Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, February 12, 1914, Page Page Seven, Image 7
IURAS POUNDCAKE
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lit Won the First Prize at the
Fair, and Also a Husband.
By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDERSON.
"Is it good, Mr. Trescott?"
"Good I" repeated Alvin Trescatt,
with ardor. "It is so good that I must
ask you for another helping. There
can be no discount on this entry, Mrs.
Dallas. As a member of the commit- j
tee of awards I accept this second offering
of that superb pound cake as a
bribe, and hereby pledge myself to
vote first, last and all the time for
your equally excellent niece, Miss
Lura Barton."
It was in a tone of light raillery
that Alvin Trescott, the youngest and
best lawyer in Waltham, spoke. Uader
the surface, however, there was a
deeper shade of feeling than his hostesB
imagined.
"You see, Mr. Trescott," she spoke,
"this award at the county fair means
a great deal for Lura. Her rich uncle
In the city has taken a great deal of
satisfaction out of her special seminary
course?domestic science, something
practical, he calls it. Lura felt!
considerable pride in her school prizes j
for scientific cooking. If she should ,
fail to win the highest award here, it j
would look as though her schooling j
didn't amount to much, wouldn't it,
now?"
"Oh, I feel sure the other members .
of the committee will go into ecstacies
iOf delight over that cake," declared
lAlvin confidently.
"I just thought I would have you
i try a sample beforehand," said Mrs.
| Dallas. "It's made out of the same
hatch of doueh. The Drize cake is all
packed up read/ for tonight."
"And I shall be Its valiant chamtplon,"
insisted the young lawyer.
"My ears have been burning, Mr.
'Trescott," hailed a pleasing, merry
:Toice as Alvin passed out upon the
i porch and the ycung lady under dis- j
cusslon in the room beyond arose
ifrom a hammock. "I fancied I heard
i my name mentioned."
"As tbe originator and founder of^
r 'the grandest pound cake made since
my mother's time," smiled Alvln gayi
iiy"I
hope the rest of the committee
The Awards Were Decided On.
| discovers the excellencies you attribute
to it," said Lara, a shade ot j
(anxiety In her lovely face.
"I see no doubt of that," answered
'Alvin reassuringly, and then he!
passed on with two thoughts supreme
iln his mind.
Both hinged about the fair young ,
i girl he had just left. It Beemed as .
'yesterday that they had been play
mates. Now she had returned with
I all the polish good society and educa- j
tion can give. It rather awed him.;
'But then he recalled a fancied flash
I of pleasure in Lura's eyes, when a
week before she had again met the
1 playmate in vacation neglige trans-!
formed into the well-dressed, successful
lawyer.
"My mother always told me to look
'out for a wife who was a good cook." j
i [ruminated Alvin. "Why, here she is
at hand?but, oh! I fear immeasura-!
'bly beyond my reach. As to that,
'blessed cake?I wonder If the other!
(three committeemen will tote fair? j
J All of them are related to Marcia Ross.!
mey win iavor ner n mey can.
Marcla Robs was not pleasant to
! think of after dainty, graceful Lura
! Barton. Alvin had shown her some
.slight courtesies, whereupon she had
assumed a certain air of proprietorship
that had made him avoid her.
His friends had laughingly declared
to him she would not let the least
chance of getting a husband escape
her, ^put Alvin knew his own mind?
isurer than ever since Lura had re
it was at rour o'clock In tne afternoon
that the committee of four; the
young lawyer, chairman, and a cousin
of Miss Ross, secretary, went about
their duties on the county fair
grounds.
It took till after supper to inspect
the giant pumpkins, beets and melons.
There was a general distribution of
blue ribbons and silver medals. Then
about seven o'clock the fancy work
awards were decided on.
Prize pork and beans cooked to a
luscious brown, home-made bread and
lemon cream pie had their turn.
There were six competitors on the
pound cake. That was a dainty dear |
to the heart of every advanced household
cook. The committee sat down
while the officious secretary passed
around samples cut with a fruit knife
and served up on delicately painted
china plates. The test was made?
one, two, three, four, five, six. Then
the vote?number five got three votes,
Number two, which bore the card of
Mlaa T.urn Rnrtnn thfi BOlitarv VOte
of Committeeman Alvin Trescott.
"Number five?Miss Marcia Ross,"
read off her partial relative with a
readiness that would have seemed suspicious
to a less prejudiced mortal
than the young lawyer.
"Give out the awards in the morning,"
spoke one of his fellow committeemen,
and went home, his 'duty
worthily done.
Alvin felt actually sad. He realized
what a terrible disappointment all
this would be to trustful, ambitious
Lura. He sighed as he glanced at
"Exhibit two," bearing the dainty
card of Miss Lura Barton. Then a
whimsical impulse swayed him. He
wrapped up plate and cake in a sheet
of paper and went homewards, filled
with a longing desire to comfort the
young lady to whom he must bring a
decidedly bad report.
"Well, what news?" eagerly inquired
Mrs. Dallas, as the young man
entered the cottage, and Lura looked
up from her book a shade of suspense
on her face.
Alvin was a lawyer, and therefore
direo.t. He told his story plainly.
Th<> fair face clouded in a pitifully
painful way. The golden head went
lower and lower.
"Now don't go to fretting, Miss
Barton," urgod Alvin in his blunt,
earnest way. "I know your cake waB
the best. See here," and he placed
his parcel on the table. "I'm going
bA have a feast with my friendB, and
we'll give you an honest vote."
"Why," exclaimed Lura, as she
chanced tn elance.at the contents of
the parcel?"that Is not my cake!"
