The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-11-07

Il DON'T NRED ANY MoRE GRAY CALICO y
| about women,s gear" Luke shrewdly
surveyed her downcast face. Wasn't
! it?' he insisted
Eyes, Luke Finch, If you win know
all about it, 1t was about clothes! You
can look as shocked as you Ike; you've
said yourself there wasn't any trouble
too small to carry to the Lord in
prayer and ask for his help-and 30
asked him about tasseled shoesf'
'Tasseled shoes? repeated Luke.
aghast ''Tasseled shoesY'
Eyes, tasseled shoes"
'You want 'em-for yourselfr'
"Of course l do. Did you think I
wanted them for you'll"
'sGood land, no! But didn't know
women wore tasseIed shoes, Adelaide =
Luke was surveying his wife's neat,
square toed common sense shod feet
There's lot you don't know about
women, Luke Finch" half sobbed
Adelaide, dropping stitches with every
tear. 1--WE wanted pair of tasseled
shoes all my life. Even when / was a
little girl and the other children wore
cunning little boots with tassels at the
top my father frowned 'em down.
And so l thought when grew up !
could have what liked. but until l
got married father had his say about
what we girls wore, and he wouldn't
hear Of pair of tasseled shoes. He
said they were ungodly"
80 they are-so they areP' inter
rupted Luke warmly. 'The serpent's
snare Of vanity for weak women"
II don't suppose those pink suspend
ers you've got on are serpent's snare
for mems vanity" retorted Adelaide
Luke thrust his thumbs under the
pink suspenders and snapped the elias
tic noisily. That's different. Addie, !"
he said loftily "Suspenders are made
in fancy colors. and always get pink
because 1t pieases me better, than
some other colors. Tasseied shoes are
different"
"Fiddlesticks! l guess you could
find pair of plain white ones or drab
ones, like the dresses you pick out for
me-
Adelaide Finch, would you wear n
pink dress?' demanded Luke incredu-
lously.
ayes. would why not?"
Luke stroked his chin thoughtfully.
II thought you liked gray calico, AIDE.
laide You always look neat in gray
and
80 does the gray painted hitching
post look neat" commented Adelaide
sarcastically.
HUM calculated Luke, retiring to
his easy chair once more. "Gray's an
economical color, Addie. AS 1t is, you
1 wear out bolt Of gray calico every
year. II twas pink, now, you'd wear
out twice as many"
Without word Adelaide threw aside
her knitting and went to a high chest
of drawers in one corner OF the room.
From the lower drawer she took out
package after package and tossed
them on the floor at her husbands
ACCt. A1OOA AA5ANCg oAAO ~OA@AAAAA A@@>~Sea
In vibrating voice.
Luke picked up package, tore 10
open and discovered bolt Of gray
and white calico. Another and yet
another showed the same contents un-
til five packages lay in disorder around
him. He stared back at Adelaide's
defiant eyes.
Without a word Adelaide gathered
up the packages Of calico, placed them
in the drawer and closed It. Then she
arose and went about the nightly du-
ties-iocking doors and windows and
putting out the cat At last she paused
before Luke with lighted candle In
her hand.
You can see don't need any more
gray Calico" she said quietly and
passed upstairs to bed
The next day was Sunday. and Luke
Finch listened to sermon whose text
was "Prayers-answered and unan.
swered." The sentence that went
straight home to Luke's heart was the
one which declared that the humbAese