Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-03-27

10 ueu 1HIuSn. DE was farmer
Not that Ginger called what Ed,
Jackson did farming. The relehbor
did not call It that, either. Ginge
Ella called Il playing. They callet
It kid-glovint. Eddy jackson was Al
agriculturist, an experimenfalist B,
was OF the new school, one Of thos1
who studies the land AZ I mechanic
studies biz tools. The nelghbors
laughed at what they called his high
dinkuses-but the fact that he made,
In spot cash. every yeLr. nearly twice
Al much money as they did from the
same amount OF land, gave him q
certain authority among them. They
said he was lucky. but they went to
him for advice.
There was a long low building on
his farm which Ginger called the
sacred shed. Eddy Jackson called 1t
the lab. And there, with microscopes
and plates and curious tubes and
queer liquids and funny little boxes
and bottles and cans u sand and soil.
Eddy Jackson did strange things,
with soil, with seeds and sprouts
Often, during the summer. young
men, students from the state univer-
stiles, came and stayed at the farm
which Eddy called Pay Dirt-and
hobnobbed about with him fraternally.
But when Eddy told them to do any
thing, they obeyed as II they were
servants. And 30 they were. But
nor the servants of Eddy Jackson
servants Of the soil, Of the state, the
great farming state OF Iowa.
So Eddy Jackson, for all his youth
and his sometimes fiippant way of
dealing With serious subjects, lifted
into Ginger's classification as regular
just like her father. he never
waxed sentimental. He never sue
cumbed to what she bitterly termed
paving He went about with Helen
until Professor Langley attained the
heights OF monopoly In her time as
well az her affection. and then he
obligingly transferred his attentions
to the twins, taking them inter
.chnngeably according to the occasion,
or both together, and sometimes, al
though she always protested. Ginger
herself.
Eddy did not talk nonsense. He
pever stopped the car to leap out
and pluck wild rose to present with
a dattering word, soft look, and a
sly touching Of fingers. He did not
quote poetry. He did not sing. He
just srrolled blithely in with an offer
Ing OF fruit from the farm, fresh.
vegetables, or chicken ready for
broiling. and announced that he would
like company for ride Regular.
Just like father. That was Eddy
Jackson.
Ginger took her responsibilities to
the family with grear deal OF solem-
nifty. II only she could hold them In
line. the twins, that Ia. for Helen
was now irrevocably lost to her sis
-erly schemes Still. even Ginger
found some grounds Of justification
Tor Helen. She was getting old
nearly twenty-three- And Helen was
IN even-tempered. unexcitable, unro-
mantle type. Perhaps after all 1t was
lust AZ well
She regretted that they could not
lffOrd money enough to adorn Mar
ory's beauty In a fitting manner.
Ginger was not very patient. And 1t
lid seem hard to walt and keep on |
vair1ng, for Marjory's hour OF tn
lmph at the side OF the romantic f1g-
ire dispensing countless millions In
charitable enterprise-And looking
vell after the Tollivers, also.
In the meantime, Ginger quite
'urned to do something on her own
ccounL 1t was not that she had not
ried. What, indeed, had she not
ried7 She had bought, from her per-
onal allowance, at Iowa rates, copies
( Sunday editions OF all the Chicago
apers, for the sake OF the advertis-
az sections. Column after column
he had studied, ad litter ad she had
nswered. But these, although In
gpe they seemed to promise such Law
'hness OF reward, turned out most
The one about ad-
ressing envelopes for instance, In the
advertisement It had seemed a rosy
bad TO fortune, home work, quiet,
asy. And Ginger had to try 1t be-
IRE she realized how very, very long
took to address 4 thousand en-
alopes, and how very, very little re-
was sixty cents for this
rpenditure OF time and Ink.
The plain sewing had turned out to
, the complete manufacture Of over
ls at fourteen cents apiece, and Gin
n ruined three Of them and was
'liged TO pay for the material before
70 would confess herself beaten
One magazines private foad to for
ne, she discovered. proved to DO Va
q taking OF subscriptions, and this
as not Just the thing for 4 minister's
lughter In small town, where
IrlshIoners fell obliged to do what
er the minister's daughter asked,
ID then were aggrieved at her for
king.
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