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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1928)
t Sylvia Coprrtfht tr Toi VmI a Ca 6T0RY FROM THE START Handenma, faatldloue and wealthy young 8t Crotx Cralgh ton awalta hla eweethaart at their tryatlnr lac. Sht li flf IfM mtnutea lata, thle ordinary ltttl Pennsylvania Dutch girl. Meelr Schwenckton, but h awalta her eagerly. She It to demurely beautiful, ha thlnka, but ao out of hla "olaaa." Pa eplte her seeming- Innocence and Ignorance, aha euoceede In keep ing him at a distance, to hla chagrin. CHAPTER II Meely Schwenckton, hurrying back breathlessly through the October twilight to th farm house, lest the ntoc ratio head of the bouse Ret In from the fields ahead of her and be come suspicious of her goings-on, seemed to have undergone a trans formation since she had left her lover. Not only bod ahe managed, on the way home, to shed her cheap, gaudy frock of blue voile for a trim tullored tilt, but also that veil of bovine dull ness which ber pretty face had worn bad been replaced by a soft, bright ' amusement ; her timid bearing, so ab jectly expressing a tense of Inferior ity, was changed to look of sup pressed excitement, an air of Intense vitality, which made her recent hu mility unimaginable. Reaching the kitchen porch of the farm house, she was brought up short as her hand touched the latch of the door, by the sound of a whin ing natal voice within, reproaching and threatening, to the accompani ment of a child's crying. Meely's hand dropped from the latch and she stood listening, a took Id ber eyes of mingled distress and disgust "When your Pop heart how you done me dirt this after," whined the nasal voice, "oh. but you'll get the good whlppln', Lizzie Schwencktonl (meet I tell him how yon run out . after school and let me with all the work, mebby you won't ketch It with that there twitch he keeps bandy I Letttn' me alone here with all the diapers and all the cleanln' and cool-In and hit tick wife and baby to tend I Well ! of ! all ! things I Tes, If he don't gire yon the worst twitch In' you ever bad, then I dont know the man" "Ach. Aunt Hosy, dont tell hlra !" the child's voice begged In gasping sobs. "Ill help yon now I'll do this here whole tub full of wash In' and HI wash all the supper dishes for you - you can Just tet and rest yourself-" "Well, I guess anyhow youH wash the tupper dishes after the smart twltchln' you're gettin'I That'll make yon spry for couple dnys, I guess. If my tnlkln' at you don't I Tou needn't to beg me" The nasal whine flopped short at the speaker became aware of a third person In the room, though site had not heard the opening of the door. (There stood Steely, her back against the kitchen door, looking at Aunt Rosy with those bright, clear eyes of ben that somehow always cowed the woman, giving ber, unreasonably, a tense of guilt which the resented. Always she was resolving that she would not let herself be "downed" by thli "high-minded hussy" who bad no rights In this house anyway. "I'll thow her who's got' rlghtt here'" the daily determined. Tet the found herself Just now, at always when confronted by the silent criticism of thli girl's confusing re gard, trying apologetically to Justify herself. "Mind yon what Llztle done yet I I give her the diapers to wash after school and the run out to play and let em. And me with all the cleanln' and the tupper to get and my tick sitter's broth to make and all my lands I How kin I get through all when Lit tle runt out after school and won't belpr ' The big, warm, cozy kitchen which, tike most farm kitchens of Pennsyl vania, wat alto the family living mom, wat covered by a bright rag rar;i and furnished with a roomy wt'ei tgalnxt the wall, several big, r I; 'tainted rocking-chairs, a large de"0, id calendar labeled "Sweet Hriv ' hanging from a cuckoo clock, t ,l tpread for tupper, a cooking iUim on which tauaagt and potatoes vi i Izzllng. II Bchwenckton family, at well M the neighboring farm families, hu '. een this kitchen become trans f rvj d In three weeks, under the t tr irary reign of Aunt Rosy during tii confinement of Schwenckton'! yor g wife, from a tpotlest cleinll , to a messy untidiness and dls ', J. J-r which, In the eyee of the Im maculate Pennsylvania Dutch house keepers, wat t scandal next only to Immorality