HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-4-6, Page 2Iblissa's Better—Best Baby
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firnent, Proper feeding was Ms
hobby, but usually his teaclaieses fell
on deaf eers. The average wootan
:Argued that ei,,eetber ^end gratalseether
1 mid great-glee:eta:ether had fed easery-
: thing to their babies, and sense of
' them lived or there wouldn't be. anyone
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BY AGNES LIDDELL here new!
'Melissa was amen the few ease
"What tomfoolery will those women wanted to. For weeks the oountry listened. She absorbed ell he told her
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be up be eext?" Grandfather Tomp-
kins, shunned in the big red rocker,
t
was readinenhe local PaPer-
talked a =thing but "that dowdy aed wore oat wait. mach reaaing the
Larkin erre good heels," a view which feeding bulletin he gave her. A stray
humble Melissa piously shared. None ceaY or a mother's magaeine aell ieto
Maltase, molding a pile a gran". of them thoaght for a moment that her hands and ehe begged Dan to sign
bags by the door where she mild Dan was tbe Way one. laeliesals pa- for it tar lase Re otily laughed, There
watch Danny outside, longed dumbly tience, devotion and loyalty, her were more. aiipere coming Leta the
to be one of those devised women; housewifely skill—there wase't a bet-
house new than any two women could
who dared to "be up" to things beeklesItar eoolc nor a neater hou-eokeeper far read—three Use stock Journals and a
hard, gruelling labor. But she kept, miles around—were as teething
whenP°11tiell"Y 11%8? twIShteoll
ibdurin'tgueuepd aa paws::
clisereetly silent. Grandmother Tomp- tumbled into the scales against Dan's to
Ally WOMall who had one could tell her
acres and pare -bred stook.
not all she needel to know. Melissa would
It meet be said that Dan was
bath then," Carrie igeored Dan's ref-
ererice to her late sring, "Utiles*
you've got time to do her;/goil.5e," she
lidded ltepetally. "Could You? "Fv
got te cella say hair."
"I'm amid not." Melissa was
exereishing the potatees for supper.
Mae didn't ogee what the women -
It was sure to be something silly, al-
ways something to coax the dollars
out of your pocket but Dever anything
to put a penny in. She &stiffed con-
tempteously and went on looking over
bears.
"V.ey better stay at home and take
care of their own young eaes," Grand- Y there, babiee from all over and Danny
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Iaer planning WAS SOSPOnded by the
say. "Not but what. some folks could cooked :Wet to the turn. Ile was a
learn something on baby tending if caleviating, eel)/ young chap, not to .?.',117kv,ain:iotifoiltrtl'vsitoyaBoacing:sbtabyht;ittlioleitt,
they had a mind to," be glawed mean. be tricked, when it came to pieldene
ingly througt the doer tie where Dans ' out a wife, hy emotions directly trace:I pan3.(inneYasmeaTio'nipe Iteko aoaut;tuct sNovtourei!
ay played conternealy ort the porch. able to a ZAlley eye, a bebbirig curl, or t/aeg turned. up. There was uothime
"But they betto learn frora their a trine, slim ankle, He had seen too'
folks at home that brought up Tour Y P P
to bealthy nionbood and buried three, aegei rev, e T
now, is it?" Grandmother Tonreltins worth while to mentioe any of Mells-i e " e a as oug c
lhaensible to his good fortune, though have signed far it herself, but sae
he eredited to his oval ehrewciness in had lic>t the abnar•
pielting out a wife. iSielisee, had cook. But "c"w the Baby sPeeel w"- cone
arl thee would. be nurses and
ed for him and his father during the ing
maybe doetors from the city with tae
one month his mother had ever per -
latest Itnewledge about taking
matted hereelif to be sick, and Dan had TerY
ihit care a babies, Everybody would be
}iveifather Tompkir.s loeked up from hes /haves, the flaey, etney pies, potateee
.ga shorla be among them.
