Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-24

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must spend three hours or more in boiling,
baking and stewing before there Is any
| thing afit to eat.n In vain Mrs. o. begs her
not to make fuss. Her reputation as
cook is at stake, and cannot be sacrlnced
even at the solicitations of a friend.
| And now the duty of entertaining the
company devolves upon Mr.. S., but 1t can
not be truthfully said that he is equal to ITS
! performance. He can talk with MIR. y.
| about the crops and the markets, but can
not handle domestic economy and other
| subjects of interest to Mrs. 0. So she
knits or sews, and listens when she feels
| disposed.
At last the event of the day is at hand.
Dinner is announced. In sober expectancy
the company march out to the table.
All, We gods here are sights to tempt an
anchorite, or hygienic philosopher! 10
enumerate all the dishes on that table
would take column, and then something
| savory would be left out. But for the
comfort of hungry boarders, and for the
solace Of doctors who begin TO fear that
people are learning to live without pills, We
Will name few.
There are mashed potatoes, garnished
with Jumps of butter and clouds of black
pepper There is squash, stewed corn,
and cabbage. There are baked ribs stuff
ed with sausage, sliced smoked beef and
"head cheese There are warm biscuit
and honey and jelly; picked "mangoes."
cucumbers and peaches. The very table
would groan if it could, and the visitors
would groan if they dared before the din
ner is done. If one were allowed to take
his choice. if he were asked. RIB, sausage,
beef, or head cheese?" in true waiter style
it would not be so bad. But no, he must
take and eat a generous portion OF every
dish, else he shows want of confidence In
the skill of the cook. His plate is not
only heaped with meats, potatoes, and
squash till there is not vacant corner, but
it is surrounded with little dishes of stew
ed corn, cabbage, jelly, etc., until, when
his coffee cup arrives, there is no room to
lay down 80 much as his knife. On top of
the dinner, with perhaps the plates re-
moved, comes the dessert, two kinds Of pie
and pudding.
1t is wonder that one of them is able
to leave tie table, but at last they manage
to stagger away and endeaver to sit down
comfortably in the parlor.
IT'S we'll that no AFTER dinner speeches
are expected. The brain OF a Webster could
not work after that meal. But the discus
sion of Sally Bangs new beau or the short
comings of the school teacher is not very
severe mental strain. Scarcely have their
buttons ceased to be in jeopardy, when in
came heaping plates Of cracked walnuts,
and, perhaps, if the temperance people
pitcher of cider. This helps in dissecting
the minister and the deacons.
AS the empty shells are taken out there
harms fo ba hard fha clatfor 0f diGhAs
upon the dining-room table again. The
visitors start up in alarm, and say they
must be going But they are forbidden to
think of going without their tea.
"But amt the least bit hungry!" says
Mrs. O.
We've been eating ever since We been
here" says Mr.. O..
"Oh, well, you can drink cup of tea.
1t will be ready in a few minutes, and it's
early yet"
There is nothing to do but stay, TO 60
out in that dining room again and face
that table loaded now with FIVE or six kinds
of cake, two or three kinds of preserves,
with more pickles and cheese and honey
and biscuit
This meal comes to an end sooner than
the other, in spite of Mrs. S. g entreatles
to "tske hold and eat," and then the visit
ors declare they must be going. The wraps
are brought out, the bundling-up process
Is repeated, while the women keep reiter-
ating score of times at least, "Now, come
again" Eyes, will, but now you come
and see me"
Then the bells come merrily jingling up
to the door, and the two huge, almost imam
innate bodies, far more swollen and I'M
bendable than when they came, are whisked
of homeward to digest their enormous
meals, and reflect over the valuable inform
alton they have received.-Phren0logi
Journal.