Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — HURRY CALL FOR AUNT MARY [ARTICLE]

HURRY CALL FOR AUNT MARY

Btlll Tim® to Save Chicken, Though Usefulness of Bread Dough Was Thing of the Past. She was entertaining city friends at dinner in her country home. Anxious Jo have the event as nearly perfect as possible, she had served dinner to , her small son and his visiting cousin, Billy, in the kitchen first and then banished them to the back yard. But while she gave apparently undivided attention to her guests' conversation, she was nevertheless conscious of the very frequent opening and closing of the back door, of boys’ footsteps, of little chickens’ yeaplng and, finally, of Billy’s distressed face peeping in at the swinging door. But she did not remember until too late that she had carefully covered some bread dough to rise in the one place in the kitchen where the heat was just right—on the little- platform under the stove. At last Billy’s head bobbed far enough into the room for the company to see his disturbed look and one guest said: “Come here, little boy, to see me, won’t you?” “Why,” said Billy, encouraged, “I jest wanted to tell Aunt AJary that one little chicken Is about to get Into her bread, and another one can hardly get out” •