Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-11-05

What would you Ike z
"lf I could only make such bread as
you used to have at your house II was
the very poetry Of food Mine is sour,
or IL won't rise, or something is the matter
with it half the time, 30 that 10 isn't fit to
eat"
"Bslle,p said I, profoundly, haven't
you learned from Tyndall and Huxley,
and Maria Mitchell, and the Popular
Science Monthly that making break is q
chemical process, and that every chemical
process is governed by certain fixed, un-
changeablo laws2"
Belle looked a little bcwilercd; then
smiling archly said
81 haven't devoted much time to chem
istry for the last ten years"
"Yes, that's the trouble" said I ut /
hasn't bocn chemistry, but something else
beginning with G viz chance Now, given
your Ingredients combined in a certain
manner, aud as an abolute result your bread
il Just as sure to rise as the sun is to rise
in the east You can't keep il down, un-
less you put a millstono on IT, suppose,
Belle, you have wasted some food in your
experiments ~
"Somei if you could see the bread and
pics and cake | have thrown away you
would be Mortified. | sometimes think we
shall come to want as punishment"
"Well, We won't waste any more. In
six lessons you can learn to mako as good
bread as anybody, or you are not the
brigh, woman think you are. So this
week We will make bread every day. or
course, we cannot eat it all, but what we
don't want we will give to the poor"
And so every day / sat by the table and
gave Belle instructions, while the pretty
hands, which even hard work coull not de-.
face. nodded the loavcs which came out Of
the oven snowy within, delicate brown
without,-the sweet and odorous staff
Of life Saturday left her to her own
devices, and don't believe she blushed
more when Harry proposed TO her than
when he gave her that highest praise a man
can offer" this is Just as good as my
Mothers Poor Harry what digestion
be must have had to begin with, and what
a Jetc noir my mothers bread is to
many young housekeopcr
50 here was one great trouble disposed
Of Like many other troubles in life, It
needed only to be grappled with and it dis
appeared.
But how, ia the meantime. did it fare
with the order Of the house?
Disorder is chronic trouble and, like
many other chronic troubles sometimes
needs a sharp Alternative to break it up
Thursday afternoon | saw something il
the parIor which MAIDEN sit down and think
little. The result was a note, thus:
DEAR HARRY viii you come down t.
the house ns soonas you can conveniently II
great haste, KITTY"
Down came Harry at a pace like th
; lope Of California horse Breathless h,
rushed in.
ais Belle sick2p
"No," | replied but come into the
paror a moment
Now that he was here, confess | was {
little afraid Of the result. Men have 5,
much amour propre, and do so hate to b
made ridiculous, that | felt as if ha'
, drawn the elephant in a rattle and didn'
know what to do with it.
Harry" said |, severely, "you remem
ber our compact, and the duty Of parents
= set good example2"
/ could see a glimmer of suspicion in hi
face Then | made desperate plunge.
"Look over on the sofa. | ouly sent 70
a = you to hang up your oyercoat.'
i Pause, awful to me, while Harry vibrate
j. between anger and merrimont. FINAL,
good fellow that he was, he sat back in h
}, chair and laughed heartily.
y Kitty, III pay you for this, if liv
The idea of getting man home from h
C office to hang up his overcoat What wi
: you bet that you catch me again?'
Is Bet You are demoralizing | hay
; lived in New York, and seen Jerome Park
: | have been in Saratoga, and keard abol
the races, but | have never made n be
: However, Just to make up with yol
G Harry, III bet the price of that new Chin
. set which Belle looked at so longingly tn
o other day"
Very well, said Harry; but you st
!, if she gets it ~
u After this il was a source Of much silel
amusement to Belle and myself to 5,
y Harry every morning, sauutering careless
o., around the room, as if he had no obje
II whatever, but slyly looking out of Il
1' corners Of his eyes 10 see if anything Of h
s. was astray, and then pounclng upon the o
ie Tending article like the eagle upon his pre-
y lost my bet.
y And now descend we at one fell swoo
from esthetics to-potatoes.
II Perhaps you know very little about thei
ne except iu their daintincss You may ha
Is driven out from your hotel this SUNNI
y aud returned with q cornucopia of pot
III toes a Ia Saratoga" and entertained XII
o. Of dim fancy, if you have thought about
y at all, that they grow in some such my
=. terious way, but the original article is
more like these crisp, brown, brittle bits
10 delciousness, than the original "What
lu IT. is like civilized, cultivated ma
l. No; the original potatoe is dirty, ug
10 tuber, with its mother earth cinging close
around it, and needs divers and sundry o
y erations before it can be presented to 20
OF artistic eyes.
ct We had made out a regular bill Of fai
huu on tulh Dlll uguTeu lhe uVilVlous VsN
lent aforesaid twice a day-breakfast q
DC dinner SO fourteen times a week BE
oi was in the habit of disappearing in
m nethermost regions with a little pan, viii
n she filed with the ugly, dirty things, n
ng then subjected them to the wearisome p
N' paratory processes.
Now, New England housekeeper is
is. labor-saying institution so, one day, to
oi basket aud disappeared. When
turned with it full, Belle looked up agha
as Z" My goodness are we going to have
on regiment for dinner2" said she.
~ mo" replied, "this is for the wee
One journey for fourteen"
TX Bellies eyes sparkled with new thoug
ru Once plant the germ of forethought ia
les womans mind, and it will blossom out il
nu thousand unexpected ways.
But there is one thing in housekeop
ne before which the most New England-l
oh faculty must stand abashed, there is
/" laying that spectre" who is continue
ry' asking for clean dishes"
The gods on Olympus, it is said,
'S' aside their goblets and take fresh ones ev,
time but poor mortals cannot do that, 4
oh' so comes the inevitable soap and wal
rs But one can be helped through the proc'
and so ono day | walked out TO the shop
use a l,nl oc half ,uav Itoneiar oarpaptar d