The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-02
AUNT BINA'S QUILT
BY Mrs. O. w. Scott.



IrNr BINA EMERSON had pieced
q The quilt from bits of calico < ven
- x, the women and girls IN eaeh
. .le liked. 1t was the lone WON
.,. ",oye-euilt." with her shades 81 al
,.tor deliberately Outlined in tiny
;nang'es =. 49,,
~l won't have any pieces In IL that
.alur ANYBODY that's siingy. or suck
up. DR. mtldlesome. or cruel she s"ia'
ain have t just rs near like fresh AR
lid sunshine as it car be, SO when m
,cs ;tll SEEM like nice, bright story
"gut YOU needn't have counted
ere, stitch" protested her sister, Mrs.
rlinrs in whose home She had her
COZ! room.
ANY body would think you we're an
astronomer. counting stars, TO see now
particular you've been added pretty
lIetty Barton, for whose benets the
quilt was now exhibited, and she
looked at the paper, covered vita ca
talistic figuring, which was Aunt
Bina's actual record of stitches set.
well. stars or stitches, we like 10 see
how many we've got, and counting is
only pastime. The minister says we
can't think of two things al the same
t'me but somehow | can count my
stitches and have most profitable
thoughts right along. like the way
I've disposed Of my lights and darks,
don't you?" Aunt Bina shook out the
great square complacently.
III is beautiful" Hetty exclaimed.
'Nhy. you've got piece of my light
tue ID the middle: and here is my
pink. and there is my dark blue,"
'Ncs hats because L" Aunt Bina
had almost said love you" but she was
rot in The habit OF expire ssing herself in
that way
The Young girl looked at her ques
..oningiy. then suddenly stopped anc
cropped kiss upon her forehead.
Don't be foolish. child" said Aun
E.na
When the last minute triangle wal
finally set in its corner Mrs. Billing
made "a quilting. 10 which every won
an came who was invited. for it wa
Neil understood by this time that good
ae,s as well as according 4
Aunt Bina's inca surement-was repre-
ynted.
"She ought TO know who amongs. II
IS angelic. after being in our sicb
rooms aud kitchens so many years,
they said
In those DAYS cuttings were SUI
posed to be enivened by much GOSSIP
but the women who gathered that afte
loon. in the spring of 1862. wore anNiou
faces and had but one theme of conye
sation. the sacrifices that the overbu
1ened nation seemed 10 be prepariu
- ask from them.
They have opened a recruiting o
Gee" said one TO another.
Capt Pillsbury's in charge. II
Through is almost up. but he m,al
20 get a company enlisted before
goes back" was the next bit of news.
II should think we were far enoui
cut OF the world to be let alone" "a
Mrs. Hastings. as she snapped the cor
vet in starch water. across the trins'l,
That's crooked" interrupted h
aeighhor. referring to the work; tn
she added. coming back to the top
but don't wonder you feel SO, wi
three grown boys TO worry about
We've no boys TO spare. mere
fden," added Mrs. Thornton but Nj
sachusetts hasn't failed TO do her ps
80 far, and I've expected our time wor
come"
"IIer John'll be one of the first
enlist, now you see." whispered Z
busy workers on the opposite side
the quilt.
And SO il proved; for when. at I,
light, the husbands and brothers ca
IN to partake of Mrs. Billings bour
ful supper. bringing the Boston pap
and the news of the day. they gave
names of those who had enlisted Il
afternoon, and the first one was JIG
Thurston's
And probably Harry Thurston ,
Join that company before it's lied:
has mother nceunt know sovut j,
now" they satd. So IL was whispe
80 the room where she sat: but
understood the message that pas
from ere to eye. lIetty Barton un,
stood. too. although she did not n
her eyes from the line where she
setting small. even stitches The
waves were fun of echoes in '62
Hetty did not need even Johns wo
which came later in the evening, to
firm their dire prophecies.
Then how the war fever spr
Through Eden! Around the recruit