The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 7, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 June 1911 — Page 7

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[/3 STORY Miss Selina Lue AND THE | Soap-Box Babies By Maria Thompson Daviess Illustrations by Magnus G. Kettner ZLZO Copyright 1903, The Bobbs-Jleri-ill Company. SYNOPSIS. Miss Selina Lue, spinster guardian angel of River Bluff, presides over ’ an impromptu day nursery for the babies of the neighborhood in the rear of her grocery. Her charges arfe known as “SoapBox Babies.* The fact that she is single makes her an object bf sympathy to the mothers. One of her friends is Miss Cynthia Page, daughter of Widow Page. Cynthia visits Miss Selina and learns that shs has taken another “Soap-Bower” in Alan Kent, a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. Blossom, Miss hue’s adopted baby, and one Cynthia is very fond ofj shows an evident preference for Alan. When Cynthia leaves. Alan hears that her mother is in danger of losing the! old homestead. A near ruckus.’ Alan admires Cynthia. Selina tells how she came to locate in the place and start the haven for little ones. She suspects that Cynthia is responsible for Alan’s neglect of herself. Sale of the mortgaged Page place considered. Alan’s portrait of Cynthia is discovered. Evelyn Branch. Cynthia’s cloise friend, shows interest in. Alan Kent. ■ CHAPTER V,—Continued. —1 “Well. I think I must be, but I seem to have forgot something. Here’s my reticule and my pa’m fan and I’ve got money in my glove to put in the collection —but; lands alive, Mis’ Dobbs, I clean forgot to git anybody to mind the babies and the store. Whatever will I do? Mis’ Kinney have gone to the wharf to stay till the boat comes by to give Mr. Kinney his lunch and Mis’ Peters went into town and—and —” “Oh, Miss Selina Lue, please let me stay with the babies and keep store! I would love it —and I will be ever so careful,” said Miss Cynthia with dancing eyes. “There now, there never was anybody like you fer helping along, Miss Cynthie, and I don’t think they will be a mite of trouble. You know how I fed them at one o’clock, and the oatmeal and milk, is hung down the well to keep cool. Don’t let the Flarities turn over their boxes, and put a bib on Pattie Tyne when you feed her. I washed that dress twice yesterday, and I am afraid it won’t hold together till her mother gits back. If anybody wants anything they’ll tell you the price and put the money in the jug behind the left counter. Good-by! Good-by!” and the party started down the hill. Half-way down/ Miss Selina Lue turned and called back to Miss Cynthia, who stood orji the steps with Blossom in her arms: “Mr. Alan likes his eggs fried bn both sides and his potatoes smashed.” Heavens! Miss Cynthia had had no idea that her offier of attendance on the soap-boxers h'ad covered the duty of feeding the —lion. A wild idea of locking the grocery door and taking the entire small family home with her for the day instantly presented itself, but immediately a sense of mortification overcame her. The River Bluff grocery doors had never been closed, in her knowledge, to those seeking food, and her honor forbade her doing it now. No. she had assftmed Miss Selina Lue’s obligations and she wolud fulfill them to the letter, even if they did include serving the obnoxious barnboarder in a menial capacity. “Eggs fried on both sides and smashed potatoes” sounded terrifying in the extreme, but Miss Cynthia’s blood w’as up and she both mentally and literally rolled up her sleeves and sailed in to win. It was on the off side of 12 o’clock, so she decided that time was in her favor. She smothered Blossom with a kiss and attempted to deposit her In her box, but the young lady clung around her neck in a manner most beguiling. The two Flarities regarded hes solemnly, as If taking measure of her capacity for guardianship, and Clemmie seemed to find comfort in chewing the corner of her gingham apron. “Blossom, dear, I must ask you to let me go and see to the smashing of those potatoes—smashing anything appeals to me right now,” said Miss Cynthia. But Blossom clung the tighter. There was nothing for it but to take her into Miss Selina Lue’s little cupboard of a kitchen, that also leaned to the grocery, and enthrone her on a corner of the table. “Now,” said Miss Cynthia to herself as she surveyed the field, “I thinkI would better fry the eggs first, as It will take some time to do it on both sides. Some people don’t mind putting others to any amount of trouble. I am sure, under most circumstances, I would be satisfied with my eggs fried on one side —but two it shall be If Miss Selina Lue says so.” “Goo! Ah —goo —g-o-o—” answered Blossom from her perch. ! "I thought you would think so, dear,” Miss Cynthia answered her. *1 don’t doubt you wr.u'.d fry them

