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Zurich Herald, 1925-11-12, Page 6When Ex a►sed to tea loses kks strean th and flavor, '51V 45A. for that reason is never sold in bulk. Your grocer sells this delicious blend. Try SALADA. l "For What We Are About To Deceive" BY MILDRED HOUGHTON COMFORT. PART L Sarah Burton bowed her heal me- chanical1y while her husband said grace, with her left hand patting the eager baby in the high chair, who, mistaking her overtures for play, crowed happily; and, with her right, admonishing into quiet her son who sat tilted forward on the chair that j was uncomfortable for his short little legs beating a tattoo on the nearest table leg. She raised her eyes slight- ly, a signal for her daughter to drop her hands demurely into her lap. Then carie hr husband's voice, its crisp, business -like quality deepening unconsciously into the sonorous tones her father had always used when he said grace. "For what we are about to receive, 0 Lord, make us duly thankful. Amen." Such a short little prayer but the one touch of old-fashioned form that she had insisted on carrying over into her new Iife when she had left the solid, square paternal home for the uncertain proteotion of Samuel Bur- ton. Sam had come under the censure of Old Josiah Wells because of a pro- clivity for wandering into untried paths and also because of a belief that somewhere, irthe outside world, lay glamorous opportunity. This was the very reason for his attractiveness to Sarah. The idea of leaving her home town in which she had been born and bred had stirred her roman- tic imagination. This imagination, inherited from generations of pion- eers, was as wholesome as it was searching. Not so much the hectic desire for experience actuated her as the hope, that somewhere in the out- side wowed was to be found the ideal home for her and Sam. The children broke into shrill chat- tering as the "grace" closed and the patriarchal voice of Sam again re- gained its crispness. He heaped the mealy whiteness of a baked potato on Junior's plate, meanwhile shoving to - tended .over sit Months and the usualT. expenditul''es were Resenting.. Sudden ly she stopped .eating and abruptly charged into her subject. ' • "Sam, what's what's the matter with xis? i I've been thinking ever since you said grace that if we really believed, we wouldn't be fussing about the future," "You're responsible for this faith ` business, my dear, When you married your relatives' ideas.eertainly dif- fered from'yburs as to what you were about to receive."` You In n't joke about serious, religious things, Sam dear." "It Was no joke," Sarah laughed, then sobered.. "I have faith in the future, Sam,. she announced, "but sometimes suc- cess seems a long way off. While we're waiting, I want to be happy, .. The hard part is being duly thankful for what we have—and for what we expect is coming to us." Junior had slipped down from his -chair and was staring ;out into the twilight • his nose pressed against the glass. Be'"raised a sudden war whoop. "It's snowin', mama. I can see it comin' down by the street light." Sam and his wife' rose, Sarah hold- ing the sleepy baby quietly against her and >ease putting his arms about the shoulders of Margot and Junior. They peeked through the window at the yeleste` blot of light outside. Big flakes'o; white, showing an unearthly iridescence, `descended continuously. „ "I love it," said Sarah softly. ."It 'wards his wife both- the baby's portion reminds me of Thanksgiving time at and her own. Margot took care of her home, with the harvest all done. own potato daintily like a little wo- We'd drive to church through the • man of a household. • Sarah smiled at snow, usually. And the service e the fuss Sam was making, swearing ways impressed me so. And Mother's softly under his breath at the potato wonderful dinner afterwards! 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The potato-oc- —even the year of the crop failure. 1 his spoon and between the parents all that my, throat ached and yet I passed a look of synepathetic under- didn't want the day to end. The re- passed Each sighed audibly—a membranes of Dad's voice and the sigh that meant, "Well, that's done! words of :the Thanksgiving grace al - So far so good!" ways cheered me when things seemed "Saw old Haan Barnes to -day." This to be going wrong. That grace con- from Samuel, helping himself and + tamed the two things we need the grinning good-naturedly as he always most—faith and gratitude!' did when the ordeal of serving was After the children had been put to over. _ bed ,• Sam wiped the dishes for Sarah "What did he say?