and more unheard ot Aunt Itony'i Incompetent housekeep ing, combined with ber autocratic and nnamlahle attitude towardt her sis ter's stepchildren (from which there was so escape nor appeal, lines It wat backed up by the Uead of the of the Minute By HELEN R. MARTIN House) had driven the elder ton and daughter to rebel and run away; Net tle, the flfteen-yenr-old girl, having found refuge In the home ot her grandmother and Jakey, seventeen years old, having disappeared entire ly to the genuine distress aa well as Inconvenience ot their father to whom Jakey especially had been a great help on the farm. Rut the other two, Lizzie and Sammy, were too young to escape. The one toft spot about Aunt Rosy, apparently, was her devotion to her young tlster, Susie, Mr. Schwenck ton's girl wife, whom she had "raised" from a baby. Rut although she Idol ized Susie, she completely dominated her. In all things Susie followed ber elder sister's advice and Judgment and obeyed her, when the wnt with her, at much now aa when, before her marriage, she had lived In Rosy'f home. Susie wat the only person In the world who did not find Rosy re pulsive. Ten-year-old Lizzie, a thin, delicate looking child, wat working frantically at a wash-tub at the tar end of the cluttered, dirty kitchen, crying hys terically while she worked, terrified of the punishment hanging over her. Meely, going across the room to hang her Jacket on a rack on the wall, spoke over her shoulder In reply to Aunt Rosy't complaints, her pleat ant tone and manner betraying none of the loathing the felt towards the woman. "Rut since you didn't do the cleaning. Aunt Rosy (look at thli kitchen!) nor the diapers, and kept Sammy home from school to wait on Susie, what have yon done all day? And Mr. Schwenckton won't like It, you know, that you're having the diapers washed here In the kitchen where we have to eat It Is to be noted that Meely't accent and diction were .not now to studious ly Pennsylvania Dutch at when the had talked with St Crotx Crelghton a half hour ago. The bint of foreign- nest In her speech wat not that of the Pennsylvania Dutch at all. A heavy atep on the porch at thli Instant wat followed by the opening of the kitchen door and the entrance of the farmer In overalls. Llzzle'l crying wat Instantly choked back while she bent to her work more frantically than ever; and Aunt Rosy acquired suddenly a great air of Industry about the ttove and table. Mr. Schwenckton, closing the door behind blm. stood surveying with dis gust the disorder and dirt of the kitchen. A big, red-faced man of mild. though obstinate, countenance, he looked to good-natured that one might have wondered why bit children were to afraid of htm. Rut family disci pline among the Pennsylvania Dutch It religion; "spare the rod and spoil the child,", a dogma. Mr. Schwenckton bad ever tried to per form his whole duty by the children God had given htm to rear for Hit honor and glory In a heavenly home, the Scriptural prescription for accom plishing this being the only means he knew, disagreeable as he often found It for be was withal an affectionate father; not naturally severe; only very conscientious; obstinate In the performance of what he saw to be hit duty, however difficult. "TL yl. yl !" h shook his head and frowned at the dirty kitchen, "hut you're the dopple of a houekeeier, Aunt Rosy I Tou ain't the nice house keeper your little tlster Susie Is. Well, I guest anyhow nntt Yl, yl, If the neighbors teen our kitchen to through other yet !" "Tes, well, but when I tell you on oet how Lizzie won't help along when I tell ber to," his ilster-ln-law complained at the began to dish np sausage and fried potatoes, while Mr. Schwenckton went to the link to wash hit hands, "you'll aea for yourself. Mister, how I can't get through all by myself. Lizzie ahe run" "Lizzie I" the farmer broke In, rait ing hit voice above the running water, "stop that tplaihin' at the tub and come now to your aupier." "Ve-yet, tlr," the child stammered, ber teeth almost chattering. At the dried her hands on her apron and XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'XXXC'XXXXXXsXsXXs Cheapside Fint Home How came the bank of England to be built? And why the appellation "The Old Lady of Tbreadneedle Streetr Mr. 1L Rooksby 8teele, well-known London architect supplies the