CHAPTER VI—Continued
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“You must keep on hoping,” pleaded
Miriam,
“They like Hiram,” continued thelr
father, “They evidently want him.”
“Oh, no,” gasped Marjory. “Not
Hiram, father, Not in your church”
“I like him myself,” sald her father
gently. “Better him than—some
others.”
But Marjory shook her head pas
sionately. “No, no,” she whispered.
“Not in your church.”
Ginger hurried back with the “Dis
sipline.”
“Find It, Mirlam. You're up on
Indexes.”
Miriam deftly turned to the Index.
referred to section 341, hurried down
to paragraph 2, and read aloud.
“‘The annuity claim of a Retired
Minister shall be not less than one
seventieth (1-70) of the average sal
ary, house rent excluded, of the effec
tive members of his Conference who
are Pastors or District Superintend-
ents, multiplied by the number of his
years of service in the effective rela
tion, including two years on trial, as
a member of an Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church—'"
“Mercy,” interrupted Ginger. “It's
geomelry., We'll have to walt till
Horace comes home.”
“Why, it's very simple,” explained
her father. ‘One seventieth of the
salary of our conference—we are not
a very rich one, you know—is twenty-
one dollars. Muliiply that by—"
“X—darling, you forgot x,” Inter
rupted Ginger again.
“X is the number of years one has
been preaching. My x is twenty-
three. Multiply twenty-one dollars by
twenty-three years, and it comes to
four hundred and eighty-three dollars.
But we have not quite enough money
in our treasury to meet the claims in
full, so the pro rata reduction would
allow me about three hundred and
twenty dollars a year. Approximate
ly twenty-five dollars a month. That
vill hardly support a family.”
“Oh, dearest, you have supported
us long enough,” said Mirlam. “It is
our turn now.”
“Why, father, with your twenty-five
a month, and my—er progpects—
Why, darling, we'll be-—simply—jake.”
At eleven o'clock, Eddy Jackson
came with Hiram Buckworth and the
two men listened In silence as they
told them, as indifferently as they
could, of the purport of the special
meeting.
“So that's what it was” Eddy said
soberly. “lI was afraid of it.”
“They needn't offer me your church”
said Hirum Buckworth stoutly. “1
wouldn't accept it for any considera.
tion—either financial or spiritual”
Marjory glowed at nim. “Unless.” he
added reflectively, “unless they would
make some grrangemeont to let us both
work along together, and me as
your assistamt—until you eyes are
restored.”
use
“You couldn't work as my assistant,
Hiram. You are too good a man for
that. And | couldn't even assist you
-hlind as | am.”
“1 don't the church as a
whole will stand for it,” Eddy Jack-
son broke out, finally. *Oid Jop bas
just talked them into this. And I'l
bet 1 can talk them out of ir. | say
we just walk out on them and start
a church of our nwn. They might
keep most of the money, but we'd take
most of the religion.”
“An affectionate thoughy” smiled
Mr. Tolliver. “But not a very Chris.
tian one. No, Eddy, this is the thing
a ininiste: accepts, and does not
fight.”
“Put up your sword, Peter,” quoted
Ginger softly
“Well, if worst comes to worst,” de.
clared the young man, “I'll move the
whole gang of you cut to Pay Dirt,
and install you in the lab. And we'll
start a farmers’ spiritual union.”
Laughing at that, they walked slow.
iy out the flagstone path to the curb.
“How's the private business coming
along?” Eddy asked in a low volce,
“Rather slowly, in the face of such
an emergency as this” Ginger Ella
sighed. “1 may have to forge an.
other link or go.”
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CHAPTER VII
believe
A stricken silence prevailed in the
sturdy little touring car that Eddy
Jackson guided carefully along the
country roads from Red Thrush to
Pay Dirt. Not one werd was spoken.
But in the rear seat, Miriam, the sen.
sible twin, sat with one of her father's
hands crushed tightly between both
of hers, and now and then she pressed
it against her cheeks In a wordless
passion of sympathy, longing to com-
fort. It was not until the car stood
before the side porch of the big white
house, and Miriam, with firm, light
hand, ha” led her farher up the steps,
that Eddy spoke.
“Mr. Tolliver,” he sald awkwardly,
“don’t worry. It's a raw deal, all the
way round, but honestly—they mean
all right. We'll do something about fit,
that's all.”