—Don't eat so,+but without the lightsome.accon1pani fast; Junior—no, no, Baby musn't inept of jokes with which he usually. Sam, whydoyou suppose, lightened that uninspiring job. Sarah they enjoy i brushed back the little tendrils' • of squahing a whole fistful of mashed.. potatoes when ... "Fingers were, made before forks; I suppose." ?" then mischievously tender. When they "What did he say, Sam. resuming came to the pots and pans, Sane seat - the conversation, as she wiped with a ed himself broodingly in the kitchen damp napkin between the chubby fin- rocker. Seizing; a lock of his heavy gess of the baby. dark hair, his wife tilted his head "Threw all kinds of bouquets: Says back 'until she could look directly into you're what every landlords looking the serious brown eyes. for—steadhe kind of 'seeing that'll howfix muchnheup in- "What's the matter?". she queried destroy.. Saysyou have they old- in mock severity. "Tell Sarah this fashioned spirit." very minute. "Did he lower the rent?"—dry.,,. She held his head firmly in spite of. "No, he didn't, Sarah, but , ; his squirmings and he°"threw up his "But what?" hands in token of surrender. "Somehow I couldn't force the issue, "Well, what is it? she insisted, my dear. Be - is so grateful to you seating herself on his knee. The ba- for always keeping things so nice that tiles were asleep—who cared about dishes? it seemed like asking for a tip 'after "It's about Thanksgiving," began someone had said, `Thank you. Sam' evasively. "Did you remind him of how I "Yes" prompted his wife. "You cleaned and painted that awful :Hat want two turkeys, I suppose." in Montreal and made it a. lovely "That's it," he laughed with a note thing , „ "He reminded me! But you did that of relief,: I want two turkeys . of your own free will, you know. He Well, I want something almost as bad sura was sincerely grateful." —I want to invite a guest to our ex- �, elusive' family ;dinner." `" old-nd I house in Bexed lleville and that he dirtcould "A. guest? Why, of course. Whoever charge a• bigger rent after we left, said our ?Thanksgiving dinners were That woman took it Because it was so exclusive? At home we used to take clean and smelled se homey, she said." in everybody that looked the east "He knows that, dear." bit hungry. "And then he prsuaded us to take "This one isn't hungry—that is, this darling little house but with this physically. He could buy us! exorbitant rent." Sarah straightened up, suddenly "He didn't own property here, Sar- so�`you mean aid Stephen. Barnes!" ah. I've always thought he bought it ' "Qf course, if you don't want him— just because we were coming here to but he looked rather more than lone five." - "He bought two. I can't see any- So I couldn'th1. very menttiov ell Thanksgiving. thing personal in that sort of pur "Then you've already asked him?" chase. it!" look at the Mulvey house. "I—I—I just couldn't hip it, honey. Look at it! "I've looked at it, honey—every day. hims ldn t, I believe he d have asked They're a shiftless lot. Does seem Sam looked 'suddenly like Junior rather queer that in six short years when he feared he had been '"into mischief," yet feeling vaguely that he was justified - Ii,. was. during the next two days while the Thanksgiving preparations were in full progress that Sarah be- gan to understand the ineffable joy of 4ontentment,. "I don't know how it happened,;" she confided happily to Sam on the eve of Thanksgiving Day, while he importantI•y skewered the turkey. she had cleaned and stuffed. "I don't know how it all came about. I was so tired and disgusted with every- thing. Every day, when I wiped up i ifx nom floor around the i v g u d the rug, cupied baby stopped pounding with was so thrilled with the spirit of it. soft brown hair that were forever curling about her face, and her eyes, of the color of crocuses, grew wistful; one house can. become a beautiful , home and the other a wreck. Strange, how little neglects count up. " For every pane of glass we puttied In, they let their youngsters knock one nut. Every spring that I spent paint- ing screens and touching up the porch railings and trellises, Mulvey spent in his car. The time I took to prune trees and cut grass,he took to sit in the shade and smoke. And the Lord only knows what's gone on inside the houses—you scrubbing and cleaning while Mrs. Mulvey cavorted all over the neighborhood. But it's a satis- faction anyway, isn't it, Sarah? Isn't it worth all our effort to have things look right? The two Houses—exactly I'd say to myself, `Doing the same alike at the start and—well, it's like thing to -day, to -morrow and forever twins. You can. • never tell from the and ever.'I couldn't get' any satis- faction out of the polished 'floor: looks how they're going to turn out" "When' I looked at our beautiful "Didyou' tell Mr. Barnes these white tile