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CHAPTER X Big hearted Surah Daffodil Cin ev'ery capacity for the 4 ily house in Garset after her sand's death The frugal, el derly Mr. and Mrs. Peppercorn and the newly wed Andrew and Candace Thane occupy the two top-floor apartments and below them middle-aged Bert Fitts und his wife—who is too engrossed in war activities to care for her home—and King Waters, veteran of World War I, and his wife emma, a devotee ol line crochet ing. King Waters, who is expect ing to sign up for making speech es before young- men’.*, organiza tions to raise the ho-ale, discus ses Andrew Talines daft status with Mrs. Waters. Emma Waters said with unpre meditated brutality, 'How could \ ou raise morale?" Young men would listen to me because my record shows 1 did not shirk my duty in the last war If 1 had a son 1 could look him in the face today and say, “My boy, 1 didn’t hesitate, why should They -say it’s almost impossi ble to get any more hobby pins." Mrs Waters let her section of the paper slide from her brown cor duroy robe to the iloor. I hat re minds me—1 must get up to the cottage and look at our things. You nev'er did get me those locks you promised, King." He said that lie would get them next day. “I’ve been sitending to pick up two or three secondhand padlocks from old Peppercorn lie has a darwer full of locks and keys. He may have .sold them all to that junkman friend of his. though-the two ol them are as thick as thieves ." Mrs. Waters pushed hopelessly at her hair which needed to he set. If they had followed her plan when they first moved into Un building, they would have been better oil' today, she complained. It had always been hoi policy not to know any of the lamilies in the apartment house where they might live and until they look tills place, they’d nol had even a nodding aeouaintance with their neighbors. Nowt everyone knows our business, or would il 1 didn’T use my head. You. can t buy ail extra pound of sugar that some one in the house doesn’t comment on it. And since Pearl went into factory work. I’ve thought of having Zither — she works tor Mrs. Thane, you know, Hut 1 don't dare. it was had enough with Pearl for she told Toni 1'iUs everything she could. With Zi ther if she saw ail extra bar of r-oap or a box of candles, or a dozen pairs of stockings put away, the new would he all over the house in fifteen minutes. I've t to get a perfectly -'■ilaage I and run the risk . i lit-» steal , everything she can lay her hands on." King Waters .-ltd expertly away. Evidently he was heading for the grocery store He said to a mao held up vvim him at the curb, "A lew privations, more or less, mean little to me. 1 served in the last wat and we did with out practicaly everything at the front. A sugar slid luge eanl’t down a man who's oc.en without drinking water forty hours at a stretch.” The whole trouble now, King Waters thought, shilling his lea vy package to case the weight, was thtu everyone v too com fortahle. Why, even the hoys in camp had it far heit> r than their daddies had—thee <iol a heap less marching lor distance. A inech aniseed army never would realize what the infantry units in the last wat had endured. King told himself as he let him,-elf into his apartment. "In the kitchen"’ his wife called Ho set down his burden with a sigh of relief. Three dozen cans of pineapple juice were ail lie had been able to buy. "The glocary manager made a fo- about let ing me have that much. Said he would have more ip next week. 1 said, ‘If that's the case. I'll take these now, wiwihom feeling that 1 m si ripping you."’ .Mrs. Ualcrs frowned. She had not been able to got the brand of canned peas they liked. All tli he>l canned sttllV, she asser ted. was going to Kngland! “If starve, that's all light. Or if ' e try to imt aside a few. cans lor our own use, that's hoarding I'm going to buy tomato juice to morrow, because I read they arc sending that to Kngland to take the place of oranges they cannot get.” "We can’t take .ill this stuff up in one trip." her husband ob jected, eyeing the hags and box es and cans on the kitcheji table and in the opened cupboards. She knew. Mrs. Waters sighed "But I have to buy when I can the clerks are getting nastier all the time. That's because a Hock. «'I .jealous cats have been com plaining. People like the Pepper corns and Thanes have no place to stole supplies, -10 naturally they hate to see other people stocking up.’’ The Thanes wouldn't butt in. King dissented, the Peppercorns might, though as a rule they at tended to their own business. "But let 'em talk, if they do tulk It’s nothing to he ashamed >f v putting money into cireu la .1. Besides it’s all stuff that we'd buy eventually, anyway. This way. we buy more at one time, that’s all ” , Sarah Ihiffodil din not View Something dark and swift ran m ross the Hour and leaped to the falters overhead. the situation quite is citarilably as liiat, indeed she confided that it raised her hiood pressure to observe the loading oV the Wat ers i every .Saturday morning. ‘‘They have a shark about ten miles out and the walls must be bulging now - 1 swear they’ve carted up enough stun to feed a garrison for a year'- siege. And her apartment here i.