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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-5-15, Page 6§_y_ap_e",,vior to the Fittest Japans? GREEN TEA H434 is the best at any price—Try it. Rcpaying Mrs, Mullaney BY ELIZABETH GUILFOILE. PART I. "Joe, it doesn't come out' even." Joe Hayden laid down his book and looked up into the puzzled eyes of his pretty young wife. Ruth's remark brought him not to a realization of her problem but to a realization of herself. The lamplight gave an added sheen to the carefully brushed hair, She looked very pale and small and young, in the big wicker divan, piled high with cushions. One day, when he came in from the harvest field at noon, Joe had found her lying still upon the floor. "Heat prostration I" the doctor said. Three weeks of tender care had brought her to her feet a ain. But certain lines between her brows had deepened. These lines caused Joe a vague distress. He noticed them now particularly and came around to her side, displacing some of the cushions on the divan. He was strong and brown and weathered -looking with an air of freshness and cleanness that farm work in the open had given him. He laid the tips of his strong, gentle fingers on her white brow over the lines. "Ruth we have a big job on our hands. • Lifting a mortgage whilefound4ng a home isn't easy. But we have a good start. I can't see why it is making scars in your forehead." Ruth drew the brown fingers down with her own small white ones. "Thinking bothers one more when one is not working," she explained. "I'm going to start in to -morrow and do the work myself. Dr. Kellar said T might,' she added quickly as she saw the protest in his face. "You needn't worry. I am not going to be foolish and overtax e -my strength again. But there is so much to do that when I just sit here and think it worries me. I had just got things going right when I got sick. It's all in planning and management, Joe. What we country people lack is sys- tem, you know." She said it with a pretty little air of including herself. But Joe knew she meant, 'youbcountry people." He had married a city girl. In her three months on the farm she had mention- ed many things which her late em- ployers, Baker and Co., would have considered bad management, She tapped a little block of paper with her silver pencil. "I have been trying to figure out what we owe Mrs. Mullaney." "Well, we owe her a great deal more than we shall ever be able to Nay," declared Joe warmly. "Little ed is crazy for a pony, and I think I'll give him that Shetland, Job. Job is old and rather moth eaten but he'll do Ned Mullaney more good than a six -cylinder automobile. And Mul- laney knows if he is ever shorthanded. in his crop all he has to do is whistle for me." Ruth's small hand suddenly came down on the wicker table with a force that made the lamp shade dance. "When you contract a debt do you start `paying it on the installment xylan for the rest of your life?" "Why, Ruth," •the man's voice was troubled and his eyes were full of pain, "do you" think you could pay Mrs. Mullaney with Money?" "That is exactly what I think we 'should lo. A debt is a debt. The best way to' pay it is fully and promptly to stop the interest. The earlier we country people get to using money gas common currency," she greatly stressed the word money, "the better it will be for all concerned. The Mul- laneys need money, goodness knows, if all that you and Al Grimes say is true. And Mrs. Mullaney certainl earned it here. You write a then and Pll mail it to her with a nic little note. I'll promise you she wi take it without protest, We must no start out in life with a lot of obli enough, I say, and let them lead their own lives, away from the farm they k,{ork on." "I reckon it's some cheaper for you too ain't it?" suggested Al: mildly. too, answered. Ruth thoughtfully, "as I've figured it, ` it is about tho same. Of course we are paying yoti more salary now, for less work. It balances up about even. But then, you see," she added, ingeniously, "when you're paid, you're paid. You don't owe us anything and we don't owe you anything." "That's so," said Al slowly, "that's so." Joe returned with the light and • the two men went intothe bedroom that had been Al's before he moved to his sister's under the new arrangement. When the fishing -tackle was located the hired man set off. "The boys will be waiting for me over at the pond," he explained. re calledas you he lingered. in othe room down the hall.. "In a moment, dear." He locked the door and carried in the key on the palm of his hand. l "Thatroom is empty :and there are six people in John Qlsen's cabin," he said slowly. i "Al likes this way best, doesn't he?" , his wife asked sharply, feeling a di - I vision of thought she could not ana- y I lyze. "It means more money to him." ue Yes, he says he does," answered egos absently and he laid.the key on 11, the mantel beside the notepad. Ruth e' turned away and then they talked of - other things. tions. We had better pay as we g II don't like the idea of Mr. Mullaney feeling free to call en you just be- cause his wife has been of service to us. He is notoriously lazy and depends on his nieighbors too much, anyway. I don't Iike to think of you plowing his fields with their knotty old roots, and sawing wood with his rusty saws. He would impose on you if he got a chance. It is Mrs. Mullaney we really owe. I don't think that pony is worth what we owe her. I have figured it out." "How do you figure it?" "Well, Mrs. Mullaney did more for me than an ordinary nurse would. On the other hand she was here only a few hours a day after the worst was over. A nurse would have cost us five dollars a day. We owe Mrs. Mullaney that much at least for the first week. In these last two weeks she has put in as much as one week's work. Then she did the work around the place. We might have had a girl at three dollars a week. • Three weeks would have been nine dollars. That makes seventy-nine dollars. Then the doctor might have to make two or three more trips if we had had a less dependable nurse. It comes to eighty- five or ninety dollars, I think. How much is that pony worth?" Joe's head was turned away from the light. He was looking out into