laborious spelling down. the eolurart to dar and mealy, and hant and en
'Tye get to get Pattny'n bottle tnadY
yet and Mother Tsartpkins wants a
good lunah Put up al it
a little myself. The water's all
i hot, though, Seems as ita you could clo
if you huetlect"
"Oh, I caa hustle as well as the
Calais snifth
fed. Seizing e soil-
; ed kitchen towel ehe dipPed one corner
oe it in the basin of water wbieh Date
, fresh froin groomieg horsee, had just
wed to wash hisehands. Vireo swift
swaMur
bs over Ruby iel's protestieg
face and a wipe at each hand. come
pleted the hatai. Drying was' even
more quiekly done. A, single dab at
her face and a pat at eaoh hand with
the dry end of the towel left a fine
foundation for the Cheap face powder
spring,
hngwhich Carrie sprinkled her off -
"There, who's going to know she
liasn't had a bath?" she demanded.
"Now sit still, darling, while mamma
dreeses, and here's a banal's% for you,"
Melissa, permitted hereelf the luxe
nry eeparating Ruby Muriel from
unripe the banana as Carrie duelled
upetairs.
Curled, powdered and adorned .with
away trinkets, Carrie descended on
the (lot. Ruby Muriel wars- thruet into
new in this, it was the fifth time it
e eat d of their, had happened smee Melisea had been
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HE SUNDAY SCHOOL
.APR1L 9
The Lord preserves &lash, 2 Kings : 121cz 1.4; 1147. Golden
!their mieistry to signify; (1) that they
Tinte—InO, 841 -Sae,
were set apart to God for a Particular
Plece—aerusalem. .
Lessoa Foxeworcl—Jelterain. Rine' of i welt and (2) that God's sPirit was *
'the 'outpoured upon them to qualify them
Jesialt, had married Athaliala
his son Ahaeiah came to the tbrone,!royal palace stood close to the tenipte
king' for that work.
daughter of Ahab' and Jezebel,
Kliegs 8: 16-18). At Jtherant's death, I V, 13. Athalialt heard the noise. The
and queen of nOrthera Israel (sea i The Death of Athalialt 1347-
a maga 8: 25-29, On the death of : and the shouts a the goard in the
Ahaziab, Athaltah, the queen-mothee ;temple wettal attract Athaliaisas Afton,
IlaW deprived of her proud poeition.d tion, She hurried from the palace to
put te death all her own grandchildrollthe temple to diseover MS uteanine. „
who would be claimants to the throne,:l le ie. By a pillar, as the manner
and ruled as regent for six years, i was. The king was presented to the
Ipeople in the place where esually the
ammeter, but her influence WaS al -f platform there. Blew with trumPets.
her mother Jezebel great force of ; 23: 3) A
4 The "ing ohfedj°inashlei'ritle-4; from : Thee was by one of the vinare (cee
ar..., probably upon A raised
OCillg „steed at worehip in the temple.
V. 1, Athaliah:
ways for evil. Her on was dead; that i The trumpets were made of ramea
who relgued for only OM, horns and were blown to sound the
Abaziah,
year, eh. 8: 20. During Ilia' TOM alarm. in battle, to manlaim the new
Athaliala the queea-111QUIer v."" aP-1' moon and the new year, awl at the
narently the strong power behind thee eorenatien of a king.
throne. At his deeth she was afraid:, Y. 15. Rave her forth. Lead her out
was a'qateyeted the ranks of the soldiers, that
that her poeitiert of authority
an end. DeatroY all the seed ruYa,11:is, heyord the temple area. It WAS
that is, her grandchildren. They
be the legitimate claimants to theewithin the eeered aree. Hint that fol.
would; considered saerilege to shed blood
throne.
ar„ jehosheba: sister of the late, who would side with the queen,
'ioweth, etc.: a precaution against any
leneg. She had married Jelweade the en 16, The way. the horses came.
