But Mat won't say, just keeps
showing his thumb to everybody and talking about silver linings to
every cloud. There's no use talking, some men are aggravating.
"Mandy Jutlins don't know whether to have the telephone put in or not.
She says the Lord knows she has enough children to run all her errands
and take all messages and that the two dollars a month comes in handy
for a new pair of shoes. And if it's in she says more than likely
she'll be wasting her time listening to a lot of silly gossip. Of
course that was a foolish remark for Mandy to make, seeing all her
friends have telephones. Two or three's took it personal and aren't
speaking a word to Mandy but plenty about her. One of them is supposed
to have said that it's a fact that Mandy doesn't need a telephone, that
she talks enough without it, and that in her opinion the worst kind of
a gossip is the kind that stays at home the whole enduring time, never
taking pains to see how things really happen and always knowing
everything.
"Emmy Smith doesn't know what to do with her oldest girl, Eleanor.
Eleanor just won't wash the knives and forks and spoons. She'll scrape
and scald and polish the pots and pans and does the china beautiful,
but she will leave the knives and forks and even hides them away dirty.
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