the starlit night. "Not more than seventy-five," he answered quietly. "That wouldn't be enough. I think we ought to give her a cheque. With Dr. Kellar's bill it will make my illness cost pretty high. I'm sorry it had to happen," she added softly, "when you have to work so hard to make ends meet." "My God, Ruth! Do you think I count the money that it takes to take care of you?" She stood up quickly and went to him. Instantly he put his arms about the slight figure. "Don't you know you weremighty sick, Ruth?" "I certainly do and I know it is owing to Mrs. Mullaney that I pulled through. She left all her work to take care of me and she didn't even know me very well. She said she hadn't much time for visiting and I had never been to see her. It had not dc- curred to me that I might need her so soon. That's the reason, Joe, I think we should do the right thing by her without any delay. It's an awful feeling to be in debt. I never owed a hundred dollars in my life and I hate to think of our owing it now. Look, Joe, I've got it all down here. Do you think I've left out anything? Her husband picked up the silver pencil and drew a line threw the items. "Yes," he said slowly, "I think you've ,left out a lot." Into that moment that was made, perhaps, for understanding, there came an interruption. The • gate creaked someone was coming. Joe laid the pad and pencil on the mantel beside the clock. "Howdy, folks?" Al Grimes loomed in the doorway. "How areou Missus?" y ' Ruth gave him a pleasnt •word in reply. She liked Al. - He was her hus- band's "right-hand man" and had been in the employ of the Haydens in the time of Joe's father. "I'd like to get my fishing -tackle. Forgot it when I moved out. I think there is a good mess of bass in Du- vall's pond. Got a lantern handy, Joe?" "Take a lamp," said Ruth. "You will find things, about as you left them Al. I haven't been able to clean your room and I don't think Mrs. Mullaney got in there:" Joe reached for another lamp but it had no oil. "I'll fill; this, Al, if you'll wait a minute. I'm not keeping the house- keeping checked up very well since Mks. Mullaney left.' Ruth says she is going to take the : helm to -morrow and I don't much blame her." The hired man dropped easily into a chair, ' "How do you like things now?" asked Ruth. "Bully!" declared Al with a little more emphasis than was needed to carry conviction, "Aren't you glad that- I persuaded Joe that the'. eight-hour day was the best arrangement? Now you are gettt ting fifteen dollars more on the month and. you have yourspare time to yourself." "Yes'rn, that's so," said Al thought- .Cuhy. "Farmers Will simply have to come to it. System and management in every other Iine of business. This business of `boarding the hands' on a farm 18 poor ,arrangement What city employer would expect his clerks to j stay in ,his home? • -Pay the men ii after every meal Claemases maouth and teeth anal aids digestion. Relieves that over- eaten feeling and acid mouth. Its 9 -a -s -t -i -at -g flavor satisfies the Drawing for sweets. Wrigley's is (double value lin the benefit and pleasure It provides. Seded Zra ies Parity Package. (To be continued.) PRACTICAL SLIP OR FOUNDATION MODEL 4723. Sateen, long cloth, nain- sook, silk or crepe may be used for this design. 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(Colored elotbeo not longer than halt an boar). Italo ac aathegdij•t an thatlit rinses right cuffad ealand spand ts andY:leek baud; and knees of child. ren's pl ayolothes aced any rubbing. Per this light robbing lust sprinkle a little der Rinso right on the fabric. "Don't -rub your yo•.,a4 oway" does t whole job with it you need no other soap R-4-28 vj • MOTHER'S SHARE. There's a runt pig in the side lot That is coming safely through; There's a calf that's lost its mother Which our ma is tendin' to; There's a sick colt in the pasture That she's also carin' fer, 'Cause each spring the sick and neeay Animals belong to her. With her motherin' and lovin' It's a most surprisin' thing How them colts and calves and piggies Fatten up and thrive, by jing! Till. when autumn comes they're ready To be marketed, and then Comes en ,incident in farm life That is some surprise again. For them colts and calves and piggies That was ma's stock yesterday Change to pa's stock on the market, And it's. him that takes the pay; Takes the pay while mother wonders Till the springtime rolls around, When she stills her heart by tendin' To some sickly pig she's found. - -Jaay B. Iden. OUR FIRST MAHOGANY. With the optimism of youth we were married when our only assets toward a home were faith and a roll of rag carpet. Later we scraped up money to fur- nish the guest room, and ' selected things from catalogues and advertise- ments. But the furniture that looks so pretty in the pictures showed up cheap and shiny in the store. One of the display rooms was fur- nished with a mahogany suite.that was exactly what we• wanted—simple o'arving, good lines and beautiful wood. But the price. for three pieces —bed, bureau and dressing table— was precisely what we, had for the. entire room, and we had already put fifty dollars of it into -a rug! But:I bought the three pieces. In the: evening when I told my hue= band what I had done he siad, `Pm glad you bought'it. Don't worry; some of 'our bills can wait." But I determined to get the fifty. , • Fortunately I had not yet put up four pairs of curtains bought at the same store, so I returned .them and that gave me credit for twenty dol- lars. Then I collected all the old fur- niture, rugs and newspapers I could possibly spare—eleven-fifty more. In- stead of buying the wedding present I had selected for a friend, I gave her my cherished centrepiece that had just been finished, and that saved me ten dollars, to which I added five that had been. given me on .my birthday anniversary. Knitting a shawl brought one more. By this time the game had become interesting, and , X. refused to take the remaining' short- age out of the general fund. But that last drop kept me thinking far a while. Then the county fair .came along. One dollar and fifty cents in premiums, and two dollars for plants sold to a city woman! 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