Sontethin about young prieet (2 Chroe. 22: 11)
°nee lives. However, he never thought 'lust ," There (amen' to have been two eas
but the older l'ompitinses clean garments and, gay in a lingerie
I tecl tit It Di le 1 b the7, tranees teem the temple to the pal-
wau interested at laet. wondered sea go oa p nts to b or. hy spoil al JOSt returned from the trenches. t T • therefore, been wen over from
onret r n med. with cheat _ f k
roses and streamers of blue ribbon, parwhoeneheeo u4rsinfrptefediodeliboevartol : neet: tht:rnoeyr Ilea: attiliroi=
0=1110 the post 0 honer on the y
tind Dan. Dront seat i annyth r7Weline;1.*a*. mb oPnicinnest wass' :11a:1 Inbt:thr. al The nil:ebb :tie s°411:1o1 ful:G71:, for penisena of importanee lanai be
. palace) awl the other the "gate o
1 thetiga7'grndt'e ovf. tit: gnita:(17Taltutes"itrAnn:one
whitedikleAlreelleir, lpelaredhfasedbiGelnle4thoeutil4 lsgre,edfeteehldeelpiefen.4 f." iuMialent °II a an y indiguity to lead Athaliah cut by
camp stool which was used when
there were extras and -clung content-
edly to his mother's thumb.
Arrived at the Special, Grandfather 14=r dbeldPsaecia:eei floTsaYere'yeeAnee. 137r5n.eglii°e"pen:paleP°Itoirl'allthlegiettille°eQtiloe ItliEl4elli4r
Tompkins pushed directly towards the bag that time he was surrounded with new Ling Joaeh, and on the other
nurse with Ruby Muriel, as became a the purest and 111OSt powerful eeons hoth•reepie and king renewed their
mau of his importence. Graudmother iufluences; his good reign showed thu:, allegentre to Jehovah. The entrehip
him for *everybody would be anxious
to value of this training,
Tompkins and Carrie stuck closely , of the heathen Baal vease d in Judah
V. 4. Jeludada cautiously wins the Neal the death of Athallah.
Application.
fterorcisc,.etheDielys. .v,Thifee. and baby, fresh favor of the military party before'
let them through, (mono to urauilseirsngeNtt: hsitynaltddrecTi3ard, OTbferAtlyuti‘ic:A.,'i
the lane 'dosed. She worked her way mental (Neer in charge,
with Danny tried to follow she found
anlusorlsemids the edge
gwelnau•netnsIstehesrtoeoadaeddr'
ing in every word.
"The future of the whole world 'like
but when mcliasa divided into urits 0 thousands and
It!. These were known as Carites and were unrulY mad ttro more than One oceasion
,bnfodsy-ogiuoma:pbyi Kinc.ii, 1: SK,
"foreign mercenaries employed AS he halltioont"wpourt t'IuN,tracnigir wscfnug
hundreds each unit haeeng a regi, gave his teather, and the School gen-
the Krethi antidlePtitIhMisinath'erutt 'aBritidt
The guard,, i orally,. a Rued deal of trouble, He w.;-
around
aesistent euperintendent of that F.anle
twenty years ago. there was a boy echo
In a large Ontario Suhday &heal,
that boy. -or water luan-nis now
rests upon to -day's babies," the nure(0 -
was s.aymg. has taken the best: same body ft -f ildil
o mope urn s ie ie s
School. •nal cne of the real pillars ef
palace and the . the Church. Every boy may not be a
• "War
of our manhood, so it is up to Can- tgeunatordie"bo(tSbkifnenvertli.le Athnlinh, as re. leash, but there are hidden I:allies in
adians to bring up healthy men and- gent, was their commander -in -thief," everY child- _
women to take their places. c, Canada but Jaholaile sueeeeded in vinuing" i'Icla,;;,11,b.adirwu 14,d, '!0‘;e`el the to: -
needs pure-bred children more than them front her allenianee. Without 11',Phah Th, st."''',‘"" l'". '",."""n.".. $-r
ehe (Wee pure-bred stock, their help he eould net have enthroned tall. tra rang enin manifeele 1
"Here," she suddenly took Danny:JeaA' : raradian provinces there was a. refer-
, Not king ago, when in one of cur
from Melissa, "is a baby who shows! The Coronation of Joash 1142. - whim on prohibition of -the liquor
what intelligent care can do." Deftly' V. 11. "The meaninie mans to be etreffic. at a temperanee meeting some
