The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
COWSLIP GREENS
EY SOPHIE SWETT.

huge pan filled With tropical looking
leaves and brilliant yellow blossoms.
And the blows carry me right back
to East Macedonia and the pretty
smells there use to be there in the
spring Of the year, Seems as if spring
hadn't a fair chance here in Potlphar
City. Your father used to like mess
of pork and green's
''Oh, ma, wish you wouIdn want
such dreadfully vulgar things. Ad-
die Luella who was sixteen, had tears
of yexation in her pretty blue eyes,
and wish YOU could get over East
Macedonia. The Parkhursts came
from there, too, but who would think
it2 They're the very first people IN
Potiphar City and-and Augusta
wouldn't invite me to the Charity
Club tableaux.
The reason for the little fine FUCKERS
that had been all day between Addie
Luella's brows had come out now.
Mrs. Tibbetts looked vaguely per-
picked and troubled; she dimly com
pretended that to have a mother 90,
livious of grammar and OF social
aSOlr3L1OQS IlldOt 4!IS Attii ~ PH'A
pricks for Addie Luella.
In Potiphar City one was nothing, II
not stylish. Fifteen years before, the
CITY had been a strip of unreclalmed
prairie: now it was great lumber
town with most of the appliances OF
civilization and all the fashions. Hi
ram Tibbetts. coming from East Mace
donia in Maine, did his share in re-
claiming the prairie and made for
tune in lumber. Pa" was quite a
magnate of Potiphar City; but OF
what use was that, demanded Addle
Luella, with tears, if ma would be so
common and old-fashioned.
II guess you'll have to do your so.
Gil climbin' without your ma" SAID
good Hiram Tbbetts, gazing with
pride upon his pretty daughter. PA"
did understand little.
1T don't seem mite like Adellne
Parkhurst to get so stuck up" said
Mrs. Tibbetts, rehectively. When
we was girls in East Macedony, there
want nobody so intimate as Adellne
and me; and named you for her and
she named Augusty for me. Enoch
Parker and your father are second
cousins, too, and it's dretful clan
nish family; they stick to one mother
through thick and thin. But your
father and Enoch had a difficulty about
some railroad stocks and hain't never
spoke to each other sence; and then
their goin' to another meetin, and
Adeine gettin' so kind of high hyln' ;
not but what she's real good woman
and gives away sight"
''She isn't likely to have much to
give away if what I've heard IS true.
This was Hiram Tibbetts, junior, a
boy of seventeen, who had just come
in with the importance of possessor
ofnews. ''It's secret, overheard
pa and another man talking about 1t.
Parkhurst is an awfuIly tight place;
they think he'll fail; then his mills
will be closed; they say he's made an an
awful struggle to keep 'em open all
winter and-don't YOU breathe it to
anybody, but they're afraid there Il be
a run on the bank that he's President
of; he hasn't done anything wrong,
but he lost his head when he began to
getinto trouble, and there are doubts
about the way some Of the bank S
money is invested"
'sDo you suppose there won't be any
tableaux, Hi?" asked Addie Luella,
breathlessly.
"Oh, 'Gusta don't know anything
about it vet, of course, nor her mother
either. I saw them driving around
this morning with that pair OF spank
ing bays and a new carriage. sup
pose he thinks he must keep up ap-
pearances. "
"I'm glad we don't have to-" said
Mrs. Nbbetts, drawing long breath.
II declare, if we have gone such diff
runt ways I feel nearness to Adeline
when she's in trouble. Kind of queer
that was thinkin' of her this mornin'
I expect it twas because seein' them
cowslips in peddler's wagon fetched
old times right back to me. run
right out and bought all he had-and
now don't know as | know exactly
what to do with 'em all. Your father
used to like a mess of pork and
green's. "
Addie Luella sighed heavily; but
she helped herself to all the blossoms,
and made of her boudoir what her
friend. Trixy Wainwright, called a
symphony in yellow with them, and
filed a great bowl with them to deco
rate the dinner table. Ma" said she
loved to smell posies when she was
eating: but she didn't like the candles
with which Addie Luella persisted in
lighting the table; she said candles
were old. fashioned in East Macedony
when she was girl, and what was the
sense of havin' 'em when they had
electric lights?
''Pan looked askance at the cowslip
greens; he said he used to like 'em
when he was a boy, but he guessed
with his dyspepsy he wouldn't resk it.
Mrs. Tibbetts looked at the neglected
dish of green's and had an inspiration
(she kept it private, as she did many
of her inspirations, lest they should
be frowned upon by Addie Luella).
She put some Of the greens, with a
slice OF pork on the top, into dish Of
the old clover-leaf china that was her
mother's 's-they seemed to belong IN
something old fashioned-and sent
them to Miss Lucretia Lund, who had
come from Maine to keep house for
her brother. She placed the dish in
dainty basket and slipped card in
side conveying her compliments; that
would impart little air of style to
the affair which was desirable in view
of the fact that Addie Luella might
find it out
ssCowslip greens from Mrs. Hiram
Tibbetts that's what the servant said. )"
Miss Lucretia Lund took the clover.
leaf china cover off the dish and shifted
daintily. Then she looked across the
table at her brother-for the basket
had been brought in while they were
at dinner-and made wry face. "Of