The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 18, 1917, Image 6
Her Picture
Postcard
It Brought an Understanding
Between the Lovers.
By ANNETTE DUMOIS
"It's kind of lonesome since pa
died, but I can't seem to make up
my mind to Silas some way."
The speaker had a worried look
--in her bright blue eyes as she dropped
a .fresh batch of doughnuts into
the fry ing pan, saying, "J ust six an*
no more, say I, an' then they won't
\ soak fat."
"Your doughnuts cert'nly do come
out jest right, Sophrony," said the
little dressmaker as she snapped her
thread with a twist of her linger.
"Seems as if I could not work half
bo fast since I got these store teeth
an' can't bite off my thread any
more. Silas is forehanded an' well
meanin', though he ain't as handsome
a s some."
?A1 1 "? *1 1 .3 1 _
un, i aon i mma rea nair rayself
,w replied Sophrony amiably,
"but"-"It's
time you was cettin' settled,"
persisted the dressmaker.
"You never was cut out for an old
maid."
She eyed Sophrouv's comfortable
curves with appreciation. "Let's
see?you're thirty, come August.
You was born the dav our Betsy had
them twin calves?(fretful cute little
critters they was. One had a
white ring around his eve. Now, if
you was little an' skimpy, like me,
you'd be a proper old maid."
Her black eyes twinkled behind"
the gold bowed specs as she continued:
"I ain't never felt the loss
of a man yet. He'd be sure to want
the rocker jest when Marcus Aure
lius had to liev it." (Marcus was
thei spoiled Angora.) "I calkerlate
I've had two chances, though leastwise
one of 'em was an out an'
outer; the other was a seafarin'
man, so I don't know. No, Sophronj;
I've ate two already," declining
the tempting circles, "but I
might take a drop more tea. Too
"bad Sam Jenkins got stove up so,"
6he said, with a sharp side glance at
the girl^
She gave a satisfied nod as the
rich red flamed in Sophrony'i
cheeks. "Who'd 'a' thought that
plow would strike dynamite in his
old ten acre lot? Nobody knows
how it came there, neither. He
was 6uch a likely young feller an'
dretful handsome"?
"His face ain't hurt none " interrupted
Sophrony, rattling the stove
covers aimlessly.
"They say when he gets them
newfangled legs with joints he'll be
a6 good as new, barrin' his three finT
-maUT Hnroe bor>/^ oow
^ClO. JJUVXXJ mao (<UU ivx w uuuu; P?J
I. Didn't he uster come over here
a lot ?" questioned Miss Perkins.
"Yes, for quite a spell.v Sophrony
turned around and allowed the tears
to roll over her plump cheeks without
any pretense. "That's why I
can't make up my mind to Silas, I
guess. But a woman can do nothin',
an' Sara's sort of backward."
"My grief, I should say 60?when
a man couldn't get up spunk to ask
a girl till she's most thirty!"
"He knew I wouldn't leave pa,"
excused Sophronv. "I went over to
inquire, but Mary Jane said he
wouldn't let anybody inside the
house."
"You don't say!" exclaimed the
dressmaker. "I kind of mistrusted
how things was," she sympathized,
"but he's jest sensitive, that's what.
Likely he says to himself, T ain't
got no right to ask any woman to tie
np to a one legger.'"
"I'd rather have Sam with one
leg than any other body with two,"
half sobbed Sophrony. "Oh, Miss
Perkins, it does me a sight of good
to speak out! I've just been bottled
up till it 6eems as if I should bust"
'There, there, Sophrony; you jest I
think reel hard that things is goin
to come out right, an' they're bound
to. I've been readin' some of the
new thought papers lately, an'
there's a heap o' comfort in 'em.
Why don't you send him a picture
card?" she asked suddenly.
"Mebbe I might," said the girl
doubtfully.
"You jest send him a pritty one,
an' we'll 6ee," 6aid the little dressmaker
as she put on her queer old
hat."
"Some way I feel a heap better
than when yon came, Miss Perkins.
Everybody 6ays you're the village
comfort, anyway," 6aid Sophrony.
"I wish I had your pompadour. You
1 T_ _ 1 11 >>
Keep your neir wonueriui wen, gazing
a<hniringlv at the wavy gray
hair.
"Nonsense!" with a pleased flush,
however. "The Perkinses all have
good heads o' hair. Puns in some
families, I guess."
"I know just what she'll pick
out," soliloquized the spinster on
her way home, "somethin' with
* r
hearts an' a pagoda with dores in |
i it. That ain't what a man wants
' who's all atoro up an' got the
grumps. I v.% 1 vuin!" The
little dressmaker retraced her itep*
J to the village "emporium;" where
i she carefully scanned tne stock 01
: cards. Finally her eye lighted on
1 the picture of the "Ministering An|
gel.'' "It's jest the ticket," she
' chuckled. On a flowery couch re|
clined a young man. and a young
j woman was offering him a plate of
| most impossible looking fruit with
I an air of tender solicitude. The
motto read:
I fain would sooth# thy wearied hours
With ali a woman's powers.
"Tis woman's placs to fervs and wait
Upon & loving nu.te.
