How exciting to have here with us today Ruth Fox, the heroine
from Groom by Design written by Christine
Johnson, a July 2014 release from Love Inspired Historical Romance .
1. Ruth, tell me the most interesting thing
about you.
Oh dear,
I’m not terribly interesting—just a small town girl. I do enjoy creating
beautiful dresses, though, and I hope one day to make them for the ladies in
town.
2. What do you do for fun?
I do enjoy
the moving picture show from time to time. My younger sisters adore Rudolph
Valentino, but I prefer Douglas Fairbanks.
3. What do you put off doing because you dread
it?
Talking to
potential customers for the family’s dress shop. Daddy is so good at speaking
to people, but I didn’t inherit that talent. Now that he’s no longer able to
work in the shop, I have to work with customers. Some are perfectly cordial,
but others are so persnickety that I dread dealing with them. With orders
dwindling, I really ought to drum up more business, but the thought of speaking
in front of a group makes me nauseous.
4. What are you afraid of most in life?
Oh dear.
You do ask rather probing questions, don’t you? I suppose it’s the same as
everyone else—getting rejected by someone you care for.
5. What do you want out of life?
I would dearly love to have a
family, but that isn’t going to happen. My sisters inherited all the beauty and
intelligence. They have no difficulty speaking with gentlemen, whereas I can’t
seem to find a thing to say. And then there is the problem of my weak eyesight.
I have to wear glasses, and that is not at all appealing to gentlemen.
6. What is the most important thing to you?
Family. I
would do anything for Mother and Daddy and my sisters.
7. If you could change one thing about yourself,
what would it be?
This sounds
terribly vain, and is, of course, completely impossible, but I would dearly
love to see clearly.
8. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why
that pet?
No. None of
us have a pet now. When I was little, we had a puppy named Spark, but he ran
off and fell through the ice in the river and drowned. All of us girls were so
heartbroken that Mother put her foot down and said we couldn’t have any more
pets.
9. Can you tell us a
little interesting tidbit about the time period you live in?
I am amazed
by all the new products every time I go to the grocer. Why, you can buy factory-made
bread that’s more light and airy than that from the bakery. It’s called Wonder
bread. They now make breakfast cereals, like Bran Flakes, and all manner of
candy bars, like Baby Ruth (which was named for President Cleveland’s daughter),
Milky Way and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. There seems to be something new all
the time.
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