, who had entered training and was now a nurse, came to help us out. Then Harold got pneumonia. The well people in town, a pitiful few, came by and left food at our gates, but didn't dare come in. Papa refused to stay bedridden and sat by the |