“There's nothing to do, Eddy. And
they not only mean all right, they are
all right”
“And If it goes through the way they
have planned, we'll start something on
our own account, We're right in the
midst of the farming district here,
und a lot of these people don't bother
to go so far to church, Pay Dirt is
big. We'll bulld a lite chapel of our
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Illustrations by
Irwin Myers
Copyright, by Bobbs Merrill Ce,
WNU Service
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own, and run it to suit ourselves. 1
—don't want you to leave Red
Thrush.”
“You're a good friend, and a good
man, Eddy,” sald the other gratefully.
“But don’t have me too much on your
mind. It's all right. 1 will never do
anything that does not completely ac-
cord with the policy of our church,
you understand. Good night, my dear
boy, and to repeat your own words,
don't worry.”
Silently, up the stairs to the right
wing, Miriam guided his steps. She
turned back the covers of his bed,
carefully spread out the things he
would need for the night, placed a
fresh towel on his rack.
“Father, shan't 1 read to you a
while?” she offered. “Until you feel
tired enough to sleep.”
“No, thanks, dear, not tonight.
You're a nice girl, Miriam, but I don't
“How's the Private Business Coming
Along?” Eddy Asked in a Low
Voice.
want to be read to.
things to think of.”
“But, darling—they
things.™
“Well, some of them are. You, for
instance.”
I have many
arent nlce
“Father,” her volce was low, almost
apologetic, “father, ycru know we are
80 used to each other, you, and we
girls, living together all the time, and
arguing, and quarreling, and making
up. We—never, say the real things
that are in our minds. But father, In
our hearts, we—all of us—think you
are just wonderful, father.”
His arm tightened about her shoul
ders. “And 1 tease you girls, and
laugh at your little tricks. and your
vanities, and what gllen calls your
man-madness jut all the time 1
know you are the very best girls In
the world”
“Oh, father, we aren't. Well, Helen,
she Is awfully good. And Gloger Is
good, too, in her funny way. Bat
Marjory and 1 are not much.”
There was silence between them, ns
each smiled tenderly Into the dark.
ness, thinking of the thousand sweet,
ridiculous, whimsical, pathetic hap.
penings of the shabby old Methodist
parsonage. But after a little while, he
sent her back to bed, and to sleep. But
Wesley Tolliver himself lay awake ali
night, thinking of many things.
When Miriam entered his room the
next morning she found him standing
by the window, fully dressed.
‘Oh, *ather, you're getting too
smart for me,” she sald regretfully.
jut when he turned to look ait her,
the expression on his face sent a swift
gind brightening over her own,
“Oh, father,” she cried again,
“You've thought of something! Every.
thing is all right again, isn't nr
He laughed quite merrily at her
young eagerness. “Perfectly all right
again,” he assured her.
“Oh, tell me all about
begged.
it,” she
But this he denied her. “You must
walt to share it with the rest of the
family. .How impetucus you are get.
Ing—why, you are quite another Gin-
ger!”
So Mirlam was obliged to content
herself by straightening his tle, and
giving a careful brush to his hair, be-
fore she led him down to breakfast.
Here, apologetieally, he asked an ad-
ditional favor at the hands of Eddy
Jackson,
“You have done so much, Eddy, and
you ere always so kind that I really
hate to ask anything more of you.
But 1 must go no right after break-
fast to speak to my daughters. I
shan’t be gone long, but I must go.
Now If you can't take me, or send
one of the men, suppose I Just tele-
phone In for a taxi”
“Of course I can take you. Why, I
haven't a thing to do,” led Eddy
Jackson stoutly,
“Father!” ejaculated Miriam. “The
way you talk of ordering taxis one
would think you were a doctor or a
lawyer at the very least.”
So 2ddy Jackson relinquished his
experiments for another day, and
after a few brisk instructions to the
men, turned his small car toward
town again. But be would not ae-
company the minister and als daugh-
ter Into the house, suid Ye bad an
errand uptown and would be back for
them In an bour, realizing that this
hour was to be a sacred one, and thay
even the presence of a friend as faith.
ful as himself would be an ‘utrusion.
It was Gloger who first caught
sight of the touring car unloading its
passengers at the end of the flag.
stone path, and her voice sent its sum-
mons ringing over the house.
“Margie, quit primping this minute,
Come down. It's father! Father's
come! Take off your curlers, Jenky,
It's father !™
And their eager feet brought them
swiftly, each In something of dis.
habllle, to receive the one who had
left them so sadly the night before.