"Not?yours?" stammered Alvin bewllderedly.
"Why, no," Insisted Lura. "Nor is
this the piece of silver wire fastened
to my card. I don't understand."
"I'm a lawyer, and I do!" almost
shouted Alvin, grabbing up the parcel
and dashing from the room with a
precipitation that fairly thrilled his
two lady friends.
It was an hour later when he returned.
His face was radiant and his
excitement so pleasurable and encouraging
that he Infused the others with |
a kind of happy expectation. ,
"Ask no questions," he said gaily,"
but the award will go to Miss Lura
Barton."
"Then there was a mistake?" Inquired
Mrs. Dallas innocently.
"Oh, yes!" nodded Alvin sarcastically.
He did not tell of a certain
interview with the cousin of Miss
Marcia Ross, whom he had confronted
with certain proofs of substitution of
cards on the prize cakes, until he
wilted and agreed to "make it all
right" with the rest of the committee.
"Miss Barton?Lura," said Alvin one
evening a week later as they stood
on the rustic porch, "I would like to
ask you a very important question."
"Yes?" murmured Lura softly.
"I want to find a cake maker for
life. If I can furnish a husband who
will always love you as 1 love you i
now, would you consider it?"
And again Lura said "Yes"?gently,
definitely, lovingly.
(Copyright, 1913, by "W. O. Chapman.)
Methodists Talk Missions.
At a joint meeting of the board of
missions, presiding elders and lay
leaders of the South Carolina Methodist
conference, held at the Imperial
hotel, plans for the evangelical missionary
and financial operations of
the church for the year were discussed.
This was the mid-year meeting
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of South Carolina.
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| GETTING HIS REVENGE I
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> By ALICE KILLIAN. !
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"Every time," the riding master was
muttering, savagely, "every single
time I'm away from this acadamy for
1 Z few days things go wrong."
The immediate cause of his anger
' was a heap of grayish garments on the
j table in his office. He inspected each
' article carefully, and then tossed it
j wrathful in some corner of the room,
I until the room took on the appearance
1 of a wlndstruck clothing shop. Finally
he could contain himself no longer.
"Hey, Jim!" he shouted. "Jim!"
Grasping one of the objects of his
rage in a gingerly fashion between
thumb and finger, he held it up scornj
fully to the gaze of his assistant when
the latter appeared in response to the
j call. With exaggerated patience he
asked: "Jim, what in the name of
j wonder do you call this thing?"
Jim glanced at it. He* also noted the
! purple face of his employer and the
devastation about him, but he answered
in a matter of fact way: "Why,
Mr. Leonard, that's one of the new
riding outfits that Cuttum & Quick
sent over while you were gone."
"Truly," responded Leonard, with
elaborate sarcasm. "I suppose I'll
have to believe you. but I thought it
was a couple of feed bags sewed together.
Anyhow, take them all back |
: to that tailor shop and tell those fel- i
lows to put more material into them, J
I ruffles or plaits?any improvement at <
all that may suit my fastidious taste.
It they don't they can keep the lot."
"They won't do anything to the
things now," declared Jim. "I paid for
them with the check you left."
"Paid for them! You're mighty lavish
with other people's money, aren't
you?"
I "Well," answered Jim, sulkily, "the
I man said they were according to contract."
j "Oh! he did! And you believed him,
like a good little boy? Well, he's sly.
But take them back and tell those tailors
to fix them right."
Jim followed instructions, but returned
in due time with the massage
that the tailQES-said the garments
had been made according to contract,
j and that the alterations would have to
be paid for.
Then for a week Jim carefully avoided
the riding master. A cloud of dissatisfaction
rested continually on the
I latter's face. When looking at the
new riding skirts he was heard by Jim
to mutter: "Oh, I'll get even yet?I've
got to get even." Jim was uneasy.
At last one day Leonard came up ,
behind Jim and, clapping him Jovially
on the shoulder, exclaimed: "Well, I
did get even after all." Then at
1 6ight of Jim's face he laughed and i
said: "Oh, not with you. That is, not
yet" I
"What do I know about riding I
clothes?" growled Jim in extenuation.
"I'm no tailor."
"You'll learn." Leonard rested one
foot comfortably on the mounting
block and tapped his boot with his
n anViAnl I
riding crop, mere s muic iv/a ^uw. .
like than just horses. Now. I'll tell I
you how I got even with Cuttum & I
Quick.
i "Last night Mrs. Leonard and 1 j
went to that tailor shop, ostensibly to I
order a riding habit. Cuttum was out,
but his partner officiated in full glory.
He just spread himself showing pat
terns and materials."
" 'I3ut, madam,* he said, 'we make
riding habits for the best society people.
Miss Dash has just ordered her
third suit from us and Mrs. Blank is
J having us make habits for herself and
her daughter. Just recently,' here he
puffed himself up proudly, 'we filled a
large order for the Leonard Riding ;
academy.'
| "At that Mrs. Leonard gave a little \
i shriek. 'Those awful things?' she :
I cried. 'Why, the academy doesn't <
rent them to its patrons, nor does it i
I even let us beginners go out of doors j
in them when we're having instruc- J
tion.' She jumped up and said to me: |J
'Come, let's go somewnere eise. .nij j.
tailor that would make such things as
; those dreadful misfits at Leonard's'?
she shuddered?'isn't good enough.'
"At the door I turned and said, sympathetically:
'I think, Mr. Quick, you'd
better not tell any one else that you
' made those things. Evidently, they're
j no advertisement.'
I "His face at that moment wore an
I expression that more than pays for
those skirts. So I got even, Mrs. Leonard
helping."
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