The Green Door by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

However, so many of our young women become betrothed in the spring, and wedded in the autumn, that the bees flourish in the hottest aftemoons and evenings of midsummer.įor instance, Brama Lincoln White was engaged to William French, from Somerset, George Henry French's son, the first Sunday in July, and the very next week her mother, Mrs. It is easier, too, as well as pleasanter, to slip over the long miles between some of our farm.houses in a sleigh if it is only a lover and his lass, or a wood.sled if a party of neighbors or a whole family. In the winter there are longer evenings for merriment after the task of needlework is finished and the young men arrive there are better opportunities for roasted ap.ples, and chestnuts and flip, also for social games. On general principles it seems as if the winter might be more favorable to their gay complexities of bloom.

One also wonders if quilts, like flowers, have their seasons of fuller production. One thinks after a week fairly swarming with quilting bees, 'Now every housewife in the place must be well supplied there will be no need to make more quilts for six months at least.' Then, the next moming a nice little becurled girl in a clean pinafore knocks at the door and repeats demurely her nned lesson: 'Mother sends her compliments, and would be happy to have you come to her quilting bee this aftemoon.' One sometimes wonders whether it will ever be possible in our village to attain absolute rest and completion with regard to quilts. Mary Freeman A Quilting Bee in our Village

The Green Door by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman