A COMPLETE CHANGE

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 61

A COMPLETE CHANGE

Mrs. Emberson did all the cooking, washing, menreTing, and other housework for her family of five. Among; her other duties was the making and baking of five' loaves of bread three times a week, for Mr. Embersom and the growing children had hearty appetites. At last Mrs. Emberson decided she must have' a. vacation.

‘I feel/ she told her husband, ‘ that if I had to stand up to that bread-board and make one more batch of bread I should drop dead. I’ve got to have a change.’ „ . - Mr. Emberson was more than willing. . He had often urged her to take a rest. It was decided that she should pack up that very day and go to visit her younger sister in Kansas. ,/■"■ ■////•:■: •■■■ * * : * v;'-: * -• * ‘ Now, ■ Laura/ said Mrs. Emberson/ as soon as she had got into a loose house dress and dropped into an easy chair, ‘ I’ve come to Test and visit. r I’m sick and tired of housework/ and I don’t want even to hear it mentioned.’ ‘ . " ■ ‘All right/ said Laura, laughing, ‘you can depend on me. I’ve always wanted' you to rest and let somebody else take the work and worry for a little while.’ At dinner the second day Mrs. Emberson said to her brother-in-law, ‘ John, do you like baker’s bread V No/ confessed John, ‘we don’t any of us like it, but Laura has so much to do that I insist on buying the bread.’ ’ ' . // ‘ You bring home some yeast this evening/ said Mrs. Emberson, ‘ and I’ll make you some home-made bread.’ Two weeks later, when Mrs, Emberson returned home, her husband was delighted to see how fresh and rested she looked. Nevertheless, he tried to speak severely : ‘ Now see here, Martha, I thought you went for a rest and change. Laura wrote that you had been baking bread for them ever since you ’got there. ■ I’d like to know what change there was in that.’ * Oh/ and Mrs. Emberson laughed happily, ‘it was a change of bread-boards!’