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THE KENNA RECORD.
VOL. 7.
KENNA, CHAVES COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913.
NO. 34.
SHE JUST GIGGLED
By JOHN DARLING.
Sarah Cox, farmer's daughter, had
one trait to distinguish . her. from a
score of other farmer's daughters. She
was a plain-looking girl; she worked
hard; she attended district school in
the winter; she had a rather harsh
voice and no ear for music.
Sarah had no ideals. What the fu
ture held for her she neither knew
nor seemed to care. Her one distin
guished trait was giggling. When one
comes across a girl or a woman that
titters and giggles, the inference is
that she was born to see the hrmor
ous side of things and is easy to get
along with. But Sarah Cox was neither
extra good-natured nor did she giggle
because she saw the point of the Joke.
As often as not there was no Joke. If
her mother told her to go up stairs
and make the beds or she would get
her ears cuffed Bhe giggled Just as
heartily as if Bhe had Been a United
States senator strike a banana skin
and go rolling.
- On an occasion Sarah's father was
leading a bull across the field. The
bull turned and tossed him sky high
and broke a large assortment of ribs.
Sarah was at hand and she giggled.
She rode a horse bareback for three
miles to get the doctor, and she gig
gled all the way. The doctor told her
she ought to ta ashamed of herself,
" ' and she giggled about that
There were various predictions of
what sort of Bad end Sarah Cox would
come to, but Bhe went on giggling and
beat the whole crowd to a stand-still.
She was twenty years old and had
never had a beau and didn't want one,
when a man came along selling wind
mills. Sarah was drawing water at
the well and giggling when he came
Into the yard and asked for her father.
"Out there," she answered as she
pointed to the corn field and giggled.
"Ever have a wind-mill here?"
"No."
"Anybody been along to talk to your
father about one?"
"No." (Giggle.)
"Seeing that water makes me
thirsty. D'ye mind giving me a drink?"
Sarah filled the dipper and handed
it to him with a titter for a change
of program.
"You hain't engaged to be married, I
reckon?" tentatively queried the agent
as he finished drinking and poured out
the remainder of the water.
Sarah put her finger in her month
and then removed it to giggle.
The maij walked down to the corn
field where the farmer was laying up
backaches for himself.
"Say, I want to sell you a wind
mill." "It can't be did," was' the reply.
''But it can."
"Then I'll have to be a hundred
years paying for it"
"Guess not. As your son-in-law I
can about give you one."
The farmer hoed two hills of corn
and then leaned on his hoe and said:
"That's a thing as hain't happened
yet"
"Look here, Mr. Cox," said the oth
er in a brisk way. "I'm a business
man. I'm right up and down and no
fooling time away. I've seen your
daughter."
"Wall?"
"She'd' good to look at I should say
she was a good worker."
"Yep, Sarah Is a hustler."
"And she's got a mighty taking way
of laughing. I like it. A woman that
laughs won't kick and Jaw, and tht
home will always be peaceful."
"I reckon that's so. mister." mused
the farmer. "You've been a married
man, mebbe. and are a widower now?"
"Noap! Never got married. Never
saw a woman to please me 'till I saw
your gal a few minutes ago. She Jest
fills the bill. Any objections to my be
coming your son-in-law and selling you
a wind mill at 60 per cent, below regu
lar prices?"
"Guess we'd better go up to, the
bouse and talk with ma and Sarah
about it"
BREAKS NECK SECOND TIME
Native of Chester, Pa., Has an Expe
rience That Few Men Are Like
ly to Duplicate.
Uriah Washburn, watchman of the
KeyBtone Type Foundry, is In the
Chester hospital with his life de
spaired of because ' James Wilson
slapped him on the back and broke
his neck. Once before Washburn had
his neck broken, but It wao sutured
together with silver wire.
The hoe was hung on the top rail of
the fence and the two went to the
house. Sarah met them with a giggle,
but her mother said to the husband:
"Look ere, Moses, you are not going
to buy any wind mills of this feller,
and there's no use of wasting time
over it."
"We will first talk about marriage
and then get down to wind-mills," an
swered the agent . "My name is Drew.
I own a house and lot In Ralslnvllle,
and a farm in that county. I'm a sin
gle man, good-natured and a good pro
vider, and I want to marry Sarah."
"Good Lord, but what fori" ex
claimed the mother.
"Sarah giggled.
"Because I've fell In love with her."
Sarah Uttered.
"But It's mighty sudden."
"Yes, but I'm a mighty sudden man
always was. I either make a sale
of a wind-mill within fifteen minutes
or I pass on."
Sarah giggled.
"He fcays if he and Sarah gets mar
ried I can have a wind-mill at half
price," urged the father.