He was no longer sad. He greeted
them brightly, smiling warm affection
upon them
“What a glom and gloomy old
parent 1 was last night,” be began at
once,
curmudgeon you had to put up with!”
“Father, no!”
Then his volce deepened. “Girls,
forgive me. 1 was surprised, and I
lost my bearings. Bat just for a little
while.™
“You've got them again™
Ginger trinmphantly,
He smiled at her. “Yes. [I've got
them again ut 1 shouida’t have lost
them. Sit down, girls— Miss Jenking—
let's talk It over together. You see,
it Is like this, Years ago, before even
Helen was born, 1 dedicated my life
to the Lord's work.
service, my time,
my family,
crowed
it?
show me where, nnd how,
I to do about 17 Nothing.
foolish | was.”
“Father,” gasped
Ginger In
--10 get well any more?
going to give up—and let got ’
“Most certainly oot, my dear child
as | can, and get just as strong as I
can. 1 shall go to Chicago for all the
care we can possibly afford
shall pray without ceasing for God
to bless the means we nse. But the
outcome—what difference does that
make? None. If | am not to be used
in Red Thrush any lunger, what qQif-
ference? Perhaps [ shall be of serv.
ice some place else. If I have com-
pleted by labor entirely, that is en-
tirely satisfactory to me. | am per-
fectly content, 1 have no fears, not
even for my dear daughters, for whom
I wished to do so much. Foolish of
me! Did | not dedicate my family
cares nloag with the rest of my life?
How foolish it was for me Lo worry.”
*Of course it was. For I told you
I would take care of you. Don't laugh!
I mean ft”
“lI am not laughing, Ellen, I belleve
you. When the times comes, I know
that you truly wiil take care of me.
And I am glad to have it to be
sure of.”
¢« (TO BE CONTINUED)
If, on your vacation you happen to
stumble into the town of Qurna at the
Junction of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers you may not be impressed by
the scenery or the city but you will
soon be Informed that It Is the site
of the Garden of Eden and to prove
it you will be shown the “Tree of
Knowledge,” says a writer In the
Washington Star. The tree Is merely
a decayed trunk with a few scraggly
branches and these will soon be out of
business, but the natives have thought.
fully planted another tree nearby and
this baby will probably do service ns
“the tree” when the older one has de
parted.
Anyone visiting this locality fs pro-
sumed to have come to see the tree,
for there Is little else, and the chil
dren of the town are eager In thelr
efforts to act as guides to visitors,
The new arrival is at once spotted and
Sl
surrounded by the juvenile guides and
almost dragged to the tree, Arriving
on the ground the boys will bound in.
to the branches and offer chips as
souvenirs.
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Pigs as Currency
A traveler who has returned to Eng.
land from the Pacific has been telling
Some amusing stories of things that go
on in the New Hebrides Pigs, he
Says, are not only eaten on a large
scale, but they are the standard cur
rency In the island. There are cer
taln ceremonles at which ft is very
Important to have pigs, and they are
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manding Interest on thelr loan, and
when the pig Is paid back It must be
the size the pig that was loaned would
have grown to during the time It was
borrowed.
Shop Women Use
Clothes Judgment
Problem of Buying Is Much
Easier Than for Girls
at Home, School.
For the majority of business wom-
en the dress problem is simpler than
for most married women, and for the
younger girls who work the problem
of buying clothes 1s a simpler one than
it is for the majority of girls at home
or In college, for the simple reason
that girls and women who work
usually have relatively more to spend
on dress than those who do not, ob-
serves a writer in the Boston Herald.
We used to marvel at the good
appearance of the poor little working
girl, now we have cause to marvel at
the good appearance of the poor little
girl who doesn't work. There are,
however, numerous business women
whose home obligations are such that
they must strictly {imit the amount to
be spent on dress. There are older
women In every office, school and
store whose positions require a well
groomed, smart appearance, yet who,
a8 a matter of fact, are free to spend
considerably less on their own dress
than younger women whose actual in-
come Is much less,
For the business woman It is an
excellent plan to settle on some one
predominant color scheme for the en-
tire season and this color should be
determined at this time of year by
the winter coat. If your coat Is brown
the best possible color for dresses is
best limited to browns, beige, green
with brown or belge and black with
brown, which is very good this sea-
son. If your coat is dark blue your
possible color schemes are various
blending blues, blue and belge, blue
and gray, blue and black, gray or
beige alone. Red or orange are often
effectively used with these various
blue colors combinations, and some.
times green may be
With Natural Krimmer Collar.
blue. If you choose belge for your
coat It may be used with almost any
other color save gray.
