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11 that!"
* Lora looked hopefully at her hus
band. He could, sometimes, think of
perfectly wonderful ways out of diffi
culties. And he just must do so now.
Tiie family in the “little white house”
bade fair to disrupt the neighbornood.
Mrs. Neville mourned the loss of h r
best ferns, trampled by Milly and
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Billy and their older and younger
by D. J. Walsh.
brothers and sister.
one has taken the little I Mr. Parsons, who raised choice
white house, Ted. I could, roses, vowed he would tan the hides
L 7 hardly pass this morning for ■ of the little devils who destroyed a
the moving van in front of it. i whole row of his best peas. Every-»
and the children! There must be a: body had some grievance. And oddly
dozen, or else they are the here-and- ’ enough, the worst day of the week
there kind that multiply themselves’ for the “Terrors” was Sunday. Lora
And there was a dog that tried to! giggled that it was because their name
chase my car off the street. Oh. (’lies-1 was Holliday. But Ted walked home
ter street will be lively enough now. i from the station with Mr. Holliday a
I’m glad they don’t live next door. Two time or two, and after that always had
blocks off Is as close as I want that a word of pity for the man.
dog.”
“His wife’s been dead two years,
Lora Minton addl'd an extra spoon Lora. Aaid he hasn’t a relative to help
of whipped cream to Ted’s lunip-o’-Jov him out. And hired maids—what are
pudding. She saw a teasing laugh they? He says the kids are worse
threatening from the twinkle of his with him anyway, because he hates to
eye. He knew her criticisms of old make them think 1dm a bear -when
and she knew his delight in them.
they’ve nobody else.
“But I don’t care, Ted,” she went
“Let’s pile them into the car next
on. “That fs the dearest little hou e Suudjty—all we can, and take them
and arranged so wonderfully inside. out to Aunt Meda’s for the day. She’s
To have a family of harum-scarum brought up five boys of her own, and
youngsters tear It up, and after mv on that big farm they can’t hurt much.
dearest friend lived there, and was I think they need a chance to just
so happy so short a while, I wish some break loose, if you ask me. The city’s
one lovable had come.”
no place for a live kid. Gosh! Lora—
“Lovable? Aren’t children that? T what would I have done when I was
noticed as I came home tonight that ten if I’d had to play up and down a
they adore their father, at least. About street—no swimming hole, no or
five were meeting him at the corner chard—”
and hanging on him wherever they
Lora remembered that about the or-
could, all the way into the house.”
chard the next Sunday when they had
“Healthy youngsters, but somehow safely deposited five scrambling Hol I
a bit taggy-looking. Reminded me -X lidays in Aunt Meda’s hack yard. That
what our bunch were like when mother good lady did not seem alarmed st
had been away somewhere for a week. the avalanche, but Lora trembled. She
Maybe—”
hoped apple trees, peach trees, the
Lorn grew thoughtful. She hadn’t barn itself, would be standing when
seen anyone who could be identified as night came. She could not understand
“mother” in the three or four times the older lady’s cheerful acceptance of
she had passed tli/' house that day Billy’s falling from his first apple tree
on marketing or shopping bent. Her and Milly’s decoration with a couple
interest In the place itself could be of bee stings. And the dinner the chil
excused, too, since her nearest friend, dren ate would certainly kill them.
Yet night came, and all were well
Anne Saxton, had too briefly known
the house as home before an untimely and dirty. Mr. Holliday even had a
death. Lorn had hoped that some one ! relieved air and looked rested after
would come there who might In a a long talk with Aunt Meda In the
measure replace Anne. But this wild grape arbor.
“You won’t have so many passen
brood! And only a stout woman with
“maid” stamped all over her was In gers going home,” smiled Aunt Meda,
evidence to rule the young mob. Per as Lora began to hunt for her motor
haps there wasn’t anyone else? Any epat.
“The two* older boys and the twins
one but a father—helpless things, fa
will stay with me for a while. It was
thers !
Next morning when Lora drove her pitiful, Lora, to see how hungry they
little» car down the street as she went were for the things that are everyday
marketing she made a point of care here on the farm. Little Milly had u
fully surveying the “little white great bunch of weeds gathered to take
home; she said they were lonesome,
house.”
A boy and girl -of eight or so were the ‘flowers in the fence corner.’
swinging on the gate. The girl’s broxfrn That’s what she is, Lora. A flower in
hair was pulled back until her eyes a fence corner, and she’ll turn into u
seemed drawn upward, but her face weed if somebody doesn’t care for her.
“Come to think, the weeds, as we
was clean. Too clean to be natural.
The boy’s blouse lacked a button and (Hill them, were flowers until they were
he had on one brown and one black so neglected—until nobody cared for
shoe. Another child of indeterminate them.
“Trouble? Mercy I What are w*
sex came whooping around the house
followed by the offending dog of the here foe*, child?”
Lora thought hard about that last
day before. A last fleeting glance at
the dwelling showed no two blinds speech of Aunt Meda’s. Thought all
raised to the same height—sure proof the way borne, while the baby “Bun
to Lora’s mind that a hired head was ny,” slept in her lap. And when Ted
stopped at the “little white house” tn
in charge.
“Even the day after one moves the let Mr. Holliday alight with “Bunny,”
shades are evened, if nothing else. Ami Lora said with a bit of a catch in her
voice:
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those pony children !
“Teddy, dear—the baby is so sound
“I wonder who they are. anyway?
Maybe some of us can do something.” asleep, yve’d better take her on home
But no one seemed able to find out with us. And—and—I wish you'd let
anything about the newcomers, except me borrow her a lot, Mr. HolLiday.
what the children volunteered In their She’s too little to have noboby care.
excursions about the neighborhood. We could care a lot for her—Ted
These were enough. Lora would say. and I.”
