The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-26
CHAPTER NXVI

Wen finish the peaches tonight.
and call it a days work" remarked
Mrs Owen. sylvia, you'd better civ.
another turn to the covers on thos
last Jars. There's nothing takes the
heart out Of a woman like opening a
can Of fruit i'm January and finding
mould on top. There, Annie. that's
enough cinnamon. Put in too much
and your peaches will taste like
drug store
spicy doors fioated from the kitch-
on of Mrs. Owens house on Waupe-
gan. The August afternoon sun
struck soldenly upon battalions of
glasses and jars on the broad. screened
veranda, an extension Of the kitchen
itself. The newly affixed labels an.
nOunced peach, crabapple, plum and
watermelon preserves III the mention
Of this last item gives you no thrill
so much the worse for YOU'D: iellies of
many tints and favors, and tiny Gu
cumber pickles showing dark green
amid gayer colors. Only the most
jaded appetite could linger without
sharp impingements before these con
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kindly fruits Of the earth.
In Mrs. Owens corps of assistants
we recognize six young women from
Elizabeth IIouse-for since the first Of
July Elizabeth House has been con
stantly represented on Waupegan
girls coming and going In skies for d
fortnight at the farm. Mrs Owen
had not only added bedrooms to the
rambling old farmhouse to accommo-
date these visitors, but she had.
when necessary. personally arranged
with their employers for their vaca-
tons
On the face Of II, the use OF her
farm "a a summer annex to the work
ing girls boarding house in town was
merely the whim Of xind-hearted old
woman with her own peculiar notions
of self-indulgence. a cynical member
Of the summer colony remarked Al
the Casino that Mrs. Owen. with char.
acteTstic thrift, was inVeiGling shop
girls to her farm and. then putting
them to work in her kitchen. Mrs.
Owens real purpose was the study Of
the girls in Elizabeth House with a
view TO determining their needs and
aptitude; she was as interested in the
woman OF 40 permanently planted be
/ hind a counter as in the gayest IS
year-oid stenographer. An expert had
! built for her that spring a model plant
for poultry raising, an industry Of
which she confessed her own ignor-
auce. and she found In her battery of
incubators the greatest delight.
when a woman has spent twenty
years behind a counter, Sylvia. or
working a typewriter, she hasn't
much ahead Of her. What's the mat
ter with the ducks?"
The Bassetts had opened their cot
tace early and Morton Bassett had
been at the lake rather more con
stantly than in previous summers
Marian was Off on 4 round of visits
to the new-found friends that were
the fruit of her winter at the capital
She was much in demand for house
parties. and made her engagements
quite Independently of her parents.
for weeks and fortnights at widely
scattered mid-western resorts. Mrs.
Bassett was indulging in the luxury
Of a trained nurse this summer. but
even with this reinforcement she
found it impossible 10 manage Marian
Il need hardly he said that Mrs
Owens philanthropic enterprises &C
casioned her the greatest alarm 1t
was enough that that girl should
be spending the summer at Waupe-
gan, without bringing with her all her
fellow boarders from Elizabeth House
Mrs. Bassett had now tangible
grievance against her husband Black
ford's course It the military school
he had chosen FOR himself had been
50 unsatisfactory that his father had
been advised that he would not he
received for another year n was
now Mrs. Rassett's turn to cavil at
her husband for the sad mess ne had
made Of the boys education.
Blackkor7's father continuing indif-
ferenA -'irs. Bassett arose from bed