- crammed to the g’ils with girdles, nail pol ish. cold cream, soap, metal cur lers and God knows what all.” The shack in the country Em ma Waters had bought with the few hundred dollars left her by a sentimental aunt. was a two room cabin without conveniences and originally designed for a hun ter's hideout. It had been the aunt's expressed wish that her niece buy something in the na ture of a memorial, a perpetual leininder of my love for her.” Mis. Waters had convinced her self that a little place in the country was an ideal memorial The furnishings were scanty and primitive, oil lamps the only il iluininatioii. and a two-burner oil stove the only cooking conve nience. l!ut since the declaration of war and the subsequent rumor of Montages ami restrictions, the value of tho place as a store house had risen in Mis. Waters acquisitive mind. She had abandoned her nee dlework, although she still bought intend and yarn against the uay when she should resume her com plicated patterns. The girdles .no so eagerly purchased would probably never be iioni since* she went without corsets :n the house and lor the street preferred old Lonuorlablc and shapeless foun dations with trained curves. Her i helves oi cosmetics might have kept a beauty shop ge.iim for six months, but she found if too much tumble to use even cold lipsticks, powders .uni ' rouge as in a ircn/.\ and saw hut own mad ness repealed in tile behavior of cthei women Mrs. Waters was not completely indifferent to the public opinion aim the thought ♦ hat she might be unfavorably ci uici/.ed occasionadj rankled. Once she remarked to Candace 1 halve that she liked to think think that she would be in a position to shelter her friends who might happen to be bombed out. "People don't slop to think llint you can’t feed a dozen or two emergency guests unless you have made previous preparations, she reasoned. Cut could you if. i two dozen people in a two room cabin? sug gested Candace. "If you hacf the blankets, they could sleep out, 1 suppose, but it might rani.” Candace asked Andy if he thought that Mrs. Waters did her lavish shopping with the thought of taking care of the more un fortunate who were not in a po sition to hoard. "1 mean those who cannot stock up 1 hate to be uncharitable, but 1 keep re membering her six girdles." She might be planning to rent them out, Andy offered amiably. "In the days when tnere are no girdles, a woman may be glad to rent one by the hour or week. About the food I’m suspicious. W hat 1 really think our neigh hors intend to do is to set up a black market over here." “1 suppose it helps her to feel hecure, to have all those things at hand," Candace admitted.“We all want security, but we don't all seem to spell it the same way. It’s safer, don’t you think,. Andy not to set up things as your sym bols of security?” Like canned salmon: ftne Mailed and understanding; quick ened betwen them. Andy ran his fingers through her hair, pulling me soft pompadour of her new hairdo down to her eyes, “The heck with canned salmon! It re minds me too much of Mr. Wat tes and his favorite war." Had they only known it, ean j ned salmon held something in the same association for the hoy at ] the cash grocery store and the j slim young cashier who presided over the money cage. A case of the tinned fish, to be opened and the cans arranged in place on the shelves, had been the morn ing task allotted to Tlervey, the boy, as an occupation for him in the absence of the manager. “Him and his goldfish!" the cashier said scornfully. “Maybe I'm not tired of his stories.” The lad grinned. “They must have a stock as largo as ours, hy this time.” Kitty, from her cage thought .t likely, but she was growing' tired, she declared ol Mrs. Wat ers' complaints *about the fresh \egelablcs. "She comes in neatly every day to tell Mr. Locke that the stuff is wilted, or speckled, or just a plain mess. Why don’t you give her a break once m a •‘Where do you suppose she puts all the food?” asked the boy The cashier decided that the Waters ate the limp lettuce and the wrinkled carrots. Ihe canned goods and the dry staples they could hoard. "I hear they have a Place, a hideaway, up the line. Lots of people have got a bomb shelter — or something—in the country. Hervey, which they’re busy stocking with ripe olives, lobster paste, imported sauterne and other delicacies supposed to keep one’, strength under tire.’” "Add sugar, tea and good •Scotch," Hervey suggested. "Bui speaking of the devil isn’t that King Waters' car across the They both peered out through the towers of cracker boxes piled in tip’ windows, at the small' car store. Presently Mrs. Waters parked before the opposite drug came out. the drug v'.crk trailing after her with a package. He stowed it under the seat and to Kitty