Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-09
Effective Faith
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my nenos." admitted the woman with
the Wrlnkled forehead. Ia love to ace
you get terribly upset about sone
thing
The happy looking woman snilll d.
but did not reply.
Don't circumstances ever twist
your affairs around until YOU find
yourself tangled in mcah Of camuli-
cailons?' the worried one askCd, rs
tie furrow between hcr eyes deep
ened
Circumstances are rot reapeatefs
OF PERSONS responded the happy one
They attack every bod, alike, but 1t
depends upon The indil dual wEejhcr
She is thrown down and dragged
around by them
How DO YOU mcan?" asked The wor-
ried one, VITA lips that dad not turn
UP at the corners.
We'll demunst rated my laith," said
the happy looking woman, no longer
ago than yesterday. My husband
'phoned that his distinguished looking
cousin Was in Town. and that must
NOT fail 10 make favorable i'm
preston upon her: that he had inyit.
ed her to dinner. and had told her it
was 10 be "A little party of three or
four couples. and that | must get uD
the party and the dinner without
delay, aud make Il success Of il.
told him Id DO my best, and then
sat down 10 plan
The difficulty lay in the fact that
the girl ia a Aighbrow. If she hea
Lt.n "a ordinary bachelor Of arts II
wouldn't have been 50 haid. bat size
had recently taken her NJ a. q h.
gree. aud knew that there would BIZ
no use asking anybody who had never
composed a masters thesis. | StIctCh.
ed my brain almost out VI shape try
Ing To recall among my acquaintances
three OF tour acceptable male person.
alities between % ana 80 years, and
every single one | could think OF
had enlisted and gone to some train
ing camp
80 decided to have girls only and
to take them home afterward in the
car. MADE out the menu. called the
grocery. gave my orders TO the maid,
and then phoned the girls the only
three knew who could really enter
tain this cousin.
First | called the university and
asked for Madge Lee. | knew she'd
gladly come to my impromptu dinner.
Her roommate answered ana said
Madge had just finished her last exam
and gone TO a weekend house party.
Then | called another dormitory
over there and asked for Belle Price
Belle is the daughter OF one of my
old schoolmates, and as sweet and
pretty as she is intellectual When
told her OF my dilemma, she said
abe was dreadfully sorry, but she
had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa
and there was TO b a large DIM r in
celebration = the same hour had
set"
You were nearly desperate,
know the woman with the worried
expression sympathiz9d
Not bit. | have such an unshak
able belief that even the NEST intri
@vate tangle viii straiah'en itsell if
you give it time and do your own
part and smile in the meanwhile.
Next | called Margaret Phelps,
who went to Naasar with my niece
and made a brilliant record. When
my niece visits US Margaret is always
over, 80 | knew she'd love TO meet my
husbands attractive cousin. Her
voice, thought, sounded pathetic,
and no wonder, as she was even then
starting to the hospital to have her
tonsils removed.
Just then in came the maid We ,.
ing because she had received news
OF her mothers sudden illness and
must 90 TO her at once, that she hated
TO leave me with company on MY
hands,
Il know you were wild. Whatever
did you do?'
Why explained the happy look
fng woman, Il did nothing except tie
on big apron and cook the best old I
fashioned family dinner | possibly /
could. And when my husband BROUGHT T.
his cousin | brushed the flour off my
hands and told them as great joke
how the party and the maid had van.
ished into thin air. and this cultured /
relative straiehtway hustled out OF .
her wraps and set the table for me.
We had the most delightful time, and :
my husband was pleased to think she
liked me without festive setting"
"Yours guest was very polite" the
worried one suggested. mo doubt .
she was all dressed up and every |
thing"
certainly she was dressed up the
happy woman agreed. ''and it's lucky
she was. AS We were sitting down to
dinner the doorbell rang and in
walked my favorite nephew-a hand
some young fellow whom ! had sup
posed to be at Fort Sheridan. He
said that he had dropped in TO spend
the evening and to tell us that to his
regret the irregularity of his heart &C
ton had caused his rejection from
service and 90 he had decided to re-
enter the university and complete
his work, which is leading to the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy"
oh" said the worried looking