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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA. «in jgjr ELEANOR H. PORTER nursnwnoNSBy RH.UVINGSTONE. COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H. PORTER MARY—AND MARIE SYNOPSIS.—In a preface Man' Marie explains her apparent "double personality” and Just why she Is a "cross-current and a contradic tion.” Mary Marla says: . "Father calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Mario. The rest of my name Is Anderson. "I’m thirteen years old, and I’m a cross-current and a contradiction. That Is, Sarah says I’m that. (Sa rah Is my old nurse.) She says she read It once—that the children of unlikes were always a cross-cur rent and a contradiction. And my father and mother are unlikes, and I’m the children. That is, I’m the child. I’m all there Is. And now I’m going to be a bigger cross-cur rent and contradiction than ever, for I’m going to live half the time with Mother and the other half with Father. Mother will go to Boston to live, and Father will stay here—a divorce, you know." She also tells why she Is going to keep a diary. She begins with Nurse Sarah's story of her birth. CHAPTER I.—Continued. —2— Of course, when you stop to think of It, It’s sort of queer and funny, though naturally I didn’t think of it, growing up with it as I did, and always having it, until suddenly one day it occurred to me that none of the other girls had two names, one for their father and, one for their mother to call them by. I began to notice other things then, too. Their fathers and mothers didn’t live in rooms at op posite ends of the house, Their fathers and mothers seemed to like each other, and to talk together, and to have little jokes and laughs together, and twinkle with their eyes. That is, most of them did. And If one wanted to go to walk, or to a party, or to play some game, the other didn’t always look tired and bored, and say, “Oh, very well, if you like.” And then both not do it, what ever it was That is, I never saw the other girls’ fathers and mothers do that way; and I’ve seen quite a lot of them, too, for I’ve been at the other girls’ houses a lot for a long time. You see I don’t stay at home much, only when I have to. We don’t have a round table with a red cloth and a lamp on it, and children ’round It playing games and doing things, and fathers and mothers reading and mending. And it’s lots Jollier where they do have them. Nurse says my father and* mother ought never to have been married. That’s what I heard her tell our Bridget one day. So the first chance I got I asked her why, and what she meant. “Oh, la! Did you hear that?” she demanded, with the quick look over her shoulder that she always gives when she’s talking about Father and Mother. “Well, little pitchers do have big ears, sure enough!" “Little pitchers,” indeed! As if I didnt know what that meant! I’m no child to be kept in the dark concern ing things I ought to know. And I told her so, sweetly and pleasantly, but with firmness and dignity. I made her tell me what she meant, and I made her tell me a, lot of other things about them, too. You see, I’d just de cided to write the book, so I wanted to know everything she could tell me. I didn’t tell her about the book, of course. I know too much to tell se crets to Nurse Sarah! But 1 showed my excitement and interest plainly; and when she saw how glad I was to hear everything she could tell, she talked a lot, and really seemed to en joy it, too. You see, she was here when Mother first came as a bride, so she knows everything. She was Father’s nurse when he was a little boy; then she stayed to take care of Father’s mother, Grandma Anderson, who was an In valid for a great many years and who didn’t die till just after I was born. Then she took care of me. So she’s always been in the family ever since she was a young girl. She’s awfully old' now—’most sixty. First I found out how they happened to marry—Father and Mother, I’m talking about now—only Nurse says she can’t see yet how they did happen to marry, just the same, they’re so tee- totally different. But this is the story. Father went to Boston to attend a big meeting of astronomers from all over the world, and they had banquets and receptions where beautiful ladles went In their pretty evening dresses, and my mother was one of them. (Her father was one of the astronomers, Nurse said.) The meetings lasted four days, and Nurse said she guessed my father saw a lot of my mother during that time. Anyhow, he was Invited, to their home, and he stayed another four days after the meetings were over. The next thing they knew here at the house. Grandma Anderson had a tele gram that h i was going to be married to Miss Madge Desmond, and would they please send him some things he wanted, and he was going on a wed ding trip and would bring his bride home in about a month. It was just as sudden as that. And surprising!