The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-04-12
Introducing
Mr.. Grandage
b JANE OSBORN
a. nm - Mcclure Newspaper syndlcate.l

&c, 1919. ~ AoSauSs NsWsSeHsa
1--WE might a. well ask Miss Wynn.
commented the elder Of the Emmett
sisters. 1T isn't a II It was regu'
lar party, and she'll understand, OF
course. that our asking her to an at
fair Of this sort doesn't put her or us
under any sort of future social obliga'
rion."
well, ali right" auoth the Other
Emmett. .And she'll probably be SC
battered TO be asked that she'll buy
lot Of the pans and kettles. l imagine
she has quite little money"
SO that Is why Miss Emmett No.
telsphoned to Mary Wynn that night.
something unprecedented in the six
months that Mary Wynn had come to
live In Farnham.
II 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. "Thsre - 4 young man
who 10 agent for the Gold Star Kitch-
On Wear who il coming for demon
stration. He asked me to get together
some of the ladies In the neighborhood.
And he says" emphasiEed Miss Emmett,
''that II II 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 IS president Of
the Tarnham Woman's club and, WISH
Ing TO help any young man working
Ais way through college. l told him he
could have his demonstration at our
house."
Miss Emmett did n0t add that che
had consented most willingly ~ the
young man In question had agreed t.
give Mics Emmett 8 per cent OF any
sales that resulted from her demon
stration party, and that he was, more
ever, going TO prepare and provide ma
torials Tor the refreshments served.
Mics Wynn tried to hide her excite
ment and happiness from Mics EN-
NETT on the telephone. She had come
to Farnham six months ago to live In
Z house that had bean willed to her
BY Nm uncle who had lately died. But
90 far Earnham had not received hex
very warmly. They eyed her with sus-
picion. Old Mr.. Wynn was something
OF an eccentric. There were tales Of
Mary Wynn's high-nown notions. She
had lived abroad, she could talk French
a. well ~ she could English and she
came to Farnham with rather shabby
clothes. Thsrsfors Farnham eyed her
with suspicion.
Now II seemed to Mary Wynn - 4
the Ice was broken. ~ II ct last Farm
ham were opening it, arms.
II was IN odd enough party at the
Emmetts' that wednesday afternoon.
Twenty, chairs or more had been car.
ried into the kitchen to accommodate
the guests and late corners eat In
open doorways to the dining room OF
perched upon the drain board q the
kitchen sink. Mary Wynn. who had
arrived early In crisp summer frock.
sat close to the stove, where nothing
that the young man from Hilton col
lsge said or did could escape her. To
the others seated farther back he may
have seemed sslf-Dosssssed and per-
fectly at ease. but to Mary Wynn Il /
was obvious that at times he felt the
'awkwardness Of his podtion-he O.
novice In the art Of cooking, q 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 colfee n they
had made It before could never equal |
coffee ~ be was making Il In one Of |
the new Gold Star coffee pots, and
Mary Wynn thought once or twice as
he stirred the eggs Tor the omeIet or
the coffee to put In the cof-
fee pot that the boyish hands trem-
bled with confusion.
Apparently he was not entirely f.
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 Z university note
book. Once or twice when there was
an awkward pause In his sales talk his
Dyes inadvertently met those OF Mary
Wynn and then q bOyish smile came
INTO his eyes and Mary Wynn flashed
back look of encouragement that |;
cleared the air.
Mary was thinking that Il would he
| very great thing for any woman to
nave son so bent on getting his edu.
.ation that he was willing to spend
,is summers rs an agent demonstrate.
nE IN wOmen's kitchens. For Mary
Wynn, though not more than twenty
I've. usually thought Of herself 40 very /;
much older. Her own youth seemed
Tery Tar away.
Then m end came to tile demonstra-
ion and the arnber-clear coffee was
,onred in Miss Emmett's second best
en- cups and the feather-light omelet
vas cut in sample pieces and passed
lround. Assurance came into the face (;
Il the demonstration when he saw and
leard the praise OF the women. "Now. ~
10 said. "Pll pass these blank cards
md pencil. Will you each one write
'our name and address on q cardr