for Mm on three sides if you could, wouldn’t you?” Blossom nodded delightedly with an air of perfect understanding. “I thought so! Well, lam going to do my best and then if everything is not right it is not my fault. Now, that is the fryer, I know, and I will let it get good and hot while- I find the eggs. How many do you suppose the dear creature eats at a sitting, Blossom? A half-dozen?” Again Blossom’s head bobbed cheerily. She hugely enjoyed being taken into the conversation, did the Blossom. “Well, here's the half-dozen and here goes! Dear me, I hope it’s as easy to, smash potatoes as it is eggs. I wonder if it is right for them to mix up so? Heavens, the things are sticking to the fryer! I’ll just stir them around, for I suppose that’s what Miss Selina Lue meant by both sides, to mix them up so they won’t get so black. They seem perfectly hard now so I am going to put them in the dish,” and Miss Cynthia emptied out the charred mass on a plate and set it on the table. “Os course, Blossom, I hawe known fried eggs all my life, but we don’t have them, and I am not perfectly sure how they ought to look. These seem nice and brown, though those black streaks are not exactly artistic, are they?” With reassuring eagerness Blossom reached for the dish. “I’m glad you think so, dear, but you don’t want that dinner; yours comes later. Now for ‘smashing’ the potatoes! When does the smashing come in, before they are cooked ?” Miss Cynthia paused to think. “I don’t suppose it makes much difference. and after they are cooked they will be so hot —I am going to do it now. Wasn’t it lucky Miss Selina Lue had peeled them! Why, I never knew potatoes were so hard before they were cooked! No wonder the great, grand mogul likes his smashed. I like them smashed myself, but how am I going to smash them?” Blossom gurgled interestedly. “Thanks for the advice, Blossom. Yes, I am going to set the pan on the table and wash the hatchet nice and clean, and smash away.” Miss Cynthia worked with a will and succeeded in quickly reducing the potatoes to a watery, lumpy mass. After W K oo j Four Solemn Babies Sat Bolt Upright and Four Pink Mouths Flew Wide Open. a moment’s hesitation she emptied them into the frying-pan to which clung fragments of burned eggs. Her delight was great when she remembered the salt and she poured in a double dose with exceeding liberality. Around and around she stirred the mass, which quickly burned to a hue to match the eggs and thus declared itself done. “Blossom,” she remarked earnestly, “why women make so much fuss over cooking I can’t see. It is just too easy, and nothing but selfishness makes them not want to do such simple things for their families. I am going to put a plate and knife and fork here for him and tuck this ugly fryer out of sight. Then he can come and get his dinner whenever he chooses. And, Blossom, I don’t know whether you and Miss Selina Lue ever do it — but I am going to put a spray of this petunia here on the table —and take the risk.” A series of plaintive little gurgles and a whimper or two through the door leading into the grocery reminded her of the soap-boxers, and she hastened to answer the summons. Four solemn babies sat bolt upright and four pink mouths flew wide open. “BlesS your darling hearts, it’s time for din-din. and Miss Cynthia’s a bad girl to get naughty man’s dinner first! Here are the bowl and spoon right here, and she is going to hurry.” But instead of hurrying Miss Cynthia stood dumb. She had forgotten where Miss Selina Lue had said the oatmeal and milk were kept! In a panic she began a hurried search and it took her just five minutes to exhaust the possible hidingplaces of milk and oatmeal in the River Bluff Grocery. She even tipped up the vinegar jug and turned on the molasses spigot. No milk and no oatmeal! In the meantime the plaintive wails from the back of the store had developed into the roar of a hurricane which swelled by the instant but never ebbed. The sight of the bowl and the spoon which Miss Cynthia had set dn the stool before them was the red rag to their rage. The two Flarities had settled down steadily to the business of making an uproar, and as they screamed each kicked the foot of his box with maniacal strength. Clemmie wasted no force in any exercise save that of the vocal chords, and shrill and high she shrieked, each output more startling than the last Pattie had the wisdom to seek a key and