—Nurse says a thunderclap out of a clear blue sky couldn’t have astonished them more. Father was al most thirty years old at that time, and he’d never cared a thing for girls nor paid them the least little bit of atten tion. So they supposed, of course, that he was a hopeless old bachelor and wouldn’t ever marry. He was bound up in his stars, even then, and was already beginning to be famous, be cause of a comet he’d discovered. He was a professor in our college here, where his father .had been president. His father had just died a few months before, and Nurse snid maybe that was one reason why Father got caught in the matrimonial net like that. (Those are her words, not mine. The idea of calling my mother a net! But nurse never did appreciate Mother). But Father just worshiped his father, and they were always together —Grandma being sick so much; and so when he died my father was nearly' beside himself, and that’s one reason they were so anxious .he should go to that meeting in Boston. They thought it might take his mind off himself, Nurse said. But they never thought of its putting his mind on a wife! So far as his doing it right up quick like that was concerned, Nurse said that wasn’t so surprising. For all the way up, if Father wanted anything he Insisted on having it, and having it A Little Slim Eighteen-Year-Old Girl With Yellow, Curly Hair. right away then. He never want ed to wait a minute he found a girl he wanted, he wanted her right away then, without waiting a minute. He’d never happened to notice a girl he wanted before, you see. But he’d found one now all right; and Nurse said there was nothing to do but to make the best of it and get ready for her. There wasn’t anybody to go to the wedding. Grandma Anderson was sick, so of course she couldn’t go, and Grandpa was dead, so of course he couldn’t go, and there weren’t any brothers or sisters, only Aunt Jane In St. Paul, and she was so mad she wouldn’t come on. So there was no chance of seeing the bride till Father brought her home. Nurse said they wondered and won dered what kind of a woman it could be that had captured him. (I told her I wished she wouldn’t speak of my mother as if she was some kind of a hunter out after game; but she only chuckled and snid that’s about what it amounted to in some cases.) The very idea! The whole town was excited over the affair, and Nurse Sarah heard a lot of their talk. Some thought she was an astronomer like him. Some thought she was very rich, and may be famous. Everybody declared she must know a lot, anyway, and be wonderfully wise and intellectual; and they said she was probably tall and wore glasses, and would be thirty years old, at least. But nobody guessed anywhere near what she really was. Nurse Sarah said she should never forget the night she came, and how she looked, and how utterly flabber gasted everybody was to see her— little slim eighteen-year-old girl with yellow, curly hair and the merriest laughing eyes they had ever seen. (Don’t I know? Don’t I Just love Mother’s eyes when they sparkle and twinkle when we’re off together some times in the: woods?) A'ul Nurse said Mother was so excited Yne day she came, and went laughing and danc ing all over the house, exclaiming over everything. (I can’t imagine that so well. Mother moves so quietly now, everywhere, and is so tired, ’most all the time.) But she wasn’t tired then, Nurse says^-not a mite. "But how did Father act?" I de- mandetL "Wasn't he displeased and scandalized and Shocked, and every thing?” Nurse shrugged her shoulders and raised her eyebrows—the way she does when she feels particularly superior. Then she said: “Do? What does any old fool— beggln’ your pardon an 1 no offense meant, Miss Mary Marie—but what does any man do what’s got bejuggled with a pretty face, an’ his senses com pletely took away from him by a chit of a girl? Well, that’s what he did. He acted as if he was bewitched. He followed her around the house like a dog—when he wasn’t leadin’ her to something new; an’ he never took his eyes off her face except to look at us, as much as to say: ‘Now ain’t she the adorable creature?’ ’’ “My father did that?” I gasped. And, really, you know, I just couldn’t believe my ears. And you wouldn’t, either, if you knew Father. “Why, I never saw him act like that!" “No, I guess'you didn’t,” laughed Nurse Sarah with a shrug. “And neither did anybody else—for long.” “But how long did it last?” I asked. “Oh, a month, or maybe six webks,” shrugged Nurse Sarah. “Then it came September and college began, and your father had to go back to his teach ing. Things began to change then.” “Right then, so you could see them?" I wanted to know. Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders again. “Oh, la! child, what a little ques tion-box you are, an’ no mistake,” she sighed. But she didn’t look mad—not like the way she does when I ask why she can take her teeth out and most of her hair off and I can’t; and things like that. (As if I. didn’t know! What does she take me for—child?) She didn’t even look displeased—Nurse Sarah loves to talk. (As if I didn’t know that, too!) She just threw that quick look of hers over her shoulder and settled back contentedly in lipr chair. I knew then I should get the whole story. And I did. And I’m go ing to tell It here in her own words, just as well as I can remember it— bad grammar and all. So please re member that I am not making all those mistakes. It’s Nurse Sarah. I guess, though, that I’d better put it into a new chapter. This one is yards long already. How do they tell when to begin and end chnpters? I’m thinking it’s going to be somd job, writing this book—diary, I mean. But I shall love it, I know. And this is a real story—not like those made-up things I’ve always written for the girls at school. CONVENIENTLY PLANNED KITCHEN SAVES STEPS FOR HOUSEKEEPER CHAPTER II Nurse Sarah's Story. And this is Nurse Sarah’s story. As I said, I’m going to tell it straight through as near as I can in her own words. And I can remember most of it, I think, for I paid very close attention. “Well, yes, Miss Mary Marie, things did begin to change right there an’ then, an’ so you could notice it. We saw it, though maybe your pa an’ ma didn’t at the first. "You see, the first month after she came, it was vacation time, an’ he Could give her all the time she wanted. An’ she wanted it all. An’ she took it. An’ he was just as glad to give it us she was to take it. An’ so from mornln’ till night they was together, traipsin’ all over the house an’ garden, an’ trampin’ off through the woods and’ up on the mountain every other day with their lunch. “You see she was city-bred, an’ not used to woods an’ flowers growin’ wild; an’ she went crazy over them. He showed her the stars, too, through his telescope; but she hadn’t a mite of use for them, an’ let him see It good an’ plain. She told him—I heard her with my own ears—that his eyes, when they laughed, was all the stars she wanted; an’ that she’d had stars all her life for breakfast an’ luncheon an’ dinner, anyway, an’ all the time be-- tween; an’ she’d rather have some th!^ else, now—somethin’ alive, that she could love an’ live with an’ touch an’ play with, like she could the flow ers an’ rocks and’ grass an’ trees. “Angry^ Your pa? Not much he was! He just laughed an’ caught her ’round the waist an’ kissed her, an’ said she herself was the brightest star of all. Then they ran off hand in hand, like two kids, too. All through those first few weeks your pa was just a great big baby with a new plaything. Then when college began he turned all at once into a full-grown man. An’ just naturally your ma didn’t know what to make of it. “He couldn’t explore the attic an’ rig up in the old clothes there any more, nor romp through the garden, nor go lunchin’ in the woods, nor none of the things she wanted him to do. He didn’t have time. An’ what made things worse, one of them comet-tails was cornin’ up in the sky, an’ your pa didn’t take no rest for watcliin’ for it, an’ then studyin’ of It when It got here. “All through the first few weeks your pa was Just like a great big baby with a new play thing." Horticultural Points Kitchen Should Meet Standards of Well-Arranged Workshop. (Prepared by thl United States Department of Agriculture.) A kitchen conveniently planned and equipped, having good lighting and ventilation, saves time and labor for the housekeeper. It contributes to the health and contentment of the whole family. Circular 189, The Well- Planned Kitchen, just issued by the United States Department of Agricul ture, discusses the points which are essential. in making the kitchen a pleasant and effective workroom. Improve the Old Kitchen. To remodel an old kitchen is often a difficult problem, but even minor Improvements, such as reflnishing the walls, woodwork, and floor attractively, or adjusting the table and sink to a comfortable working height, reduce drudgery and save money. It is best, if possible, to use the kitchen only as a place for preparing food. If the laundry, wash room and general storage