removing Danny's clothing she placed 'that the guar& were draNyn up in: one notieed that of five speakern
him on the scales, "Twenty pounds ranks right across the town from every one made referenee to his early
exactly," she announced, emu'', tal south to north, end faring the altar experience in Sunday Sehool. Their
Melisea, "he is how old?" :and the temple" (Skinner). The steadfast adherence to temperan.se
i guerls were so stationed tleit they principles and ebeerftil advoraty cf
"Eleven months, two weeks, three could repulse any attempt wen the Prchibition canus as a remit of their
days and five hours," Melissa recited; young Ring's life. early religious training.
The nurse had some trouble with Na. 12. Brought forth; prohnialy from "What manner of child shall this
her speech. "As near correct weight the priest' residential quarters in the be?" was the question asked coneeln.
as we eould ever hope to get," she temple where he Ina been kept in bid- ing John the Baptist. The same gees -
finally ventured te say, "and," whip- ing. Gave him the testimony. In this tion might be repeated over every
ping out a tape measure, "I'll guess. instance the teetimopy woula be the eredle. As the oak sleeps in the
that he is, just twenty-nine .inehes ' fieial book of the law. The refer -e acorn. as the mighty torrent 5lecni
friee to it here would suggest that it . in the tiny rill; as nuisie skepS in. the
king. Ile looks perfectly proportion- was presented to kings at their core' plain eggs of the nightingale; tie the
ed. Exactly twenty-nine and one- enation. Anointed him; with oil on statue F,:eeps in the block of marble
fourth," she read off the measerement. the head. Prophets, priests and kings —so unmeasured possibilities sleep in
"He has been kept pretty closely to were anointed at the beginning of the soul of every little child.
milk and fruit juice hasn't he?" And -- '
nodding approved to ateliesea• reply more either." Dan, grinning broadIy,f actually carried him into the "house.
,she beld the smiling Danny high so suddenly appeared at Melisesa's elbow.1"You've got a pure-bred grandson to
that eh might see his good points. °Your head will be se big I'll have to i brag about now, dad, along with vont'
"This baby is as near perfect ph buy buy you a new hat. What do you say , Holstein."
caner as you can he e to get 1,1 ' to getting it right now?" I "Pure-bred fichileeticks," snorted
Melnesa was sneeahless. To have Grandfather Tcmpkine. "The fools
she said. Hie Skin is elver miff rtill
" - ------ — ----- ----- '`.----, Danny singled out for all that praise:ain't all dead yet?'
flesh firm, breath sweet, eyes bright
and 'sparkling, stomach not bulging as —though she always knew he was per- "No, the mere's the pity," agreed
it woruld be if he were over-fad.H feet—and then to have Dan offer to- Grandmother Tompkins, hunting
bias eight teeth, which is about right, buy her s...o much as a she lace! It after a doughnut for Ruby Muriel.
and he seems to be a good-natured, was too much. lefelisen only smiled.
happy Mae fellow. Keep on with. "Blamed if it wasn't worth the price "Old fclks never can change," she
plenty of milk, but add to it crack- of a suit, toe, to see Carrie's face reflected generously,
ens, toast, cereal, egg, and perhaps e
when the nurse said Ruby was pimp- think Carrie would 'w‘Baukte Iupshofuoldr
some finely <lopped spinaeh as well Y"' an t mated. 'I never could see Ruby's sake."
why the folios thought she was pret-
as fruit juice and. you'll be all right." e—
She handed Danny to Melissa and took tier than our Danny. You ain't had EverY 1 ,
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any clothes for some time, so you bet- nen is the arehiteet of his
Ruby Muriel from Grandfather Tomp- nwn fortune.
