The Huttig news., 1914-05-09
 AUNT ANNA'S ANXIETY
By LUCILLE CUMMINGS.

Going to the country in midWinter seems so out of the question to me that when 1 received letter from Aunt Anna asking all the family out to the farm for New Years day I did not think the invitation needed to be taken seriously.
 She wrote to me because she wanted me to chahge the gloves I had sent her for Christmas. They were several sizes too small for her and she appeared to think it would be an easy matter for me to exchange them for the right size. They are gloves that Carl Bates brought me from Europe two years ago, and though they are beautiful they are little too tight for even my small hands. thought, of course, that Aunt Anna would simply put them away to keep for one of the children. That of insisting that take the trouble to change them.
 Ones responsibility for a present ought to cease when the gift is made. but Aunt Anna is oIie Of those terribly thorough-going persons who never let a matter rest until it is settled to their satisfaction. I shall have to buy pair of gloves, l suppose, though have resolved to be as economical as possible this year.
 Arthur Knight had invited me to go down to one of the hotels and see the old year out, but when l inadvertently mentioned it before father Saturday morning he immediately vetoed the plan.
 But, daddy" I told him, ''it will be awfully dull for me to sit drearily at home the last night of the year when one always expects to have little fun The disappointment was so great that I couldn't keep my tears back.
 Well, said father, Eff you are dreary in the midst of your own family ask some of your friends in and have a quiet celebration by your own fire side.'
 I acted at once upon this sugges- tion ard when I called up Arthur Knight he said he was glad of the change of plan.
 'I don't believe you would have en- ] yed the downtown celebration as much as you thought you would" he said, laughingly Your father is quite right We shall have much better time at your house.
 Although l am really fond of Arthur, I think he is rather foolishly strait la aed in his ideas.
 I was fortunate in finding a num- Der of friends who had no engage ments for New Years eve and so it was a congenial party that gathered to watch the dying of the old year. I think every one was little sur prised at the somewhat elaborate hot supper we had just at midnight
 managed things so well that it was really very little trouble. got Cousin Fannie to prepare in advance ereamed chicken for me to serve from the ehaf- ing dish and have the coffee ready in the percolator so Betty could preside at that
 This careful prearTangement of mine made II noSS1nie TOT OOuSlH fdu- nie and mother to stay in the kitchen and fry the fresh mushrooms. fill the patties and make the hot biscuits. In the morning grandmother had made some of her old fashioned molasses cake that the men always rave over. l should have suggested it absolutely fresh. but when 1 suggested it mother  immediately objected.
 Blanche, she said. cit would be preposterous for you to keep your grandmother Up till afteEa1l o'clock at night merely to bake molasses cake. :"
 Why, I believe she would like to do it." answered. Grandmother is such wonderful woman that late hours never feaze her. I'm always braggins about how young my granny is"
 This pleased grandmother so much that I think she would have stayAd Up all night to bake the cake If that had been necessary but still mother