answers In an article on the archi tectural history of Britain's bullion house. Many think that Sir John Sonne, the wizard of Lincoln'! Inn fields, built the bank. Ills are the girding walla, but In the raising of the fabric three other names those of Simpson. Taylor and Cockered have to be Joined. Mercer's hall, Cheapside, wui Die bank's first borne; but a quick move waa made to the Orocer't hull, In Poultry, and It wat not until 17.12 that the foundation stone of the present bank wit laid. George Samp ion wit the first architect and It Is curlout that no building, other than the bank, can he attributed to bli VKTJ Serrtea came to the tuhle, Aunt Rosy gave her a look as who should say, "Von Just wait I Dont think because lit cut me short that I ain't tclliu' on you I Tou Just wait!" "Wbere'e SatumyT" asked Mr, Schwenckton. "L'patalrt tettln'," hit ilstertn-lnw told hlui as ahe carried the food from the itove to the table. "With Susie. Susie she's too poorly to be let aloue, whiles I gotta be down here." Mr, Schwenckton shook his head dolefully, hla face, aa It emerged from the roller-towel, looking deeply trou bled. "Well, come everybody now and sot I want to get ettt and hurry up to Susie." During the long "blessing" Invoked by the head of the house, after they were all seated, Meely't waa the ouly head unbowed. The expression of ber face (while fulsome words of grati tude were directed to the throne of God) auggested anything but thank fulness ai ihe surveyed the platter of sausage floating In lake of grease, the burnt potatoes, the pale, heavy pie. At the "Amen" the rose at once, went to a cupboard and brought back to the table fresh napkin for her telt The temporary housekeeper ipoke up In self-defense igatnst the Implied criticism of thli gesture on Meely't part "Well, if I did forget your napkin again, I mnst tay I wasn't raised to eat to hoggish myself that I need a napkin to my menla 1" "Tou've got no need. Aunt Rosy." ber brother-in-law mildly admonished her, "to speak to unpollte. Ci we all know," be added as they all began to help themselves, each one for himself, as waa their custom, "that Meely wat raised more refined than us." "Well, 1 wouldn't go to far at to tay that, Mister," Aunt Rosy resent fully objected. "To call myself com mon yet toward what the lit I alnt bellttlln' myself that much I I cert'nly consider myself ai good aa other ones; ind so I likewise) consider your poor, tweet, little wife, Sam Schwencktonl If ihe'd beerd you'd compared her to this here stranger and layed the wat common toward what thli here ttranger is " "Ach, Aunt Rosy, be peaceable," Mr. Schwenckton checked this whin ing tirade. "Meely ain't ezackly a atranger to us, even If we didn't get acquainted with her till here this fall. Tou can't call a cousin a stranger yet !" "Too alnt got no proof ahe't your cousin. She don't look like aa If she's your cousin. Nor act or speak tike none of your cousins I ever met np with." "Tet, well, yon never met op with none of the Rerki County Schwenck tonl, They're different too, again from ot Schwencktonl here In Dau phin county. They're better educated that way and more refined. Meely." he addressed their boarder, hla tune anxious, his eyet worried, "how do you think my Susie li today V , "She can't get better to long at you keep ber room dark and don't air It Mr. Schwenckton. Air and light are all the needi to get well." "Tet. well, but I dont hold with them doctors that tayi It't onsunltarl uin to keep the wlndabt thut ami tin room dark when you're aick," Mr, Schwenckton pronounced conclusive ly and from conclusion once reached, a position once taken, the power did not exist that could move Sam Schwenckton. He drew a deep algh. "I did hope Susie wat gettln' better for me after her lookln' to bright' yesterday." "The reason the was to much brighter and better yesterday," tald Meely, "wat because when Aunt Rosy was taking a nap, I covered Susie and the baby with blankets and aired the room I Threw open all the doors tnd wlndowt and left them open for an hour I Then I washed Susie and changed her nightgown and the bed linen. She and the baby slept after that for four hours I That't why the wat better yesterday." (TO BS 00NT1NUB0.) of Great British Bank hand, a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer comments. In the cornice