The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-14
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 The reha bilitation of Mill Rush proceeded at a rate that was no less than miraculous, considering that all hired labor was paid by the hour. It was the supera abundance of extra and free hands that worked the miracle-hands that were not amen able to union rules and regulations
 If 8 workman left his job, or let his tools out of his hands for so much as 10 minutes, his place was filled with a dozen scabs almost be- fore his back was turned. If a painter abandoned pail and brush at the usual union hour of five, in- evitably upon his return the next morning he found the pail emptied of paint and the work-for which he was to have been paid by the hour-completed.
 In the presence of 10 solid acres of ardent volunteers, the only way for an honest man to make a living wage was to work from daylight until dark and to eat with his in- struments of labor under his feet. There was no waiting for the sun to shine at Mill Rush. Every time a paid laborer laid off, a dozen. free substitutes leaped into the breach with a cry of joy.
 The result was that when Ginger who found that three congenial spirits could ride very comfortably indeed in the front seat of the Dido introduced Bard Holloway to Mill Rush she had good reason to be proud of her proprietorship. The grounds were entirely cleared of dead brushwood, weeds and wind. blown picnic debris. The wood lane leading from the highway was a pleasant winding drive quite free of treacherous ruts and tire-bruising stones. Early spring wild flowers and hardy grasses were springing up and every bough was curling into leaf.
 The porches had been enlarged and re-enforced and were decked out like stage-settings in 8 variety of porch furniture garnered from hundred homes, freshly stained 8 rugged, rustic brown, and unhol- stered with cretonne in orange and red.
 The broken windows had been re- placed. the shutters repaired and painted a deep ivory; the tennis court was ready for the net; swings were suspended from the hardest trees; chains were hung for the hammocks.
 Three small garden plots had been spaded up and sown with seeds for early vegetables, each tract carefully lined and marked. Chick ems were strutting cheerfully in their fenced enclosure, and on the bit of pastureland on the hillside a tentment that her declining days had fallen in pleasant places, and Mrs Carter, the old mare. bore her dignified companionship.
 Ginger unlocked the door with something of flourish.
 "Welcome," she cried heartily "to Joie de Vivre la Middle West.s
 The interior of the house was ready for occupancy except that room furniture had not yet been collected from the donors.
 As Ginger satd. What you pay for, you get first" and having paid for the chairs and tables in the dining room-although she was not yet sure but it should be called the ballroom if was fully fur nished. There was an immense fireplace at each end, since two large rooms had been thrown to- gether, and the tables were ranged along the walls with carefully studied carelessness of effect, tables for two, for four, a few for six and against the wall on the left, for the use of convivial club crowds, an inn itation refectory table with benches which could seat 20 without crowd ing.
 Bard studied the large room with its handsomely paneled walls with great interest.
 q don't know" he said thought fully. Tt is very nice as it is Those pale walls with the black frames will make a stunning back ground for pretty living girls in brilliant gowns. Seems almost a shame to clutter up that soft tone with flamboyant modern stuff. Why not try it first with just one figure in each panel? And no queer birds and girls and that sort of tripe.
 "Why not alternate types? In one panel have a demure little Puritan going to church. then a French danseuse strutting her stuff? Maybe pirate swinging his cutlass and after him a pilgrim father? It will not take long to sketch one figure like that in each panel. and then later on if we want to, we can put one object in each panel as a background-a church for the Puritan, I suppose, corner of Cafe de la Paix for his sister next door. a rakish boat for the pirate and a strutting turkey back of Papa Pilgrim. That sort of thing. Wouldn't it be more unusual and maybe more harmonious?
 Ginger professed herself willing to be pleased with anything and urged him to get to work = imme- diately before something turned up to interfere with her wishes. And while you're doing it, Patty and I'll breeze around town in the Dido and gather up the rest of the donations that they are holding out on us."
 T.