The Ordway new era., 1915-02-12
Mrs. Tabor Was Forced by Me-
cessity to Learn Her
Capabilities.
HAD TO BE A BREAD.wINNER
Her knack for Making Excellent Can
dy Proved to Be Her Financial
Salvation and Now She Is
Prosperous.
BY RICHARD sprLLANE.

tent energy or q quality undreamed OF.
1t was go with Mrs. Tabor. She is
small and frail. Her husband IL
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 q ministers wife busy. had
little time for anything else. Every
hour Of her day was crowded. II 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 great deal
OF attention.
The members of the congregation
were kind, but poor. Even II his par
ishioners had been able to support the
invalid and his family. Doctor Tabor
and his wife were not willing to be
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 homo 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
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
|
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
breadwinncr.
Thousands upon thousands of WON.
en- have faced the same problem. A
few succeed in solving it. Many fail.
II 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 stretch as
her husband was helpless and needed
her care. She could sew, but not we'll
enough to support the family. She
tried various other things without sue.
cess. Then, through an act of ex-
| travagance in which she indulged
through love of her children, 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.
Those who bought the candy never
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 sigh, she gathered her
putter 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
it came from and 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?"
Il 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 a 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