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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-3-18, Page 2iGet a Packet, and. Realize what an infusion of Really Pure Fine Tea Tastes like ..�..• Mall0111101111MINIMMINIIMIMINIMP.. Black, Green ar Mixed 85eo Never Sold in Bulk THE FORTUNATE MARY By ELEANOR H. PORTER, Part IT. DeeilleUirs on the pored the eat ,Ae.neit``zo the table and upset an empty flower pet, Upstairs Mary Ma- honey thru: t the money into her bag,. leaped to her feet, and stool], tremb- lingly alert. Then, stealthily, she crept to the window and peered round the edge of the shade. "Land's sake --if it aia't only Toby!" she murmured. For Mary Mahoney. and for all con- certed. there began that day a reign .f terror. eareful1y arranging the bills into et^ ntpeet parcels, Mary stow- ed t]wm about her person --and lost fRim that morn( at every vestige of pe:"ce See paid no :store neighborly tiieits . -tc might drop the Illus, ei2e now. and they expect you to live up refu cat r=c..-or sight- t - to it ---wear fine eleti2es• move to a eeei g -:,ce e pee would, surely. y .eteai better neighborhood. They want to the rueney. She tallied ca nothing ex- tie proud of you --proud that they h'e'll, thieve?, ern burglars and She it now some one sit tine and rich." (lolled out o sight wheriever man, Mary eteheney fill bane in her seat :: c.,,e ,-2 or child inceea toward the with a rueful sigh. "I never thought legates feoni .he etreee She tCu:d not ef, that. I s'po:e 'tc'ould he more c 0 . fCe e'2jc.� the 1?S sB (., ..�tt t new t; •...ti?l . jaV ;re-likn to j. lie ,`a-tiin{aA'$ memory none' f"E it usiglit yore.. the etae11 i.f le show I appreciate what he's dine. the r.:bber, f 3t-tt pe. \c" rite sleep i I ought to put on mournin', too, of bring rest. Sb. urea led O. tilt erre coarse; and 1 never even thought of ani awoke hi a cod eweet of terror- ` le Salted alive' No wonder the v.]tit,i set her IAa ''t ,re into Mary neighbors tail;. I'll tend to it to -mor - Ditto's regal for comfort and proles-; ter." Mary learned many things the next "1 declare," eighed Mary Ditto. at day, one of which was that "ewell mournin" "—what ;he asked for -was net designed for a figure of such generous and ample curves as hers. However, by a process painful both ph.ysically and mentally she struggled into a black gown; and she also bought shoes, - with pointed toes.-- gloves, oes.- gloves, and a black bonnet. She took unbounded pride in her image in the mirror; and she tried to thin]: she was still bappy when she found that stooping was almost. impossible, and a little worse than sitting down. . "After all," she confided to her cousin, "I s'pose I will get used to 'em in time, and I do look pretty slick. Be- sides, it ain't as if twa'n"t just as well, ye know—I'm mournin' for Uncle Sinton." Every afternoon. Mary "dressed up" and sat in state, mourning for Uncle Simon. During the forenoon she wore her old clothing, and attended to her housework. Mary Ware had suggest- ed that a maid would be desirable, but Mary Mahoney had flouted the idea. Mary's next move was to look for the house "in a better neighborhood." She did this very reluctantly. She liked where she was very much, Stip, undeniably her fine garments were out of place trailing over her shabby floors. Besides the inappropriateness of the house to her new finery, there were also those fearful expectations of the neighbors that must be met. So Mary Mahoney went house hunting; with her she took Mary. Ware. It was not a success. Imposing en- trances and lofty ceilings that filled Mary Ware's soul with ecstasy brought forth only shivers of apprehension from Mary Mahoney's. Wide streets and spreading lawns that meant luxurious privacy to Mary Ware meant only dread lonesomeness to the other. Mary Ware, when the day was done, came home with reluctant and vision filled eyes. Mary Mahoney, if the truth must be told, came home with aching feet and a sour temper; moreover, she flung off all her torturing garments, clothed herself in a friendly wrapper, and later visited in turn each one of her neighbors—as if to make sure they we$ all there. Mary Mahoney did not select a new dwelling just then. In July she went away for a vasa Pon. Not that she needed one, but she found that it was expected` of her. Mrs. Jones had told her that she ought to do something "right smart," and under Mary Ware's guidance Mary Mahoney had selected a vacation that was "right smart" indeed. She had engaged board for two weeks at a great hotel near the sea. She stood it for seven days. At the end of that time she came home. "If you think, Mary Ditto," she panted angrily,, "that you can bottle me up in a place like that any longer, you're mistaken! There wasn't :a thing for me to do—Daily eat and sleep and set still. I tell ye I'm all tired out. I've just got to dd something to get rested. I'm gain' to take up every carpet in the house; I don't know any- thing that'll set me an my feet, again like a good spell of housecleanin'... There's always dirt—than goodness!" The carpets were nearly up when the lawyer called the next morning. He was the same lawyer that had brought the news of the legacy; but lie•dire not slim the same at all; qn xtihon .-' emeriti-it;-it;,•e...