Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-21

waiting, for Marjory's hour OF trf.
umph at the side of the romantic fig
ure dispensing countless millions In
charitable enterprise looking
well after the Tollivers, also.
In the meantime, Ginger quite
burned to do something on her own
account. It 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 after 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 it had seemed q rosy
road TO fortune, home work, quiet
easy. And Ginger had to try 1t be.
fore she realized how very, very long
1t took to address a thousand en-
velopes, and how very, very little re-
muneration 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 q 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 a
raiser of ginseng. She had read a
simply thrilling account of how one
could take an absolutely negligible
amount of ginseng seed, and set 1t
out in small shady corner of the
garden, where in practically no time
at all the produce would attain 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 if she had prepared the soil for
mamma from Heaven.
When the letter of details at last
arrived she carried it, In quivering
expectancy, to her attic studio, her
sanctuary, only to find that there was
an original Outlay-fOr seed, for es
pecially prepared soil rich In humus.
potash and phosphOric acid, for par.
icularly 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 a five-year
eternity, q fortune was guaranteed.
Ginger reluctantly sOwed flowers In
the garden spot, and laid In 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
AS long as the Chicago papers con
tinued to hold out rOse-colored induce
ments, so long would Ellen Tolliver
called Ginger Ella, follow the rain
bow trail.
Barred from the comfortable hv
ing room, occupied by Helen anc
Horace, by the unwritten law OF ram
lily of sisters, Miriam, Ginger anc
their father sat on the veranda Inc!
were thrilled and expectant Inc!
must wait-wait for the wealth Of
prizes-wait for Marjory shining, rapt
triumphant-for fifty dollars In goln
"Oh, father" cried Miriam sudden
ly, "if we are just sitting here-walt
ing for it-and she should not get
she will feel bad-about disap
pointing US"
Breathless with the horrfd fear o.
thus embarrassing their beauty, the!
rose simultaneously and FASTENED up
stairs, crowding upon each other.
"As If we care whether she gets |
or not" said Ginger stOutly.