The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-22

ilrst thing and Of nothing else, and Fhe
'iiarEet Is aivayS oysr;to ,kc /. Ny /
~ 10 Eoa IS. 10 think mp soms'hihS
You can do bester than othcr p ;ople
,ha whit gives fo,ss real clance!
Now VIII It IS iherea',
Iaere ISM anything can do better
IMAM other peoplc,n cried the dismayed
i,e''a' Nor iletty either maze
I'M. 'F Ii' she a ided. with ialnt
li'lle iaaSa. = lIetty beats everybody
II 'hit' gran lmother always said.
-, very wei: make gingerbread then
mt yolr thing tod do said Amt Polly
He'ty looked at her with ineredulous
said - -
= am. In dad earn ST..
bilt; Aunt Polly. gingsrbreaf! such
little thing ~ that! Who ever heard
OF n girl doing such thing.
All the betterif They never did. A
new tFade has 4 doubls chance As for
the little. great things often come from
small beginnings. Fortunes have been
made out OF gingerbread before now.
III be bound, or ifnot that out OF some
thing no bigger, No. Hetty. depend
upon IT. II your gingerbread is best folks
will want it. Aud if your teaching or
sewing Is only second best they won I.
It's the law OF human nature, and very
good law, too though it cuts the wrong
way sometimes, like all laws"
''Aunt Polly, you're genius, cried
lietty, warmed into sudden glow by TINS
vigorous common sense. Il can make
good gingerbread, and its just rs You
say, neither of us know enough to teach
well, and we are both poor hands at
sewing. and we should have a much
better chance il we tried to do what we
can and not wh9t we can {. Why
shoaldn't make gingerbread? DEFY d
HELM me. and if folks liked our things
and BOUGHT them. we could liRe and
keep together We could make kind
of shop OF this room, couldn't we? VIVA.
do YOU think?''
':Tisn't a bit a bad place for such a
trade" said Aunt Polly, slowly meas
urinq the room with her eyes ..Being
on a corner is an advantage. Won see,
and there's that double winder on the
street gives tirst-rate chance to show
whatSou've got to sell Inever did see
no use in that winder before NY
father. he had it cut for a kind of a whim
like, and we all thought it was notional
in him; but as they say, keep a thing
long enough and use'll turn up. It's
Il sort of gain fer YOU, too, having the
house so old-fashioned. Folks has a
rhankering for such things, nowadays
the Lord knows why-I hear EN- going
ON about it when I'm out tailorin'; cali
inc ugly things quaint and lovely,
because they re old. Hetty' with sud
den Observation-Disclosures an idea for YOU.
be quaint Don't try for shop; keep
the room a room, and make it as old
fashioned looking as you eaa. and I'll
bet q cookie that your gingerbread II
be twice as popular with one set of folks,
and if it's first-rate gingerbread, the
other set who don't care for old things
will like it Just as WE'LL
What bracing thing is word in sea-
son. Aunt Polly's little seed of sug-
gestion grew and spread like jack S
tabled beanstalk.
Your light biscuits always turn out
we'll"
and my snaps Grandmother always
liked them so much. And you re good
hand at loaf bread, you know Aunt
Pouv-I seem to smell fortune in the
air We will begin at once, Just as soon
as can get a half-barrel of flour and put
an advertisement in the paper"
Hetty had ready wit, and Aunt
Polly's hint rs TO ''quaintness" was not
lost upon her The advertisement when
it appeared the next day but one ran
thus: after Monday next, the Old Time
Bakery, corner of Farewell and Martin
Streets, will be prepared to furnish, to
order. fresh bread, buns, biscuits and
grandmother gingerbread, all home
made
People smiled over the little notice. but
the odd wording stuck in their memories
as odd things will, and more than one
person went out of his way during the
next week to take look into the wide.
low window, within which, on a broad
napkin-covered shelf, stood rows of
biscuits, light and white, buns, each
glazed with shining lumber brown, and
loaves of gingerbread, whose complexion
and smell were enough TO vouch for
their excellence. Acting. on Aunt Pol
Tvs suggestion, Hetty had set forth her
wares on plates of the oldest and oldest
pattern which could be found in grand
mothers closet. A queer. tall pitcher
flanked them on either side, and round
the window-frame she had twined the
long, luxuriant shoots of potted ivy.
Altogether the effect was pretty, and no
one need be told that the pitchers had for
years been consecrated to the reception
of Yeast and corks, or that the plates had
long since been relegated to kitchen use
as too shabby for better occasions.
..Hain't We no white chany," remarked
their first customer. au old woman, as
she counted out the pennies for half a
dozen biscuit a. 1t would kind o. set
your cakes off.
1--WE used what we had replied
Hetty, automatically. But l hope
your biscuits Il taste just as good as if
they came off a white plate"
This old woman, two others and lit
tie boy were the only customers the first
day.
s.'Tisn't bit good beginning" de
clared Della. pouring the money received
out OF an old-fashioned china tea-caddv,
which Hetty had unearthed in an upstairs
closet and brought down to serve as till.
:. Two dozen biscuits, that S twenty
cents. loaf OF gingerbread and about
half the buns. That's lifty-three cents in
all What did you say the material cost?"
:. About seventy cents. But then we
have our supper and breakfast out of
them, and nearly half the stock to sell at
asreduced rate tomorrow. We shan t
lose anything, reckon, but We shan
gain much either"
. Rome wasn't built all in a minute.
You win do well yet remarked Aunt
Polly, who had dropped in to hear the
result of the first days sales.
But two days@three-a week went by
and still trade did not materially improve,
and it took all Aunt Polly's wise saws
and hopeful auguries to keep their spir-
its up. Each day showed the same rec
ord, no loss, but almost no gain Toward
the end of the second week matters
mended. Mrs. Corliss, the wife of a
wealthy manufacturer, having an errand
in Farewell Street, happened to pass the
little window, and her bric-a-brac loving
eyes were caught at once by its unusual
appearance. She stopped, studied the
whole arrangement, from the ivy wreath
to the old pitchers; recollection of the
droll little advertisement over which she
had iauUhpd a faxv dax-- ,,rovi0uSlV came