"That's something of course," re
plied the mother, "but I can't under
stand why he fell In love with Sarah
like a gun going off."
"It was that giggle of hers," an
swered Mr. Drew.
Sarah's giggle at this was charming.
"Folks have always said that giggle
was a fool thing."
"Then they have been mighty wrong
about It. It's grand. It's glorious. It
beats beauty all to pieces."
Sarah gave him a grateful look and
giggled.
"Well, what do you think about It?"
asked the mother as she looked over
at the blushing girl.
"I (giggle) dunno." (Titter.)
"We kinder need a wind-mill, sua,
gested the father.
"And it's a golden chance," added
Mr. Drew. "I have never made such
an offer before, and of course cannot
do it again." y
"If Sarah would tell us what she
thinks," said the mother. Impatiently.
"I think (giggle) yes!" (Titter.)"
That settled It. They took Mr.
Drew's word for what he was, and he
did not deceive them. Three days la
ter there was a giggling, tittering mar
riage, and two weeks later that half
price wind-mill was flailing the air on
the Cox farm In a way to drive all
the crows out of the country.
To pass to the second era, it may be
said that Mr. and Mrs. Drew lived hap
pily for seven years, and then the
farmer went out of the wind-mill busi
ness. He had to. Death claimed him
for its own and It takes a very lively,
live man to sell wind mills. Sarah bad
continued to giggle and titter and she
didn't stop till the day of his death.
Then she stopped as suddenly as a
carpenter's hammer when its owner
hears the clock strike five.
You can't stop a giggler and a tlt
terer of years' standing without re
sults following. The widow turned to
poetry in a day. She had never tried
to make a rhyme in her life before,
but she tackled the Joy now by writ
ing: A weeping- wldder Is Sarah Drew,
And things ara looking- both black and
blue;
Under the sod her husband Is dead.
And ahe hopes he won't get cold In the
head.
That was the first of a series of
about a thousand "poems" Bhe pro
duced. She had one on the-doctor,
the undertaker, the pall-bearer, the
grave digger and the ministers. Then
she had one on her father, her mother
and the wind mill. Then Bhe Invented
and dedicated poems to everybody for
five miles around, and when the per
sonal field was exhausted she went
for the sun and moon and stars and
the howling gales and balmy breezes.
Very early In her poetio career the
widow Drew was called a fool and a
lunatic by moBt people that knew her,
and it was predicted that no man
would ever look at her with a view to
marriage. No man in his sober senses,
they argued, could abide such a wife.
Sarah knew what the general feeling
was, and she took advantage of Um oo
caslon to write:
When Wilson slapped him on the
back Washburn fell to the ground
unconscious. At the hospital it was
found that he was paralysed. An X
ray picture was taken and then It was
learned that his neck had been broken
at some previous time. Five years
ago he fell from an eight-story build
ing. The broken portions of the ver
tebrae were brought together at the
German hospital in Baltimore, and his
neck held together by a slender coi
of silver.
The surgeon will operate on Wash-
They say I'm a fool because I do write
Moat beautiful versea by day and by
night;
They lay I must live single because I'm
a poet.
But I'd like to know How In Bam Hill
they know ltl
They didn't know it They weren't
even good at guessing. After about
two years of widowhood and poetry,
along came a cattle-raiser worth about
thirty thousand dollars and read one
of her poems at the village Inn, and
half an hour later he knocked at the
door.
"I've taken a solemn vow to marry
a poetess or no one. Will you be
mine?"
And five minutes later she answered
him with:
Oh Q. B. Smith would marry me.
And a fine looking man la that O. B.J
I've aald him yea, and we shall wed.
And happy be 'till both are dead.
(Copyright. IMS. by the McClure Navi
. paper Syndicate.) ,
HAD LEARNED THE LESSON
Little Glory 8aw at Once the Value of
Tact, and Was Quick to
Use It .
"Children," said Mr. TImklns, who
had been suddenly moved to deliver a
little sermon, as he swallowed his sec
ond egg at breakfast, "whenever you
hear anybody say anything mean or
unpleasant, act as though you hadn't
heard it Talk about something else
and pretend you didn't hear. That's
what we call tact" '
Then Mr. TImklns took the 8:13
train to the city. When he got back
In the latter part of the afternoon he
observed that somebody had strewn
his favorite golf clubs and all his golf
balls over the front yard. Summoning
his six-year-old daughter Glory, he
said sternly:
"Glory, did you get all dad's golf
things out and put them out here
where anybody could steal them?"
