The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-02
FROM DREAM TO
REALITY.

worked In the pottery. Edmond Spier
was not q very good workman. He
wns rather inclined to study processes
for saving labor or of producing new
ana useful articles.
His wife, who was O practical wo-
man, had to bear her share of her hus-
bands handicap. She often argued
with him as TO the futllity of dreaming
about new processes none of which he
had the ability TO invent and being
thus drawn from hard work which
might advance his wages and render
the family more comfortable. But 1t
positions, and Molly Spier at last
gave up trying TO change that of her
husband.
Meanwhile there was no addition to
the comforts of the home. The larder
was no better. the furniture was get
ting more shabby, and the children
were ragged What with the cooking,
clothes Molly Spier was having q
hard time of 1t. But with all her prac-
ticabilty her amiable disposition could
no more be changed than could her
husbands proclivlty TO dream. But
one day Edmond came home from the
factory with burning fever on him,
and it was evident that he was in for
protracted illness.
There were no unions in those days
TO take care of n man when lie was
Ill. and the Spier family suffered great
ly. Molly Spier got odd jobs to do,
which helped TO keep them from starv-
Ing Edmond applied to his employer
for help. The pottery owner was a
cold, calculating business man and re-
piled that II he began to pay wages to
one of his men while III he would end
In having to pay all under similar cir
cumstances. This killed all hope of oh.
tanning anything from that direction.
One day Molly spent what money
she had on hand for some fresh pork.
Having bought more of 1t than she
could use In short time because ii
was cheap, she determined to cure Il
part of 1t. Putting some salt In n com.
mon cooking vessel such as was used
| In those days. an unglaZed porous af-
fair, she filed 1t with water and set 1t
on the stove to heat Then she went
out to attend to another matter.
Edmond. who was now convalescent
was in the only other room in the
, cabin spending his time. as usual, day
dreaming. He began by inventing in
| Imagination vessel hard glazed like
glass, substance that no water could
penetrate and neither heat nor cold
crack. Having invented this imaginary
vessel. he proceeded to sell his inven-
tlon for fabulous sum, build house,
dress his wife In silks and satins and
the children In equally fine apparel.
He heard something sizzling In the
| kitchen, and II occurred to him that he
should go In there and see what was
wrong and correct it, But at that mo-
ment he was figuring up his fortune,
and the matter passed out of his mind.
He was stlll dreaming when he heard
Molly go into the kitchen and utter an
exclamation of impatience. Then she
came into, where Edmond was lying,
holding an empty saucepan, and for
once since his illness lost her cqua-
nimity.
"All the salt had is gone" she said.
~ put II on hot fire with water,
which boiled over. Besides, just ool;
at the saucepan. There's something on
the outside that won't be rubbed of
The pan is spoiled for looks if not for
use. do think you might have gone
into the kitchen and prevented the
damage"
Edmond took the saucepan in his
hand and examined IT, Where the
salt and water had boiled over the
vessel was glazed He scratched II
with his nail without effect. He took
out his pocketknife and tried to scrape
II off, all to no purpose.
"Molly," he said, you've made us
rich"
She turned away with an expires.
sion of impatience. He got up and hid
the saucepan under the bedclothes
Then, with step so strong that his
wife looked at him with amazement
lie went out and bought on credit q
bag of salt. Before he went to bed
that night he had roughly glazed every
cooking vessel in the cabin.
The next day lie broke up one Of the
vessels and took piece to the owner
of the pottery. "How did you do it?'
asked the potter. That's my secret, y
Edmond replied. "What do you want
for your secretW "A third interest IN
your pottery"
Time passed, during which the potter
submitted the glazing to scientists Of
ferlng large sum to any one who
would tell him how 1t had been ef
fected But none of them could tell
Only Edmond and Molly Spier knew
and Molly proved that woman can
keep a secret. Besides, Edmond con
vlnced her OF Its value. Weeks passed
during which hunger still made lts
abode in their cabin. Edmond was Of
fered large sum for his secret. HC
declined. Then he was offered a quar-
ter interest In the pottery. But hC
held firm, and Molly ut last caught tn,
Infection of his confidence till his
terms were complied with on condi
tion that 1t prove practicable and no
too expensive.
The dreamer's dream was realized
Only he had nothing to do with th,