ex tending tba full length of the build ing, Taylor sculptured in excellent figure of Britannia, tome years after the completion of the building. "Tblt carving, the trade mark of the bank," writes Mr. Steele, "was probably the Inspiration for that trite appellation, the "Old Lady of Tbreadneedle Street'" Taylor added to 8ampson't building, and In 1870 the Gordon rlott led the director! to fear that the ad joining church of St Christopher-! Stocks might lend Itself as a danger ous vantage point for a mob, to pow ers were obtained, the fnhrlc was pulled down, and more extensions were made. No msn'i good Intentions evst boosted hliu Into the hero cluis. The Kitchen Cabinet HO, 1IT. Weatern Newspaper llnlim.) Wake) for the sun, who scattered Into ftlaht The atara before him from tha Bald of nlaht Privet nlxhi lions with them from hav'n and atrlkea Tha euhan'a turrat with a shaft of light Tha Itulialjrat GOOD THINGS TO EAT. We all like something new, though we are told "There It nothing new un der the sun." Dainty tld bits always delight a hot test who likes to enter tain. No matter how humble the home, when shared by one'l trlendl It alwnya better enjoyed Kxpvnse should not eutei luto our plane for hospi tality; It Is the gift ot ourselvei which niouej cannot buy, which niakvt true hospitality. Apricot Charlotte. Dissolve one third ot carton of gelatin In oue fourth of a cupful of cold water, add a cupful of boiling water and three fourths of a cupful of sugar, the Juice of a lemon and a cupful ot mushed apricot pulp. When cold add one cup ful of whipped cream. Set on Ice and serve well chilled, A dainty cake to serve with tea of an afternoon li : Orange Croutons. Rake a sponge enke In a pan at thin ai one-half Inch. Cut Into round when baked ind spread with the following; (Iruie the rind of an orange, add one-fourth cup ful of butter, a tablespoon ful ot lemon Juice, set Into a dish of boiling water ind add two well-beaten egg yo!a with one-fourth ot a cupful ot sugar. Stir and cook until the egg Is well cooked. Cool and spread over tlie cir cles of cake. Cover with a frosting made with the egg whites well beaten, then boiling hot lugur ilrup poured over the egg. Rolled frosting or me ringue may be used and lightly browned In the oven. Different Muffins. Roll out dough In long stripe, spread with butter and tugar creamed together ind a bit of vanilla added. Sprinkle grated nut meg and cinnamon and cover with ralslm and currants. Roll op and cut Into small rings. Set to rise and bake In a hot oven. Pinocha. Put four cupfuli of brown rugnr, one cupful of milk end two ounce! of butter over the fire and Ulr until the sugar li dissolved. Roll un til the mixture forms a toft ball when dropied Into cold water. Add one half pint of pecans and stir unlit It begins to thicken. Turn quickly Into S shallow greased pan or Into small gem pans well greased. Cool and cut Into squares or remove from tlie gem pans. Itelng one of the most easily digest ed of foods and one that can be served In so many ways, fish should be more often used In the family menu. Things Worth Trying. A nice hot fcindwlcb to serve with a cup of cocoa or tea on a cold after noon li prepared aa follows: Spread thinly a I I c s d bread with butter, then with orange u:urmalade. Put to gether In pairs and cut Into any de sired shape after removing the crusts. Lay lu a pan and place In the gai oven to toast a light brown on both aides. Serve hot Stuffed Or ten Peppers. Wash four green peppers and parboil ten minutes In water to cover, to which hit been idded one-fourth teaspoonful of loda. Cut Into halves lengthwise, remove the seeds and fill with creamed oys ters; cover with buttered crumbs and brown under the gaa Dame. To pre pare the oysters, cook until plump In their own liquor. Add to a white sauce made of three tnhlespoonfuli of butter; when hot add three table spoonfuls of flour and one and one half cupfula of milk. Cook ontlt smooth and thick. Season with aalt ind pepper. Washington Pie. Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, add one cupful of sugar, two well-beaten eggt and one-half cupful of milk. Sift two and one-balf teaspoonfutt of baking pow der with one and two-thtrdt cupfuli of flour and add to the first mixture, beating well. Rake In layer tint and put together with whipped cream or fruit Fruit may be Died between the luyert and whipped cream on top. Frozen Tomato Salad. Torn a quart of canned tomatoea from the can ind let them stand an hour. Rub through a sieve, idd three tablespoon full of tugar and teason highly with salt and cayenne and a little onion Juice. Turn Into half-pound baUng powder cam and pack In Ice and salt until well frozen. Remove from the molds, cut Into slices and serve on let tuce with mayonnaise dressing. Gar nish with walnut meats. Southern Corn Dish. Add two eggs to a can of corn, season well with salt and pepper and two tahlospoonful of butter; pour over s pint of scalded milk and set Into the oven to bake until thick and brown over the top, Serv hot. Gruels should be taken slowly, In order to allow the saliva to act npon the starch and be thoroughly mixed In the month. A Young Mild (Prepared a the National Oentraphle IMMlety. Vieahliitlue. U. C.I LIKIS ancient Gaul, Guatemala may be divided Into three parts, with a special brand ot rllmale assigned to each, There are the lowlands of Ihe Atlantic snd Pa cific the hot country; the uplands, ranging from 3,IKK) to 0.000 feet-the teniHTate land; ind the highlands, where funglike peaks stretch up to 14,000 feet above the ki the cold country. In Guatemala climate Is a thing of altitude nil her than latitude. The Amerlcnn visitor to Guatemala Is likely to land at Puerto Harriot, on the Atlantic or Caribbean side of this country. Thli port, set on the Inner rim of Amntlqtie bay, li alluringly beautiful from the steamer. Though one accepts It aa a tropical dream come true, It does not bear cle In spection. Here Is the north coast ter minal of the International railways ind Important buildings of the I'nlled Fruit company. Aside from these. Puerto Harries does not Intrigue one li a lite for permanent residence, nor Is the hotel the tye to which one yeami to return. A few decades ign the Guatemalan government concluded to build I rail way connecting Us capital and west roast coffee plantations with the north coast markets. When this road was half-finished, both money and credit ran low, leaving a pair of rails begin ning at tidewater and ending at a spot In the broad, warm deoert sur rounding KI Itanrhe. Then an Ameri can atepped Into the breach, com pleted the railway, and made It pos sible fur passengers to ride on a well equipped train from the shlptlde to most of the population centers of the republic. First Impressions of Guatemala have to do with countless bunches of green bananas, for this northern fringe of the republic Is bananaland. The great fruit farmi ire recent and to make them, the low, rich, swampy coastland wai drained ind made sani tary. Race Between Time and Decay. Railways, banana walkt, adminis tration buildings. Imposing hoapltsls, modern towns these hsve all been built In order that a fleet of vessels may be fed two-score million bunches of bananas yearly. It Is efficiency snd organization par excellence. Reduced to Its least common de nominator, It li a rare between lime and decay. The cutter, mule carrier, pick-up train, fast iteamshlp, radio telephone, fruit dispatch, ill romblne to deliver thli highly perishable com modity from the hanant farm to the corner store In lowi before rot over takei ths fruit and turns profit Into loss. We leave bananaland aboard the little train of the International rail ways and atari south. From Qutrlgua the railroad winds op the Motagua valley through plantations, skirting abrupt hillsides. The train crosses the Motagua river every few kilome ters, and, all along the way, passes women standing under palm sheds on the stream bnnki, washing clothing, children and themselves. After leaving Zacapa the long climb to Guatemala City begins, over a rosd that winds In horseshoe curves, op mountainsides, through cud ind tun nel!, over fill! and bridges Now and then one glimpse! the shingly gravel bars of ths Motagtit and the broth flshtrnpt let by the Indiana. There are vlllnges where vegetable gardens are built on stilts, and perpendicular cornfields. And atlll one climbs, past hot sul phur tprlngt with steam clondi curl ing above them and deep railway cuta through volcanic ash, Ths air growt chill aa ths altitude Increases. At sunset the profile! of purpls peaks stand out against a yellow aky, .Then comet night with more chill