Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-17
GREAT PREPARATIONS
CHAPTER ALVI

Heller was as excited as ] was when
tola her OF our contemplated house
Oh, that will be lovely!v she OK.
elaimed, "if have any thing YOU want
JUST ask for It, won { youf'i
helen was one of the most gcnerops
souls that ever lived. Later when
remembered it, it helped condone many
things she afterward did.
. DO you think / have MANNED IN
elaborate enough supper - asked. 'fI
want TO have enough, but can I afford
100 much; and with no one but Norab
TO help l can't serve it,
" think it will be lovely!" Then
what are you going to give them to
why / thought l would have both
coffee and cocoa" / returned. "tben
II they don I like one they can have
the other Lots of people you know
can drink coffee at night. | can
myself unless ] want to lie awake all
night. "
That will be nice" " Helen mused.
but thought perhaps as you were
TO nave Miss Morton, and such swells
as Bob Henderson and his wife that
! you might feel you would have TO give
them some kind Of light wine with the
salad"
"Oh, not" | exclaimed, "we never
try to serve anything to drink except
ing little light beer when | make a |
rarebit. In the first place we cam af- |
ford 1t; and Tom is like his mother in |
lots Of things; and she doesn't believe
In serving liquor in the home"
Helen is Puzzling
. But it ism t her home, and''-
Helen broke off a little embarrassed it |
seemed to me-.
'And what?" | queried.
= Nothing much-only Everett Gran.
dell is so accustomed to having such |
things that | wonder he comes to your
parties when you don t have anything |
for him to drink.
You mean that he-drnks?D /
asked, shocked ! never had been ac- |
customed TO drinking in any form;
never knew anyone well who made it q |
habit. OF course in our town, as in all |
small places We had few village |
drunks, and several tipplers; but as far
as any one who considered themselves |
respectable serving drinks, why-it was
unheard of.
No, not the way you meant Don t |
look so Mortified! But great many
people now days, especially in a big
city like New York have some sort of
wine served with their meals, and a |
cocktail as an appetizer. But [ think
that cocoa and coffee will do very nice
y. Shall you play bridget"
eyes. | thought so. There will be
just eight of u.s. | replied, but some
way my enthusiasm for my party had
all oozed out. Helen had acted 50 queer
ly. Ought ! to give them wine? | wor-
ried over it until Tom came home then
said:
"Ton, what shall we give them to
drink, Wednesday night?'
"Coffee, of course, why?'
"Nothing much, only ~
You didn t think / was going to
buy wine for them did you? Nice inn
preston we'd give buying wine for
that bunch. They all know | can t af
ford it! Crandell would be justified in
firing me if | were fool enough to do
such a thing. They have money enough
to buy all the wine they want. 1t will
do them good to lead the simple life
one evening" so it was settled, great
" to my satisfaction. l, no more than
Tom, wanted them to think l was try
ing to do something; but no one knows
how ! wished we were able to do it
naturally. ,,I
Does it seem strange that I should
have such desires; that as soon as I
heard of the proper thing to do; or the
thing which society people did that |
should want to do it? Perhaps it was
partly due to my bringing up; perhaps
to inherent snobbishness. | don't pre-
tend to know; but do know that while
all my life | had had the necessities,
/ never had been INDUCED in luxuries.
That now / longed for the flespots may
have been due to that,
All day the day of the party | work
ed in the kitchen with NoIah; or IN
making the apartmen neat and at,
tractive. My curtains were all up and
L had hung dainty cretonne hangings
over them. -
cit looks like something new!
Tom said when he came home
shan t be ashamed to have anyone see
our home now.'