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It | The Plum | $ Pudding X X X jjj>| Br MARY GRAHAM BONNBR |r r ooooooooooooo^oo Copyright, 1921, Weatarn Newapaper Union ARIAN had nevi . er bef?re ItM B cooked at all / 1 to sPt>a^ Jl JwL until she had :- ' ^ Jk I married Bert that summer. VJ ^ h e h a d (1) made a great %i. success of It, ??>';. 0? Ybut she was a little nervous i afterward when she realized that she ! had invited all of Bert's family and ! near relatives for a Christmas dinner. And that they had all accepted. MVnw Xfarlon Hoar" R#?rt had said. ' "just have a simple dinner. Don*t bother about the nary Sunday ^ din^ ^ f For days And days Marian planned her Christmas jfe;^. dinner. She salted nuts, she made g v cranberry sauce. She ordered a fine ; young turkey. She wasn't nervous | oX/vnf hipbor thflf WfUl lust about OUVUi. LUV VUAUV^ w Silfe>- - as easy as chicken. Yes, she tvas planning to have the old-t'me Christmas dinner. She wouldn't tell Bert She would surprise him. And then, If she did tell |8Rg-Vv him, she might be more nervous abouc j " the things she had planned to do, feelBlifffl ing that he was going to be so proud of her that she couldn't fulfill hts expeetations of her success. So she worked and planned and schemed. And that Christmas eve when Bert kissed her good-night she smiled to jj|h' herself as she heard him say: "Well, It's quite tme. People have always eaten too much at Christmas Bfe&V* time in past years." / Bert's family all arrived in due seagp;. son for Christmas dinner. . \ "Well, were you nervous over your I BS& first turkey?" asked Aunt Emllina. {And how happy Marian was that she could say that she hadn't been nerv... ous and that it was going to come out | ||r|^, all right, she thought. "I bet it was a job making your j first plum pudding,** said Uncle | George, and Bert looked angry and pf'*.' grieved. He didn't want anyone to v ? make his Marian feel uncomfortable. And now his own family were doing it. "Uncle George," Bert said, "we meant to tell you. We*re not going to have one of those old-time dinners. We think that people have al ways felt wretchedly at Christmas, and .after Christmas?indigestion and all. So we're just going to have a nice simple dinner." Marian had left the room now. But she could hear the defending note in Bert's voice, and at the same time a note of sadness that their dinner was fei.V going to be so simple. fiHo urnnt-Ari to rnsh In now and tel' f them all that it wouldn't be so simple and to put her arms around Bert's neck and kiss him. He was standing mm up for her. And they were all trying to be critical. And she had in vited them all to her house. This was the way they were accepting her hospitality! "But, following a number more similar r^mnrks ?n how did she get along yc.inin'jB m mm with her mince /f~\ burn herself salt- i 111 \j?r j | I iag the nuts, she I at last announced ^ ^ Admiringly, inever been a part WFZGEEjpggfl Of a Christmas i dinner that Ma* prouder and more k|-.-- How Bert loved to boast of what she could do! At inst came the dessert?mince pie I and apple pie and plum pudding, too. ? ' How Bert's eyes opened wide with surprise when he saw the pudding. "What did you mean when you said you were going to have a new kind of a dinner without any of the Christmas trimmings?" asked Uncle George. "My wife likes surprises," Bert beamed. And after they had all gone, Tiovf cnift JL^.* V ^ ? ? [:*. "They behaved atrociously, but oh! I How proud I was of you. And Marian darling?" "Yes, dear?" "The plum pudding was the best that h&? ever been served at any ChristP" .s dinner at any time I know." '"? "I tb.lnk it was a success," Marian smiled. Kk. . - . 00000000^00000000; 0 Christmas 0 ? Wedding Bells ? By MART GRAHAM BONNBR ^ QL-. . iv ooooooooooooooooo Copyright. 1981, Western Newspaper Union. fLIZABETH had always, it is true, admired Howard. He was so faithful and good and reliable. He had been good to his mother and his sister. Everyone knew he would be good to a wife, and they all knew, too, that he wanted Elizabeth for his wife. ?TT??? *?M?u Him " I XUUre 1W11M1 UUl LV laac they said. "We all know you have the opportunity to do so every time he goes to see you. We would wager he'd proposed any number of times." "I don't know about that," Elizabeth would laugh. They could get nothing out of her. Once some of them spoke to Howard. "We wish you two would get married. We're tired of seeing you courting all the time." Howard smiled. "It's up to Elizabeth," he said. One woman spoke to Elizabeth one day in a very serious fashion. "The trouble with you," the woman said, "is that you've always had so much attention. Not only Howard, but everyone has been charmed by you, and you think that will go on to the end of time. You'll find It won't. They'll stop, and then, where will you be?" "I don't want to be married so as to escape being an old maid," naizabeth laughed. "I've seen too many happy ones to be afraid. What's more?I think a lot more of a person wbo is faithful to someone they've loved than to marry for the sake of marrying. Lots of the "old maids" are that. Some of the married ones have been so afraid they'd be thought unoonular and unwanted that they've married out of sheer cowardice." This was very puzzling. Had Elizabeth loved someone in her earlier days?perhaps when she had gone away on a visit? No one knew. But everyone was puzzled. .So much puzzled that they asked no more questions. They stopped telling her she should marry Howard. They stopped telling her what a wonderful husband he would make, and now raucn ne loved her. They were speculating on which visit It could have been when the tragedy occurred. And had the mysterious man married or had he been already married and so Elizabeth, as a nice, quiet girl had quickly taken herself home and out of the way? It was snowing hard. Elizabeth was getting together her Christmas presents when the door bell rang. Outside stood Howard. "I thought pernaps youa nor mina if I went with you when you took around the presents," he said. "I knew it was just about your time." How lovely It was outside. The snow was falling, the air was so clear and cool, and here was Howard, so straight and tall, his face glowing with health, his eyes so clear, so keen and so devoted. It made even the cold, crisp air seem warm and soft and affectionate. They had delivered the presents and were now passing the small church. Inside someone was practicing on the organ. That was doubt a: less ine orgamsi i/rairuviug IW mr music for the service in the morning. There was