Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-27
you see us looEin' some hard"

| ut Is yourself we wish to see, not
your clothes, Mrs. Morningstar,' Geor-
giana said encouragingly. "Externals
are lost sight OF when once one gets
below the surface to the real person
Mrs. Morningstar blushed and looked
shocked. while her son Abe at her side
colored all over his fat, sunburned
neck
"To be sure" the farmers wife re-
piled obviously, II wouldn't think
much Of that practice-lettin folks see
you undressed."
Georgiana, whose eyes were upon
Pete, noticed that he smiled. She sank
back in her chair, a shade of disap-
pointment In her face But she would
not despair. The potential good III
every human soul must eventually
awaken to the right touch.
"Eunice" sharply ordered Mrs.
Morningstar. her tone in addressing
her foster child noticeably unlike that
In which she spoke to any one else,
don't you see the fried smashed pota-
toes is all? Why don't you mind your
self and fill the dish up oncet?"
The girl without any response and
! with no change in the pensiveness or
/ her countenance, rose to do as she was
bid The delicacy and refinement OF
her face made one expect to see her
embarrassed by such rude harshness
in the presence Of strangers. But she
did not appear to be even conscious OF
it.
| To- ,S,,rr .for p11
Pete as the girl brought back the pc
tato dish from the stove, don't you
i want some more smashed potatoes!
| Miss Parks paused in her dainty sip
! ping Of her milk uhe Morningstar cot
j fee ana tea being impossible) and
| looked interested.
care you doctor!" she inquired
! wonderingly as Peter without replying
, to the landlady helped himself to po-
| tatoes.
There was an instant's silence, no
one Offering reply at once.
"Och," said Mrs. Morningstar abrupt
ly, with n confusion unacconntable to
the two young ladies, that's just
title he goes by around here STILL"
"Why! pursued Miss Parks with
frank curiosity.
II don't know fur why" she said
hastily Wont yous have some cof-
fee? This here coffee cost IA cents
pound, SO I think it might meb-
be taste some like that there cot
fee we got cup OF the time W was
to Phil-delph-y and took n Pr e at
| Wanamaker's place. But that there
| coffee was. now. wonderful good
tasted! The best ever seen. And
| mind to what 1t cost yet! Ten cents
cup! I thought I'd drop when the
| coored gent'man sayed to pop We
owed a quarter apiece-me and pop
| fur just four little buckwheat cakes
and cup Of coffee apiece! 1t spited
me so I couldn't take no more enjoy
ment out of nothin' all the rest of the
day. That give me all ! wanted of
| goin' to big city! That-and a awful
| scenery we seen in Broad street sta
| tion-the form Of two women comm to-
wards us-drunk! You mind Of 1t, pop?
! I'd never Witnessed such scenery be-
| fore as q woman drunk! That there
was my first and my last trip to Phil
delph-y A trip to Meckville's good
enough fur me after that And such
|. hurryin' and crOwdin' as there Is
still in big city! 1t seems as the
folks there never thinks Of the here
after the way they hurry along the
street Will yous have some coffee?"
The fourteen cent coffee was de-
clined, evidently to the surprise of the
rest Of the family.
"Our cookin'," continued Mrs. Morn
ingstar boastfully, "ain't done by no
hired girl. When we used to be at
hotellin', nineteen years back, trav-
elm man asst me oncet, where's your
cook?' Me and Lizzie's her. l sayed.
Nizzie was my sister, deceased this
while back aready) Us we do our
own cookin', toe him. Well, guess,
anyhow
"Yous afn't like some." spoke up Mr..
Morningstar, his tone expressing his
qualification ut the dainty appetites of
his boarders as they both declined
more potatoes. "Some wants to eat
their moneys worth anyhow if they're
hungry or if they amt. Now, there's
me-" he said jocularly, Il believe I'd
eat three meals at oncet (when one
would do me) if could get 'em fur
nothin'. When l was young man l
went out west fur awhile. l often had
heard SO much about this west SO
thought now I'd go see 1t fur myself
oncet. Well, stayed two years, and
when come back the first meal I took
was in such a caf-fee In Phil-delph-y
with a man where was goin' to buy
some cattle off of me, and l sayed now
I'd take oysters, oncet had the
chanel, because you couldn't git 'em
in the west, so first ] ordered fried
(hlm he eat beefsteak). Well, eat
them six fried, and then l ordered a
stew Them I eat, too, and SO says
now take 'em raw. The. hotel waiter
he says to me, You don't live in Phil
delph-y, do you? NO. says, I lived
in the west this while back, and can't
git oysters out there Yes the waiter
he says, I thought So Well, when l
was only half through my dozent raw
ones l didn't feel fur eatin no more,
but l paid fur 'em, so I hated to let
'em. l coaxed this here man where