DRIED APPLE
CHEST
(® by D. J. Walsh.) y
LIZA CURRY sat writing a let-
ter. She had taken the mate
rials from a quaint wooden box
that sat before her upon the ‘sit
ting-room table—sheets of faintly-tint-
ed paper, a stick of blue wax, a quaint
pen that, dipped In a glass of water,
rewarded one with a flow of mauve
ink. She wrote slowly in a fine slant:
Ing band with little curlicues on her
gs and p's and f's. And she wrote
painfully, for never In all her life had
she anything more unpleasant to do
than writing this letter to her neph-
ew's widow, Lila Canfield.
Eliza was old and tiny with white
hair wound in a sleek little knot, a
mouth like a wilted pink and dark
eyes which had once held a ‘‘come-
follow-me"” look so Irresistible that
she had scarcely been able to count
her beaus on the fingers of both hands.
But she, as so often happens, had
married the poor stick of the lot, Fer-
gus Curry—because she loved him.
And that love had weathered the vi-
cissitudes of a difficult married expe-
rience which had terminated several
years before in Fergus’ death.
During the years of her widowhood
Eliza had “managed.” She had her
tiny white house and a little money
which she had made last until the
present moment. Now that it was
gone she must sell her house. Indeed,
the bargain was all but made with
possession to be given immediately.
In a week, more or less, Eliza would
be leaving the house to which she had
come as Fergus' bride, the house
where her three children had been
born and had died one after the oth-
er, the house where Fergus had closed
his wild, bright eyes, the house where
she herself had hoped to die. Her
nephew's widow, Lila Canfield, offered
her a home and she was going there.
She was writing to say that just as
soon as she could get things In'shape
she would come.
The spring sun came In at the win-
dows hotly, and as Eliza wrote
waa conscious of a faint odor
through the which came
she
all
house not
closed ; not from the geranium on the
sill, not from the strong cupful of
tea she had brewed for her lunch.
She sniffed delicately. Ah! Now she
knew. It was the smell of apples—
dried apples, and It came from the old
chest-of-drawers in the spare bed-
room off the sitting room. The door
was standing ajar.
Leaving her letter she followed that
elusive lure. The old chest-of-draw-
ers loomed enormous in the tiny room
which she never used because she had
had no company of late years. When
[.ila came to see her, as she did once
a year, she stayed at the Jefferson
house. 80, because the room seemed
good for no other purpose, Eliza kept
there her best frock, her best har,
and In the chest of drawers she kept
her sack of dried apples.
She opened a drawer and took out
the sack and peeped into it.
Fergus had loved dried-apple
8 bit of boiled
ple with
cider and cinnamon!
epples on that account, She did not
care much for them herself, either in
pie or sauce. There was quite a sack-
ful. Of course she wouldn't need
them now that she was going away.
She wondered what she would do with
them. Maybe Carrie Rush could use
them. She had a big family and any-
thing eatable always came in handy
there.
And the chest-of-drawers—the dried-
apple chest she called it In her own
mind. She would have to sell it. Lila
had given her permission to bring a
few things, but nothing so cumber-
some as this chest. It was not so
easy to dispose of that, She sighed
as she gazed at it. It was very old
It nad been In Fergus’ family, had be
longed to his mother, she thought, or
perhaps his grandmother, It was all
handmade, a dark red wood, cherry,
presumably. Well, she would leave
the chest-of-drawers and take the
dried apples over to Carrie Rush so
she could get them ready for supper.
With a shawl around her and the
sack in her hand she went across
the street to the Rush house, Mrs.
flush met her hospitably.
“What's that? Dried apples? Well,
{ guess they will come in handy. I'll
make me a dried apple cake after
mother’s recipe. Come In and ait
down a minute. I want you to meet
my company--Mrs. Wallace,”
She drew Elza into the living room
where a small, keen-efed woman sat
by the register,
Eliza, glad of a little diversion sat
down, and the three women began to
talk,
“I feel dreadful about your going
away, Mrs, Curry,” kindly Mrs. Rush
mourned. “I don't know what I shall
do without you. You've been the best
neighbor I ever had; 1 wish there was
some way so you could stay.”
Eliza smiled her pale, patient smile.
“80 do IL But I shall be very cozy
at my niece's.”
