"Let us have just a week to spend this money and to make up the sheets
and pillow cases and curtains and you can tell Mr. Watkins to send out
the women," Helen announced triumphantly to Delia.
"I'm going to spend the week with Margaret so I can come over with her
every day and help," returned smiling Delia.
"Then we shan't need a whole week. When you go home to-night please
ask your father to be making his selection--four mothers with two
children apiece. You and Tom can escort them out on the Tuesday after
Fourth of July."
CHAPTER VI
FURNITURE MAKING
It did not take the women long to adjust themselves to life at Rose
House, and as for the children, they loved it from the first. It was a
great international gathering that was sheltered on the old farm. Mrs.
Schuler was German; Moya, Irish. Mrs. Peterson, a Swede, occupied the
rooster room with her baby and her flaxen-haired daughter of three;
Mrs. Paterno, an Italian, found good pasturage among the cows of the
violet room for her black-eyed boys of two and four; Mrs. Tsanoff, a
Bulgarian, told the Matron that her twin girl babies were too young to
pay attention to the kittens on the curtains of the yellow room; while
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