South Bend news-times., 1914-02-05
BY Mabel HERBFIT URNEK.

Nuts, mixed 80
Ralslns ........... .4O
CIDER .......-..... ....... 1.9O
And now Helen counted this up. She
so she had to go over it several times
before she was sure of the result
S19.4O.
Nineteen dollars and forty cents
and that was not allowing for any eX-
tras. 1t was merely the raw material,
and on several items she was not at all
sure that she had allowed enough. And
she must buy a new roasting pan
they had nothing large enough to hold
' the two turkeys.
When everything was counted it
would be much more than twenty dol
lars. but she would try to keep it as
near that as possible.
| She gathered up her magazines and
menus and put them away 1t was
week yet until Thanksgiving. and
there was much to be done before the
actual preparations Of the dinner.
The whole apartment must be thor
/ Oughly cleaned and put in perfect or
| der for Carries keen eyes would be
/ everywhere. There would be nothing
she could not see Carrie herself was
an excellent hOusekeeper, but she kept
two maids and worked them almost to
death. And Helen resolved to show
| her that she could keep her apart
ments just as clean with only one
maid, who was not over-worked.
Now Della" going out into the
/ kitchen, Il want you to put fresh paper
/ in all these pantry shelves today and
clean up the pantry thoroughly. To-
morrows Saturday-weI polish all
the furniture and clean all the silver
\ and braSSes. Monday we'll clean the
! sitting room. library and dining room.
Tuesday the bedrooms. bathroom and
! hall. It'll take us all Wednesday TO
get ready for dinner-We don't want to
| leave any cleaning for that day.
Late Monday afternoon Helen hur-
/ ried down town to a department store
! for the roasting pan, candles, and some
! lace paper mats. On the way home
she stopped 1T big fancy grocer's
| for the nuts, bCnbOns. raisins olives
with pyramids Of oranges, lemons and
grape fruit baskets of fruit tied with
ribbons, the great vases of fancy can
ned and attractively packaged goods.
! Helen had bought more than she
/ intended. She could not resist box
! of crystallized ginger. and Jar Of
| Stuued dates, and one of especially
washed figs They would make the
| table so much more attractive. Finally
! she had TO tear herself away for fear
J OF buying more. Never had the stores
and the goods seemed so alluring.
! Even the butchers-the place from
/ which she usually shrank-had a fes-
| tive thanksgiving air A fat pig with
| an apple in It's mouth and a paper
/ frilled collar was in the window. The
| floor was freshly sawdusted and the
decorations of parsley and paper frills
| took away some OF the horror OF the
hanging carcasses.
| on her way home she stopped
abruptly as she passed a florist. There
must be some fioweTs-something for
a center piece. Perhaps she had bet
| ter leave the order now.
Roses Too Expensive.
She wanted roses but found they
were too expensive. so she decided to
get two dozen pink carnations as they
made the best show for the least
money. and with her pink candle
shades would be very attractive.
! When she reached home she had a
consciousness OF having spent a great
deal more money than she had in
tended.
And she found in the next two days
that there were still other things to
buy. Already the dinner was adding
up TO much over $50. She found. too,
that though she tried 70 plan the work
SO there would be no cleaning left for
WedneSday-yet there were still many
things 10 be done OF which she had
not thought.
Wednesday night she worked up
until Il o'clock and then set the alarm
for in the morning-Thanksgi
She knew that she was wea ring her
sflf out and that she would be too