room are located else where near by, it is more sanitary. A dining alcove partitioned off the kitchen is recommended In many cases to save steps. A small kitchen about 9 by 12 is generally considered most convenient. The location of the kitchen with respect to other rooms, the outlook from its windows, and the placing of doors and windows are points to be well considered. A trim back yard witli good walks helps to keep the kitchen clean. A kitchen should be well ventilated in winter as well as In summer with door transoms and ventilating window screens. The sink, stove, work table and other Important parts of the kitchen should be well lighted and the floor easy to keep clean. Running water is desirable, both hot and cold. Windows and doors always should be screened against flies. Saving Steps Conserves Energy. The proper grouping of sink, stove, and work table to save steps is very important. All permanent equipment should be substantial and easy to keep In order. An abundance of cupboard and shelf roonj. well planned, helps orderly storage of utensils and sup plies. Grouping articles which are used together saves time. A rest corner is recommended. The kitchen as a whole should meet the standards of a convenient well-arranged work shop. Circular 18i» is free upon ap plication to the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. t BUGS INJURE STRAWBERRIES Among Most Destructive Insects May Be Named Root Louse, Leaf-Roller and Grubs. Strawberries may be attacked by a large number of Insects and diseases, but the root louse, leaf-roller, slugs, - weevil, crown-borer, tarnished plant bug and white grubs are the most im portant Some years the leaf-roller mny practically ruin the crop over the important strawberry belt of the states. To nurserymen, the louse, leaf- roller and the leaf-spot disease are of special importance, since they may be spread on the young plants. Root louse has been reported as In juring strawberry fields. In the early part of the season the lice hatching from overwintering eggs on the foliage feed by extracting sap from the young growth but later ants carry them un derground where they feed on the root system. Dip plants In nicotine solu tion before setting in the spring and spray Infested patches after the over wintering eggs hatch and before lice are carried to the roots by ants. Also destroy old strawberry beds, as they may serve as breeding places for lice and other pests of strawberry. Leaf-roller, a small active caterpil lar, has been the most destructive pest of this crop in recent years. It may also attack raspberries and black berries. The big damage comes before and at picking time. The win ter is passed apparently largely in the SEASONINGS HELP IN COOKING VEGETABLES Excellence of Dish Depends Greatly on Proper Use. Each Household Must Make Selection Which Her Family Prefers— Ital ians and Some Other Races Favor Garlic. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Much of the excellence of well- cooked vegetables depends upon the proper use of seasonings and sauces. The seasoning selected should un doubtedly be suitable for the dish, but so muc K depends upon custom that only general suggestions can be made. The Italians and some other races are much fonder of garlic than Americans, the Germans of summer savory or “bohnenkraut" in string beans, and the English of mint with peas. Each housewife must select the seasonings which her family prefers and endeavor to use them in such a way that the special flavors may be most satisfac torily brought out. (Then a soup, sauce or vegetable is to be flavored with an herb or another vegetable the flavor should be added toward the end of the cooking period. Since the oils and other bodies which give vegetables and herbs their flavor are volatile they are either driven off by long-continued cooking or rendered much less delicate In flavor. Herbs that are to he left in the dish or served with the dish must be added Just be fore the food Is served. The herbs generally served with the dish are chervil, parsley, tarragon and chives. Burnet, thyme, summer savory, sage and sweet basil are cooked with the dish a short time, not over 20 minutes, and are then removed. The little bunch of mixed herbs, the “bouquet garni,” so often referred to in cook books, is made with two branches of parsley, a sprig each of thyme and summer savory, a small leaf of sage, and a small bay leaf, all tied together. This is cooked with the dish from 10 to 20 minutes, then re moved. The bay leaves must be pur chased at the grocer’s. Turnips, car rots, parsnips, celery, leeks, cibol, onions, etc., when used just as flnvor- ers, should be tied in a hunch and cooked 20 or 30 minutes in the dish and then he removed. • When shallot and garlic are used they should never be cut, but sepa rated Into “cloves." One clove will be enough for a small quantity of soup, sauce or ragout. Never fry shallot or garlic. Cook in the dish to be flavored about 10 minutes, then remove. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Substitutes. When in a hurry to starch a few pieces, and the starch box is fouud empty, use corn starch, taking the same quantity as of laundry starch. The result will be the same; the only difference is that corn sturch is a little more expensive, t The next time some, paste Is needed and there is none on hand use con densed thllk. v , USE KITCHEN FOR FOOD ONLY Lloydf^! Baby Carnages & Furniture Ask Your Local Dealer Write Now for 32-Page Illustrated Booklet lEJEStSl I lii.t L The Lloyd Manufacturing Company (Htyutood- H'akefitld Co.) Dept. E Menominee, Michigan (19) MINERALIZED WATER ROUTS CHICKEN LICE Tablets Dropped into Drinking Founts Banish Vermin, Make Fowls Grow Faster and Increase Egg Yield. Any poultry raiser can easily rid his flock of lice and mites, make chickens grow faster and increase their egg yield by simply adding minerals to the fowls’ drinking water. This does away with all bother, such as dusting, greas ing, dipping and spraying. The neces sary minerals can now be obtained in convenient tablets, known as Paratabs. Soon after the fowls drink the mineral ized water, all lice and mites leave Most Sanitary Plan and Permits More Compact and Convenient Arrange ment of Equipment Is your kitchen used chiefly for the preparation of food, or is it a combina tion cookroom, laundry, washroom, passageway, and dining room? It is better to use the kitchen only as a place for preparing and, if necessary, serving food. This is rnorb sanitary and permits more compact and conven ient arrangement of equipment, the United States Department of Agricul ture believes. Laundry, washroom, and general storage room are some times combined and used as a place for men and children coming In from out of doors ao leave work clothes and muddy boots and rubbers. REMOVE STAINS ON FABRICS Simple Treatment Used by Our Grand- j dames Will Prove Efficient in Most Cases. There are few stains upon fabrics j which cannot be removed by the easy I method in use by our grand-dames. That is, tie the fabric over a vessel or bottle, rendering the surface taut, then from a height of several inches, pour upon the spot a continuous stream of boiling water, as a rule, the most obdurate stain will fade away under this simple treatment. Strawberry Leaf Shvwing Leaflet Folded by Pest. larval stage. The moth expands slight ly more than one-half an inch and when seen on wing has a brownish appearance, the fore wings being also marked with lighter and darker streaks. The strawberry grower read ily detects these in the patch and speaks of them as brownish moths or millers. Arsenical sprays are effective If ap plied at the right time. Watch for the appearance of the moths early in the spring, usually the latter half of April, and spray promptly with two pounds of arsenate of lead powder to fifty gal lons of water. The plan is to poison the young worms before they have folded over the two halves of the leaf lets as protection while feeding. If this early spray is not effective repeat it after the crop is off and the next broods of moths appear in the patch. Some practice mowing and burning over the patches after the crop is off. Where this is done it should be so timed as to catch the pest in the pupa stage. Destroy old abandoned patches and volunteer plants. them. The tablets also act as a tonic conditioner. The health of the fowls quickly Improves, they grow faster and the egg yield frequently is doubled. Little chicks that drink freely of the water never will be bothered by mites or lice. The method is especially recommend ed for raisers of purebred stock, as there is no risk of soiling the plumage. The tablets are warranted to impart no flavor or odor to the eggs and meat. This remarkable conditioner, egg tonic and lice remedy costs only a trifle and is sold under an absolute guarantee. The tablets are scientifically prepared, perfectly safe, and dissolve readily in water. Any reader of this paper may try them without risk. The laboratories producing Paratabs are so confident of good results that to introduce them to every poultry raiser they offer two big ?1 packages for only SI. Send no money, just your name and address—a card will do—to the Paratab Laboratories, Dept. S25, 1100 Coca Cola Bldg., Kan sas City, Mo., and the two $1 pack ages, enough for 