The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-01-26
Miss Doal,e's
Mealer

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I6gos yard eosaGing her shirley pop.
~ ed a6nisins their almost In
1nlfs variety.
NE two a them seem to be exactly
- same tint, and I never had such .
~ u them ont at one time before"
~ 4iss 0emira. She loved flowers
~ nearly eveey foot Of her small
etot yard was laid out In beds and
0opnds. There was not q weed to be
psea, and her plants looked thrifty
pnd bore evidence Of care. The little
white house back Of the flower garden
had plants In the two front windows,
md climbing vines completely covered
~ small. green lattice-work porch
ever the front door. All Of the flowers
md plants were Of the old-fashioned
varieties. Miss Semira did not care
Tor floral novelties" She liked her
fcur-o'clocks and ragged robins and
)ady-in.the-green and bleeding hearts
better than any ''others" she had ever
eeen.
Miss Semira was 90 small and
fragile looking. with such delicateiy
finted pink cheeks, and such fluffy vel.
low hair that she looked quite like q
aower herself a. she moved about In
her little garden In Q blue lawn dress
with little white flowers in II, and her
lace-trimmed snowy white apron In
which there was neither spot nor wrin.
~. She was STOPPING over picking q
dsad leaf or two from one Of her
esraniums when shrill, rasping voice
Startled her by saying. ~
How nice your flowers do look. Miss
G'mira; an how sweet they smell. I
cnn smell them clean over to my
heuse when It's still or when the wind
y blowin' In that direction. You allus
have such good luck with 'em. Flow.
sso grow better for some folks than
~ others"
MS Semira looked up and cav .
! tolI. saunt woman In q chocolate-co
ogoo calico dress and green and white
eAoeked Bingham apron standing at
- gate. A red and white tennis cap
perehed on one side Of her iron.gray
49, gave the woman Q groteslue
4 ID Nrs. Sampson, II 1t your said
NJ semira. Come In, won't your
mo. It amt with while little time
10 I've got to stay. Then I've left
home ginger bread In the oven. want
10 know II you wouldn't be willing to
take q mealer."
"A mealer, Mrs. Sampsonr
Eyes, You see I've got chance to
let my big front room upstairs II I
can ind q place for the person that
wants It to take their meals. 0 I can't
undertake to give anyone their meals
With my rheumatis pesterin' me the
way It does. an sampson havin' It
when / don't. Then I amt no cook,
anyhow. But / do want to let that
big front room, an this person will
take It II ! can and mealin' place
near BY, an here you are right acrost
tht road an livin' all alone, an you as
|much Of q born cook a. you are born
flower raiser. An I've heard you say,
THAT you sometime got dreadful tired
| . takin' your meals oil BY yourself"
eWho isit wants your r0omr
well, It's q gentleman-but there,
lyon needn't look 20 scairt. Miss 6'mira,
Tor It amt young gentleman nor .
Imiddle-aged gentleman, but real nice.
fatherly. l0okin' old gentleman that
there'd never be a mite o. talk bout
vou givin' his meals to. He must be
pld enough to be your father, an I
don't know when I've seen q nicer ap-
pearin' man. I'd sight ruther have
him around than nine out O. ten fus-
~, fault-hndin' wimmen. Don't you
nv no until you think 1t all over"
Miss Semira thought It all over. with
the result that two days later Mr..
Jared Lyster found himself seated at
Misc D0ane's daintily set table. Miss
emira had often been heard to say:
II don't mind any part of living
one 10 much al mind eating my
eals all by myself. II I just had
income that was interesting and
easant to talk to at meal-time I
uldn't mind the rest. ! would take
mealer II ! got good chance"
Mrs. Sampson Ind gone trife be-
pd the truth when she had said thai
red Lyster was "real fatherly
Ting old gentleman" Miss Semira's
ntal comment when she saw him
!:
Why, ! don't believe that he Is a
er fifty-dve."
is Semira's own years numbered
y-five. She had expected her meal
10 be man Of at least sixty-five
possibly seventy years of age, but
did not voice her surprise to Mrs.
Epson. She accepted the situation
manner that manifested her good
e, and she said to herself:
there's nothing for people to talk
pit II he isn't as old as I thought he