“Of course. She will be good to
you. No one could fall to be good to
you. What are you going to do with
your things? Take them with you?”
“IL cdn’t. I guess Mr. Pratt, the old
furniture man, will take most every:
thing-—except, maybe, the dried-apple
chest.”
dried-apple chest!” exclaimed
Mrs, Wallace,
explained.
“I'd lke to see that chest, ” gy
Wailace sald. “Maybe I could sell It
for you. I know a woman that's quite
a hand for old furniture, She might
give you a good price for it.”
In the little spare bedroom where
the chest loomed so hugely Eliza
raised the shade of the one window.
“I suppose maybe it's one hundred
fifty years old,” she remarked.
“It's 'a fine old plece,” Mrs. Wallace
sald. “Four drawers and three across
the top. And the whole front is solid
mahogany. I fancy Mrs. Aldrich would
give you fifty dollars for this, any-
way."
Eliza drew a long breath. Fifty
dollars was a lot of money, and yet
for her the old dried-apple chest had
a value that could not be expressed
in terms of doliare.
Easter Millinery
a ————
Big Brimmed Hat Is in Front
Ranks; Milan in Lead
Among Straws.
Ihe story of the new Easter mil
linery can now be teld, for the au-
thoritative Imprint of the leading
style experts of the country has been
stamped indelibly upon those artistic
creations which have been occupying
the attention of designers for some
months past.
Also—and this Is Important to the
woman who wants to be correct in her
Then suddenly Mrs. Wallace went
down on her knees and began hunt
ing for something at the bottom of
the chest,
“lI want a knife
pry with,” she sald.
Eliza brought the knife. Mrs, Wal-
lace inserted the blade in a crack
which the varnish almost filled. She
or
Eliza, perhaps Fergus himself, had
pever known was there,
“A secret drawer!” cried Mrs. Wal-
lace. “And look here!”
She took out a buckskin
which weighed heavily.
Open it!" she commanded. But she
had to cut the thong with the knife.
Out of the pouch poured gold pieces
and greenbacks. “Somebody's treas-
ure,” she commented.
Eliza stared at the gold in amaze-
ment,
“It Is Fergus’ uncle's money!" she
sald. “The family always wondered
what he did with it. He didn’t have
a cent when he died. The chest was
in his room.”
pouch
prehending the wealth that had so mi-
raculously become hers.
It was not until the next day that
to Lila. The money was in the bank
to her credit. She was again
pendent of reluctantly charitable rel
atives,
A moment she contemplated the un-
finished page. “Need” was the last
word she had writteh when the fra-
grance of dried apples started her on
her great adventure. Why, she was
With a smile she
to write another one.
Mint Director Given
In a little village
mountains of Spain Is an orphanage
managed by an old priest, who, find
($18). an enormous sum for him, on
the twentieth of a ticket in the na
tional lottery,
Then he wrote to the director of the
mint in Madrid, setting forth the situ
ation of his charges, and ending ingen
uously as follows:
“It would be very kind of you if
you would arrange that my number
(17229) should win a prize. God will
reward you."
The angry director thought of hav
arrested,
No. 17228 won
As It happened, the
share received 750.000
($122,000).
In blissful ignorance of the fact that
he had only just escaped being impris
oned for having dared to suppose that
the high official would give human
guidance to the uncertain steps of
Fate, he wrote to the director:
“You are our great
pesetas
have been selected and they will play
| a most important part—as might he
| expected—in the ensembles that the
April sun will shine on. Some of the
leading tints will be cameo pink, Cas-
| titan red, hydrangea blue, popcorn,
meadow pink, monkeyskin, and tiger
i Hy.
The hig brimmed hat will play a
star role In the milligery drama. It
| made its advent rather shyly last year,
| ike an elder sister at her first coming-
| out party, but this season it seems to
| have had no scruples in shouldering
its way to the front ranks. Straws
will dominate with the always popu-
lar Milan easily taking the lead.
