Only the most jaded appetite could linger without sharp impingements before these condensations and transformations of the kindly fruits of the earth.
In Mrs.Owen's corps of assistants we recognize six young women from Elizabeth House--for since the first of July Elizabeth House has been constantly represented on Waupegan, girls coming and going in sixes for a fortnight at the farm.

Mrs.Owen had not only added bedrooms to the rambling old farmhouse to accommodate these visitors, but she had, when necessary, personally arranged with their employers for their vacations.
On the face of it, the use of her farm as a summer annex to the working girls' boarding-house in town was merely the whim of a kind-hearted old woman with her own peculiar notions of self-indulgence.

A cynical member of the summer colony remarked at the Casino that Mrs.Owen, with characteristic thrift, was inveigling shop-girls to her farm and then putting them to work in her kitchen.

Mrs.Owen's real purpose was the study of the girls in Elizabeth House with a view to determining their needs and aptitude: she was as interested in the woman of forty permanently planted behind a counter as in the gayest eighteen-year-old stenographer.

An expert had built for her that spring a model plant for poultry raising, an industry of which she confessed her own ignorance, and she found in her battery of incubators the greatest delight.
"When a woman has spent twenty years behind a counter, Sylvia, or working a typewriter, she hasn't much ahead of her.