The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-09-30
Seleft Storp.
How Senator Sparks Took Tea With
The DUnlS.

susse Bouoaellc wight. IN Yoalhs Companion
When a girl Is l6, and her mother Just
II years older, they may be delightful
chums but when the rift comes within the
lutte. Isie precedent Of comradeship makes
lt difficult for the mother TO insist upon
being treated With the Difference that be
longs by night to mothers. IL Is especially
difficult if bath parents have united all the
10 years in spoihng the girl, ~ that, sweet
a. she may be. she doss not understand
anything about discipline
After her first year at boarding school,
Re-alecn bad coue home very full Of the
notion that her people in the far back
country village in the piny woods oi
Georgia we're far behind the times Her
mother immediately resented this. perhaps
the more bitterly because her teadcr heart
missed the former rlose relationship that
had bcen - sweet
Rosalcen had always bad her way abou,
,hiags, aud She resented her mother NJ.
gusal To accvp, ucw standards. 50 matters
hsd gone On. until BOW the tvo svrr anly
united in one thing. and ,ha, was to keep
the true state Il their Cceling from Dr
Dunn. the iajuIgeo,, ja,iHg bead Il she
family.
Affairs had come to 4 crisis. howeyes.
wish the reccips &c letter from the dc.
Tor hs-s boy yhood friend. newiy elected
senator, wbo wr0,e 10 say that in passing
thraagh Gsorvia he vas going To give h,m
ssll The pleasure ef ssnPpjng with his dsi
cham from & eloek enc evening until
IL that night Mrs Dunn aud Roealsen
began planning to have the house ani sup
per worthy of she oceasion, aud wcre l-,th
talking az once. when p,Artor nnnu brUke
in with his big, hearty voice
You NAV call him Senator Sparks II
YOU want to, aud yoa nay put on the big
pa and the h,lle one. slso. ii you ~ de-
sire, but as for me, he l. just plain Tony,
the saur as when We were barrio0ged chaps
together. and dot see the nscessiiy Tor
going to - much extra trout.le
''l | should ike To make 4 gool impres
sion o1 Your friend, who has never seen
yoar wife, said Mrs Dunn. pEin,ly.
And have lil,le pride Of my own,
remarked Rosalecn, and she aud her
mother exchanged cs-ol, determined glanees.
Their gray eyes we're very much alike and
their square ehins were cut by the same
pattern.
,Oh, vel, we'll, the easy going dos
tor tossed the disturbing letter on the table
aud took mp his hat, feed the hua on
anything YOU two can agu,c upon, but
don make such good impression that he
viii have no eyes oT ears for me. The
geaeral run Of company am glad to have
ulonopoliEed by my pretty young wife aud
daughter, but with Tony it Is different
matter | haven seen the boy tOr more
than twenty years, and 70 tell you the
truth, | have good mind to bundle both
Of YOU over to Grandmother Smith :, -
that can have him all to myself Sup
per, mother! tia. ha! wonder il you
have already forgotten the tales have told
You Of how Tony aud used to have pos
sum roasis aud oyster stewS all TO ourselves
aud ihuse times when we hook ID chickens
aud rice from our unsuspectlns mothers
aud went down into the swamp and made
pilau in our fireplace boilers? just fix to
your heart content, but don worry
yourselves.
The doctor stopped long enough to Kiss
them good-by, and then set of upon an
all-day trip.
Fried chicken, boiled ham, hot rolls,
boiled hominy, potato custards, salmon
salad, potato salad, milk yeast bread. picca-
hlli, chow chow, watermelon preserves
"Motherl RoSaleen's : abrupt protest
terminated Mrs. Dunn's hospitable emu
meration, and recalled to her mind the
fact that there were differences between
herself aud the young lady Of the house
''You will kill the Senator il you make
him eat all those thingsr' Rosaleen pro
ceeded eonscientiousiy, People don t
have groaning tables any more, ike those
Grandma Smith fixes they call it vul-
gar.
Mrs. Dunn's small figure grew alarm
ingly straight and her eyes we're perilously
bright, but she listened in silence not
trusting herself to speak
IL will just finish making the house
bright and pretty, went on Rosaleen,
''and then, if you will let me, | will take
entire charge of the tea-table, if only you
will make the pound cake and the rolls for
me. -
Yes M returned Mrs. Dunn, sim
ply, but there was enough sarcasm in the
one word to reveal all that was in her
heart. She went directly 10 the kitchen,
and few moments later, when Rosaleen
leaned out of the parlor window to brush
the dust off an ornament, she saw cloud
of smoke boiling out of the chimney.
"The big pot and the little one are
evidently being put on, she said to her
self "But never mind. don just
know how, but will manage. She
nodded her head until her brown curls
shook and trembled, and then, few mo-
ments later, began a serial course of turn
ing up her small nose at various sounds
and scents that reached her from the
kitchen