The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-04-05
THE PANCAKE MAKER.

taurant. 1t was her duty to stand in
show window on Broadway, and
pour batter upon the griddle. Thous-
ands Of persons stopped before the
window every day, and watched Mary
as she deftly creased the. grlddle or
with a turn of her hand Topped the
pancakes over to be Drowned on the
other side. Mary had been selected
for the job because she was pretty.
Her selection proved to be profitable
Investment for her employer. Those
persons who were insensible to tile
charms Of pancakes were not insensl.
BILE to the attractions Of beauty, and so
many came in to eat the cakes and to
wish that Mary was q waitress as well
as cook.
One day, when the bubbles were ris-
Ing from the freshly poured batter, and
Mary stood waiting with her spatula
In her hand, a young man stopped be-
fore the window. Els dark eyes took
in the smoking griddle, the rounded
arm above 1t, and the white brow
which was wrinkled Iii the effort to de-
termine when the cakes were prop.
erly done brown. She looked up and
their eyes met. Then he passed on.
What dark eyes he had thought Mary.
What nice looking girl that was!
thought he. And all day long Mary
looked up from the pancakes, half ex-
pecting to see those eyes looking into
hers. Even the bubbles in tho pan
cakes seemed to take on the expression
OF his eyes and to look at her from the
griddlo with stare Of admiration. AS
for the young man-who was a clerk
ina dry goods store---a rounded arm
seemed to Declson him to come in and
eat pancakes and become saturated
with mnple sugaa.
Every morning he stopped at the
window CT tho restaurant and was
greeted with glance from pair of
bright eyes and an evidently studied
desire to be graceful in turning the
cakes. After week had passed he
left his boarding house earlier than
usual one morning and stopped at the
restaurant to get his breakfast. Mary
saw him come in. She did not turn
her head nor give any sign Of recogni.
tlon, but she listened with bent head
and attentive car for his order. If
came like this:
"Some pancakes, pleasep'
How carefully she poured out that
batch upon the griddlel With what
an anxious eye she watched the edges
harden and the centre Of the cakes be.
como perforated with holes like those
In spongel And when the cakes were
done to most delightful brown on one
side. she held each one up on her
spatula and creased tho griddle anew
before putting the cakes on the grid.
die, 80 that they should not stick to
the griddle.
In her eagerness to bake the cakes to
q turn she burned one of them, ana
so In disgust she threw the whole
batch away and began once again.
Meanwhile she stole a furtive glance at
the young man, who was drumming on
his plate with his knife and watching
admiringly the curve Of Mary's grace
ful neck and tho dainty coil Of hair on
Che back OF her head. and which Jack
wished was against his shoulder. at
last the pancakes were done to the fair
cooks liking and were placed before
Jack. He said to himself. as he cut
section Of the full moon Of buckwhcat-
swell, / never ate pancakes like
those before. They're SO light and
tlaky, and tho sirup is real true maple
sugar, and not mado of watered mo.
lasses."
Jack didn't add that the cook was
charming, but he thought It all the
sanle. The next batch Of cakes which
Mary cooked was not as we'll done as
the ones Jack was eating. 1t was per.
fectly natural that they should not be,