The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, December 20, 1923, Image 9
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THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL. 8, C.
The Custard Cup
By
ice Bingham Livingston
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CHAPTER XVTt^—Continued.
Lettle bad never had anything ( to do
with stores. This was the first time In
her life that she had ever bqpght any
thing. The bustle, the glitter, the end
less array,. wrought havoc with her
Imagination, filled her with a frenzy of
Intoxication. Little cars with wheels
that turned; dime banks that looked
like the most blooming peaches on
Mrs. Pen field’s wall; games, books,
toya! Marbles—imagine, twenty-four
round pieces of baked terra firma for
the ridiculous sum of five cents! How
happy Crlnk would be! How Thad’s
soft eyes would bulge! It was more
than could be borne.
don’t care!” Lettle burst Into
frantic sobs that carried over a wide
circle. “I don’t care! Do ydu hear?
I don’t care!” Tears streamed down
her face. She stamped her foot ana
swung her free arm with a violence
•nd latitude that first grazed several
astonished shoppers and then led to a
somewhat freer space around the
child.
•’Lettle, dear." expostulated Mrs.
Penfleld hurriedly, "remember where
you are." *
"I do." shrieked Lettle. "Thst’s
what’s the matter. I don't care Rome
day HI have thlags—oonma and heap*
and oodles of thing* mlltlnos more^ti
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“Lettle, ’tend to your blots,’’ put In
Mrs. Penfleld flrmly._ ,^
. “Yes’ra.” Lettle subsided, but. with
the vague feeling that her geniality,
had not been received In
spirit.
the right
CHAPTER XVIII
* • —
Christmas in the Custard Cup.
"I’m going to invite Bonnie Geral
dine to the tree," caroled Lettle bn the
final morning of the Christmas prepa
rations.
It was the climax of her hospitality,
and was so considered by the family.
Mrs.- Penfleld had agreed to men, wom
en, children and dogs; but when It
came to hens, her enthusiasm waned.
Her formal objection was based on
Bonnie Geraldine's timid nature and
the temperamental anguish which she
might endure If forced to meet society
In the mass, but Lettie proposed to
ease the sensibilities of the young
Plymouth Rock by bringing her In a
box. tethered to remain therein. The
matter was discussed, but left to cir
cumstances for final decision.
Lorene and Dick Chase had returned
from their honeymoon and had accept
ed their lavltatldkt.
"Well ask her to alng." decided
Crlak. who had a wary eye ont for
• he entertainment at the gneets whom
Lettle was tealonaly amrmbllng.
“Oh. Uocle Jerry," protested Mm
Penfleld. "I got ev’rytblng planned.
We’re going to have—"
"Tou wait till I get back Teen yon
plan,’’ Interrupted Unele Jerry, and ho
went out so quickly that Mrs. Peh-
fleld'S expostulations fell on the empty
air. * .
Repeated countings failed to shako
the conclusion that Plain Mixed had
yielded only forty-eight candles. Three
were apportioned to each tiny net bag
of popcorn, since only the younger
guests were to receive thla particular
treat.
Early In the afternoon Mrs. Sanders
rang the bell at Number 47 and
brought three parcels tied with *ed
ribbons.
“They’re for the children,’’ she
smiled'.
“Oh, my dear,” said Mrs. Penfleld,
overwhelmed. "Why, It wasn’t right
for you to bother 'bout—”
“Don’t say that,”' Interrupted Mrs.
Sanders. “It’s been the best thing for
me that ever happened. Mind how I
haln’t called you over for one of those
—those attacks lately? Well, when
I’ve fett one coming on. I’ve.gone to
work on these things—hard." She
pointed to the gifts. “They’ve been
what’s saved me—hat I thought meb-
be the children eoOld use ^em: That’i
what started me making ’em. but I I
got more good out of ’em than anybody
else will.”
“You're a dear friend." acknowledged
Mrs. Penfleld warmly. ’T hope you—
jHu’ll have a brighter Sew Tear."
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CALENDAR®
in* FIND? ALMOST All
THE WOULD KEEPING
THE SAME TIME
'7s
>r
calculated that fit* earth revolve*
about the ran la 38 aeronda leaa tbaa
the measure in the Gregorian calendar.
This ‘.would put the calendar out of
step with the ion one day in every
three thouaand years. 8> the congreaa
Inaista that there must be no February
2D when the year 2000 comes around.
