The Monett times., 1917-08-17

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not called upon for any further service,
and after breakfast Mrs Wentworth
came into the kitchen and said, kindly:
"You need not serve the table while
you are doing the cooking Julia. I'll
attend to that myself"
And, later, Juliana hearing the lady OF
the house discoursing In tones reprovlng,
argumentative, satirical, but always too
subdued for the words to carry, and the
answering laughter from Mr.. Kane
Farnsworth, guessed that she was under
discussion, and went about her work
with growing wrath within her and
paragraph seething in her brain about
self-respecting working girls being sub
. iected to the surreptitious and patroniz--
ing attentions of supposedly well-bred
young men. Not that she was able to dis
cover anything either patronzing or sur
reptitious in Mr. Farnsworth's behavior.
He came out into the Kitchen during the
afternoon, cheerfully slamming various
doors behind him so that all the world
might know where he had gone.
"Paring potatoes for dinner, Julia?"
he said with great good ,humor Il
will help you"
at is quite unnecessary" returned
Juliana, looking very naughty, in spite
of the overpowering pompadour and lace
waist.
"Again you miss the point" he said.
1t is not question of necessity, but
OF ethics. Here am / idling, and you
doing the work of two" He got large
apron and tied it carefully around his
a potato. "You understand, Julia"
he said, unheeding the averted face and
stony silence of his companion "that all
the work of the world could be done,
and well done, if each person devoted
four hours to it. Authorities differ
somewhat as to the time, but four hours
is the maximum. Now, you and /"
Mrs. Wentworth entered. Her face
was flushed and her eyes were bright.
Juliana, to her great disgust, felt her own
face flushing Her eyes, after the first
glance, she kept on her potato. Mr..
Farnsworth spoke up cheerfully: II
was just explaining to julia" he said,
"that if we all worked four hours day"
Mrs Wentworth interrupted Her
voice was quiet, but it was the quiet that
choosing housework as your career?"
she asked
"'Do the duty that lies nearest" !"
he quoted, not without an accent of
virtue. He fashed the potato and Sc
lected another.
'I wanted you to help me hang some
pictures in the library" said Mrs. Went
worth. Between fear of losing her cook
and fear of losing her brother she was
really a pathetic sight. Juliana felt
STRINGS of sympathy.
In few minutes, he said. Having
put my hand to the plow, in other words
to the potato
81 would prefer to do the potatoes
alone said Juliana. "You pare them
too thick"
He looked at her accusingly and Sc
lected two pieces of peeling from the pan.
Exhibit One" he said. "Peeling removed
by Miss Julia" paused inquiringly,
and getting no answer, repeated with a
closing infection, "by Miss Julia. Ex-
hibit Two"
"Kane!" said his sister sharply. He
gave her an innocent and inquiring smile.
"There is great interest in pairing
potatoes" he observed. "Now notice
the way in which Julia holds hers"
Juliana, uncomfortably aware of her own
lack of skill in the potato pairing line,
grew scarlet under the two pairs of watch
ing eyes, She knew how Mrs. Went
worth was interpreting the blush and
breathed sigh of rage and relief when
Mr. Farnsworth finally drew his athletic
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