The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-26
CHAPTER w
ontinued from YesterdaYl

4 The Wood Girl Attends a Church
Lawn Party In Our Town of Paris
anil In the Evening, the Scion of
a Noble House Sees Her Safe
Home"
Adam McQuarry, janitor Of the
Calvary Methodist church, was a SIM
pie creature with big ears and bigger
feet who couldn't see why forks
couldn't hold their lawn-parties in
ioors and minimize the destruction
to church property attending the re-
fnoval of church furniture to the
open air for social purposes to say
nothing of saving his velvet lawn.
During the afternoon Adam had
q stretched a wire from tree to tree in
s. front of the church while little Mrs.
81 Pratt followed him anxiously about
! and steadied his step-latter under the
conviction that Adam turned loose
unattended on a church lawn with a
wild and rambunctious step-ladder
would surely break his neck and cast
shadow over the function.
At six o'clock the church lawn was
bobbing with dubious decorations of
weird shape and gala hue; tables,
s chairs and vestry crockery had been
spilled out into the green, amid which
dozen ladies in white things"
starched as stiff as their religion, were
z effecting some kind of order and
utility. The Sunday School piano
had been brought out by the COM
bined effort of Adam, passing gro
eer's boy, and doctor" Dodd the
minister, all of them morally assisted
by the ladies, without knocking the
Earnish off more than four corners
bf that melodious piece of machinery
br lowering it Unexpectedly on more
Than two of Adam McQuarry's feet.
The ice-cream freeZers were lined
along the eastern wall of the church
behind an improvised plank table and
TO be exploded on the social battle
field
At seven o'clock the artists who
heighborhood, Protestant, Catholic,
Dew or pagan, had loaned something
TO the executive committee which she
was positive she was never to see
again for the way things get lost OF
nixed-up or carried off at these lawn
party and church affairs was a eau
tion.
At seven o'clock the the artists who
were to furnish the evenings literary
Ind musical entertainment had ar
lived and were tinkling at the piano
Dr. running over scales or humping
Stringed instruments or wildly dis
patching reluctant messengers fol
music which had been forgotten.
At seven-thirty the church-people
began to arrive in knots of twos anC
lhrees and fves, the men dressed will
1he painful righteousness of horny
handed sons of toll and the womer
Indicating the fve-dollars' worth O.
fuss through which they had gone
TO be present and consume ten cent!
worth of ice cream.
At eight O'Clock Adam got loose
With his stepladder and lighted al
The bobbing, Dubious Japanese Ian
kerns and so long as Mrs. Pratt wa
busy elsewhere and didn't see him
whether he fell off and broke his necl
br set himself afre with the tape
WAS nobody's concern but his own.
The lawn of Calvary Methods
church became fantastic romanti
place where harsh faces softened an
hin ladies became less scrawney an
fat ladies became merely plump an
nomely girls became pretty and pref
y girls prettier. Figures in whit
md chally moved about among tn
tables from which arose the soclabi
hum of animated small-town econ
yersation" and the tinkle of table
ware and spoons. And the ice crear
vas not the fiat, starchy, patented
uick-process stuff bought in thes
after days from public caterer an
sold at a profit which is the obain
ng of money under false pretence.
1t was great rich yellow scoops 0
Frozen deliciousness made with res
ream-and eggs that weighed eigh
TO the pound. A plateful was a mes
and two plates full hurry call o
The castor-oil commissary.
Mary accompanied Slug to the &c