Miss Perkins wrote something on
the card and firmly affixed a one
cent stamp.
"There; I gue6s that'll set him to
thinkin' anyway."
After tea Sophrony sat by the
window knitting in the dusk when
she saw Mary Jane going into a
neighbor's.
"She won't get away from there
for an hour. Miss Parks is an everlastin'
talker," commented Sophrony.
"I've a half mind to run over
an' inquire, just neighborly like.
He might be in the sittin' room with
Louisy."
With fast beating heart the girl
whipped her best pink shawl around
her and started out. Sure enough,
Sam was in the easy chair, with his
crutches on the floor beside him,
and Louisy, his twelve-rear-old sisJ
" l ~ "
.ier, was uuiiig sums. oujjiuuui
could see them through the window
as she tiptoed up the gravel path.
"Come in, Sophrony!" shouted
the young man as he caught the
60und of her voice in the hallway.
"My," whispered Louisr, "he ain't
seen nobody since he was hurt!"
Sophrony trembled, but said
cheerily, "ilello, Sam!" in her usual
fashion. As Louisv disappeared after
a pitcher of cider in hospitable
manner Sam leaned forward with a
nervous flush on his thin face as he
asked hurriedly, "Sophrony, did you
send me a picture card?"
"Mebbe I did an' mebbe I didn't,"
answered the girl nervously, laughing
and blushing.
"Don't fool, Sophrony. Quit it.
Did you ?"
"Yes, Sam," she replied, sobered
up bv his earnestness.
UHX vuu I ill: mi it i iic ucumuu^u.
Sophronj looked bewildered. What
was the motto? She could not remember.
She had just picked out a
"pretty" one, as the dressmaker had
surmised. It would do no harm to
say "Yes" anyway.
"Did you, Sophronj?" he persisted.
"Would you put up with a maa
who has only one leg ?
"Indeed, 1 would if it 'twas you,
Sam," replied Sophrony honestly.
"Come over here, my girl," entreated
Sam, holding out his arms
longingly. All hi6 shyne6? seemed
to have disappeared.
Sophrony went and knelt beeide 1
his chair, and as his arms closed
around her Sam said, "If it hadn't
been for this blessed card"?he pulled
it out of his breast pocket?"I'd
never have had the courage to ask
you."
Sophrony caught her breath
sharply as 6he looked at it. "Oh,
Sam," then she hesitated, "I never
sent that one, but," she added hastily
as she read the verse, "I would
T il _ 1. *1). 1
have 11 I'd seen it. jl mma u s just
lovely."
Sam drew the pretty, blushing
face against his shoulder again.
"Well, it's all right, then. But,
see, here are your initials down in
the corner. Who do tou suppose
sent it?"
"It's that blessed little dressmaker,"
said Sophrony, with a flash of
comprehension.
"Land o' Goshen! I guess there'll
be a weddin' in this family 'fore
long?teehee," giggled Louisy from
the doorway, almost dropping the (
pitcher of cider in her excitement r
"I just guess there will," replied ]
j Sam masterfully. j
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fanaticism. Right and justioe are
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Dretwd Chiokeos.
Mrs. New Wed went into the i
butcher shop. t <
"I want a chicken for roasting," , i
j she explained. ! i
j "Pressed or undressed ?" asked I
i the butcher. i ]
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. THE WHITE BREAD FAD. (I
It Was Startsd by a London Eccentric
About a Century Ago.
Due to an epicurean faddist of!
London, one Hugh Paddington,
white tlour came into existence .
about 100 years ago, when the Lon- |
don city man decided to do sonic-11
thing unusual at a dinner. As j I
white was fashionable at that particular
period, Paddington determined
to have all the foods at the
feast of a color quite different from
their natural hue, with a leaning
toward white. To match the tablecloth
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He called a Hungarian miller into
conference and ordered flour ground
especially for the occasion. Such ;.
thing never had been heard of before?a
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commingled colors of the grain and
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It was a hard task for the miller,
but after many efforts he succeeded
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selecting only the white, lifeless,
starchy portions of the grain and
discarding all others. This being
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The rest of the color
scheme was easy. As he had expected,
his dinner proved the nov
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This was the first white bread
ever eaten in the history of the
world. As the wheat grain was
dark, so bread had been dark from
the days of Abraham. To produce
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impossible unless a white
grain #could be grown. But the
Hungarian millers ingenuity succeeded
in bringing forth a white ,
four from a yellow grain. By making
the flour from the starch cells
extracted from the endosperm of
the wheat he obtained a breadstuff
that was of the color and nearly the
consistency of powdered chalk.
The white bread fad, as it was
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All the smart set of London took it
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on the tables of the ultra?
' Li- -11 I? i .1 v?
iasnionauie an over .c,ijgiaiiu.
one liked it so well as the old fashioned
blood and bone producing
bread. But people often sacrifice
very much of taste and health for
fashion's sake. That was the way
it was with white bread.
It didn't taste so good, and it
wasn't so satisfying a* the old time
bread. But it looked pretty, the
white slices on the white tablecloth,
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Flour mills had to be overhauled
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"One thing is certain," the mother
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she can do it well. She must have
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you both to understand it's the
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