Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1922-01-05
SAY iT WITH FLOUR
GWENDoLYN G. ROBINSON

ing queer There were the Spofford
girls, who, coming home from college,
INDUCED in barefoot dances on the
dewy grass. As an eyewitness put II,
both them gals was out In the wet
grass achasin' each other round, and
neither Of them had much OF anything
on but some muskeeter nettin' and
that WAS hangin' all in tatters All of
sudden Nance lit on broken bottle,
and the way she screeched You'd
thought 1t was the fire department
comm down Main street ("
Then there was Julia Arbuck. The
Arbuck residence was one Of those
solid substantial homes, furnished ac,
cording to the best ideas ia the mah
order catalogues.
Betty Ross kept busy and happy on
her fathers ranch, getting an insight
into his business. Farmer Ross was u
grower Of wheat, and had 100 acres
under cultivation.
Betty drove out to the mill with n
load of wheat with her father one
brisk autumn day
~ want TO see the boss" she said,
after the wheat had been unloaded
and weighed A tall, dusty-loolling
young man came forward shyly
"Why, this can't be my old school
mate JIM" cried Betty.
Jim was very shy where women
were concerned. He fumbled awk.
wardly with her hand.
~ wanted to ask you some questions
about the flour we've been getting.
Wasn't that last lot different from the
rest?"
"Yes'm, il was, That's my new
brand, Sifted five times more than any
other brand. DO you like ltT Queried
Jim anXiouSly.
~ do ] noticed right away 1t was
different" Jim frightened up at
once, and lost half his shyness (Betty
perceived it, at makes so much
better bread and cake that | want TO
be sure to get It right along" said
Betty.
"Do you-make bread?" asked Jim,
1--WE made on an average Of
dozen loayes a week for the past year
Two kept the Burns family supplied
with bread since their mother died,
and tweNeycar-old Anna tries TO do
their cooking Come over some
night
"Oh. | couldn't" began Jim. in an
agony of embarrassment
"I'd show you leaf Of bread made
with the old nom, and one with the
new" said Bctty taking no notice Of
his refusal. you ought To advertise
that new brand Of flour"
"If | only could said Jim Father
never did any advertising, and that's
WHY we never get ahead"
"a good, snappy ad and some testl.
monials from users ought to be In
every sack of Hour YOU send out.
That way II doesn't cost anything to
bring IL before just the right people"
"l'l come up tomorrow night, #
you'll let me, and talk II over" said
Jim. And so II was arranged.
The following day was busy one
for Betty She got up quite early.
Parker house rolls, 70 be right. must
be mulded and raised twice then the
crust ought to be on the ice several
hours before it is used If you want to
make u peach pie with really crisp
crust A chocolate layer cake. and
surprise cookies, with fix filling, also
take time when one follows the
recipes exactly Betty looked at the
array ON the pantry shelves. SAY
Il with -four" said Retty to herself
Jim arrived promptly at six, very
red about the collar, ana almost
spcvchless with embarrassment. Betty
paid no attention TO this, hut led him
right out into the kitchen to show him
the relative merits OF the two loaves
of bread They looked exactly alike,
but Betty claimed that she used a
whole cup of flour with the rev brand
loaG Jim forgot to be shy talking OF
his precious new flour
Then Betty served supper (they
sim call u supper in Maplewood), and
Betty's cooking spoke for her clio
qucutly. Jim got In the hnbit OF drop.
ping IN quite regularly much to the
chagrin OF the other nineteen Young
ladies' in town (for they considered
Jim the hardest of the eligible five to
land and they didn't know Betty's
system).
Betty had the local photographer
snap her as She was lifting two mann.
moth loayeS of bread from the oven,
Jim had cut of II made up into an
nd. and it took with the trade
whether It was the testimonials from
the eight BurnseS, all works Of art
ana signed by various MONS de plume
ora Burns had an active imagination),
or whether il was the real home at
moSphere of the picture in which Bet
~ smiled over the mammoth loaves,
there was such a demand for Jim's
new -four that an addition to the flour
mills had TO be built and new ma.
chincry installed
one momentous evening Jim told
BETTY he had saved out two barrels OF
thp ne,y milling "NNhat fpr9" asked