and Hervey the car ap peared to he loaded to the roof with parcels. Across the street Mrs, Waters hesitated, considered the grocery ihanged her mind aoout buying another box of bacon. She was already late, if she d'dn't get up ti the cabin by noon the chances Were that she would "n.ve to drive back in tile dark The toad all the way to C oats vilie was in fair condition but at that hamlet Mrs. Waters was obliged to turn left and continue along a dirt road, badly rutted and bordered by second-growth scrub into which all the dirt and trash of uncounted winters had been blown by tidy winds. There were only two bouses between ICoatsville and her cabin and neither of these had ever temp ted Mrs. Waters to stop and to make the acquaintance of her neighbors. She glanced now at the sagging farmhouse, set fat hack in the stubble of the corn held she was passing. Each time she saw this house a fbw more bricks had fallen from tlje chim ney and more rags had been sub stituted for missing window-panes Her own place didn't look much better, she’ admitted to her self when she drove into the yard through a wide gap m the dis reputable picket fence. Mrs Waters, shivered its she stepped out of the car and fumbled in her purse for the key to the pad lock. She opened the heavy, scrared door and stepped into the room which wits a combination of liv ing room and dining room, kitch en and storeroom. For a moment her eyes blinked then they be came accustomed to the dim light. “Why — why, for heaven's sake!" she cried aloud. Something dark and .swift ran across the floor and leaped to the rafters Overhead. She made a bargain with herself not to look around until she had her fire built and had brought in the sup plies from the car. The inside shutters were not 'dosed, as she had left them, but swung tepsily open. The clutter of dishes and nans on the rough hewn table she had nev'er seen before. The cupboard doors were unlatched — but there would be time enough to consider these things when BY -MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associote Editor, Parents' Magazine RAISING THE STEPCHILD The Cinderella story, along with •‘Jane Eyre” and some of the weepier tales involving or-i phans, for years made the step child an object of pity. Natur- I ally we still look with sorrow on the child who loses bis own moth er or father, but wg also recog nize that the step parent and child relationship can be a happy There are. of course, prob lems of adjustment, just as there are in marriage, friendship, or any other human relationship.The American Institute of Family . Relations in Los Angeles recent-! ly made a study of behavior dil% • ficulties in stepchildren and found four basic causes of mal- . adjustment : I 1. Grievance at having anyone; no matter how kind, taking his own father's or mother’s place, j 2. Resell Intent at being depen-! dent upon the stranger for sup :» Resentment at being sub ject to bis authority. 1. Grievance when not infor med beforehand that remarriage is to take plact The remedies for 1 and -I, it seems to me. are compounded of tact and sincere wish to win the chilli's affection. Especially the first grievance is one that tin new parent should expect and be prepared to overcome through months of kindly understanding. Certainly there is nothing for an adult to gel his or her feelings hurt about if a child doesn’t show immediate acceptance of a new parent. I'.ven real lather, have to win their children's at lection, .since love of his mother is. a baby's only instinctive love. Moreover, if tile new parent will bear in mind that no two children in a family are alike, that what satisfies one'? need lor loving- may not melt the defen ses of another there will lie few er maladjustments In the ease of a stepmother. for instance. i tie child may need special re assurance that the new mother hasn’t taken all the father's at lection, that lie is just as devo ted to f»is children as before his l emarringc. Another child may be partieularh in need of a wom an’s care and tenderness. The new mother need no; make a superhuman effort to treat both alike The second grievance can he handled more practically. Fran | I she had a good fire going. It was I not until she discovered that the i ashes in the fireplace were still | warm that the possibility of some lone hiding ip the next room oc curred to her. 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But just as we leant to obey laws, even while we re fuse to admit any man our mas ter, because we discover that freedom is impossible without inspect fot law, so children learn to accept their parents' judg ment anil to obey reasonable (te nia nils as then part ot building up a happy, smite family. Chil dren with no authority exerted over them are miserable Blit as soon as the child is capable of understanding he srouhl he given reasons for restrictions placed upon him. Then gradually help the child substitute self manage ment for adult management. 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