St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-27
Rain versus Sunshine.
written for the cALEDoS1AN.l

months have been trying to find out to
which class belong" growled very
much dampened young lady. as she open
ed the door into very cosy little kitch-
en-; marched across the room and put the
end of her umbrella into the coalhod,
standing at the end of the stove, hung
her wet macintosh over the back of a
chair, and turned to face the mistress OF
the domain who from the pantry door
was smilingly surveying the newcomer.
"Well YOU may stand there looking as
serene as d spring morning ought to be, .
part I can't see any fun in this moist kind
of existence; we have rain served up for
breakfast, dinner and supper and sand
WICKED in betwee times. I can't play
golf ride my bicycle and show off my
new suit, or even go down town for a
cake OF laundry soap, without getting
wet enough to use it before get home" "
"Why good morning, Marion, can this
be YOURSELF" said the little matron, as
the torrent of words subsidized. DO sit
down dear, while get my cake ready
for the oven, then we will go in the sit
ting room and have a cosy little visit.
Can it be the weather has such depress-
ing effect on your usually cheerful mind |?
I like to hear it rain," continued the little
woman as she went back to her work.
well then, your likes must have been
wonderfully grati6ed for the last two
months. AS for myself think a whole
four weeks in April enough, without five
weeks in May. I'm not like the man who
was sick for nine long wakes in the
month of August and his only cry was
But what are you baking cake for this
morningas I thought your cake days
were Wednesday and Saturday, and this
is Friday"
"Scatter sunshine hun1med the little
woman in the pantry, keeping the tune
along to whites of eleven eggs, beat
light-all along the way-cup of flour
sifted four times, add cream tartar. and
sift again-Cheer and bless and bright
en-add cup of sugar, then -four lightly
every passing day."
peal of laughter greeted the cake
maker as she came out to put the cake
in the oven.
81 don't wonder Alice, you like the
rain, ii you don't know anything more
about it than you do the questions I
tell single one, and if that cake is a
success it will be simply because it is an
angel cake. I am really paid for my
walk in this drenching rain just to hear
you compound that affair. It was beat
en- to a tune equal to the one we used to
tramp out over the schoolhouse floor
Once two is two; two times two are
FOUR" &c. And Marion Redpath went
off in another gale of laughter.
'I always, when the days are gloomy,
sing some little song, it makes me forget
it is dull outside. And to prove to you
that 1 am not wholly devoid of hearing
will answer one of your questions and
tell you why I make a cake on Friday
said Mrs. Ray as she drew her friend into
the sitting room.
NOW you SIT uOWu III that easy GudiI /,
I will take this and we will have a good
time. That cake is for a lunch that is to
be served at the close of a sort ofmeeting
of the sunshine members at the F st.
church today. And now see here Mar
ion;" exclaimed Mrs. Ray as she sat up
straight in her chair. II won't tell you
another thing, but you just come along
with me. I am going and you do so love
to be out in the rain, it will be nothing
but pleasure. Now please don't say
no, but be all ready to take the car at
1890, it is quite ride and the exercises
begin at half-past one."
dispose I'll get piece of that cake if
I go !? am curious to see how the whites
of eleven eggs, beat all along the way,
will taste, so think l will accept your
gracious invitation and go with you.'
Good; Marion, thought you would.
Don't go yet" she continued as Marion
went to the kitchen and rescued her
macintosh from the chair back and UNI
brella from the coal-hod.
"Oh must Alice, if go with you this
afternoon, L was going to help mother
on Mabel's dress, but if am to be away
must do my part now, so good bye until
~ 80"
1t was still raining when they boarded
down town car. Like all the cars at
that hour, it was crowded with damp
people, the wet umbrellas sending little
rivulets of water racing along the car
floor. making Marion shiver with dis
gust as she stood clingipg with one hand
to the strap, "to save that cake from a
watery grave" she said when she insisted
that Alice should take the only vacant
seat.
Like all crowded cars where people
were always wanting to get on or off, it
lost time, so when the two reached F St.
church they found the meeting in full