, 1922-12-14
Intro ducing
MIR. Grandage
BY JANE OSBORN

course, mat our asking her 10 an al
fair of this sort doesn't put her or us
under any sort of future social obliga-
ton"
well. all right" quoth the other
Emmett. And she'll probably be so
BATTERED to be asked hat she'll buy II
lot of the pans and kettles. l imagine
she has quite a little money"
So that is why Miss Emmett No. 1
telephoned to Mary Wynn that night,
something unprecedented in the six
months hat Mary Wynn had come to
live in Farnham.
Il thought perhaps you'd be inter-
ested in coming around to our house
Wednesday," said she, taking pains
not to let her voice carry too much
cordially. '"rhere is a young man
who is agent for the Gold Star Kitch-
Ell Wear who is coming for Il demon
stration. He asked me to get together
some of the ladies In the nelghborhood.
And he says" emphasized Miss Emmett,
that IL 1t will be any inducement
there will be refreshments and that
you're not to bring your purse. He
doesn't want to sell anything now. He
came to me naturally as president OF
the Farnham Woman's club and, wish
ing to help any young nan working
his way through college, l told him he
could have his demonstration ut our
house"
Miss Emmett did not add that she
had consented most willingly as the
young man in question had agreed to
uiyn Mice LvpnV,att x can't nf INV
sales that esulted from her demon
stration party, and that he was, more
over, going to prepare and provide ma
terials for the refreshments served.
Miss Wynn tried to hide her excite
ment inc happiness from Miss EN-
NETT OF the telephone. She had come
to Farnham six months ago to live in
a house that had been willed to her
by an uncle who had lately died. But
SO far Farnham had not received her
very warmly. They eyed her with sus-
picion. Old Mr.. Wynn was something
of an eccentric. There were tales of
Mary Wynn's hlgh-flown notions. She
had lived abroad, she could talk French
as well as she could English and she
came to Farnham with rather shabby
clothes. Therefore Farnham eyed her
with suspicion.
Now it seemed to Mary Wynn as If
h ice was broken, as If at last Farm
ka.2 We're opening its arms.
1t was an d enough party at the
Emmetts' that Wednesday afternoon.
Twenty chairs or more had been car
ried into the kitcAen to accommodate
tho pItnCfG and Iafn 0OmarC Cnt In
open doorways to the dining room or
perched upon the drain board Of he
kitchen sink. Mary Wynn, who had
arrived early In a crisp summer frock,
sat close to the stove, where nothing
that the young man from Hilton col
lege said or did could escape her. To
the others seated farther back he may
have seemed self-possessed and per-
fectly at ease, but to Mary Wynn 1t
was obvious that at times he felt the
awkwardness of his position-he n
novice in the art of cooking, a green
horn in the kitchen. Telling these sea-
soned housewives how to make better
omelets than they had ever made be-
fore, assuring them that coffee as they
had made 1t before could never equal
coffee as he was making 1t In one Of
the new Gold Star coffee pots, and
Mary Wynn thought once or twice as
he stirred the eggs for the omelet or
measured the coffee to put In the cof-
fee pot that the boyish hands trem-
bled with confusion.
Apparently he was not entirely ia
miliar with his sales talk for he CON
suited from time to time the notes
that he had before him neatly writ
ten on pages from "A university note
book. Once or twice when there was
an awkward pause in his sales talk his
eyes inadvertently met those of Mary
Wynn and then a boylsh smile came
into his eyes and Mary Wynn flashed
back n look of encouragement that
cleared the air.
Mary was thinking hat II would be
a very great thing for any woman to
have a son so bent on getting his edu-
cation that he was willing TO spend
his ms an agent demonstrate
ing in women's kitchens. For Mary
Wynn, though not more thar twenty
five, usually thought Of herself as very
much older. Her WI youth seemed
very far away.
Then nm end came TO the demonstrn-
ton and the amber-clear coffee was
poured In Miss Emmett's second best
tea cups and the feather-llght omelet
was cut In sample pieces n passed
around. Assurance came into the face
Of h demonstration when he saw md
heard the praise Of the women. "Now."
he said, "Tll pass these blank cards
and a pencil. VIII you each one write
your name and address on n card7"
Having collected the cards and hav-
ing looked them over with some inter
est. he went IN, Nov. | want 10 call
ON nnch nnn Of unn nnrannnIu- ihIa