Archbishop YatlMoa, metropolitan of
Methymala, who recently called cm
President Coolldge, Is a Greek church
man type.
"Everybody out of step except fa
ther,’’ say the Ruthenl&n Cathollca,
known In Europe as the Unlates. It
appears that these people of the Rus
sian Ukraine and adjacent Ruthenla
do not love their neighbors and do not
take kindly to their religions, so they
object to celebrating the feast days at
their church simultaneously with these
same neighbors. There are some eight
millions of these Unlates, it Is esti
mated, including half a million In tha
United States.
With the omission of February 29
In the year 2000, the Gregorian cal
endar may keep good time, for all the
average man knows—or Indeed any
body hut the astronomers and nth ;
degree mathematicians. But the aver*
age man knows that the calendar con)<>
be made more convenient. There’*
Easter, for example, coming around
any time between March 22 and April
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It was long pa at lunch time when
Crlnk returned with the tree, and he
tried many hours before lie accom
plished a base that would support It
In a corner of the living room. But no
•ooner was the fragrairt flr In place
than every little Penfleld felt that
Christmas was an assured fact.
Lettiy meantime was making picture
puzzles- mounting Illustrations from
Weatherstone magazines on paste
board from old boxes and cutting them
into fantastic shapes. Each puzzle
was put In an envelope and Inscribed
with the name of a Custard Cup ten
ant Who would be a guest at the party.
By the following, evening the prep*^
arations had taken a different turn.
Everybody gathered about the table In
the living room to make blots. The
tablet paper was cut Into uniform
pleces./ Lettle’s ink bottles had’been
brought out; and a few* drops of ink,
oth black and red, were shaken from
pen on each paper, which was then
olded once add smoothed flat. The re-
ultlng blots took varied. Interesting
orms, some of which were touched up
lightly Into clearer outline.
Uncle Jerry wgs the umpire inter-
ireter of these blot pictures. Pefen-
ilal True, tha only neighbor Invited to
he ceremony—and that because of
ler artistic abilities—thereupon com
posed a couplet embodying the Idea
nd wrote It In beautiful letters be-
leath the blot. The reet of the mantla
ore lopes wer* used to Inclose theae
Ifta. .
hat the penr>sof »wt
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Into the pan of fragrant
popped corn and guided the “old
maids” Into a .cup. Turning, he looked
down on the three solemn youngster?*
with a twinkle in his merry eyes. “See
Ing as you're going In for parties,
there’s n few* rules you’ll have to leant
First one is :'There’s two things you
ain’t never to talk 'bout ’fore outsid
ers. One’s your soul, nnd the other’s
your toothbrush. They’re your own
private property, and nobody else cares
a hang.”
“Huh!" scoffed Lettle., “If that's nl!
there Is to it. I got It learned a’ready.”
" ’Tain’t all there is. to It. Lettle.’
laughed Mrs. Penfleld. “If It’s rjiles
you want, I’ll give you one that’ll b<
simple to remember, and It’ll cover the
whole ground, too. If you want* folks
to have a good Time In your house, all
you got to do is to forget yourself and
feel friendly. If you’ll keep those two
things working In your heart, you
won’t go far wrong In any entertain
ing."
“Car’llne," commented Jerry Win
ston, with mock reproof, “you can sure
be depended on for taking the short
cut*."
“I shouldn’t wonder," she returned,
good-naturedly. "I Ilka the easy way
'cause It’s bo much easier. Resides, I
■ever heard that you got any more
blackberries ’cause you was scratched
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U wss a wonderful evealng Hie
>rec young. Pen fields went through It
■ In a happy dream. They could ne
more hejleve In Its resllty than tba
••nged ftfrd ran believe In sudden free
dom. Here was not merely a gimd
time, hut the climax of bliss, the eh
scncc of things long hoped for. Thl
•dr was full of.the pungency of flr
houghs. And there waa the tree Itself
in u comer of the living-room. Its
branches hung with tinsel. Lettie’s
three yards of this ethereal trimming
had been separated Into running
lengths and disposed with an appear
ance of abundance. And candles!
