Still another interior was of her kitchen where she busily carried
on her fruit-canning activities. Pots boiled on the stove and glass
jars were filled with her product. One of the pots, Merton noticed,
the largest, had a tightly closed top from which a slender tube of
copper went across one corner of the little room to where it coiled
in a bucket filled with water, whence it discharged its contents
into bottles.
This, it seemed, was his mother's improved grape juice, a cooling
drink to tempt the jaded palates of the city folks up at the big
hotel.
The laboratory of the young inventor was abundantly filmed while the
earnest country boy dreamed hopefully above his drawings or tinkered
at metal devices on the work-bench. The kitchen in which his mother
toiled was repeatedly shot, including close-ups of the old mother's
ingenious contrivances--especially of the closed boiler with its
coil of copper tubing--by which she was helping to save the humble
home.
And a scene in the neat living room with its old-fashioned furniture
made it all too clear that every effort would be required to save
the little home.
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