Glenloch Girls

ng on the table with a wooden spoon, which seemed the most app

roadly at the sight of six cooks in caps and aprons. This was the first working meeting of the club, and as the gi

forehand and bring the materials for making them. As this is the first meeting, Mrs. Ellsworth is going to let us use her materials, and she thinks that we'd better get up a simple supper for

longed to tickle her or rumple her hair, two things that the neat Dorothy loathed. As she couldn't she on

tharine; "you're not

rlo

paper and draw for them," said Dorothy, "and no matte

ingly. "I should probably have let them spend th

of paper and put them in the hat which Betty brought her. Then with a low bow she pre

but this is just as bad," she added, as the slip marked "dessert" fell to her lot. Betty found hers

ovided for,'" cried Charlotte, as she triumphantly flourished the "baked a

who baked the apples might even up things by building the fire. She sai

arlotte, as she made up a face. "I don't know anything

thrusting an open cookbook under Charlotte'

while Charlotte, left to her own resources, proceeded to build the fire. First she read wit

ured, "but where's the oven draught? Betty, do t

ne or perish in the attempt," she said to herself with noble courage, and proceeding on the principle that she ought to change the existing condition of everything, she turned the one in the stovepipe and speedily forgot all about it. Then she put in a layer of twisted papers, laid the kindlings artistically, with air-sp

of gold through the west window, glorifying everything it touched. Charlotte, feeling extreme

niffed the air. "I smell smoke. Oh, Ch

he covers in great volume. Clouds of smoke forc

Betty, whom the stinging

t. The result was disastrous, for the smoke rolled out with still greater violence, only to be met and beaten b

s a damper in the stovepipe," she choked, covering her streaming eyes wit

asped Ch

rlotte reached for the damper, Betty groped her way to

ound, while as if by magic the clouds of smoke dimin

said Charlotte grimly. "

to be sure to remember that that damper in the pipe

though somewhat humbled air. Then after letting it burn up a lit

hot," said Dorothy, emerging from her cook-book. "That wi

udding that sounds perfectly fascinating, and the cooking c

e and a cake with caramel filling," wailed Ka

r air which she so often affected, "don't try anyt

even breathe hard, girls, for ten minutes, and don't walk so heavily," she said as she carried her cake pan across the

said Betty, who having nothing to do for the momen

ation, started guiltily, and the oven door slipping from her

I don't see how it can fall, though, till it has begun to rise," she added hop

l you, Kit?" asked Charlotte, who had produced a small book from som

hrug of the shoulders gave her up as a hopeless case. Dorothy and Charlotte were apt to turn their s

atharine took her cake, golden-brown and deliciously light, from the oven

all that an artistic piece of cookery; they're not all mushy and cooked

t hadn't been for Katharine you wouldn't ha

arlotte sweetly. "Perhaps your choc

th a sigh of relief,

finishing tou

o the door, girls," said Betty, poking her head into the

e dearest little old woman at the door, girls," she said, "with soap and pins and needles to sell, and I'm so sorry for her because she says

would be enough to get the old woman her supper, when help came from an unexpected quarter. Charlotte, who at that moment was so completely a Knight of the Round Table that she could hardly refrain from using the langua

uth; "her clothes are neat, and she looks a

helpful to some one besides ourselves," said

olly?" she asked coaxingly. Dorothy frowned. "I don't approve of it a bit," she said, "but as you all seem to be against me I won't say anything more about it." Ruth walked slowly towar

ation with her was impossible, for she was very deaf and mumbled so in talking that it was hard to understand her. The girls couldn't help liking the rosy face with its crown of snowy hair under a black veil, and they

had daughters of her own,"

rawing from her bag a neatly folded handkerchief wiped her eyes. Then she settled her spectacles on her nose and looked up at Ruth with a b

at the table with pardonable pride. "My, but I'm h

followed-Oh, goose! Idiot! What do you think I did?" she wailed. "I wanted to b

help laughing, in spite of the fact that the popovers

them," laughed Charlotte; "now just look at my

woman looked around the table as th

ighest possible compliment to her hostesses by devouring with great eagerness everything that was offered to her. After she had been

hasn't had a square meal in y

g she has on her plate," said Dorothy anxiously, "and that's her s

which ail the girls recognized. Then the old woman, very red in the face and v

against the door. "Guard the other door, girls, and some one help me

fe, threw back his head and laughed until he choked, and gre

last, "that's done me

a little mor

the girls went off into shrieks of merriment. Even Dorothy, who was really angry, couldn't wholly resist the fun of the situation, but sh

eat solemnity. "They will all be glad to know that you were so kind to a poor old wom

. Do let him go, Doll

that Frank and Bert a

field an

Joe quickly, and then groane

d to know," answered Charlot

Now, ladies, with your kind permission I'll go, leaving yo

es, and a cake of soap. Then, seeing that the girls at the other door had relaxed t

ed as she heard it. "Why didn't you keep him, girls? I wa

ed Ruth. "Besides, I want to taste my pudding and Ka

club helpful to some one else," observed Charlotte pensively, as they finished w