The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-25
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To keep fife from growing too dull in Rcd Thrush, Iowa, GIN GER ELLA TOLLIvER organized q Junior Country club. It was to bc exclusive - no parents, no babies, just the 'syOuneer sct.v Ac- cOrtlingly Ginger, whose father was q minister and whose stcpmothcr, tn. former PHIL VAN DOORN, was both wealthy and indulgcnt, pur- s:llased the Mil Rush farm, a fO- acre tract with an old house, and rcnodclcd it.
 Into He'd Thrush came BARD HOLLOWAY, young artist who was hObOing around the country. Att tfucfed by Ginger, he agreed to stay and paint portraits and decorate the new club house. The Toiliycrs made him their guest.
 Bard thought 'JOic dc Vivrc'' would he Q good name for tho club. It was adopted. And he thought 1t would Ike splendid if they could import from Chicago one NICOIO CALLENO. For Ni- colo was handsome and Inc could cook and sing and strum guitar. He would make picturesque addl- ton to the club. He would be q knockout on the opening night.
 But on tte morning of the opening there arrived at the Tollivcrs' not ono Italian youth but what seemed an army. Little ANGELO was a musician, and PIETRO could cook. And BENITO could sing. NicoIo, 1t seemed. could not come, so they had come in his place. Ginger took them on.
 That night at the opening Bard realized he was failing in love with Ginger. The event was q great success. Pictro, Angelo and Be- nftO added just the right touch of color, hut EDDY JACKSON began to think that Ginger would have her hands full with them. and JENKY BROOKS, who with her husba and, BENNY, were chapcrons of the club, began to have mIsgiyings.
 But the Italians soon won her over and they made plans to stay at the JOic dc Vivrc. BcnitO built bird houses and planted gardens and thc others were equally usc- ful. Meanwhile Bard thought he had better leave Rcd Thrush, but Phil persuaded him to stay Iit- tic longer. But Phil wrote to SPEED RONEY, an old friend of Gingcr's in the east, and asked him to come out and visit, as compcti- NIOu IOp DdTu. hDu "IeU heard this she was not pleased.
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 CHAPTER XXI.
 Around Speed Roney had centered one ofAhe most dramatic episodes of the brief but eventful life of Gin ger Ella.
 His connection with her sensa- tional career dated back to the days when she had lived with her father and her three older sisters in the parsonage and when, although the youngest of the group, she had by q 0Cn bination of native talent and sh heer nerve forced herself upon them as managcr-in-chief.
 During the troubled years when her father was temporarily blinded by nervous strain, physical depres- sion and mental worry, facing dis rn1sal from the church and requir- ing expensive treatments to ward off complete and permanent blind ness, shc had conceived the brilliant --albeit entirely illicit - idea of starting chain letter soliciting funds for a Methodist Home for the Blind.
 With Ginger, to conceive an idea was but the prelude to it's accom- plshment. and until she was inter- fered with by law and hide bound Post Office Department, things financial in the parsonage had seen the sunny side of the clouds for the first time.
 After many iumillating catas- -rophes of one sort and another she