The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03

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 "okay here," said Wesley. "Tie the can on school teachers and aunts, too, will you?"
 Tt has it's points, said Eddy guardedly, for he knew Ginger. But foresee impendimenta." Well. you needn't bother point ing them out" said Ginger. You're almost too old to belong in the first place. And if you begin pointing out 1mpendimenta, you are too old. l suppose we'll have to make room for the older higp-school boys"
 What, those infants! Still in swaddling clothes apd-"
 "To do the work" explained Gin ger thoughtfully. There's going to be heaps of work to do, and all the older boys have summer jobs. We won't let them join-we'n just encourage them to take sort of interest. There'll be oodles of work before the place is ready"
 Eddy Jackson knitted his brows thoughtfully. "Oodles of work, eh? And there's place is there? You've really got an idea, have you?"
 "Yes. I have an idea," said Gin ger pleasantly. But of course it's Ben and Jenky's place."
 Jenky was more anxious than Ginger herself to push the pur- chase of Mill Rush to successful conclusion, and her interest was based upon solder foundation.
 To Ginger, the project meant no more than a pleasant adventure to while away the tedium of an un- promising summer. To Jenky it promised a great many dollars saved which. as every one knows, is so many dollars earned.
 An unusual air of determination settled upon her gentle face as she marched down the quiet street on her way to talk business with Joplin Westbury.
 New responsibility, and with it new courage, had come to her with her marriage to poor, blind, help less Benny Brooks. She developed an interest that in one less truly devout would have been downright mercenary.
 But the springs from which her sudden craftiness had sprung were crystal pure. Tn the back of her mind driftea shadowy, disheartening forebodings of the future. The time might come when she would no longer be able to cope with the exigencies of the public kinder garten. She might die suddenly from some hitherto unsuspected ail- ment. leaving him alone once more to the casual care of a disinterested world
 Upon one thing she had set her heart. Either with her or without, Benny should never again become a public charge if she could help it, and she was going to help it.
 She began immediately to save that came into her possession. de- posting it in postal savings ac- count, for she did not trust banks, savoring as they do so much of hu- man personality. But the postal service being in the munificent hand of the United States was scarcely less to be trusted than the well-known hand of Providence it. self. And certainly when the United States should cease to ex- ist she would have no further need for her savings.
 In the old orthodox days of her intimate connection with the par sonage she had practiced thing. taking tenth part of her income flor the Lord," as she said, al- though it reached him by the some what devious route of church so- cials. poor baskets and foreign mis- sions. But in the new responsibility which she had so bravely assumed, she found that 10 deduct from her small salary one-tenth for the Lord and one-tenth for postal savings subjected her household to painful privations.
 Jenky had never been able to cope successfully with spiritual probelms so she trustfully took hers straight to MT Tolliver, Jenky was one of those who, in the very presence of glaring ministerial mis- takes in the conduct of their own affairs, was able to retain implicit confidence in the wisdom of the cloth as concerned the affairs of others.
 Nor was her confidence in this case misplaced. MT Tolliver lis- tened sympathetically to the state both her thin hard hands in his.
 My good friend" he said, "any- thing you are doing from day to day, or any safeguards you are building for tie future. for that poor blind husband of yours, you are doing for the Lord. yes, a thou- sand times more definitely for Him than the majority of our church ac- tivities. Postal savings for Benny is more practical service for the Lord than the collection plate for foreign missions. It is a noble ex- ample of the cup of cold water in my name'."
 'I suppose some of the ladies will criticize me-" she began wistfully.
 But he patted her hands and laughed. "Now. Jenky." he chided her. "Is this between you and the Lord, or you and the ladies?"
 Happily she was able to believe 1t as if it were the very Gospel and she proceeded cheerfully to practice small economies that in the old days she had never dreamed of.
 Now, suddenly. in Ginger's sur prising proposition, she saw un- suspected avenues of income. If she and Benny gave up their rooms in town and went to the country for the summer, she would certainly save the amount of three. and pos sibly four. months rent. She would have a garden, there would be fruit. and Ginger had promised to take