«.se nese, alio itdltiilg and indistinct were his words when he spoke. He babbled something about a de- plorable blunder, nalost unprecedented in their experience,. He dec]ared that he knew elle would be sensible and reasonable; but he regretted to in- form. her that through a most peculiar chain of circumstances they had dis- covered that there were two women named Mary Tibbets, nieces .of the "Humph! Dead now, ain't they?" " Wlay, Y -yes:" "Well, Tim and Nellie and the baby and Jim ain't. Id rather hear about live folks—than reed about. dead ones." It was in June that nary Mahoney began to realize tbat she was not meeting the expectations of her neighbors. Sly jokes were constantly being made and broad hints dropped; but they served only to puzzle and to confuse her until she asked Mary Ware what they meant, "It's that you aren't doing • what filll.s espeet of you," explained. her cousin, "How? Whet do you mean?" "About the money. You are rich leet, in mild rebellion, "I can't for the life of pie see why you care if some- body does break in and get the money, You said you didn't need it when you first heard you were going to have it! .And now—look at this!" "This" was Mary Mahoney, wild- eyed, drawn -faced and shivering, ea- ting on the edge Of the bed clutching rat hidden wealth and peering into the darkest corners of the room. "le ]2y do I care?" exclaimed Mary Mahoney, with chattering teeth. "Do you think. I want to be murdered in cold blood in my bed? Besides—it's any money. As if I wanted to lose my money!" This could not last forever, of course, but it 'did last a month before Mary Mahoney was finally persuaded to trust most of her money to others' keeping, Then she consented only on i:ontlition that it should be divided and put into four different banks. "Ye see, 'tain't likely that all four'il blow up to once," she sighed; "and if I see one batik begin to start, mein be I could catch the others." Z'tiitir the money once out of the house, the only unrest of the day was when the newspaper was being read. If no bank was reported to be in trouble, .Mary Mahoney breathed again. "And now," said Mary Ware to her cousin one day, when conditions had become nearly normal once more, "now you_ must begin to live," "What do you mean?" "Why, travel -see things." "Where to?" "Oh, anywhere, everywhere. There are so many places to see!" !glary Ware's eyes grew softly Iuminous. "Once I saw a picture in a magazine —I cut it out, too—The Temple of Kar- nak by moonlight. I'd give anything in the world almost to see that—the real thing." "'Where is it?" asked Mary Mahoney. "Egypt. And there's the Nile and the Pyramids and the Sphinx there, and—" "Mary Ditto, I should like to know if you think for a moment that I'd really risk my neck in such a place as Egypt! Why, that was in the Bible, and --they was somethin' awful—them Egyptians was—if I remember right- ly. Wasn't it there the plagues was - locusts, and toads, and all that?" . Mary Ware laughed softly. Her eyes still shone. But they aren't there new, Cousin Mary. Besides, there are other places nearer, right in our own country, if you'd rather see those: .Niagara, and the Rockies, and the Annapolis Valley, and —" "I don't like car ridin', only in open trolleys," cut in Mary Mahoney frigid- ly. "It makes me sick—ale cooped up in a littIe narrer seat not so big as a church pew!''. "But you wotlid, if you really travel- ed. There's so much to see—and you've got the money now to do it!" "Not fer me! I ain't got enough to hire me to do it,to say nothin' of pay - in' out to do it!" declared Mary Ma- • !honey with decision. • "Oh -h!" breathed. the other Mary wistfully. "How can you take it—that way!" She hes!tated,then resumed: "But you. can read about them. You've got lots of time, to read now." Mary' Mahoney stirred, restlessly. "There, and that's another thing, Mary Dete. What yera rein readee. ".s nisch 1 earl t tinaerstantt;. 's all make-believe; •they ain't real folks. Now I'd a heap, rather' go and set with old mount Polly e spell, and hear how Tim and Nellie- and the baby's dein'. 'they're real:" Mary -Ditto laughed softly. "But you' don't have" to read stories, Cousin Mary,' she protested. "You can read uistory,'if you like. That tells about real tolks who used to live and do things—wonderful things." Our Children's Spending Money. John and Mar"y were ten and twelve respectively. when I married their father, and I doubt if there were to be found anywhere two children with se little sense of responsibility.Theth own 'mother died when they were babies; their kind and faithful nurse was quite incompetent to teach or train them; and their father admit- ted that he was unequal to the prob- lem. Sometimes I think that was why be married me. They were healthy, handsome, clever youngsters, and as good as gold. But they bad the faults that come from lack of training, and among these a prodigal extravagance that was al- ready a source .of real embarrassment to their father. He did not like to talk about money, and always gave them what they asked for. He even allowed them to charge what they wanted at the stores. I began by talking over with them the family nuances. 'Filey were im- pressed and sympathetic. I showed them what amount had been set aside to be devoted to each of them; what could be spent for their clothing, school books, health conservation, church and Sunday-sehool dues, amusements, and vacation trips, pee- l.et money, incidentals and extras. They were delighted, being under tite impression that the sum allowed was larger than they had been accustom- ed to have spent upon them, aitliougla the reverse was true. I explained to thein that we were trying to carry outa system that was for the good of the whole family; that was, to increase our happiness and prosperity and to aid in presery ing the peace and satisfaction in the life of the father they really adored. Then I showed them that any kind of system must be kept perfect at every point, or the whote thing becomes worthless. They were interested, and looked actually thoughtful. They