A resplendent Melissa occupied the 4.,
ter stock up now."
kins.
That gentleman was smiling broad- The most precious jewel a all is
with Danny in a netv coat and bonnet, brimming health.
lowly camp stool on the return t D
ty. If a baby hke Danny ,could geta l'is '
a ain cheeping to her thumb. Ruby -- -0 —
all that praise, what wouldn't' the
nurse say-- when she inspected Reby — Keep the eggs from hem e for hatch -
Muriel ? eaguriel sucked a eh& of striped aereiv
daubing it et intervals ever Grand- ing purpose% and if you Can select the
"Helm is a baby that illustrales ' .--- -- -----'s ' eggs from individual birds -remember
mime began. Grandfather Tomploile -that the .best looking bens are not
father Tompkins' coat eleeve. The ride
where so many mothens feel," the
was too . overcome by the happenings eenerally the best layers.
was made in deep silence. Melissa '
*slipped his hand .behied his ear ated of the day to utter a sound even had —.---0,
leaned forward. " Surely he did ilea she been given to much speech. Carrie
ga If we coiuM now standardize retail
tuleat nurse might say, end Crand- mundane sphere would slide along sur -
for
sulked- by Dick, whose indolence could pi:V:11071h pariieneosdeorua:esi,scIliereaol
hear right! His simile slowly faded.
"This baby 'bee been impeoaerly fed
. not be distuebed. by anything an im-
for many months, I should say," went
an the nurse. Blot ed s n bad prisingiy well. 0._ .._'
breath, eyes -slightly glazed, tongue father and Grandmother Tompkins If there are tracks in the floor you
coated and distended etomach ,all. Mg- gitunly nibbledpepnermits. Prsly Dan want to stain, soak very soft tissue
nate wrong feeding. What do vett seemed. jovial and indulged in sundry paper in hot thin starch until palpy
feed your baby?" vile asked Carrie,
- - -- chuckles. as he kept the car speeding and fill up the cracks with this, met
WitOs flushed and furious, was consid- along.
,ering snatching Ruby Muriel away: t ,
"Pute-beed babiesl" he said, Whets in the nsual way. . The. cracks will be
' level it off with a. kfilfe. Then sil,aill
a none he :' l ifted . Denny out old quite hidden.
. . "Beeessbleing that's go•od enough for ' ...e. e...... ..
me, -Caarie snapped. .
Dick's hom eo i a It" I
faithful eervant with praise? Melissa m rtg t t t me
t d n the couldn't
a fine eook and a satist
come around eluevieg hew to make was roasenI to
had been bro;ight u3P
bread and een tomatoes. They're go- wife.
b She knew her place as a Larkin-,,
1 .1 in the good old NVOY tO eat whatever
f th p i , d h ' a
tiow are they?" , :properly speaking to eat whatever a
" 'The Baby Spezial,'" Grandfather tried to elintb, No use strertieg tier e"
h3 doting elder these to give her, Her
Tompkins read it over. "That's a to thinking She was giving ab. luw !bottle, sometimes filled with milk,
spezial ear the ear company let those as Sne get. 1 eometintes with tea or coffee, and
v.remert take to late 'round the country All went well wail Danny's arrival. again with sweetened water, was sel.
weighirg and measuring babies. What Meliesa accepted whatever treatment don out of her mouth, even when she
en earth do they want to run around was aecortied her in the same dumb': tees asleep.