and final ly, below In the plain, the twinkling llghta of Guatemala City. Capital Often Destroyed. Guatemala City It not of the New World. It belongs to Old Spain. It It a city luggostlva of the Moors, with narrow streets, varicolored houses, deep-set barred windows, bright patios, porticos and colonnades. Guate mala's capital hat always heen Vul can'! plnythlng. He bat thnken It ilk 7' (! v. of Guatemala. down, even destroyed It, and has teen It rite again on three different iltet In 1.117 Pedro do Alvnrndo began the first city on the lower slope! of Agun. In I' ll came a night of tor rential ruin, lightning, thunder and earth rumbling, then a terrifying shudder. The crater ot Ague was toru apart and the Inke which filled It rushed down to overwhelm the city. A new capital, built a few miles to the northeast, In time became, one of the moat Imposing rllles of the New World, with splendid palaret and more than 00 Impressive church build ings. The old city was but s memory, earthquakes Were forgotten, and all seemed Well ai the new capital grew richer and more powerful. In 1717, with an eruption of Fuegn, came an earthquake that leveled (he city. Again it was built and again ihakrn down In 1773, the year of the Boston Tea party. The capital wai again transferred, thli time .to miles sway to the ills of the present city, and the life of ths people moved on until In 11)17 came series of tremblings that first cracked the thick adobe walls and then caused them to crumble. Since 11)17 the capi tal city hai again been practically re built, thui Illustrating the tenacity with which people cling to homes that hive been erected where the shadow of some volcano falls. The population of the present capi tal Is more than loo.noo. Ths city. H In the nddat of the Valley of ths Rio de las Vicai (Cow river), li hemmed In by low mountain rldget and a group of Imposing volcanoes. The central plaza Is not beautiful now. The earthquake partly ruined the Imposing cathedral to the east ; the Chinese, is a memorial, have built a number of pigotlallke building to the north ; the dignified Centennial building occupies another side; ind the Portales, with Utile one-and two story shops, complete Ihe quadrangle. It Is curious picture of ruin, dignity, tawdrlnras and pngodai. The street pivlng li none too good. The four-wheel coach, drawn by two dejected lleedt, still the osttal mode of conveyance, although the city li full of private motor cars. On the Mixes Road. Ten miles away. In the village or Mlxco, live Ihe Indians who each day carry to the capital the foodstuffs which Its people buy. The Mad from Mlxco to Guatemala City la one of the fascinating moving picture of Central America, These Indian raise the vegetable!, fowls, eggt, and fruits that they sell, and also manu facture the simple necessaries el everyday life, stub as coarse-woven saddlebags, hempen bells used by ths driver to fatten the pack to bis ani mal, women'a blouses and girdles, and hundreds of other articles used by housewife, laborer, and ox-driver. Dawn In Mlxco finds everyone np, preparing for the long, dally walk to the market place ind back horns gain. Knrly risen set out with their wares parked In a broad basket, horns on ths head If the-carrier be a wom an, or If a man. In a ciciate carried on the back, with a broad leather tumpllne leading from either side ol the load shout the foreheid . Ry nine o'clock there li proces sion ten miles long, more fascinating! varied, and Interesting than any cir cus parade that ever followed a cal liope. Women with leathery, wrin kled akin, gray hair, and shriveled hare arms and legs, atlll (rot bark! ind forth on thli W mile errand each day, carrying to market a crate of eggs, half dozen fowls, a tray of aguratea, or any one nf a hundred things to ent and wear, Hers cornea family. The father bean heavy load of corn or beans or other vegetables, bending forward under ths weight and balancing It wth ths tumpllne. The mother, per haps, Juggles a wide wicker tray ol vegetable! on ber head, while she carrlet pair of chlrkeni In either hand and an Infant iwong In a shawl about her body. A brood of children followi, each laden according to Ize and cupicliy. The family dogj nnemlc, apologetic, It alwayt In tha parly and frequently wenrt a neck' lace nf dried lemoni to ward off c nine Ilia.