It is an Interesting fact
silks and sating were
upon as materials for women of wealth
and leisure, the great majority of
women working In stores and offices
now wear silk for every day and satin
crepe Is one of the most practical of
all materials. This winter we shall
ge more woolen office
dresses, because fine wool jersey and
wool crepe have come into fashionable
prominence and many of these light
wool materials are pot excessively
warm.
while
Inoked
that
once
doubtiess
or shop where black apparel is pre
scribed there Is nothing smarter than
a black satin crepe dress made 10 be
worn with detachable lingerie collar
and cuffs or vestee of lace, fine mull
or georgette. The longer skirt of the
season adds elegance and grace to
this one.plece black dress. The care
ful adjustment of sleeves and shoul.
ders and the trim draping of the ma.
terial at the waistline and over the
hips lift a dress of this sort out of
the realm of the ordinary,
For office wear there is much to be
sald in favor of the one-piece dress,
and just as much to be sald in favor
of the separate skirt and blouse, pos-
sibly with jacket or cardigan.
If the one-piece dress Is worn with
detachable washable collars and cuffs
it can be kept fresh In fact as in ap-
pearance—but there Is no office out-
fit that gives one quite the sense of
perpetual freshness as that consist.
Ing of skirt and jacket to be worn
with a washable light silk or linen
blouse,
Separate blouses may be bought for
little or many be made for even less
and this season it is possible to buy
attractive jacket sults for a most
reasonable price. Those of jersey In
a tweeddike mixture of brown and
beige, blue and gray, black and white
or gray, or wood violet and buff are
especially good at the present time,
In Black Velvet
The black velvet dress that Is the
style leader Is made with a long and
elaborate skirt and a comparatively
simple bodice, often relleved with a
little saft lace about the collar,
A sense of comradeship, of joint en-
deavor, of mutual helpfulness has re
sulted In all communities where a
Parent-Teacher association has been or-
ganized,
Between ten and thirteen, boys face
a dangerous age when they need all
the help that parents can give them
In order to meet successfully the trials
of adolescence,
A mother should listen to herself as
she talks. Let her hear, not what she
planned to say, but what she actually
does say. Especially let her observe
how she talks; her rate of peed, the
high or low pitch of her voice, the
quality of feeling In her tone. Let
her listen to herself as though she
were listening to the speech of anoth-
er person, and let her try, through the
use of her Imagination, to determine
what effect her volee would probably
have on the listener.
Help your children to make friends
of books and you have provided them
with a lifelong Interest and satisfae-
tion,
Children used to to dancing
school to learn the two step, the waltz,
But styles of dancing
and methods of teaching have changed
to suit present-day needs of young peo-
ple,
go
the schottische,
That Infant mortality In this coun-
try Is being lowered Is evidenced by
the annual report of the American
Child Health association published re.
cently. The death rate among baubles
for 1928 was 68.3 per thousand for
the 719 cities of the birth registration
area. While this rate 1s three points
higher than that for 1027. it stands out
a8 the second lowest infant death rote
ever recorded for the this
country,
cities of
A rug with an all-over pattern and
chairs uphc in a fabrie
sponged soap
gt ere a
be
and water are ideal for a dining
and re | | for a dining
ry
which ff with
cnn Oi W
room
used by youngsters,
The
child can be helped
nervous, irritabl
proper play
his difficulties,
There is lonelir
no
a}
where hildren are.
our t
to fall
young in hear
for the Quiet Wedding
"ith the growing sentiment vor
this side
» Atlas
the season's
veivetl is
} oon,
A cont of the velvet wil iplete the
fur
this
1 econ
costume, or later, a wan
In an of description a
one-piece grown, with separate wrap,
and the three-piece ensemble of skirt
and coat and a blouse matching the
cont lining are equally suitable. Be-
velvet there are the soft satin
gowns that answer for many occasions
the year round, and that may be worn
for a simple home wedding.
