Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-06
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Eddy did not talk nonsense. He
never stopped the car to leap out
and pluck wild rose to present with
a fattering word, soft look, and a
sly touching of fingers. He did not
quote poetry. He did not sing. He
just stroiled biithely in with an offer
ing Of fruit from the farm, fresh
vegetables, or a chicken ready for
broiling. and announced that he would
like company for a ride. Regular.
Just like father. That was Eddy
Jackson.
Ginger took her responsibilities to
the family with a great deal of solem-
nifty. II only she could hold them in
line, the twins, that Is, for Helen
was now irrevocably lost to her sis
terly schemes. Still, even Ginger
found some grounds of justification
for Helen. She was getting old
nearly twenty-three. And Helen was
an even-tempered, unexcitable, unro-
mantle type. Perhaps after all It was
Just as we'll.
She regretted that they could not
afford money enough to adorn Mar
jory's beauty In fitting manner.
Ginger was not very patient. And It
did seem hard to wait, and Keep on
waiting, for Marjory's hour Of tri-
umph at the side of the romantic fig
ure dispensing countless millions in
charitable enterprise-and looking
well after the Tollivers. also.
In the meantime, Ginger quite
burned to do something on her own
account 1t was not that she had not
tried. What, indeed, had she not
tried? She had bought, from her per-
sOnal allowance, at Iowa rates, copies
of Sunday editions Of all the Chicago
papers, for the sake of the advertis.
ing sections. Column aftei column
she had studied, ad utter ad she had
answered. But these, although In
type they seemed to promise such Law.
ishness of reward, turned out most
disappointingly. The one about ad-
dressing envelopes for instance, In the
advertisement 1t had seemed rosy
road TO fortune, home work, quiet.
easy. And Ginger had to try II be-
fore she realized how very, very long
1t took to address a thousand en-
velopes, and how very, very little re-
Enumeration was sixty cents for this
expenditure of time and ink.
The plain sewing had turned out to
be the complete manufacture Of over
alls at fourteen cents apiece. and Gin.
ger ruined three of them and was
obliged to pay for the material before
she would confess herself beaten.
One magazines private road to for.
tune, she discovered, proved to be via
the taking Of subscriptions, and this
was not just the thing for minister's
daughter. in a., small town, where
parlshioners felt obliged to do what.
ever the minister's daughter asked,
and then were aggrieved at her for
asking.
Very nearly had Ginger become a
raiser of ginseng. She had read q
simply thrilling account Of how one
could take an absolutely negligible
amount of ginseng seed, and set II
out In small shady corner of the
garden, where in practically no time
at all the produce would attain a mar.
ket value almost unbelievable. She
had written. feverishly. for the prom
Used details, and while awaiting their
receipt, unwilling to allow one un.
necessary moment to elapse between
her effort and the market value, she
went to work on the shadiest spot In
the garden. She dug. she hoed, she
raked. And long before the details
arrived in Red Thrush, her garden
spot was ready, and subjected to most
inquisitive and ironical comments
from her sisters, who teasingly won
dered IL she had prepared the soil for
mamma from Heaven.
When the letter OF details at last
arrived she carried 1t, In .quivering
expectancy, to her attic studio, her
sanctuary. only to ind that there was
an original outlay--for seed. for es
pecially prepared soil rich In humus
potash anO pnOSpnOrlc 0cl0, Tor par.
ticularly recommended lath frames to
supply artificial shade. The entire
expenditure amounted to not more
than forty dollars. from which. within
an amazingly short time, according
TO the printed matter, but what to
Ginger was not less than five-year
eternity, q fortune was guaranteed.
Ginger reluctantly sowed flowers In
the garden spot, and laid In q fresh
supply Of Sunday papers.
In her pursuit Of profitable exer
else, she was an insatiate. Although
she chafed at her inability to turn
effort into cash, she did not despair
A. long as the Chicago papers COD