The Yale expositor., 1915-02-11
Mrs. Tabor Was Forced by Me-
cessity to Learn Her
Capabilities.
HAD TO BE A BREAD WINNER
Her knaek for Making Excellent Can
dy Proved to Be Her Financial
Salvation and Now She is
Prosperous.
BY RICHARD sPILLANE.

A person rarely knows what he or
she can do until turn in the tide of
life or some emergency brings out la
tent energy or quality undreamed of.
1t was so with Mrs. Tabor She is
small and frail. Her husband is a
Methodist minister The wives Of min
listers have none too easy an eXis-
tence. This Is true particularly of
the wives Of Methodist ministers, for
their husbands are moved from one
section of the country to another more
than those of any other denomination.
Mrs. Tabor, caring for her children,
looking after her household duties and
attending to the multitude of matters
that keep a minister's wife busy, had
little time for anything else. Every
hour Of her day was crowded If any
one had asked her she would have said
she could do no more
Her husband had charge of a church
in Texas when the turn came in the
current Of her life. He was stricken
with rheumatism. They had very lit
tie money and this went in Doctors
bills and for medicine in an effort to
cure him. The doctors and the medi-
cine availed little. Rev. Mr.. Tabor
got worse. The rheumatism became
chronic and he required a great deal
of attention.
The members Of the congregation
were kind, but poor. Even if his par
ishioners had been able to support the
invalid and his family, Doctor Tabor
and his wife were not willing to be a
burden upon them. Texas was far
away from Mrs. Tabor's home. In
her trouble she wanted to be near her
own people. Her mother lives in New
Jersey. Mrs. Tabor somehow got
enough money together to pay the
railroad fares North and in due time
the sick man and his wife and the
two children arrived in Montclair,
where Mrs. Tabor's mother dwelt
Had to Make Money.
The pleasure Of getting home was
great, but Mrs Tabor soon had to
think of things that were of immedi-
ate concern. Her mother was a wild
ow, with just enough income to live
on and no more. The Tabors had a
roof over their heads so long as they
wished to make their home in the
widows house, but not enough money
to meet the bills of the butcher, the
baker and the grocer. Then there
were the items of clothes for the chill
dren and themselves and the medicine
for the sufferer. BY no method of
economy could Mrs. Tabor make both
ends meet. Somehow she had to
make money. She had to become the
breadwinner.
Thousands upon thousands of wom-
en- have faced the same problem. A
few succeed in solving ii. Many fail.
If Mrs. Tabor had been able to go out
and work she might have been able to
earn a pittance, but she could not
leave home for hours at a stretch as
her husband was helpless and needed
her care. She could sew, but not well
enough to support the family. She
tried various other things without sue
cess. Then, through an act of ex-
travagance in which she INDUCED
through love of her children, a way
was opened to her.
Down in Texas and in various parts
Of the West, where her husband had
congregations, Mrs. Tabor had been in
the habit at times of church fairs or
church socials of making candy which
was sold for the benefit of the church
xrh hn oh du
complained Most of them praised it
She had been in Montclair a month
or two doing the best she could to
earn money by working at home when
one day the children begged her to
make some candy. Three or four of
their little friends had come to see
them and they, without knowing their
mothers straitened circumstances,
wanted to gladden. the visitors hearts
with the sweets that children love.
Mrs. Tabor, like all indulgent mothers,
did not want to make her youngsters
grieve. With a sigh, she gathered her
butter and sugar and things, lit the
gas in the burner and went to work
making candy.
Boys and girls have wonderful appe-
tites for sweet things but, luckily for
Mrs. Tabor, she made more candy that
day than the youngsters could eat.
Some of the visitors took the surplus
home. Their fathers and, mothers and
sisters and brothers ate the candy and
liked 1t so well that they asked where
1t came from and a few days later a
woman called on Mrs. Tabor
I'm going to give party" she said.
Gould ! get you to make some candy
for me?"
Her Small Beginning.
Mrs. Tabor never worked harder in
her life than she did on that order.
One batch OF candy that she cooked
was overdone and had to be thrown
away, but she made little money and
was very happy.
That party was a great success. The
guests ate the candy and praised II
highly. Some Of them asked the hos