Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-22

ME. IT know the twins never hat
anything like this. 1t looks kind o.
familiar to me. Where did it come
from7'
"Out Of the trunk in the garnet
Connie. Don't you want some more
fudge? I put lot of nuts In. especial
ly on your account"
"It's good,' said Connie, taking an
other piece. She examined the CLOTH
very closely. "Say, Prudence, ism
this that old brown coat of fathers 2
Fairy showed her chair back from
the machine and ran to the window
Look, Prue," she cried. isn't tha'
Mrs. Adams coming this way? won
der
mo, 1t isn't" answered Connie
gravely. Its just Miss Avery get
ting home from school--Isn't it, Pru
dence? Fathers coat, mean?'
"Yes, Connie. it is,' said Prudence
very, very gently. But no one here
has seen it, and 1t is such nice cloth.
just exactly what girls are wearing
now"
"But wanted a new coat" Connie
did not cry. She stod looking at Pru
dence with her wide hurt eyes.
ooh, Connie, I'm just as sorry az
you are" cried Prudence, with start.
ing tears. II know just how you feel
about it, dearest. But the people
didn't pay father up last month and
nothing has come in for this month
vet, and we've had so much extra ex
Lh - old
shoes, too, Connie, and you know how
they look! The shoemaker says they
aren't worth fixing, so I must wear
them as they are.-But maybe after
Christmas we can get you coat They
pay up better then"
II think I'd rather wear my sumner
coat until Them said Connie soberly.
"Oh, but you can't, dearest. 1t Is
too cold. Won't you be good girl,
now, and not make sister feel badly
about it? It really is becoming to you,
and it is nice and warm. You know
parsonage people just have to prac'
tise economy, Connie-it can't be
helped. Take some more fudge, dear,
and run out of doors while You'll
feel better about 1t present, I'm sure
Connie stood solemnly beside the
table, her eyes still fastened on the
coat, cut down from her fathers. Can
20 and take a walk?" she asked
finally.
May l, you mean," suggested Fairy.
Eyes, may I? Maybe can reconcile
myself to it,
Eyes, do 60 and take walk urged
Prudence promptly, eager to get the
small sober face beyond her range
of vision.
IF 1 am not back when the twins
get home, go right on and eat with
out me. III come back when I get
things Strengthened out in my mind"
When Connie was quite beyond
hearing, Prudence dropped her head
on the table and wept. "Oh, Fairy,
if the members just knew how such
things hurt, maybe they'd pay up a
little better. How do they expect par
sonage people to keep up appearances
when they haven't any money!"
ooh, now, Prue, you're worse than
Connie! There's no use to cry about
it. Parsonage people have to find
happiness in spite Of financial misery.
Money isn't the first thing with folks
like u.s."
mo, but they have pledged it." pro-
tested Prudence, lifting her tear
stained face. "They must know we
are counting on the money Why
don't they keep their pledges? They
pay their meat bills and grocery bills
and house rent! Why don't they pay
for their religion?"
Nov, Prue, you know how things
go. Mrs. Adams is having a lot of
Christmas expense, and she thinks her
four dollars q month won't really be
missed. She thinks she will make 1t
up along in February, when Christmas
is over. But she forgets that Mrs.
Barnaby with two dollars, and Mrs.
Scott with five, and Mrs. Walter with
seven, and Mr.. Holmes with three, and
about thirty others with one dollar
each, are thinking the same thing!
Each member thinks for himself and
takes no account Of the others. That's
how 1t happens"
Prudence squirmed uncomfortably
in her chair. II wish you wouldn't
mention names, Fairy" she begged. II
do not object to Jumping them In a
body and wondering about them. But
can't feel right about calling them
out by name, and criticising them.--
Besides, we do not really know which
ones they are who did not pay"
Il was just giving names for illus
trative purposes, said Fairy quickly.
Like as not the very ones l named
are the ones who did pay"
(To be continued.)
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