| Show a charter was Edwards Childs Leola My mother member of the Bonne Foi Club when she moved back to Gunnison after she and my father Clinton Moroni Edwards left Washington where he received his law degree and he came back home to set uplaw practice And so the Bonne one of the town most number membership minimum to kept clubs prestigious Foi became and rarely having to replace anyone because it seemed in those days people stayed put And while the women were sewing the hostess spent most of her time in the kitchen where The Trays those large black oval-shaped mysterious things spread over the all sink and Once that were the room even the inwhile kept on the in the black table the bag were cupboards stove would get home from school just in time to see the goodies placed on The Trays This was no sloppy quick thrown-together repast This was something which was plammed for months in advance even though the hostess would this is somethingjustremember to make were one instance small sandwiches to be cut always tell the ladies threw together off She when my mother was Oh going from bread from which the crusts special-ordered loaf of sand wich bread from ElmerMarket which had to be from the Wonder Bread man When the loaf came ordered it was the Wonder wrong Bread kind man--there Fortunately for was of grace one day Elmer--and the before club day and the next day the square loaf came But for that day Elmer and Wonder Bread were not highly regarded our home ments had because to be it just donremember was soon right club day to be placed that what was and the on The carried refresh- Trays to the ladies on The Trays wascompetitive thing among the members or that whoever had club the next time tried to outdo the last one But the refreshments at Bonne Foi Club were important and The Trays were an indispensible After part club of it was over The 87 Trays disappeared one in just |