"Dad," replied Glory with perfect
composure, "isn't it too bad our ice
cream freezer's out of order 'cause
Mary can't make any Ice cream? But
Mary's gone to the store to get some
strawberries "
"Glory, did you dig up all this turf
knocking those balls around?"
"And Uncle Randolph came and
took mother for a ride in his auto,"
continued the six-year-old. "When are
y.-e going to have an auto, dad?''
"But, Glory," said Mr. TImklns, "I
want to know about these golf clubs.
Did you strew them around here?
Why don't you answer?"
"Well, yes I did," said the young
person, "but I was trying to change the
subject, 'cause I didn't want you to
know that I beard something mean
and unpleasant" New York Evening
Post
Why Married Men Live Long.
The reason a married man lives
longer than a single man is because
the single man leads a selfish exist
ence. A married man can double hie
pleasure. Any time he has a streak
of good luck it tickles him all over,
but it makes him feel twice as good
when he tells his wife about It. And
she is so pleased and proud that he
feels like a two-year-old. There isn't
a chance in the world of a man's ar
teries hardening or his heart weaken
ing when he can get a million dollars'
worth of pleasure out of making his
wife happy. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Earliest Hunger Strike.
What was the date of tho earliest
hunger strike? In the second or third
century of this era a Greek student
wrote: "Theon to his father Theon,
greeting. It was a flue thing of you
not to take me with you to Alexan
dria. . . . Send me a lyre, I implore
you. If you don't, I won't eat; I won't
drink. There now!"
Father's Inconsistency,
Father will splash around In two
feet of water and ruin a suit of clothes
to save articles in a stranger's house
during a SO-cent fire. But If the pan
under the ice-box flows over he will
go upstairs and wake mother so she
can come down and mop It up.
burn again in the hope of sewing his
neck onto his spine for the second
time Cheater (Pa.) Dispatch to the
New York Sun.
Bible Workers Disliked.
In Central America, Honduras, Nlca.
ragua and Costa Rica in particular,
the feeling among the common people
is that Bibie work is only a start to
lead up to political occupation. Some
times even squads of men are formed
to cbaaj Bible agents out of the coun
ts .
HINTS "WORTH WHILE
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TO SAVE TIME AND WORK IN
. THE HOUSEHOUp.
Renovating of Old Wooden Floors a
Matter of Easy Arrangement
Treatment to Get Best Results
From the Oil Lamps.
Old wooden floors are a woman's
trial. They can be improved this way:
Dissolve one pound of glue in two
gallons of water. Stir into this
enough fine sawdust to make a thick
paste and fill the cracks with it. They
paste may be colored to match the
wood.
Or you can try this: Fill the
cracks with putty. One can make
the putty by mixing whiting and linseed-oil
together and kneading it un
til the paste is smooth. The putty
may also be colored to match the
wood.
Some persons soak finely shredded
paper in water and boll it until it
Is soft pulp, and to every two gallons
add one pound of glue. The cracks
must be filled solid and even with the
boards. Then stain or paint
Soak lamp wicks in vinegar, then
dry them thoroughly to keep the lamp
from smoking.
-Alcohol will take out candle grease.
Hold a hot flatlron a few minutes
above a white spot on furniture. It
will soon disappear.
Discoloration on china and baking
dishes and custard cups can be re
moved with whiting.
Brooms will last longer If dipped
occasionally in boiling suds.
Always wash veal and mutton in
weak vinegar before cooking.
A coating of good machine oil
rubbed over the flatirons and the
bright metal parts of the sewing ma
chine will keep the rust away. :
Chores must be- done, but a boy
and girl must .have time for some
fun "if they are to be happy.
Never take a stepor climb a stair
that is not absolutely necessary. We
waste much strength in useless pot
tering. It is not the woman who works the
hardest who prospers most, but the
one who works to the best advantage.
When farm folk take a vacation
they should not go to another place
in the country but to the city. People
from the city go to the country for a
change of scene, which means rest.
Farm folks ought to go to the city
for the same reason.
Disease often lurks In . the sink or
the bath tub pipes. Hot water and
lye, carbollo acid or ammonia will
keep them clean.
Muriatic acid will remove dark
stains on tho porcelain sing or bath
tub.
Desirable Floor Finish.
When the house is having its
brlghtening-up, the floors need their
share ut attention. A floor that Is
varnished and rubbed Is satisfactory
both in wear and appearance. It Is
durable and clean, and if wear shows
in the moBt used spots, a little more
varnish can easily be added. The shiny
finish of unrubbed varnish Is not de
sirable, but the rubbing down Is easily
done. Pulverized pumice stone with
crude oil or water Is used, applied
with a bit of heavy felt or burlap.