Woven bodies will play the second
part, and horsehalr comes next. Trim-
| mings are not especially elaborate, but
| flowers feathers, ribbon bows and or-
| naments will brighten the millinery
| pleture In the successful attempt to
i the past few years. The keynote,
| however, Is diversification in the full-
pst sense of the word, for the rebel-
fon of women against the hat for
every occasion has given way to open-
| armed reception of the hat for each
| occasion,
{ In the smaller models,
there will be an Infinite variety the
coming season, woven viscns, milans
| and combinations of felt and straw
| are here for my lady to revel in.
| Those extreme styles of the fall and
winter have met thelr Waterloo, and
have been effectively routed. The
rushed stovepipe that Reboux
Paris thought would sweep the fem
inine world has gone, never to return,
together with a few other models too
bizarre to suit American taste. In
| thelr places has come a veritable
avalanche beautiful
as to shapes,
ind trimmings to enable every woman,
oo matter what her requirements, to
of which
of
her
For general as well as for more
brims make a charming combination.
The perenially popular felts will be
treatments that will lift them
ruffs, to use the latest phrase, have
of gold In our chapel and all my or
and hunger.”
This
better cared for.—London Tit-Bits,
Ho og r Revve
one politiclan to another,
wondered what he meant,
old New England,
A reeve, In
wns a balliff,
is, he rounded them up, If
strayed Into the streets, and impound:
ed
ment should re-establish the post,
there would doubtless be applicants
for it.
“woodward,” Some may guess that a
“woodward” was a warden who had
charge of the town woodlots. “Culler
of staves” was another post in the an.
cient days. Not one in a thousand
will guess It. This official Inspected
the staves that were cut for barrels. }
suspect that almost everybody knows
about the tything man.-—Salem News
In the Fast Wagon
Mrs. Ray Foncannon, wife of the
sheriff of Vigo county, frequently
takes her daughter to school in the
family sedan, On the way back to
town she invites all the small chil:
dren she passes to ride to thelr school
houses,
The other day she picked up a
little chap about seven years old,
When she let him out at his build:
ing some of the children told him
that he had ridden In the sheriff's
car. His eyes grew big; he began
to tremble. “Oh, don't tell the
teacher they brought me to school In
the paddy wagon,” he begged. “Or
my mother, either” « Indianapolis
News. a
Nay Megas
Easter Fashion Picture,
| really arrived at last. Their grace,
their sdaptablility, and their beauty
have at last triumphed over the craze
for standardized severity. They will
ing months,
In the small visca hats, of which
be wide, depending, of
rial and the closeness of the weave.
The same thing, naturally, applies to
all the milans.
Women who take a pardonable pride
in thelr millinery, will, according to
present Indications, have no cause for
complaint this season.
Bandanas the Rage
“Yes, we have bandanas” That is
what the modiste says nowadays when
asked about scarfs. The latest scarfs
are of the handkerchief type fastened
on one shoulder with a large gold pin
bearing Initial or monogram, The
smartest are Inspired by the old
French peasant handkerchiefs and are
made in either wool or silk. The col
ors cannot be too flaring since red and
green is a favored combination.
Curling the Hair
The new style in hair dressing for
elderly British women is to have their
hair curled like a barrister's wig. If
the hair Is gray It makes it all the
more effective, Worn with pearls and
t black velvet frock, the style is at
-
tractive
Plaited Plaid Taffeta
Skirt; Velvet Jacket
This modish sports outfit, worn by
Marion Nixon, featured motion pic.
ture player, consists of a plaited
plaid taffeta skirt, black velvet jacket
and yellow crepe de chine blouse. A
small black feit sports hat Is used
with the outfit,
Linen Returns to Favor
for Spring and Summer
Sport linen frocks have been In
the Southern resorts and they
forecast as popular Items of
spring and summer wardrobes,
constant appearance of
{ times of the
‘monotonous and the
searching for
variety and
mer gowns.
are
the
The
silk nat
to become
Woman
add
sum
year Is apt
smart
something
is
new to
originglity her
thing which has
given impetus to the linen vogue Is
the introduction of a noncrushable
cloth which is practically free of the
old wrinkling habits of the fabric
This Is accomplished by a preshrink
age of the cloth from 45 to 36 Inches
Possibly the interest society
felt in the flashing white figures on
to
One
the solution. In any case white linen
has made a spectacular entry on the
fashion stage through the medium of
the sports dress, and its popularity is
spreading fast,
| Checks Are on List to
Have Vogue This Spring
A revival ked
among the many new modes promised
by those sending information from the
| fashion centers of Paris. Big checks
little checks, broken checks and the
| conventional designs that are so chic
They appear in the silks, the light
{ weight woolens, even on the cotton
fabrics which are destined to have a
vogue from all reports. Checks must
be used with discretion, however, es
pecially the large designs, and the
broken effects. Small checked ma
terials, however, are not so trying, so
that any woman who likes them may
indulge her taste In some way at least
As checks tend toward the tailored ef
fects, they will be found most adapt
able to the present day modes.