And Ted heartily agreed, with a
after the new dog bad chased her pet
cat “Mistah” so far up the porch th.it glow at his heart for the kindness of
it took a ladder rnd long coaxing to his Lord for even a stray blossom.
persuade kitty that earth was safe for
felines.
SuJ allow Has No Peer
“Ted! Can’t you speak to that gen
as Master of Flight
tleman about those awful children?
The swallows and swifts may be
The twins—Milly and Billy—broke the
cellar window with their ball yester said to be the only small birds in the
day. And that little one. Runny, they .ull division : and they have gifts very
call her, came in with Mrs. Adams nearly peculiar to themselves. The
when she called here this afternoon, body and skeleton have been light
and Mrs. Adams thought she was some ened by an elaborate apparatus of
child I had adopted. She told Mrs. air sacs, as if nature were striving to
Adams she was going to live here, if produce a craft lighter than air, a tiny
you please. And I don’t think Sirs. airship.
Tliis form of adaptation, common in
Adams altogether believed me when I
said the little imp Just played around some degree to many birds, has
our gate as if it were her own. al reached its highest development in
though she lived two blocks down the the swallows, and, accompanied by a
street. I think Mrs. Adams thought wing of considerable length and a tail
i was ashamed of the child—some poor that Is both rudder and plane, it-gives
them un ease and grace quite their
relation or something.
e
“Ted! Isn’t there anything to do? 'own.
They can glide so low as Just to dip
And that housekeeper they have is so
simple! Milly says ‘dddd.v lias to take their wings in the cool water. They
what the agency send cause nobody can turn and twist with a smoothness
THEIR
WAYSIDE
FRIENDS
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
chut hides the shurpuess of the angle.
The upper ulr or tower air is till the
same to them. They ure so conscious
of their mastery that, tender though
they are in beak and body and claw,
they will chase and mob any enemy.
I hav > many times watched them
compel he retreat of u cat by driving
at him iio close as, you would swear,
to touch his ears. The cat did not so
much au attempt to strike, and soon
retired utterly cowed. We have all
seen them mobbing birds of prey and
curvetting round them, In repeated
area, having no trouble to keep pace,
though they travel many times the dis
tance.
The point has been made by Oliver
Wendell Holmes In a charming, if
rather elaborate, metaphor, In which
he compared their excursions with the
thoughts of a nlmble-witted listener
to a slow preacher. He could wander
pleasantly In this direction and that,
yet be sure of keeping the thread of
the preacher's journey when he might
wish to return.—Sir W. Beach Thomas
In the Atlantic Monthly.
____________________________ Thursday, July 14, 1927
r> ild-flavored vegetable, such
as
potatoes of lima beans; one vege-'
able of pronounced flavor, like (
■: luliflower, cabbage, or onions;
o te which is either sour itself, or ■
ir ay be served with vinegar, spin-1
ach, or beets, for instance. Second,
there must be variety of texture.
Variety in texture is obtained by
having one vegetable with a crisp
crust, like corn fritters, or scallop
ed tomatoes; a second vegetable
served with sauce; and a third sim
ply cooked in water, as peas, or
string beans, are usually cooked.
A raw vegetable, such as celery or
radishes, lends still further variety.
The third point to remember in
connection with a vegetable dinner
is to include some protein foods
in the meal. As a rule, one of the
vegetables should be beans, or peas,
which are comparatively rich in pro
tein. Or one of the vegetables may
be served with a protein food, such
as cheese, milk, eggs or chopped
Record» Earth’» Movement I meat. Examples of vegetables com-'
The apparatus in the Academy of | bined with protein foods are green
Sciences in Washington that Illustrates peppers or tomatoes stuffed with
the movement of the earth is a Fou a meat mixture, cauliflower or po
cault pendulum. Foucault, a French
tatoes scalloped with cheese, spin
scientist, explained the fact of the
rotation of the earth by hanging a ach with hard-boiled eggs, and
heavy ball by a tine wire from the | sweet corn pudding made with milk
dome of the Pantheon In Paris. This I and eggs.
pendulum was set swinging In a cer
Cottage cheese is high in food
tain direction, but gradually the direc value. It contains all the constitu
tion of the swing appeared to change, ents of milk, excepting cream. Like
as indicated by marks made upon the milk, cottage cheese is a source of
door. As no force whatever had acted
protein, which is used to build and
upon the pendulum. It was evident
that the whole earth was turning repair body tissue. There are many
dishes which can be made with cot-
around.
tage^ cheese. Cottage cheese served
plain is especially pleasing in sum-
“Inside" Information
mer. Many people like it with rich
There are three points to rem ¡cream, and a little salt, or with
ember,, in preparing a vegetable din , cream and sugar. Sour cream, or
ner. First there must be a variety melted butter, improves the flavor
of flavor. So far as flavor is con of cottage cheese, and increas»»
cerned, a good combination is one the food value. Cottage cheese I
makes a delicious sandwich filling,1 The bureau of Dairy Industry of
specially for the picnic season of'i.ie United States department of
the year. For sandwiches, moisten i griculture estimates that the cow-
■ he cheese with sweet cream, and testing association costs the mem-
lavor it with a little chopped par- 1 ers less than one cent per day
aley, chopped or sliced olives, sliced p er cow on the average.
celery, pimentoes, horseradish Span-
Hampers and barrels for shipping
ish onions, pickles, or nuts. Some cabbage are rapidly being replaced
people like the flavor of caraway I y crates. Crates are sturdier, eus-
seeds in cottage cheese. This spread i.-r to load, they allow better ven-
is equally good on white bread, rye tilation, and permit the cabbage to
bread, nut bread, or brown bread, be displayed more effectively.
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