The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-10-11
CHAPTER II-Continued

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Eddy did not talk nonsense. He
never stopped the car to leap out
and pluck wild rose to present with
q flattering word, a soft look, and q
sly touching of fingers. He did not
quote poetry. He did not sing. He
just strolled blithely 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 IA 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 II was
just as well.
She regretted that they could not
afford money enough to adorn Mar
jorys 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 hg-
ure dispensing countless millions ID
charitable enterprlse-and LOOKING
well after the Tollivers, also.
In the meantime. Ginger quite
burned to do something on her own
accouJ It was not that she had not
frieQ nat. indeed, nad she not
III e nad Donght, from ner per
SO vance, at iowa rA1es, COPIES
:, editions o. az the Chleago
ne sake ~ the aaverfiss
Ang sections. Column afteF column
She mad studied, 40 agfef 40 she mao
answered. But these, although IA {
type they seemed 70 promise sucn lav.
Asiiness o. rewaru. turheo OUT hosi
oisappoih'lhsiy. lne one apoul au'
dressing envelopes LOT instance, ID the
advertisement nad seemed rosy
foao 20 fortune nome WORK. quiet.
easy: ana Ginger mao TO Try IT ne
Iore she reallzeo now very very long
II COOK 10 ADDRESS thousaho en-
veiopes' ana now very, very nttie re-
muneration was Sixty cents TOT THIS
expenditure OF time ana INK.
Inc PLAIN sewing had turned out TO
De the complete manufacture OF over
alls at fourteen cents apiece, and Gin
ger ruined three or them ana was
obliged 10 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 small town, where
parishioners felt obliged to do what.
ever the minister's daughter asked,
and then were aggrieved at her for
asking.
Very nearly had Ginger become q
raiser of ginseng. She had read
simply thrilling account of how one
could take an absolutely negligible
amount of ginseng seed, and set II
out In a small shady corner of the
garden, where In PRACTICAL, no time
at all the produce would attain a mar.
ker value almost unbelievable. She
had written. feyerishly, for the prom
Used details. and while awaiting their
receipt, unwilling to allow one I'm.
necessary moment to elapse between
her effort and the market value, she
went to work on the shadest 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