sf
ouing
sides
Coarse Nets for Afternoon |
Evening frocks of coarse nets were
a feature of the Paris opening and
Upon thelr introduction come
frocks made of sn me
With graceful
close-fitting bodices, natural walstlines
close,
afternoon the
materials long skirts,
and long sleeves, they possess all the
distinctive features of the 1030 mode. |
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Appliques for Children
TR led
The KITCHEN
CABINET
(G3, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
To add to the resources of life
think how much that means! To
add to those things that make us
more at home in the world: that
help guard us against ennul and
stagnation: that invest the coune
try with new interest and entice
ment: that make every walk in the
fields or woods an excursion into
& land of unexhausted treasures:
that make the returning seasons
All us with expectation and de
light: that make every rod of
Eround like the page of a book,
in which new and sirange things
may be resd; in short: those
things that help keep us fresh
and sane and young and make us
immune to the sirife and fever of
the world John Burroughs,
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THINGS NEW AND OLD
A peanut brittle that
the Chinese way of
is different is
making it.
Chinese Peanut
Brittle.—Take
one
cupful
brown
each
Bugar,
sirup, and
until it makes a
hard ball in cold
water. Then add
one-half cupful of
puffed rice and one
Pour out In a but-
of
corn
cook
Sunday Night Sandwich, — Spread
rye or graham bread with
cheese ang sprinkle with chopped
black walnut meats Cottage cheese
with cream or any grated rich cheese
softened with cream makes a good
spread. Cut into rounds with a bak.
Ing powder can they most at-
open sandwiches, Sliced
olives make fine garnishment
any soft
ake
stuffed
dg
This dainty little dress for a" small
girl Is in pink crepe de chine. It is
trimmed with smocking and circular
appliques, It ig » Paris model,
Ginger, Nut Sandwich. —Take one.
cupful of chopped
one-fourth et
cream
preserved
of
fuel
it i
fod
thick
p
up
and one upful
nd the
tered
of
mixture
bread, using
on round
whole
Mapla sugar, grated
tittle ere and chop
walnuts,
a dainty sandwich to serve at
Fried Egg Sandwich.—This
Fs
which will appeal 1
ikes a deliclons
0 the
a
thinly
ter
and cook
with
tween butte
Serve
Fruit Rocks. —(
of butt
ed hot
er wit
¥ Ov
Likeable Foods.
A nice dish which the ciilid n will
bananas,
cooked rice.
the bananas and
little lemon
cent
stirred into
Sweeten
add a
Juice to ac-
Serve
sly
er >
Le
ad) the flavor,
with cream,
A delicious einnamon
roll which is very popu-
lar is prepared as usual,
then placed in a baking
pan In which the following sirup has
been poured: Heat two tablespoonfuls
sugar and one-fourth cupful of water
until it forms a sirup. Cool and pour
into a baking pan, or cook the sirup
in the pan in which the rolls are to
bake, add a half cupful of pecan
meats and place the rolls in the sirup.
Bake in a moderate oven and
out and serve bottom side up.
Clover rolls are very attractive. Use
any mixture, place small balls of the
dough three In each compartment of
the gem pan. Make the rolls about
the size of a walnut before they rise,
When baked they will fill the gem
pans,
{ye bread is such a well ITked bread
that one enjoys making it at home
occasionally,
California Rye Bread.—Sonk one
yeast cake In one-half cupful of luke-
warm water to which one teaspoonful
of sugar has been added Let stand
about twenty minutes or longer to be-
gin to rise, then add to four cupfuols
of rye flour, three cupfuls of butter
milk, two teaspoonfuls of salt, and
the softened yeast and stir well, Set
away to rise, then add enough wheat
flour to make the mixture a little sin.
er than ordinary bread. Form Into
loaves, add a half cupful of caraway
seeds If liked. Brush with sweet fat,
let rise until double its bulk and bake
one hour in a moderate oven.
Peanut Butter Tea Rolls. Dissolve
one cake of compressed yeast in one.
fourth cupful of lukewarm water. Add
to one cupful of scalded milk, one
half cupful of peanut butter, three
and one-fourth to four cupfuls of flour,
one-half cupful of melted butter, one.
fourth cupful of sugar, two teaspoon.
fuls of galt, two beaten eggs and a few
gratings of nutmeg. Let rise, shape
Into rolls, brush with softened hutter
and let rise until light. Bake fifteen
minutes In a hot oven.
Nese Mey
turn
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