Only a little rubbing is necessary to
destroy tha high gloss; but mora rub
bing will produce a rich, smooth, vel
vety finish.
Ham 8andwlche.
Rub a half cupful of butter to a
cream and add to It a teaspoonful of
mustard, the yolk of an egg, a table
spoonful of salt and red or white pep
per to season. Stir smooth, then
add as much chopped boiled ham as
will make it of the right consistency
for spreading. Cut bread in thin,
even slices, trimming off the crusts or
not, as preferred; then spread with
the mixture. The bread will not need
to be buttered.
Steamed Cherry Pudding.
Beat three eggs until light, and add
one pint of sweet milk, mix and sift
three and one-half cups of sifted flour
with three teaspoons of baking pow
der and one-half teaspoon of salt.
Make a well in the flour, slowly pour
In the liquid and beat to a smooth
batter. Add two tablespoons of melt
ed butter and two cups of stoned
cherries well drained and dredged with
flour, turn into a buttered mold, cover
closely and steam for three hours.
Serve with cherry sauce.
TO SAVE POLISHED SURFACli
Homemade Plateaus May Be Fash
ioned at Home by Any One With
a Little Ingenuity.
Very attractive disks for use under
a vase of flowers, a pitcher of Ice
water or the punch bowl can be made
at home at trilling expense by any
woman who is in the least ingenious.
These glass plateaus will be found
especially useful in hot weather, as
they will prevent moisture from Boll
lug any polished Burface.
Have a piece of heavy glasB cut in
the shape of a hexagon, each side
measuring about five inches. Get a
email piece of cretonne having a fig
ure about tho same size. Lay the
glass over It and tack In place by a
small amount of glue along the edge.
Bind the edge with gilt gimp about
an inch wide, by sewing lightly at
each corner it will stay In place. The
cost of materials Is as follows: One
yard gimp, 25 cents; one-half yard of
cretonne, 15 cents. The price of the
glass varies according to thickness.
HELPS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Some Few Small Things That Will
Repay the Time and Trouble
They Call For.-
A small piece of butter put into
rice when cooking prevents it boiling
over and Improves the flavor.
If cloth that is likely to fade is
soaked for some time In strong salt
water before going Into the wash tub,
the colors will be much mere lasting.
If a sprig of parsley dipped in
vinegar be eaten after an onion, no
unpleasant odor from the breath can
be detected. Try this, you who are
fond of this healthful but odorous
vegetable.
To prevent black specks from form
ing on doughnuts, drop a few slices
of raw potato Into the lard when fry
ing the cakes. The potato also puri
fies the lard, removing any touch of
rancidity.
Batter Pudding.
Four eggs, three cups and three
fourths of flour, one pint of milk, one
half a teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon
of melter butter, two heaping tea
spoons of baking powder, one pint to
one quart of fresh fruit or one-half a
pound of dried fruit. If dried fruitn
are used they should first be stewed
and allowed to cool before being used
In the pudding, the Juice being first
drained away. Beat the whites and
yolks of eggs separately, add the milk,
then flour, and beat together, the flour
and salt sifted together, the melted
butter, and last the baking powder.
Dredge the fruit with flour, add to the
pudding, and pour into a greased pud
ding mold. Cover tightly, put in boil
ing water, and boil continuously for
three or four hours. When the wa
ter bolls away always replenish with
boiling water. Serve with hard sauce
or cream and sugar.
Flowers on Top,
A good plan for the concealment of
the unsightly garbage can is to have
built two stunds to be placed on
either side of the kitchen porch steps
large flower pots with plants being
placed on top. The stands should be
built Just large enough to contain the
can. which Is placed on a shell that
swings out when the door at the side
is opened. Holes for ventilation can
be made in the stand, keeping the can
as thoroughly sanitary as when ex
posed. Use the other stand for ashes,
etc., or have shelves within for the
reception of groceries or milk, if the
door is fitted with lock and key.
Good Housekeeping.
Saves Saucepans.
To save iron saucepans, turn each
one up on the kitchen range once a
week and give the outside a coating of
blacklead. This will not only make
the saucepan last longer and add to
their appearance, but It will also pre
vent anything cooked in them from ad
hering to the saucepans.
Chicken Truffles.
Chop the raw meat of a four-pound
chicken very fine and add four well
beaten eggs, one at a tlnu, with a
thlid of a pint thick cream, and salt
and pepper to taste. Cook in but
leied tlmbale molds, garnished with
truffles and set in a pan of hot wa
ter in a slow oven. Cover with but
tled paper. Hake 30 minutes. Serve
with this sauce: Two tablespoons each
nutter r.nd flour and one cup chicken
stock or milk turned on to the beat
en yolkt of three eggs.