Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-09-27
Aunt Sally's
Candy
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BY RUBY DOUGLAS

81 Wlod 1 cOulu ma an ATTRACTIVE
l name for my candles" sighed
Barbara as she wrapped one after
another Of the barley-sugar sticks in
squares Of paper.
whats about 'Barbara's Best'?"
asked her frivolous brother.
Nonsense! That might mean my
best beau-my best frock-anything.
You're such a lot of help, Bruce" she
said witheringly.
No one in the family had taken
her project seriously and Barbara
was, perhaps, too touchy when they
joked her about her business career.
Suddenly, as she sat wrapping
these newly originated sticks Of col
Ored candy for children she thought
of her Aunt Sally Martin, who had
been the only member of the family
who really encouraged her from the
beginning. "Aunt Sally's Candy |"
she cried aloud.
"But 1t isn't" insisted her literal
brother, still in a teasing mood.
1T is because she kept me from
being discouraged that I am making
it at ALL" said Barbara, land Aunt
Sally's Candy 1t shall be-"
1t was not twenty-four hours be-
fore she had ordered the box labels
with the new name Of her to-be-
famous sweets printed on them.
Something in the thought Of real
name on real label inspired Bar
bara and she went to work with all
her energy to make her candies.
She made boxes of animals on
sticks. She made fondant and col
Ored 1t and dressed 1t in everything
from candied violet leaves to bitter
chocolate polka dots and green mint
leaves dipped In sugar. She made
ginger branches and orange slices.
candy houses like young Noah's Arks
for the children, and she made dell
cate patties in all the shades of the
rainbow and advertised them to At in
with the color schemes OF any lunch
con.
There was not clubhouse nor a
wOmans exchange within a hundred
miles of her home town in which
she did not eventually get her pretty
candles.
Particularly successful was her
children's candy. She designed new
box for the sweets for small boys and
girls and on the dainty label she had
portrait Of gentle, elderly person
as nearly resembling her own Aunt
Sally as 1t was possible for the art
list to make it from description.
Barbara was very happy in her
success. There was cloud on her
horizon, but she had so success
fully hidden It that no one knew
that she was not supremely happy
There was one person whom she
missed In her life, one man who had
loved her and who, because she had
insisted on going into her career
free from promises or thoughts of
marriage, she had sent away.
Christopher Chatsworth had been
at a neighboring school while Bar
bara was at st. Mary's and their
early friendship and budding rO-
nance had been during that time.
Later, Christopher had won for
eign scholarship and had returned to
find that he still cared for his girl
sweetheart. But Barbara, In the
meantime, had taken up her career.
Christopher had been discouraged 1t
was nearly two years since she had
heard of him.
She was sitting in the morning
sunlight on the big screened porch
drawing designs for new lOlly-
pop while the fragrance of boiling
sugar permeated the air. She heard
car draw up at the front gate.
Suddenly she heard small voices,
together with a mans tones, in the
big living room.
"Just wait minute and I'll see
II Miss Barbara will see you" she
heard the maid saying.
Barbara's heart had begun to In
crease its action at the sound Of the
mans voice. Could 1t be2
"a young man and two children
would like to see Aunt Sally" said
the maid.
When she stood In the big living
room with her hands clasped warm
ly in those Of Christopher Chats
worth, she could not believe that It
was real moment. Two children
stared up at her.
"She's not Aunt Sally" cried one,
disappointed.
The man went on to explain.
"They've been having Aunt Sally's
Candy on birthdays and high days and
holidays for two years and | have
always promised them that some time
when I was visiting their mother, my
sister who lives some ten miles from
here, would bring them over to see
Aunt Sally's kitchen-and Aunt Sal
Typ
Barbara sighed happily. ut is
truly fate, Chris, isn't it2"
Christopher nodded. at is. For
I assure you had no notion but
what the dear old lady on the paint
ed box OF Aunt Sally's Candies was
indeed just-Aunt Sally"
Barbara explained just how she
had happened to adopt the name.
And after that she took the children
into her kitchen and gave them
candies to keep them quiet while she
and their uncle said many things to
each other.
yes II you're willing to be
known as Aunt Sally's husband"
Barbara was saying when one sticky
overheard.
"Has Aunt Sally husbandT plped
he lad.
"No-son, but she's going to have"
,ald Uncle Chris definitely.