much beautiful music always for Christmas! So many wonderful hymns, and such an atmosphere about it all. "I wish," Howard said, "that he'd stop practicing the Christmas music and play us a wedding march." "Perhaps he would," said Elizabeth "Do you mean it?" Howard shouted "Oh yes, my dear, of course I mean it You've not said a word about marrying the last four times I've seen you and I've been about to do It myself. The people?they tried to keep me from seeing how wonderful you were by talking about you. making you what they saw in you?not giving me a chance to see for myself." The organist played the wedding march. The clergyman came over hurriedly to marry them, bringing two witnesses with him. "The Christinas bells and the wed ding bells are joining together for us." Howard said a little later. They took the basket which had j had the presents in it back home. Then they announced to an tne peu^ pie what the? had dene. "Merrie Christinas!" everyone wished th<*m. But Elizabeth answered. "We d t need to he wished 'Merrie Christmas,' buf we thank you all just i the san?ei" v \ FiGHliNG THE BOLL WEEVIL Intelligence, Courage, and Optimlam Needed by Farmers. i Clemson College, Dec. 5.?In spite of the efforts of scientists employed by the various Southern States and the United States Department of Agriculture, and in spite of the various climatic conditions encountered over the cotton growing states, the cotton boll weevil has annually extended its operations, the advance line of this pest having now moved entirely across South Carolina, leaving the state infested from the mountains to the coast. Fortunately for the farmprs of South Carolina, says W. W. Long, Director of the Extension Service, we are able to draw lessons from the experience of other states over a period of nearly thirty years, the boll weevil having entered Texas in 1892. This should enable us to avoid many of the costly mistakes that have been made over and again by the cotton growers of the states further west. Clemson Agricultural College and the United States Department of Agriculture have made special studies of the boll weevil problem, co-operating with every agency interested along this line. At frequent intervals reliaV* o o Knon icciidH with U1C I1111F1 Luaiiuu uao uw>^u lu^wvu ?? the view of keeping our people thoroughly informed regarding this pest and the methods of fighting it In 1916 the College was instrumental in organizing the South Carolina Boll Weevil Commission, which went into the infested states of Louisiana and Mississippi and studied the weevil at first hand under conditions similar to those prevailing in this state. The report of the Commission issued by [ Clemson in November, 1916, as Bulletin No. 20, contained practically all the reliable information of importance that had been developed regarding the boll weevil problem. This report had a wide circulation and was considered I to be so thorough and accurate that the United States Senate published it in February, 1917, as a Senate Document. This document is now available in revised form. Many other bulletins, reports, and special articles dealing with specific phases of the problem have been issued from time to time. The Extension Service, through the county agent system, has kept this information before the peo- ! Die constantly. As a result the aver-1 age farmer of South Carolina is with- ; out doubt better informed in the f practical phases of this subject than has been the case in any other state at the time of the arrival of the boll weevil. No Time for Depressed Feeling. Other states have had this problem to face, and while they suffered severely they have demonstrated that thei*fe are ways of dealing with the boll weevil problem. Cotton is being grown in spite of the boll weevil. This is not the time, therefore, to per mit ourselves to become depressed and pessimistic. Instead, we must study the problem thoroughly and learn the methods and practices which enable other farmers to produce cotton profitably under boll weevil conditions. Before relying upon boll weevil information, we must be sure that it comes from a source that can and - * * X-t does disseminate reiiaDie miormauou. By studying information from reliable sources and adapting it to our particular needs we can adjust ourselves much more quickly and economically to the new conditions enforced by the boll weevil. We can not rely upon information based upon one year's experience with the boll weevil. The best information is that based on many years of experience such as the states west of Alabama have had. These states have had time to adjust themselves to new conditions ana to adopt new farm practices, whereas the newly infested spctions are still floundering around from one thing to another in an effort to find remedies for the boll weevil. There is no single new crop which promises to take the place of cotton as our money crop. There is no combination of crops which can be recommended as a specific. Experiment has shown that cotton continues to be grown as the chief money crop in the cotton states already infested by tho weevil, it would be well, there fore, for us to continue to grow cotton, using the best boll weevil control measures and to undertake the growing of new money crops only on a conservative scale. Plunging on new unknown money crops brings on problems that are as hard to solve as is the problem of growing cotton under boll weevil conditions. We must simply adapt ourselves to the changed aspectte of farming and meet new con | ditions with suitable metnoas. New Publications to Help. I Extension Bulletin 48. "Farming Unl der Boll Weevil Conditions," has been published by the Extension Service to I aid in the fight against the boll weevil. This bulletin brings together in coni else form much of the information I ^hat has been developed by the experience with the weevil up to the present time in the various states infested. C-mies may be obtained from county agents or from the Extension Service, ^ nrvio rovispd pdition i-.e.rrvu!j v^uucgo. x | of the Report of the South Carolina Roll Weevil Commission may be had *>om the same sources. Th<* +hin^ for a scrub sire is i pv^'-cion trio to the butcher's x i.1 -1?4 ' r no reuini hckcl. a, f1 norr of rural community is *ovm paper. : . . _ .. - - . ' , _ If you want to buy or sell anything use The Herald Want column. DE. THOMAS BLACK VJTOTAJb SUKUKOA. Graduate Dental oepartment University of Maryland. Member S. C. State Dental Association. Office opposite postoffice. 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