New-York tribune., 1921-11-27

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old Gem of the Home was such eooa
stoye"-
Wasn't it splendid Of Nan to leave up hss
most treasured batiks!" gushed Clara point.
ing to the walls.
"You mean those fancy silk pieces with tba
crazy patterns?" demanded grandma. "She
needn't have left them on my account-Arst
thing after I've looked at the kitchen IN take
en down-they are enough to give me a night.
mare just to look at 'em."
1t took Mrs. Goodrich from Maine long,
long time to recover from her first sight Of
"the kitchen" Clara opened a tiny little door
on wall in the studio, revealing tiny elec.
trio stove on the shelf, and on another what
grandma took to be some dolls kitchen
utensils. The third shelf was for groceries,
Nan had left some tea, coffee, etc, in miniature
canisters.
There's also chaing DISH" announced
Clara brightly, "and the cutest little icebox
you ever laid your eyes on" -
eyes, I reckon it Is" said the old lady,
family. ooh, Clara, how could you? And
I'd been planning to cook a big Christmas
dinner here and invite you and lot of your
friends; but body couldn't cook grass
hopper in that oven"
But Grandma Goodrich is now quite recon-
ciled to her Greenwich Village studio Clara
somehow managed to throw a glamour over
1T all and made it seem romantic to the little,
alien. She gives funny little parties to Clara,s
friends, who flock around her and somehow
she manages to bake cookies and gingerbread
III that oven. There is just one thing that
worries the old lady, however. and that is the
tear that some of her old friends and neigh
bors back home" should ever know Of the
way She IS living-the scandal Of that kitchen
ettelette (if this word may be coined to desig-
nate something even smaller than kitchen
ette) would destroy in one gossipy whisper
the unblemished reputation of the best cook
and housekeeper in Tiddleywink, Maine.
Before Mrs. John Higginham took posses
SION she tried to be modest when she informed
her friends that she had sub-leased the apart
ment of the Countess de Casserole. Now that
she is actually living in the place, she Is the
most modest, even humble, woman you'd want
to meet.
L know was an idiot" she confesses Bit
terly to callers. II merely glanced around the
place and said I'd take it. | suppose it Is
usually some one feature of place that catches
one-the view, the location, the sunshine OK
an open CRATE fire. In my case admtit vas
the title. Which isn't any siier than girl
know who took two dreary, unheated rooms
on years lease because when she looked at
them there were window boxes of gorgeous red
geraniums, and she'd always wanted window
boxes. Frost killed them the week she moved
in. Atmosphere or the personality of the occu'
pant may make place seem attractive on she
first impression, but you have to live in 1t 10
learn the makeshifts and inconvenience But
this place, my dear. was just perfectly awful
even after we got it cleaned up Everything
worn threadbare and not a piece of furniturc
that wasn't broken or ready to fall to pieces
you looked at it. And I'm annoyed to death
with her bill collectors ringing the bell ana
phoning all day. I could have got a better
place for half the money with room enough
for US all. We are dreadfully crowded hefs
there's SO many of US, counting JOINS
mother and father, who are staying Wits Us
now. Of course, they have to have the only
bedroom, and the rest OF as just camp arouno
on couches and day beds, which we had 20
buy
And to think that Matilda Spyrlk, after rush
ing all over town in search of an attic with
top north light, where she could sling paint
free and untrammelled, finally landed on
parlor floor, newly, delicately decorated Iney
say it is cramping her style frightfully. f