100 gallons of water, will be mailed. Pay the postman St and postage on delivery, and if you are not delighted with results in 10 days— if your chickens are not healthier, lay ing more eggs and ’entirely free from lice and mites—your money will be promptly refunded. Don’t hesitate to accept this trial offer as you are fully protected by this guarantee. SACKING GRAPES IS FAVORED TO SPRINKLE FINE BLOUSES To Distribute Dampness Evenly Place Blouse in Dampened Towel for I Ten Minutes. When sprinkling fine blouses or baby clothes it Is difficult to distribute the dnmpness evenly. Dip a towel in water,- wring It out, place the blouse in it and roll it up tightly. Leave for 10 minutes and the article will be found to be evenly dampened all over and ready for immediate ironing. Lemon juice will Improve the flavor of stewed tigs. • • * Fruit popovers are nice served with a sauce as dessert. * * * A cloth moistened with camphor will remove spots from furniture. * * * Zinc should be cleaned with soap suds aud salt, then polished with kero sene. * * * The more butter used Id a cake the higher the temperature should be for baking it. • * • Gem pans are nice for baking indi vidual omelets. Serve them on pieces of toast. • • • Stewed figs and cranberries, fta vored with a little lemon, make a deli clous pie filling. Western Farmer Makes It a Practice to Tie Perfect Bunches in Stout Paper Bags. About the most perfect bunches of grapes we have ever seen were those grown in the vineyard of a Middle Western farmer who was fond of good grapes, says a writer In an exchange. He makes it a practice to always tie a large number of bunches of grapes In stout paper bags. These bags not only protect the grapes from the-birds, but also allow thd fruit to ripen more evenly. The bunches are now per fect in ever?- wny. Of course, as he snys, it would he hardly practicable to handle all the grapes that way but for a few extra good bunches of per fect grapes the idea Is a good one used by a good many growers. METHOD OF HANDLING SOILS Clean Cultivation in Early Part of Season, Followed by Cover Crop Is Recommended. Clean cultivation in the early part it the season, followed by a cover crop later, is the most up-tc-date and best method of handling orchard soils, and can be used with good results more generally than any other system of soil management Making Permanent Meadow. Many orchards are covered with (veeds or are bare. A top dressing of manure is the first important step to ward a permanent meadow. Then be sure to plow before the leaves begin to come out. , Scatter Barnyard Manure. When the orchard comes into bear ing, barnyard manure should be scat tered about the trees occasionally, using care to keep It away from the trunk out where the feeding roots can more easily get at the fertilltv Sensible Nurse. Most folk at one time or auother regale their friends with details of the surgical operations they have under gone. Nearly always great stress Is laid on the discomfort attendant upon “coming to.” This patient was well on ttie road to recover)-, and the Woman, who had visited her many times, had as yet heard nothing of the throes of “coming to.” Wondering why, she asked her friend if she had experienced any trouble along that line. Her friend laughed. “That part was funny,” she said. “Funny!” repeated the Woman, “in what way?” ‘♦Why, I asked the nurse. ‘Am I coming to?’ and the nurse replied, simply, ‘No, you’re to.’ That’s all there was to it.”—Chicago Journal; DYED HER BABY’S COAT, A SKIRT AND CURTAINS WITH “DIAMOND DYES* Each package of “Diamond Dyes” con*| tains directions so simple any woman can| dye or tint her old, worn, faded things) new. Even jf she has never dyed before, I she can put a new, rich color into shabby] skirts, aresses, waists, coats, stockings, | sweaters, coverings, draperies, hangings, I everything. Buy Diamond Dyes—no other] kind—then perfect home dyeing is guar*I anteed. Just tell your druggist whether! the material you wish to dye is wool or! silk, or whether it is linen, cotton, orj mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never strea' spot, fade or run.—advertisement. The Hopeless Search. Every once in a while we read a man living in poverty falling hei* to millions. And every time we reac that sort of news item we scan the horizon of our family sky in the liop of finding some distant relative wh<i might some day do that thing for but always with the same result, there are any millionaires in on family we haven’t located them. Even a tall man may not be above criticism. AS SURE AS DAWN BRINGS A NEW Mil OSCAR* £ QlllNINI ]-*> Will Bvtak That CM and imb Ybu FitTbmtmrtm wr.H.Hlkuco