They could not he denied. Six of
them ! There were four strings of pop
corn In a graduated terrace; walnut
shells, decorated with whatever paint
had offered: eggshells also, with bright
pictures affixed! And what matter H
the contents of these letter had gone
"to the nourishment of other tenants In
ThKTustard Cup? The decorative pos
sibilities had been saved for the Pen*
field treeX r-
And then the presents.! For every
child: a pictorial fggshell, a picture
puzzle, a net hag of prtbeom. nnd can
dy; for every adult, rn appropriate
blot and verse, and h nature puzzle!
(TO BE OONTTNUED.)
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first king of Rome And Caesar made
the mistake of not doing the Job him
self. Instead, be turned It over to
Jioalgenes of Alexandria, a Greek as
tronomer and mathematician. And
Sosigenes slightly bungled the job, for
the sun and his calendar didn't exactly
I Jibe, ahd by 1582 the sun was ten days
ahead.
It was In that year that Ugo Buon-
i compagno. known to fume as Pope
j Gregory XIII, took the Julian calen
dar. in hand for another doctoring.
And Pope Gregory did not do the Job
himself, either. He set to work Luigi
Ullo Ghiraldi, an astronomer and phy
sician of Naples. He”got sun and cal
endar working together, or nearly so.
He died anfi anotfTer mathematician,
one Claras, worked oat the necessary
pnlcntnttnns fr>F ftve yprlflmflon Tbo
calculations were published in 1603 in
a volume of 800 pages, authorized by
Pope Gregory. And that Is the Gre
gorian calendar In use today,
t The Gregorian calendar, however,
was not adopted by all the world all
at once. October 5 became October
T5 In Spalfty - Portugal, add France.
The Roman Catholic states of Ger
many adopted It the next year, but In
i other German states and the Scandi-
] navtan countries It was not accepted
Between George WashtngT
snd the World war only two
of Importance adopted the reformed
calendar. Japan and China, the latter
changing over from Its lunar calendar
of 354 days In 1011, upon the organiza
tion of the republic. Incidentally, the
Gregorian year of 1924 corresponds
with the year 2584 (ft the Japanese era
nnd with the year 4621 of tlie Chinese
era. Turkey* adopted the "New Style"
in 1017. The Soviet government In
Russia soon followed and Rumania
made the change In 1910.
But the Balkans have proved a hard
nut to crack. It took a gathering of
the Eastern Orthodox Christians from
•*!«**•• day. may be Hopping a Me te keep
accord the wind away. Pope Gregory XIII
But the passed te his reward severs 1 rentorten
that for ago. Besides the world hns changed
datus la somewhat since their day. There will
be ao reform of the Gregorian calendar
o’b time by decree. The change. If there Is one.
•ouatriee | must come abo«M through public
opinion.
Tinkering with the raieodar bgp been
a well-known sad Justly popular sport
ever since the dawn of eirUlxatloo.
The savage, when he saw the daya
lengthen and the sun grow wanner
after a hard winter knew that the re
current miracle of the spring was at
hand. He rejoiced—and let It go at
that. *: -
But In Egypt, when civilization
dawned so many yeans ago that to fix
the date! is largely guesswork, the cal
endar soon took a prominent place in
the business of getting dally bread.
all over eastern Europe last spring In ! Egypt was peculiarly Interested In tha
a Pan-Orthodox congress to bring bread question because in ancient times
about the change. These Eastern It fed the world and fo** that reason
Orthodox Christians form what is often was Mlstrbss of the World. Every
called the Greek church. They them-1 hour of every day bad to be utilized
selves use the Same "Holy Oriental
Orthodox Catholic Apostolic church.”
Its members number about 10f>,000?bdo.
They do not acknowledge the su
premacy of the pope. The spilt be
tween the Latin and Greek churches
occurred at the division of the Roman
enTfHTg;
And even then the Eastern Orthodox
Christians accepted the Gregorian cal
endar with “reservations." Professor
|Trpkovlc. a Serbian astronomer, lisa
In the growing of crops on the fertile
lands Irrigated by the annual Inunda
tion of the Nile. Therefore the spring
time planting had to be on schedule
time. So the wise men of the day first
planted n pole and measured the length
of its shadow when the sun crossed
— tKe S^aran: “Ahrocrt~o7~{W 'g^T
poles grew the boildtng of the pyra
mids. each aa Improvement over Hie
lest In accuracy as a nun dial—000
years ago. .
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• ms ■■bserved to plant for a long rime
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