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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD. N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1037 PAGE SEVEN r 1 4 i ! 5 1 i f 1 4 t 5 THERE'S ONLY ONE By SOPHIE KEUR ' w ; w i '0 Sophia Kerr Underwood, ,.T ... WNU Service. . T - CHAPTER Vm Continued 1 i .t 'il It I ' f 1u , "All right by me, but we Can't , go any place very mart, If we take them. Rhoda's getups are too weird.", . , . , "Then we'll fo.to Lori's. . The ' food's good and they're accustomed to funnies of' every description." While" Rachel was changing her - dress she heard a wail from Pink's room! "My white beret's gone! Have you got itV , y-s - "Oh, I forgot to tell you. Genie borrowed it last night, she cam In ' here 'and grabbed it, literally. -I told her you'd not like it, but she . went right in and took it" ' ' : As Rachel ' finished her toilet, there ; was an ominous silence, then the outer door slammed and Rachel heard Pink in the hall ham mering at Genie's door. Presently i she beard the door again but she .. didn't look out. When she was ready Rachel came into the living room and a moment later Pink entered too, scarlet spots on her cheeks, her lips compressed and not wearing the white beret. "She stretched it, her head's bigger than mine," she said shortly, "I hate lending hats, they always get spoiled." Rachel said nothing. As they walked down the stairs Pink added: "You're right, Rachel, she's a lit tie grafter. I'm sorry about your dress. We won't either of us lend ' her anything again, even if she has to go out like a fan dancer." "I'm sorry about the hat," Rachel said. "She really did grab it. We had quite an argument about it." "Yes, she told me." Pink looked up and laughed. "We're a pair of nuts," she said, and the reconcili ation was complete. The dinner at Lori's was great fun, Rhoda was amazing in a red upholstery plush and earrings of three-inch . copper discs, but at Lori's this was not conspicuous. She was sweet and kind, as always, and so was Tom, and delighted to hear that Rachel had a new job. Back at the apartment Rachel was more frank with Pink about her work, there was no difficulty in that for the name of Peter Cayne meant no more to Pink than it had to Rachel six months before, and it was necessary that Pink should know where she was going and what her position there would be. Pink thought it all a great adventure and wished that the advertising business offered .equal thrills.' But at last giwii t w to her room and read letters. i -Bob's, written icflpt which was If was ail gossip, I the eerie white- if the beach in kittens of Mrs. -ereahaVthe books Bob had : read mostly .trash, he con fessed the 'progress of the carved room, the breakdown of the furnace in the Congregational church. Rachel put the letter down with relief that he hadn't asked her -again to marry him or even made love to her. She didn't want to feel any tiling more. lAnd Anne's letters were waiting. She opened them re luctantly, arranged them according to date and began to read the first one. It was not very long, Tante Helene, if seemed, had a persistent . bronchitis and Anne was busy-nursing her and running the house and property as well. Rachel could feel Anne's fatigue and her pa tience, j "The , servants have ; been here a long time and they don't want jto make the least change In their ways and I'm sure they be lieve I'm only here to get hold of Tante Helena's money.' The man on the farm is amiable because he's due' to make a new lease and he thinks I'm going to be easy. They alt have to be treated like .difficult children. Tante Helene herself is difficult enough, she lies in her huge bed swathed in woolen shawls and blankets of every color of the rain bow and her sharp little voice clacks all day long except when she is coughing or when the doctor has the thermometer under her tongue. She considers illness a cruel and unjust penance for sins she never committed. She won't have a. nurse, so Marie, her maid, and 1 wait on her. ( trying to carry out the doc tor's orders and Mario paying no attention to them or to anything but the old lady's whims. It will bo a miracle if she gets welL" ' ' Rachel felt a moment , of jMmife If Tent Helene should die and Anne came tailing back to America while she was at the Coynes', what a mess that would bet She opened the other letter in haste, it bad been written nearly a week later. And at once she breatnea more easily, for Tante Helene was better, Anne had the household more in hand, even the dreary winter rain of the valley had given way to cold but bright sunshine. As she read Rachel could see Anne gently, ex pertly managing one person after an- 1 1 Rachel Heard Pink in the Hall Hammering, at Genie's Door. other, placating but passing over no faults, running her own white line of order and system and justice through petty obstacles and slipshod customs- And for the first time she had a sense of Anne's, spirit transferred to her in her own strug gle to see her own mother. "We're alike," she thought, ' "Anne and I. we want something and we work to get it But Anne's the best, she only wants what's right. I'm not sure that what I want is right but I want it just the same." It was all right now, she could go ahead and not worry about being disloyal to Anne. Anne would un derstand, Anne would know