The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-04-02
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{ THE QUILT LEGACYS
BY DORA LeFAvoua.
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! lcUlttu OF hts ancestors, ana wNeu ut
lied the home which had passed down
! ais line for genera tons was his only
legacy to his two daughters
THE city cHIne. Massive buildings
lowered mrnaClngly above Miss Es.
hers wee shop. and homes or modern
architecture grew around thsir wealth.
er.hcnirn hume. tlil the sisters fcil
showed aside elbowed into their re-.
spertiye. DID Cushioned corners by the
busy, C-seeking, hustling thrOnc
| inh her little shop became Miss ES.
| TIERS life, and home an oasis In n will
J derness og people, most Of them with
/ foreign accent Ia their speech and for
| eign methods In their ways; while
Mss I,ucreiia rarely venturcd beyond
her weil.kepl garden.
Miss ESther periodically, cOnScicn.
! tiOusly. sold her prrwar stock ut pre-.
war prices. and ,the alarming postwar
rcplenlshmcnts hit into her narrow
I margin 81 kecnly that one evening,
xhcn SHE locked her store. she thought
! that upon the twenty nfth day of this
bleak November there'd be llttle to
make her and her sister thankful.
As she walked the two city blocks
to her home. her step was as deliberat.
ly sedste. her polse a. perfect as n
the world were at her feet; yet, her
heart was so unanimously timorOus
that she closed the door with Its shin
ing brass knOcker quickly, almost with
/ u bang--ns lf to shut out the grasping,
giddy, up-tO-date six o'clock throng;
and the nsisome grievances OF her day
dimmed iDsthe cs8ft frOufrou or her
| sisters black silk as Miss Lucretia
came down the hall TO meet her, and
announce dinner. just as she had done
every evening OF every business day
for the twenty years which Miss Is.
Their had been the breadwlnner.
After they'd eaten their toast, Miss
Lucretls carried the ten things TO the
drawing room, while Miss Esther
turned the oil lamps economically low.
ESTHER" confided Miss Lucretla. be.
fore a blazing wood fire IN the open
CRATE, this u the last OF the tea. The
buffers gone, and there's only one
more rising of bread -four In the bar.
rel and All Is sold that can br sold
without everything going under the
hammer"
Miss Esthcr's sigh Swciied her Nat
bosom business Is dull--extremely
dull, Lucretin," she conhded In her
turn. People advise advertising, but
I shrink fromt Haunting my store news
through the blatant newspapers, and I
fear its rent will use all my capital
this month.
Miss D0vney was In tOdny--she's
opening tea room. and II could
match this chintz she would commits.
sion me TO decorate her place.
sit would put us quite on Easy
street" she continued, lingering the
bright-hned sample she took from her
skirt pocket.
Let me see that. Esther" Miss Lu.
cretia held out her hand. Seems 10
the rye seen some just like II some.
where"
! Probably when you were child,
Mss Esther replied vaguely. IF
could match II anywhere IL would be
NJ ynil's In Boston, but its price would
he eXOrbitnnt--quite prohibltlye. No
it's no use---ihe game Is not worth the
| candle"
Il think ri retire, sister" Miss rs
lher said weurily very early In the eve
ming. MISS Lucretia aOpined she, too
would so to bed.
Each took small lamp and silently
climbed the shadowy. creaking stairs
Miss Lucretia's brow wrinled II
tnemOry-sear ching frown.
"Where In the world have I seer
chintz like that3" she kept asking her
self.
Esther" she nuttered. don't yot
/ remember Aunt Anstice Dolbear's leg
acyr'
Straight To an old braSs-studdet
hair trunk they sped. simultnneousl!
opened the creaklng lid and dragget
bulky quilt from the place where !
had lain untouched for twenty-five
years.
Down IN her room, Miss Esther. IN,
reserved the self-cOntained. lighted l
lamp with eager. trembling fingers
and compared the sample huIterlngly
Miss Lucretia also held Il far OF ant
near 10 her 'llm vision.
They agreed 1T matched.
I've Just got to get scissors AM
RIP II on now" said Miss Esther, "ant
measure II before ! can steep wink.
The sharp pointed scissors soon CAV,
a vent she slipped her fingers through
the opening to hold her work the bet
ter. They touched something crisp
she ripped faster, her faded blue eye
p-otrudIng as the crisplnsss proved &
be dollar bill She gasped. and sllp
ped her hand in furthermore crisp
ness,
, With trembling haste they cllppe'
, them or, and placed them In neat pile
one thousand OF them.
Neither spoke; the moment was To-
tease, too freighted for speech. Sin
nlt0neOusiy they dropped 10 thel
KNEES beside Miss Esther's bed in rev
t.r.rrf Manufacturing