The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-12


 back from his wheel and famed him self with his hat. Do you use the same methods with grown beasts that you do with cubs?'' he added weakly. '1t's the same she has always used on me, only this is more dramatic. Bewarer' said with a laugh as I in sisted on just one squeeze Of Jane's white linen arm as she was climbing back into the car.
 That's a remarkably fine child, and she should have good, dependable, businesslike habits put in the place of faulty and useless ones. Her profani- ty will make no difference for the pres ent and can be easily corrected. Don't interfere with her attending to my commissions, Evelina. Let's start, Mr. Hayes And Jane\ settled herself calmly for the spin out Providence road.
 ..All the hundred dollars all by her self, Jane?" I called after them
 ..Yes,'' foated back positively in the wake of the auto.
 For several hours attended to the business of my life in a haze of medi- tation. If Henrietta ticks off the same number of minutes on the woman clock from Janes standpoint that Jane has marked off from her own moth er's high noon is going to strike before we are ready for it.
 But it was only an hour or two of high minded communing with the flu ture that I got the time for before I was involved in the whirl of dust that swirled around the storm center to darken and throw a shadow over Glen dale about the time of the publication <,R <4-1- every Thursday near the hour of noon, so that all the subscribers can take that enterprising sheet home to con- sume while waiting for dinner and can leave it for the women of their fami- Hss to enjoy in the afternoon.
 1 suspect that the digestion of James equality rally invitation interfered with the digestion of much fried chicken, cqrn and sweet potatoes under the r92f trees of the town, and I spent the, afternoon in hearing results and keep ing up the spirits of the insurgents.
 Caroline came in with her head SO hi Sh that she had difficulty in seeing oVer her very slender and aristocratic nqse with a note from Lee Greenfield Wllich had just come to her, asking her to go with him in his car over to Hills bqro to spend the day with Tom Pol lald's wife, a visit he knows she has been dying to make for two months, fos she was one of Pets bridesmaids Hit made casual and dastardly mention thlt there would be a moon to come home by, but ignored completely the fat that Tuesday was the day on witch he had been invited by the les que, of which he knew she was 8. mlmber, to meet and rally around the Il z zfe-e,3<,
 helped her compose the answer, and I must say we hit Lee only in high spots. I could see she was scared /. to death, and so was I, but her dander wss up, and I backed mine up along. siGe it for the purpose of support. Be- sizes feel in my heart that that note vii dynamite the rocky old situation be5ween them into something more , eaitly handled
 she had just gone to dispatch the mi iIsive by their negro gardener when Ms mic and SalIie came cIucking in. Mamie's face was pink and high spir-. ite.t, but SaIlie was in one complete slump of mind and body.
 sMr. Haley has just stopped by to say that he thinks no price is too great to pay for peace and fellowship and go4d will in a community she said as she dropped into rocker and looked peGsively after the retreating figure of the handsome young dominic, who had accompanied them to the gate, but swiLely no farther. He didn't know that Jane had gone with Polk.
 And women to pay the price, an- sw5ired Mamie spirited1y. .1 have just tol4l Ned that as yet I do not know enGugh to argue the question of wo= ma.a's wrongs with him, but I have ieaNned few of her rights. One of misfe is to have him accept any invita- tion I am responsible for having my friends offer him and to accompany me to the entertainment if I desire to go. I reminded him that had not tro.ibled him often as an escort since my marriage. He was so scared that he almost let little Ned drop out of his arms, and he got in an awful hur- ry 1o go to town, but he asked me to have his gray f1annels pressed before Tuesday and to buy him a blue tie to go. with new shirt he has. I never like to spank Ned or the children. but must say it does clear the atmos- phere.'
 seYou don't think we could put it off or-or''- Sallie faltered.
 "No!" answered Mamie and togeth- CT, and as I spoke I called Jasper to set out more rockers and have Petunia \ get the tea tray ready, for I saw Aunt Augusta go across the road to collect Cousin Martha and Mrs. Hargrove and the rest. while Nell whirled by in her rakish little car on her way to the square and called that she would be back.
 And it was most interesting to listen to minute description of the com
 
 ton of Glendale at their rally invita- ton, but as time was limited finally coaxed the conversation around to the subject of the viands to be offered the lordly creatures in the way of propitia tion for the insult that we were fore ing them to swallow by taking mat ters in our own hands, and then we