White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-08

Bible from cover to cover, and his
every thought was centered upon his
work, SO that his sermons did moi
deteriorate. Just a little rest, free
dom from killing worry. If only there
were more money!
II the girls felt anxiety on his &C
count, bravely they gave no sign. A
hundred dollars month is not q
great deal of money on which to sup
port family and maintaiil three
daughters In school. And Mr.. Tolliver
had never relinquished his old custom
Of tithing-a tenth Of his mite for the
Lord. If sometimes tie girls felt that
ten dollars a month could better be
spared from the church than from the
parsonage, that the Lord In His afflu-
ence might better be deprived than
the pastor in his poverty, they did
not complain. Ellen thought about 1t,
of course, for she was turbulent,
given to turbulent thoughts. It was
her birth which had cost the home
its mother. Perhaps 1t was sorry
knowledge OF what she had cost the
family that stirred her to great
eagerness to do something for them,
that determined her to carry life be-
fore her with a high and triumphant
hand. Perhaps 1t was only her youth,
for she was not yet seventeen. It was
for this turbulence OF hers that she
was known as Ginger Ella.
Helen, who was twenty-three years
old, after two years CT training at the
normal school, had served for two
years as teacher In a neighborfng
town. Her small check coming into
the parsonage every month had meant
something almost akin to richness,
until the unaccustomed expense Of
medical treatments had made such
voracious demands upon them. Now
the twins also were ready to 60 into
the normal school for training In the
fall. Ginger felt that 1t was real
extravaganza on the part of the fam
fly to assume the expense OF educat-
ing Marjory to teach school. That
money might better be saved. Mar
jory was beautiful. The obvious end
of beauty Is marriage to great for
tune. From her earliest childhood,
in her queer, small heart, Ginger Ella
had sacredly dedicated her beautiful
sister to that high estate. She would
enrich the family by marriage.
In her inexperienced youth, Ginger
divided all men broadly into three
general groups-regular men. romantic
figures and base pretenders. Regular
men were like her father, settled, ur-
bane, and immune to sex. Like Eddy
Jackson. Ginger called him regular.
Eddy Jackson had been one of their
first friends when the TOllivers came
to Red Thrush. He was farmer.
Not hat Ginger called what Eddy
Jackson did farming. The neighbors
did not call 1t that, either. Ginger
Ella called 1t playing. They called
it kid-glovins. Eddy Jackson was an
agriculturist, an experimentalist. He
was of the new school, one of those
who studies the land as mechanic
studies his tools. The neighbors
laughed at what they called his high
dinkuses-but the fact that he made,
in spot cash, every yeLr, nearly twice
as much money as they did from the
same amount of Land, gave him a
certain authority among them. They
said be was lucky, but they went to
him for advice.
There was long low building on
his farm which Ginger called the
sacred shed. Eddy jackson called 1t
the lab And there, with microscopes
and plates and curious tubes and
queer liquids and funny little boxes
and bottles and cans Of sand and soil,
Eddy jackson did strange things
with soil. with seeds and sprouts.
Often, during the summer, young
men, students from the state univer
stiles, came and stayed at the farm
which Eddy called Pay Dirt-and
hobnoobed about with him fraternally
But when Eddy told them to do any
thing, they obeyed as II they were
servants. And so they were. Blu
not che servants of Eddy Jackson
servants Of the soil, ct the state. thu
great farming state of Iowa.
So Eddy jackson, for all his you'll
and his sometimes tiippant way o
dealing with serious subjects, fttet
into Ginger's classification as regular
just like her father. lie neve
waxed sentimental. He never sue
cumbed to what she bitterly termed
"pawing." He went about with Heller
until Professor Lungley attained thu
heights Of monopoly In her time al
| we'll as her affection. and then HI
obligingly transferred his attention.
to the twins, taking them inter
changeably according to the occasion
or both together, and sometimes, al
though she always protested, Ginge
herself. ,.,tn@.4.
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