of che materials Is
Bolero, Belt, Blousant,
Bolero, belt and blonsant are three
words which have been frequently
used by couturiers this season, Prac
tically every frock presented claims
the right to the use of one of these
smart words, some models even com
this regard.
appeared two superposed plalts giv
ing the effect of a bolero, while the
wide belt, draped
front,
signer's intention to Indicate definite
The sleeves are long and the skirt is
plaits,
Latest Raincoat Models
Kaincoats have run a wide gamut
last year. Some have been wild
enough for the mists and deluges of
Borneo. But now the rain shedders
istics. The more expensive dress de
signers are originating them with as
much care as the garments they cover.
One of the latest Is of waterproofed
black satin lined with black and
white checked silk which also forms
collar, cuffs and lapels,
The Practical Sports Suit
Designers of the popular sports
‘sult nowadays have a task to perform
in obtaining practicability and decora.
tiveness at the same time. They have
discovered it Is possible to be prac
tieal In a becoming way. That Is why
white. Is the favorite color utilized
at the moment. Belge with some
bright color In conjunction also ix ad
vocated
Nothing Worth While
The old saying “appearances are de-
celtful” applies nowhere more force-
fully than in home bullding. Some-
To be certain that you are secur.
home in keeping with your
of cozy comfort and lasting
who know how to bulld. You
attractive but algo are durable
Many new houses soon become a
owners because of false economy prac-
ticed In thelr construction. A little
paint, some showy decoration, and to
outward appearances your house can
move In. The test will come when the
pewness wears off. Short-lived mate
rials, for vital installations
because of saving in first will
begin to fall.
This means replacement at an ex-
pense much greater than the so-called
saving effected by use of substitute
And there
is, in addition, the inconvenience and
trouble occasioned by tearing up
opening “the walls, repainting
incidental to the re-
placement of unserviceable or worn-
out Installations,
Therefore, the first point to be re-
endur-
increase the cost of
little at the start
are the cheapest as
most satisfactory mate-
selected
cost,
as the
rials,
Trees Always Symbol
of Good Citizenship
You will notice that substan-
tial, the thrifty, worthy and
likable classes of people plant trees,
no matter whether they are in a new
and treeless country or in one siready
well planted, snd that the shiftiess,
the transient, the careless and the
as little llkely to set out
sheltering trees as they are to be neat,
or good neighbors,
the
the the
trees and 1 will
avoid as a home for your families, Go
where want
rule and “you will be lucky to find
where about.
This is not by chance; the planted
and tended tree is as sure a sign of
civilization as a revered flag or a
church spire or a schoolhouse belfry,
and English, have carried
civilizatien to every part of thelr
dominions scattered far and wide about
the earth, plant
before they finish
start thelr towns -—Luther
as reported by Wilbur Hall
Saturday Evening Post
Upkeep Will Be Less
The well-planned and properly built
house will have considerably less up-
keep and annual depreciation than the
house that is poorly planned and
cheaply balit.
ploying a competent architect
the who
shade almost
or
Burbank
in the
frees
thelr houses
will
ing of a thoroughly well-planned, well-
Architectural supervision of
trips required to the bullding site, but
basis. On a small home this runs as
low as $150 to $200, certainly a smail
tect provides.
Color Highly Important
use blue, mauve or gray;
the size of a room or the
height of ceiling would constitute
important factors to be considered
in our selection of color backgrounds.
Too much individuality exp
in terms of houses unfits the
tures for general consumption; /8
unless one expects to spend his entire
aa indulgence and not as: an asset,
perhaps he would do well to modify
his desires and listen to expert advice
from those who are learned in the lore
of bullding.
Beautifying the Highways
How about those shade trees you
have been expecting to plant for a
good long while? Every part of the
county and Tennessee valley section
offers fine opportunity along this line,
Beautify the roadways. Make them
#0 attractive strangers entering our
gates will be so Impressed that they'll
want to come and stay with us
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