what had pushed her on so urgently. But she wouldn't tell Anne just yet. she'd write tomorrow, before she started in at the Caynes', and say nothing about it she'd write a long letter and tell about Pink and Genie Moore and the Steele and Curt El ton. ;. Anne would like Curt Elton. It was strange, she thought, how these letters communicated the very essence of Anne, the calm ness, the steadiness, the power to resolve chaos into clarity. It was exactly what she needed. She dropped off to sleep thinking grate fully and lovingly of Anne. , The next day she went to see Terriss, who offered practical coun sel. "You've got some sort of plain dress to wear up there, I suppose, and plain clothes to take," he said. "Mrs. Cayne will go through the motions of engaging you herself, but that's all hooey. Mr. Cayne runs the house and has ever since they were married. . If she asks you for a : reference you tell her it's your first job of this kind and give her your friend Miss Matthews' name and phono number she won't call UP.;.;;- :' "But what about uniforms? Ought I to have some?" "No, the Caynes supply those. The thing is this, Miss Vincent: Mrs. Cayne is going to take you without, any questions because her husband really runs that house and he's told her that he's getting her a maid. ; See? The' servants have got to be satisfied with you, that's very important, they've got to think you one of themselves. You'll have to wear plain clothes and take plain clothes with you, and they oughtn't to be too new, either." ; , ' "I've got an old knitted suit and apjain. storm coat What about silk stockings?" "They're all right every girl in America with a nickel in her pocket wears silk stockings." He droned on and on, describing the apartment the servants, the stolen articles and how they had disappeared, detailing methods of observation, time for reports, but Rachel did not hear much of what lie said, her thoughts were racing on to her own special hopes and expec tations. At last Terriss paused in exasperation and a note of feeling raised his colorless voice. "Damn it all, Miss Vincent, the more 1 consider this the more I know I'm a sap ever to let an amateur like you go on this job. It was that fellow Cayne pounding at me, he got me to overstep my judgment." Rachel was abruptly conscious of her inattention, shocked into dis may. "Mr. Terriss, I'll try awfully hard, indeed I will." "I don't doubt that. But I do wish you weren't so green. This isn't the way I like to run my business, I tell you. Well, it's all in a lifetime, I suppose. You're to go up thoro then late tomorrow after noon. You all set for that?" "Yes, I'll go up there about four o'clock. I've a morning's work for Mr. Vinco, then I go home and pack." "Luck go with you," said Mr. Terriss, fervently but hopelessly. "We need it, you and me both." It was all unreal, what she was doing, all of her thoughts were in a fever of impatience, she had to force herself to : the routine of her preparations. She lunched with Curt and seemed to listen to his advice, but she didn't really hear much of it. She was an noyed with herself that she should be so wildly excited, and was afraid that she would reveal it, so she made a great effort to be casual. Only his last words came through to her distinctly: "When you don't knowwhat to.-say, keep still-,.' and don't forget I'll be on the first look out post, ready to come if you whis tle." , "When you don't know what to say, keep still." Rachel thought of that while she packed a shabby suit case with her shabbiest clothes, slicked down her hair, rubbed her nose shiny and wiped off her lip rouge, then dressed in a faded green knitted suit which she had meant to throw aw.iy. She had decided against wearing the spectacles Mr. Terriss hid suggested, she felt they would or.'y bother her. When she was ready she looked at herself in 'ho glass and thought she made a viry good likeness of a neat re spectable housemaid. On her way uptown her excite ment changed and cooled and, odd ly, she found herself thinking of Anne with a sense of comfort and support. No matter what happened there was Anne in the background, loving, understanding. Then she be gan to think of the woman she would see in a few moments, her own mother who had brought her into the world given her life and being, a heart to beat blood to demand its own blood kinship. And she felt an immense ( overwhelming certainty that her own mother would some how recognize this kinship and re spond to if' Perhaps not at once, perhaps only vaguely -but yet surely, unmistakably. (TO BE CONTINUED) Sweet Potatoes Staple ) Southern Product By GUY A. CARDWELL -. The sweet potato plant ia related tilrtliA Mnrnin tr Glorv. Moon Flower emd Cypress vines. It is not related ,'to the potato nor to the yam, though - often called a yam. . Tl A well-baked, disease free and ' !, J.IWI, 1V1W VMV Di yvww a , deicious. It melts in the mouth. - It satisfies hunger and at the same time - caters to the sweet tooth. .A' - " Sweet potatoes tare a cheap .and ' substantial food. One pound of sweet potatoes is said to furnish the human , body with 447 calories. Its fuel or heating1 value is 48 percent greater . than the Irish potato, which furnishes , the human body with only 302 calo , ries of - heat per pound. " But s the 1 food value of sweet potatoes ' lies largely in the