Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-02-07
KATIE
AND HER
QUILT

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10 by D. J. walsh)
liver since she could remember.
- Katie had wanted to make
l. pretty quilt for herself. But
she had never had time for any,
thing but the plainest, most utllltarian
sewing Keeping buttons sewed on,
stockings darned, hand me down
clothes made over, Cor five younger
brothers and sisters had kept Katie
too busy to do anything so frivolous
as to make quilt for her hope chest.
And after all, why should she be
filling hope chest2 She had never
time to go out with any beaus-grant-'
ed she had any beaus to invite her out.
All the same, Katie cherished her
dream of a pretty quilt. She had
made quite a collection of quilt pat
terms, for several friends Of her In
valid mother had given given her
their choicest patterns. One wom-
an had even offered to cut out the
blocks to piece If Katie would just
buy the material. But Katie had new
err had the money she felt she could
spare.
That Is, not until the last of the
five younger brothers and sisters were
through high school. Then, her moth
er being dead, and the care Of the
house not so pressing, Katie had got
herself Job clerking In the dry
goods store.
The hours were long, and the pay
was small. But even a few dollars
few dollars week seemed wealth to
the worn little creature who for so
many years had scarcely penny she
could call her very own, to do with
what she liked.
Unconsciously, day after day, as she
stood at the counter, Katie was choos-
ing the color of her quilt, making up
her mind whether she would do a log
cabin quilt in green and buff, dou-
BILE Irish chain In rose and white, or
pInwheel in delft blue and cream.
Sometimes, when the remnants of
wash goods were especially attractive
Katie considered making an old-fash-
Toned quilt of all different kinds of lit
tie squares, the colors set In hit or
miss.
The quilt was still to be started
when the last Of Katie's sisters mar
ried, and the youngest of the boys
went into the navy, leaving the old
house so nearly empty that Katie de-
cided to sell 1t and divide the pro-
ceeds among the six of them.
Eleven hundred dollars wasn't as
much as It might have been, but II
looked like fortune to Katie when
the check for her share of the house
money was handed to her. The thou
sand dollars she promptly put In the
bank, but the hundred dollars she had
paid to her in crisp, fresh bills. Care
fully she folded them and laid tlleza
in the very inside pocket Of her shab-
by purse, then walked briskly out Of
the bank.
Katie, at the age Of thirty-three, was
about to start filling her hope chest,
and the first item was to be a quilt.
Some way, when she went to look
at the green and buff and rose and
delft blue materials, none Of them
seemed to be Just what she really
wanted. AS matter of fact, she
wasn't quite sure that she wanted
to piece a quilt She thought per-
hans she would like to make one of
the applioue quilts that she had seen
advertised in the catalogue from the
Wholesale house. quilts that had been
too extensive 10 warrant their pur-
chase for the pIoInyllIe Dry Goods EN-.
porlum.
uowovor with s1oo in ber nurse.
And that is precisely what Katie pro
ceeueu 10 no.