weighing up a lot of young. ones for?" way she had taken everything life But in spite of everything, Ruby
"We'.1, I never!" Grenimother dealt. She was so dazed at her eNvuo Muriel was fat, a flabby, soft sort of,
Tompkins eat and stared. "A body'd good fortune that she felt Mother, eat which
thir.k it was your hogs. 'Who earesd Tompkirs slights were her Passed with ber grand.'
just duce parents for beauty. As they were el-
bow nreeh baby weighs? You ain't Any mother would feel bad to have ai lowed to feed herewhatever they liked,
going ta get any money fcr them," son like Dan pick out a Larkin when, she became at. ono me pet of bath.
ing to try their hands at raising babies
ora, a full "tave down t le sea e`:' and whenever she chose, or more
"They're a:Allay giving them the he might have gotten the best going., it was on the semid day after her
u5e of thnt earl" Grawifetber Tornp. So she meekly did all the heavy work,leerieoe that Grandmother Tompkins
kins exploded. "Lighting it and heat. ate the chicken wings
lug it and famishing two men to run thankful. and was verYi remembered the Baby Special.
"When was it those women were
it, to say nothing of the electrieity it Mutiny began when Danny was coming along wall:that Spezial?" ehe
will waste. Giving all that just to eight days old and Maher Tompkins! asked Grandfather Tompkins at break -
weigh up a bunch of kids and then wanted Melissa to get up and help ; fast,
trying to raise the fares 011 us. What's with the washing. Mai= refused "Don't
the government thinkleg of ? Taxing. The older woman could not believe "Don't knee'," he lowered his saucer
of coffee long enough to say. "Better
us at every turn mid then letting the her ears. That the timid creature she. ask eteasse she's planning on walk.
Provincial Board of Health waste all had driventliout for two years should; in in .with Dannv.
that money on a pack of ornery aetually spunk up and say she ewea,e get something worth show.
young ones." wouldn't do anything she was tad to i ing now; we might all drive in,"
"But the babies are going to be men do was beyond belief. Father ToPP:: Grandmother Templar:1 said as :die
and womero Melissa ventured. "Ain't kins was hastily summoued and audeu; handed Ruby murki a
a pure-bred man worth as much as a• his voice to the denhaml- It was unel sugared doughnut. "When's it going
generously
pure-bred cow?" heard of that a healthy woman ihauld . to be here, Meliss'?"
aCould you Fell that ashy for five keep to her bed tem e than a week MI Meliesa, eyeing the doughnut with
hundred dollars like I got for that, coufinements Melissa merely turned, boner, was slow with her answer.
heifer last week?" Grandfather Temp- her, back on the couple ana held the: "Next week Iv:et:aye, she finally re.
kins demanded witheringly. "Who'd quilts tightly under her thin. !plied. "Ain't you ufraid those greasy
I
pay you fifty cents fer that spindle- Clamorous ringing or the hell sumi thluge• will mine her elek, Carrie?"
shenks? Ain't even fat ns he would moiled Dan from the field to put down, "If they're g ,ad erough for me I
be if you'd take. Ma's advise and feed the rebellion. He strode.into BIeliesa's! guess
. they won't hart her nue'," ('.,r_
him pork grease and potatoes."
"Maybe 'twould be a good thing for
some folks to have their baby weigh-
ed," Granchnothet Tompkins put in.
"They might see then that other
folks knew something about baby -
raising."
Melissa. baught up her baby and
hurried from the room. Get five
eo.om determmed to show her she rie seeffed, A. lht'e grease might
couldn't play tricks with him He'd fatten Danny'."
already lost fifteen minutes 4:g day- "What is this Baby Spezia'?" Car -
light by her foolishness. ' • rie aeked, "If it's just one of those
Melassa for ease was first to speak. 'clinics, there's ho souse in going.