carbohydrates or the Ji - starch and sugar. They contain 2X& r-rcent of carbohydrates. . Chemists of the United States De', jpartment of Agriculture have diocov xei that sweet potatoes ere a good : :r.rce of vitamines. .This ' vec'--'l,s -nvlnsas much vitamin A (. ' ' ulmte vitamin) as leafy v- 3 " t' '-m more vitamLi E ; vitamin) than mrry , As a source of vli t Juice ti rJ to i : 1 one-half that of peach or pineapple juices ' It is a fairly well known historical fart that General Francis Marion, the 'fSwamp Fox of Revolutionary fame, and his valiant men sustained life by eating sweet potatoes baked in the ashes of camp fire and served on the bark of trees. They : had them, for breakfast, dinner and supper, when they were not too busy to eat three meals- a day, and they not - only sus tained life with sweet potatoes but be came so filled with strength and cour age after ' eating 1 them, Jhat they made ; sorties from ' the Carolina swaps and made - things lively - for King George's more grossly fed men. In many of the Islands of the Paci fic, especially , in the Philipines, the sweet potato is tj principal .vege table food, at certain seasons being almost the only food available. . ' If these aborigines 'can sustain life and .maintain themselves in good physical condition on ' a sweet potato diet, think what this delightful food might mean to the average Southern family when served as a part of a h&Ianced ration. L'any people ' residing in Eastern '. Central cities and' in the titles, f e Piedmont ' and - Appalachian s are learning to prefer the 5 r j potato to the dry potato - te, but sweet potatoes rsirn in Southern l c:r-:l.--tion ' ' article of food in the rural districts, increased consumption of this home grown . vegetable in the cities and towns of the South in place of im ported foods will keep a lot of dol lars circulating locally, and this is what we need in the 9 South for the balance of trade is too largely against us at present to make for the most satisfactory economic conditions. v If we want to ;' eat our cake -and have it too, we can sell our .-No. 1 potatoes to buyers who have been successful in ,' establishing a good trade in Eastern and Central Western cities, and at the same time we could use No. 2's and Jumbos In the South, for Southern people . are well ac quainted, with sweet potatoes and know that Ny. 2's and frequently Jumbos are just as good , as No. 1 potatoes. .f !' ' -To get the best out of the crop we should endeavor to avoid the heavy losses that we have experienced in the past in trying to keep sweet po tatoes and should make use of a larger part of the crop, either to bring back dollars from beyond our borders or in supplying . this good food to Southern people in cities and towns as well as on. the farms, and the unmarketable surplus should be fed to live stock. ' Fair , Prices Promote Good Farm Practices George Bennard of Hammond, IH.. was given a jail sentence for nog lc.:j to feed lis dog for several ; Stabilizing agricultural prices at a "fair level" makes it possible for the farmer to follow a balanced cropping system that conserves the soil. There is a direct relation between the up and down price of farm com modities and the care that is given the soil, said E. Y. Floyd, of State College. When prices are ruinously low, he said, farmers tend to grow all the cash they can in an effort to wrest a living from the land. They are vir tually forced to keep every possible acre in cash crops. And under the pinch of low income, few farmers axe able to carry out god practices necessary- to enrich the soil and conserve it for future years. Thus low prices work in two ways to force a type of farming that ra pidly depletes the soil, Floyd pointed out. On the other hand, high prices in duce fanners to raise all the cash crops they can in their desire to make money while the making is good.' And farmers tend to neglect their;oil. In places, the custom of growing cash crops year after year with few soilibuuding crops in rotation or as a cover crop has so reduced the fertility of the land that it is impossible to make a decent living farming this land, he continued. The 1938 agricultural conservation program, he said, is intended to stab ilize prices at a level that will en courage farmers to carry out good soil-conserving practices and check the wasteful depletion of the land. Location of Savannah Savannah is on the Savannah riv er, which forms the dividing line between South Carolina and Georgia, and is about 100 miles north of the Florida state line. Guilt and Chance It is the inevitable end of guilt that it places its own punishment on a chance which is sure to occur. L. E. Landon. DO YOU KNOW wmJ 'hat the modern custom of placing a horse-shoe over the door for good luck, dates back to the old days when our colonial ancestors nailed up horse shoes or bung up laurel boughs in their homes as magic charms to protect them from witches. John F. Cann of Boston won a knitting contest in which nearly 100 women participated. 'P. : & & t so: n P. es PAID FOR ices lhe Tl f. outnern cotton Oil Company Hertford, N. C. m VSjeV ''r L ' 1 n -dl uocMrano SK U -few II! iit" 1S11 11. . I. 1 t f J fir. frVji 'j;! sS- " 'Of Ok :': fi ' L FARM RADIO AjA jta gjee 7Jte. AfjodeU IMat Wjtoh oh eUi-ine o Batt&uj. 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