The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
THE DAILY
81 ORT STORY
Plum Pudding Harry.
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Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure

Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
TT was not without struggle with
his pride that Harry Tilston decided
= 70 make plum buildings the summer
Yer he graduated from college. He
va not decided as yet on his future
lereer, but since any kind OF start
In busiaess as well as the law studies
hat he sometimes contemplated, was
bore or less dependent upon the pos
ession OF some amount of capital he
accepted his mothers proposition TO
aake plum buildings.
Harry's mother was plain country
yoman who wore a Bingham apron on.
4 preference eight hours OF the TWEEN.
y.four, and to help out the small an
uity her husband had left her she had
Ute years been making plum pud.
inSs to sell to several of the grocery
torres in the nearest city.
rIast year | had twice as many or
ers as / could fill" she told Harry,
and made during the summer enough
10 that in the winter netted six hun.
bred dollars on them. If we filled out
III luc ludl hOulu bt ONOl "
thousand dollars net profit and II you
lould hustle about and get as many or
ers besides with the help of some
heap sort of hired girl, we could fill
hose orders at say a profit of five hun.
|lred dollars. That would be fifteen
hundred dollars before snow flies. The
silstons-your fathers folks-weren't
uch grand people that you ought to
Ie ashamed of any honest labor"
It wasn't because Harry was exact.
y ashamed OF plum buildings that h9
lad hesitated-it was because of Gene
deye and Harriette and Mildred and
iaura-girls in general rather than any
sirl in particular. The men he had
!nown in college would understand ami
pplaud him II he actually made
enough on plum buildings to get start.
Id in career. But what would the
iris he had met think of him If they
fnew2
Brauley, the small town where Harry
Igilston had been brought up, boosted
io very definite younger social set, but,
10 long as there we're pretty girls like
Mildred Brewer and Laura Stevens i'll
" COHu anu any young uuHdIIleu me1,
here was sure to be an occasional pic
pic down the river, an evening enter
.ainment," Sunday afternoon strolls
through the woods or buggy rides into
he adjacent countries.
< In other years, on Harry Tilston'a
Iehort visits home in vacation time, he
lad figured rather prominently in these
diversions. He wondered whether
Laura and Mildred and the other girls
would be inclined to laugh at him #
he made plum buildings. But in spite
|jf his misgiyings he agreed to his moth.
|sr's proposition and, not two weeks ali
|sr he had received his degree in the
assembly hall of his alma mater, he was
|pusy for ten or twelve hours out of
|lhe twenty-four in his mothers kitch.
IN, measuring out flour and sugar and
kpices, according to the proportions
specified in his mothers old family
ltecipe for plum plddings-there was a
Tradition in her family that it had hoen
brought over from England some two
hundred years before together with a
few pieces Of pewter and worm.eateu
|'hest that still belonged to her.
Harry devoted good deal of the
First few days In working out a system