in the bathroom, I'd think things, Sam. Didn't have to. He knows. Pe- euliar old chap, you know. He always has seemed to take a personal interest in us, ever since that time in Belleville when we invited him to Thanksgiving dinner," "It was fine, Sam. Remember how you went 'way'down town to gal a , pgtatoes and easy as they are to pre track - turkey and they were so high that you , el[re. a Every it a time the children nt came back without one? And ten he d n snap them. Guess I snapped at you, too, Sam -- sent us one himself. Yes, Junior, of som:" coarse you can have another potato S.anieti'smees4" fah grin was, an admission but no more jam—no more jam. We'll as wall , excuse you now, Margot. Poor baby' deepened as forgiveness, Sarah's, voice sleepy go to siumberiand right p away ..:" , (1'o• be concluded,) ' Sam continued his reminiscences: b ' "1 remember mighty well how queer; A Bishop on Honeymoon. old Barnes looked when I told him l ; A bishop otice said: "'Honeymoons Was coming here." 'area forced honxaee to false ideas, a "'Better settle down, Sam,' he said waste of :'volleyand a lees of time, `Bayport's t,, good suburb'' to bring up which coon „pee go 'bo dreary and a family in: And you've hauled that weary. Most of eli,' they are a frisk poo; little wife of yours around for love, which ought not so soon to enox h f he uzsp leasantly tested by the.inevit- 1Ir^didn t mind it, Sam," tenderly. 1 `W xIe:#rued,a Itit e utepow I want able petulance of :l•lecret ennui. -Six ' t .' And ilia itn t tokeep this days; If you must,• {irid thele go straight thouse` at this, Pent- b'oi with eeur sal home." ary-.cut." Sam winced "It's , only; ,a 'thiiiporary Cut," he offered. "Business is :picking up again," ` i'• `You're white just so you can shove spots.' 'And you know 'how wonder- fully it looms up, Sam, whenever I give it even 'a lick and a promise.' Even the cooking that I'd always en- joyed suffered.. 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The Persians are exceedingly gen erous with money, says Mr. Thomas Pearson in Asia, but they are miserly enough in matters of prestige:. You have to go to Persia to learn the true meaning of that Word. I have heard it variously- used all my life, but no- where is it fraught with such ewful meaning as in Persia. .The proper seating of guests at table, for example, becomes a 'problem before which even the most valiant quail. Ie. Persia in- fluence and prestige cluster around the centre of the board; those seated at the ends may oonsider themselves lucky to have been invited at all. A guest ,quite properly resents being seated below some one whom he con- siders his inferior and often prefers to, remain at home rather -than submit to the indignity. The proper way to prepare a room for receiving Persians is to place chairs around the room side by side, with their backs to the walls. In front of the chairsthere should be little tables, possibly" one table for every four chairs, and on the tables should be fruit and sweets. No one ever disturbs the artistic arrangement of fruits and sweets, but they are es- sential to the setting of a banquet. At intervals you will send large trays fill- ed with cups of tea about the room.. The fleet guests arrive, and, having greeted the host, who sits near the door, they make their way to a far corner, where they sit down and spend the first,, few minutes in taking in every detail of the room and of its fur- nishings, Then. they begin to talk with-etheir neighbors. At intervals more guests come in, and the chairs are filled. Half the fun of a Persian party is watching the other felloer. come in. Persians have an interesting habit et remaining °seated when a per- son enters the room, but of bowing and smiling and half rising after the newcomer has taken his chair. The latter acknowledges the courtesy by half rising in unison with the crowd. the moment he has touched his chair. This procedure passes the time ad- mirably if you know the game and -keep' your wits about you. Thus, when a personage enters the room, every one bows and smiles and hat a per- fectly heavenly time, but when an In- conspicuous somebody comes in every one is deep in conversation' with his neighbor and pretends ho does not see. Once, after some Local disaster, a meeting ofpublic-spirited citizens was called for three o'clock to subscribe funds for relief of the victims. I pre- sented myself at what seemed to me to be the proper time. I was•.the first to arrive and was ushered out upon a terrace overlooking a famous garden.. Around the terrace stood an impres- sive array of chairs and tables. In date course other persons. arrived and chose seats as seemed best to. them. 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