"You needn't say one word, Dan 'Some woman that never had a baby
Tompkins.," she said:. ."I ain't going' just gets up and tells you a lot of
to get up and touch that wasthing. Anct smy stuff about feeding the baby too.
wh;t's more, I ain't going to get up
much, and not to give her eandy. Or
axed dollars for him? No alumna of for six days longer. The elector says elste she ought to b•ave A quart of milk
money could buy him from her! His it will be better for the baby for me a day and no tea oreebffee."
cheery little smile, his sunny little to stay in bed. two weeks and I'm "This ain't a cheat, it's a Spe. iah"
gurgles which she chose to consider going to stay," ' Grandmother Tompkine expleined
task, lus utter deper.denee upon her
were all that made life worth living.
Compare her baby to a Holstein. calf!
What wouldn't her boy be worth when
he was a man if she total only do
right by hint?
And right She would do, if dm tould
find out what was right. She never
could- fight for herself. They might
alight her and overwork her and she
hadn't the tourage to complain. But
Danny' was diffeeent. He should -have
his rights if she had to fight the whole
world,- And to get those eights she
lest.d fought her own dna world—her
husband's family—ever since Den•ny
That was her last word. Dan Having set her heart on taking Ruby
stormed wordily but Melisaa neither Muriel to bask in the admiration of
spoke nor moved. She had said her the crowd, she would not give up.
all and besides the doetor hapold her "There's room for all of us in the
that getting excited was bad for sthe auto and Dan Call drive."
baby. It turned her milk to poison, So it was decided they should go.
and what mother wanted to poison her • ardissa at once began writing a list
awn thild? She finally turned her of questions to ask the nurse, a list
face to the wall and closed her 6 -e -s• Which grew so long that even she at
Dan would tire of it after awhile and last saw the need of trimming it. '
go back to work. She was making a. The. great day arrived and Danny,
blind fight for her Motherhood. Who had been tusked to heel with the
Dan's contemptuous certainty that chickens the evening he•fore, awoke
he could aulatiar "brang Mellasa to laughing and sunny. Fresh and rosy
time," slowly tuened to doubt. He
. . from •hs bath, over which Melissa
emisi at mg et outo Led and anent an extra ten minutes he took -
tame. forcibly dressing her, but remember- his warm leek end then kicised about
How she ever gat the eourag,e to d•o ing an experience he once had with old - f t porch
a faithful horse he thought better of while .Melissa hurried through her
it. The horse and Melisva4 had some moraines work. • She had been up
p-oinibs in 1 • e a ' aaahl, nearly three hours before Carrie ap-
Species." A ausets dun little creature over -heavy loads for years without pewee, though shrill protests from
from babyhood, she had never before eaanlAaaning and then saaidelAY balk- Bliley Muriel had long disturbed the
found eaurage to say Root to a wren. ed. All attempts -be make the horse country peace. Tired end cross, Car -
From her childhood, up, everyone had : move failed- When these quiet ones rie slammed her small datightei into
felt at liberty to snub her and ridicule! got set they were terribly sp. He de- Danny's high chair, and queruloesly
ter. She had grown into young i cided that perhaps Melissa was right asked for coffee- for both.
womanhood accustomed to thinking , about not getang up, and so he went "I don't see what's the matter With
of hem& as "nobody but Old Jed i bad` to the, field. e her," she complained. "She squalled
Larkin's girl," and ebe took it as al - Mehsea kept to her Ilea the two . half the might. • Semis as if I dide't
matter of coarse. that .ehe should ! weeks and then went about her usual get a wink of sleep. Ill look like a
never have things as other etas had..t work as thoetah nothing, had happenee. •seareeeow to -day, when all Dick's 'old
When Dan Tompkine, ,sone of the :mel'Iber TcrnPadn'segave her firet ord- eree, eee oat," s
weelthiest farmer -thereabouts, ;arse! ers tentatively put finding them a -6y- • .Meliese thought she might tell Car-
beaued Melissa home from church, the ! ad abe picked up her ola dicbating ri•e -,.vhat was wrong with Ruby Muriel,
town coneidered it just on. of Dann I ways. To' outsider e Melissa 'seemed, That young lady's sumo: the aay he -
