Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-31
Homemade Bread.

for chocolate eclaires, and on Friday
evening [ am going there, to make
up all / can, so that the school chill
dren will buy them on Saturday. ]
know how to make cinnamon apple
tarts, too, and lemon drops and CO.
coanut balls
"Grace, / believe you have taken
leave of your Senses" said Medora
May. zone would think it was dis
grace enough for Aunt Deborah
our own aunt to open horrid little
huckster's shop, without mixing our
selves up in the affair."
''But Aunt Debby must live, you
know" said Grace, who was perched
kitten-fashion on the window-sill
feeding the canary with bits of white
sugar. 'Cousin Nixon couldn't keep
her any longer-and her eyes are not
strong enough for fine needlework
and her education has not fitted hel
to be teacher, and her poor ole
rheumatic bones keep her from going
behind counter or entering a facto.
ry. suppose you wouldn't be will
ing to have her come here and live
with you?''
"Ip' cried Medora. "Do you
suppose / want to proclaim to the
whole town that / have such a dilap-
dated old relative as that?'
II would take her quick enough, %
said Grace, "if / didn't board with
Mrs. Hewitt, and share the little up
stairs room with the two children.
Just wait until I marry some rich
man," she added, with saucy up
lifting of her auburn brows, "and
then see if don't furnish up a state
apartment for Aunt Debby"
''Don't talk nonsense" said Medo-
IA, acidly. "It's very likely, isn't
it, that factory girl like you will
marry rich man?'
Grace Craxall laughed merrilly.
All through her life she and he1
cousin, Medora May, had agreed to
differ on most points. Grace, see
ing no other career before her, had,
on the death of her last surviving
parent, eheerfully entered a factory,
while Medora, taking her stand on
the platform of a false gentility, had
done fine sewing and silk embroidery
on the sly to support herself, putting
on all the airs of young lady of
fashion the while. And now Aunt
Deborah May, to the infinite disgust
of her aristocratically inclined niece,
had actually opened little low-win-
dowed shop in shady street just out
of the main thoroughfare, and, as
Medora despairingly expressed it
"gone into trade !''
For Aunt Debby, in her bewilder-
ed loneliness, had scarcely known
what to do until Grace Craxall came
to the rescue with hopeful courage
and straight forward common sense.
81 only wish it wasn't sinful to
take dose of laudanum and put my
self out of the way sighed the poor
old lady.
"Now, Aunt Debby, that doesn't
sound one bit like you," said Grace,
cheerfully.
''But what am 1 to do?" said Aunt
Deborah.
"What can you do?" said Grace.
81 don't know as am good for
anything" said the old lady, with a
quiet tear or two, "except to help
around the house-and / amt strong
enough for regular hired help. Youl
uncle always used to say was 8
master hand at making bread
"Then make it," brightly inter
rupted Grace.
s'Eh! !' said Aunt Debby.
'There's a nice little store to le
on Bay street" :" went on Grace, $50
ten dollars a month"
'sBut I haven't got ten dollars 1
month";" feebly interrupted Aun
Debby.
"I'll lend it to you," said Grace
':out of the wages I have saved
And there's a pretty bedroom ant
} sitting-room at the back of the shop
and clean, dry basement under it
where you could bake your bread,
, know, for the sister of the lady wher
, 1 board is looking for dress-mak
+ ing rooms, and / heard her speaking
about it.
"Do you mean to open bakery !!
said bewildered Aunt Debby.
"Not exactly that" explaine
Grace. 'sBut if Mrs. Hewitt or Mrs
| Taylor, or any other of the ladie
: around here could get real home
made bread such as you made, d
! you suppose they would put up wit
! the sour stuff they get at the bake
= shops? And you can easily get u
j a reputation on your raisin cakes
e and fried crullers, and New Englan
!, pumpkin-pies. Now couldn't you? ?
t The old lady frightened up Ii
L tie.
e ST used to be pretty good at cool
g ing," said she. "And if you thin
d could support myself So"
n 81 am sure of it, cried the chee
full Grace. "And I'll 60 there wit
you this very day to look at tt
place, and will engage it for thrt
= months on trial. And / can pail
g. you sign to put over the doc
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