asked what they were to do if things they "glad to have" cost more than I had allowed far them; how about pocket money it "it happened so" they had to do a lot of treating? "Or suppose," said John triumphantly, "prices went up and up and up? Looked like they were going to." I had my answers all ready. Things that cost more than one can pay must be done without; in the matter of treating one must decide how far one can go, and accept only tho limited amount of hospitality that one can re- turn; and if the prices go up and up, tastes and requirements must go down and down, In case of great necessity, exceeding of the budget in one direction must be islet by a cor- responding cut in some other. For in- stance, if a friend had to be treated to -day, one could cut out the expected trip to the movies to -morrow. I finished by saying that if John's or Mary's books did not balance at the end of the quarter I would have to make up the difference by taking something out of mine. At this they protested vigorously. They found in the system a new game to play. They liked it—lilted it immensely. Of course, from time to time they backslid. Who does not? But they did well on the 'whole and now, at the end of a year, our boy and girl have learned, among other things, the value of a dollar; they have learned how to keep their own ac- counts, and keep them straight; they are even happier than they used to be; and they give every indication that they will grow up to be sensible and successful members of society, Money -Saving Hints From My Card index, As our family is a small one, I have Always tried to do my own household work, with the exception, of course, of harvest time and the canning sea- son. And during our four years of farm life I have ee--perimonted quite a have discovered a bit, and h e d sc vexed m sty sate!l ways of easing labor, saving time, and dispensing with trouble. Each little item in itself is not such a great help, but taking them all they amount to a great deal, And for fear I may for- get, when once I have proved a little "helper," 1 type same on a card, in- dex, and place in a cabinet, ready at any time. I have not space to give nearly alt of these items, but here are a few: As all housewives know, When breaking eggs pieces of the shell often get into the bowl, and it is difficult to remove then, By just touching the pieces with the half eggslteIl I find that they cling to it and are easily taken out. I always place a email piece of char- coal in the kettle when cooking turnips,. cabbage, onions, or ether vegetables of disagreeable odors. By doing thi the odor is entirely removed. Try it and see. All housewives krow how hard it is to blue the clothes when using hard water, without the bluing streaking. them. I found that a cupful of sweet milk added to the tub of bluing water would always do away with the trouble, Skint Tank is all right if not "blinky," When I want to boil anything quick- ie, Like cider for apple butter, or sugar water in sugar malting time, I just place a stick arros the top of the ves- sel in the centre, and it simply can't boil over. I always save rolled oats or ether breakfast - food containers. When opening I cut smoothie around three sides of end, When empty they are fine far peeking away the summer's dried fruit and vegetables, also for holding farmand garden seeds. NEW DRESS FOR OLD WITH DIAMOND DYES late Simon Tibbets; and that it was. to Mary Tibbets Ware, daughter of Thomas Tibbets, that the bequest was trade, instead of to Mary Tibbets Ma- honey, daughter of Horace Tibbets. And he did hope she would understand that they really were not to blame for there having been two babies christen- ed "Mary Tibbets." With that the Iawyer stopped and drew a long breath. He looked as if he were trying to prepare for the worst. As it happened, however, he was not prepared for what really did oc- cur. The deposed heiress sprang to herfeet and towered over him; in her right hand she flourished a tack hammer that she had forgotten to lay down. "Do you mean that I ain't got to have that money—thatit belongs to Mary Ditto?" she demanded. "That I don't need to worry now if every bank in town blows up—nor move away and leave all the folks I know and like to be with? And that I ain't got to wear tight clothes.. and mourn for Uncle Simon, nor worry any more about burglars breakia' in and stealin'? Xs that what ye mean?" By ahnost superhuman effort' the lawyer pulled himself together. "I—I think so, madam," he, mur- mured faintly. Then he stopped and laughed suddenly. "Well, by George!" Long hours later _ Mary Mahoney pattered into her cousin's room to. re- joice once more over what she` called her "lucky escape"; but Mary Ware was fast asleep. On her face was `d rapturous smile. Huggedclose tinter breast was: a dog-eared colored picture. Mary Mahoney bent nearer with the latnz�. • ' "The 'Temple of Karnak by. Moon. light," she spelled' outeloWip. n`Land's sake! A"nd it ain't -even a whole one!" she muttered : as site • drew herself erect and crept back to lier. room, "As if I'd cross the street—let alone: the oceane-to see a turbie'doivn 'thing like that!" (The End). etizer,f'n ; eimene for. sale everywueree Women Can Put Bright, Rich Color in Shabby, Faded Garments. Don't worry about perfect results, Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods, — dresses, blouses, stockings, 'skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings, everything. The Direethin Book with each pack- age tells how to diamond dye aver any color. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. What 'Could She Say? 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