et was as much a mystery to Melissa
-as to everyone else, none of -them
having read "The Female of the
N. 3. Joash. e anwe wa the horee.gate.
brought up in the temple. where, V. 17. The covenant formed at the
though inst a stone's throw from sugg?stien of Jehoiada, was both rah,
s e-sp ng jokes and obligingly !etial the asithe pa lent Image, but fore had ire1tules1 bits .oa eal t perk, "Yea"' Tae nurse, used to hostility,
meg ec a out t alil the week, Next Mot lel ompk i ilei len bo ordet. 1a pdecie of 'hot biscuit dipped in roa.ple
Sunday Dan appeared again with She did not need to be told that Y°11T1g SYr111), a nibble ea cabbage.and the
Melissa. A twiee-told tale loses its DanriY came -first, and that if his well- frosting off Garrie's cake. txperience
flavor and this time there eves only hailag would be di;lturbeq by aria or lied taught Melissa, however, that it
a quiet smile. When the third Sall- hOr "m"'I's thc'Y weeld ,be leeivise t refee to this, so
day Dan knocked Bill Smith down for , So she kept her semblance of autie r- sbe said nothing.
sneering ateMeliese and took her home Iity by wisely choosing the right time Dt,,1 riii, n„s c„., Tie was p g
in his new car—wherein never giel to Sheala her csAee to aneearnee th,ate tha bus
had ridden be.fore—t1ie town seeseci 1 To do the legate thing by ah..ierie ba- weeee be ready M a leale home • I
that it. was meeleseee tern to., lattgle I came, Aillisse,s reiiii gion, It broaget <e cea-11, ess, re.a.cly ae therad C,arrie!
Bat aseeirea didn't. She seas too ever -lout the cold 1)ervePiTntie'n to think tirv-It: wailed. "..i. in b•athea the heby yet'
cO1»(, by the grandeut of it to da ra,,i., i lonie act of he:ra, no metier ,althat"rh'ae i and l'va pet anyeele 1')areas." i
then sat and i•isten while Dan 'rattled I was behind it, might aPoil his l-.10e.e, , aCaint lick.) it." Den wee firm. aft
. (stook, eve the money he• was eseate to tor, sereme, ,os • es ;... _ es, e a me., r 1 ii..1,,,.rs and T. ye ,..i.t tt ha rata:, eal:,iy,
on and on about atinsela, hit ear, his , if it ‘vesse't ThQ ;taike:: 'c'-ood hoar td drive to : Three
• make. It wee a: r ess• and eoneers -7' 'ioulI do srht sIu 'c'•1" 'e` Why don't von_ try,si,r,i'rqg riin- 1-- a!
C 1" T " •11 IIL1,1 .10 gettarg it, clir 141;:e 1 he'liAe
. L inAM eady.11.
• • LI "
Dan mareitei . Sh veae yr' , " . th vire'1 coal]
stenned to • have said a 1'c' had ole th e he )11de el: her r.r.Ye-' jee,t, have to go iv,- titota 1„v
held her ground for the sake of the
othee mothers:. "I semi -act .say your
baby ate everything. And She aries
half the night, doe -'t she? And
vomits a great deal, enel, haz cc:needier-
able bowehe
l trouble? She s 'only one
tooth. Needs more bone -making 'feed,
M.ore railk and lees sugar would make
a new babe of here'
"I've had enough ea this,” Carrie
seernied, as the neves, ha-ing found
Ruby: .1eIraiiel',s almorinal weight anti
measueeseretuened her to her mother
ena Picked ha another 'helta. "I lold
you it wetad jest he some old maid
the, r 1,),,Av ental.,ne about
babieFia" And el•o el '
i bowed her Ivey
- out o1 tlie crowd. "1 don't beli-es e YkOmeld s band aay
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