note all her own, and she gave oat sepulchral groans and ghastly chokings by the minute. Only Blossom, in her box where Miss Cynthia had put her, was quiet and pale with terror. Her wide, frightened eyes added the finishing touch to Miss Cynthia’s plight, and she sat down on the floor by her box and burled her head in the mite's small pink apron. Then suddenly in the storm there came a calm, deep and breathless. Miss Cynthia looked up and, behold, relief stood on the threshold! In one hand Mr. Alan held a tin bucket full of the brown, sticky manna and in the other a jug of milk, both- dripping from their immersion in the well. She sat as motionless as the babiej; and if her mouth did not stretch open, no will of her own prevented it. The mixing of the potation was the matter of a few seeftids, and the feeding began without delay as the gray raven perched on the stool and ladled out dripping spoonfuls. Miss Cynthia was almost surprised that he failed to offer her some in her turn, but she sat on the floor and watched him with deepest gratitude. “I couldn’t find the dinner,” she said in a small voice. “Do you think they will be ill?” As she spqKshe looked up at him with wide, vustful eyes that reminded him in expression of all the. other five pairs fixed upon his. “No. indeed, the little rascals! 1 have, heard them do worse than that when Miss Selina Lue happened to be behind time with the quicklunch.” His big comforting voice revived her so that she rose to her feet. “Miss Selina Lue has gone up to the Lock with the Dobbses, and I stayed to take care of them for her. Your dinner is on the table.” Her meekness was fast vanishing and her eyes drooped in away the}’ had that meant mischief. “Oh. now, really—you ought not to have troubled about me.” Bother the girl—his ears were getting hot again and he wag [Sure she was laughing at him, though why, he could not see. “It really was no trouble,” she answered, again sobered by her responsibilities. “Let me finish feeding the babies while you eat your dinner.” Her voice was positively solicitous. “Aren’t you going to have some with me?” he asked politely. “I don’t think I am hungry now,” she answered, intent on getting the spoon between Clemmie’s uncertain lips. “I—l hope it will be all right. I never cooked that sort of dinner before, but I followed Miss Selina Lue’s directions, so it must be the way yoi like it.” It was well that he approached ht dinner in a mood of distraction, for it was with difficulty that he restrained an exclamation at the first mouthful of eggs. But across the bobbing heads of the oatmeal-and-milk diners, Miss Cynthia raised trustful, proud eyes to his. “Is it good?” she asked with bewildering solicitude. “Good? Watch me!” and there with those eyes fastened on him in shining deligllt, he swallowed all of the six incinerated eggs and devoured in gulps a panful of half-raw, stone-cold, nauseating potatoes. Half-way through the dose he paused. Should he leave any for her to agonize over, or should he assume a reputation for abnormality of appetite? Better anything than that she should ever find out the truth, and in a rush he finished the job. If, by that time, she had not been standing directly across the table, he would have scraped the dishes, but her nearness confused him and he let her set aside a teaspoonful of potatoes and a chip of egg. She was beaming with satisfaction and at his hastily framed apologies for having cleared the table, she answered cheerily: “Don’t say a word about leaving me any. I am too hot to eat for hours. Those blessed babies are asleep already. Could they have fainted from exhaustion?” “I assure you they are safe, and for at least two hours,” he laughed, as he rose and stepped to the door. Lighting a cigar, he' lingered tentatively, hoping for some sign of invitation to remain. The petunia drooped from his buttonhole. Then she raised her eyes to his and said sweetly and directly, with gratitude tinging every accent: “Thank you for helping me out with them. You—you won’t be far if they wake up and get beyond me?” Those eyes and that curly mouth! Mr. Alan only really “came to,” as Miss Selina Lue would have put It, when seated by her side later on the steps As for Miss Cynthia, some evil fate or perhaps a sleepy chirp from Clemmie, the roarer, led her to the back regions of the grocery, and while there she idly tasted that spoonful of potato which had been left, with misgivings. A shred of egg followed, and gone was all her complacency, the fruit of Mr. Alan’s self-sacrifice. How —how would she ever face him again after having literally forced such an awful thing upon him! Her humiliation was complete. Her one thought was a hope that she would never lay eyes on him again. “Well, well, Miss Cynthie, honey, did you ever see such a day for happenings as this has been to us all?” And Miss Selina Lue stood at the door beaming with delight. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Cattle Were Saved. While a ferryboat was taking cattle across the Trent two animals jumped on board, in addition to three that were being carried. When In midstream all the animals crowded on one side of the boat, which capsized and the ferryman was drowned •The catttle got safely ashore.

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