The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-10-10
COOK AND COUNTESS.
Patty's Complete Success In Both
Capacities.

dtly coMsllp, Inc only daughter OIL
Rev. Peter Cowslip, vicar of Nudes.
northumberland, was pretty girl.
SO pretty that she might have
actually aspired, though she hadn't q
penny in the world, to marrying q
fashionable curate. But though PATTY
Z" was penniless, she was ambitious. and
: Frt 1natn the slightest idea Of marry.
JIM the most fashionable Of curates.
II is not necessary to describe what
Patty was like. Rather above than
below the ordinary height, as novel.
lists say, rich chestnut hair with q
giintsof gold IN it, an excellent figure,
small ears, brown eyes with dark eye
brows and lashes, pearly teeth set In
The rosy frame OF a pair Of lips arched
like Cupid's bow, round and dimpled
chin. swan-like neck BAIL We
have all once in our lives met some.
ss5s esal,Eils charming as Miss Patty Cow.
i slips but as a rule the experience has
not been repeated. We must not for.
get, though, that Miss Patty's arms
and hands were her strong point.
Queen might have envied them, fol
they were absolutely perfect.
Nfss Patty Cowslfp had a decent cd
hcation, but beyond the annual sub
---sldF-ef ten pounds year, which tht
- paflsh paid her4for playing the organ,
she hadn't penny in the world.
Rev. Peter Cowslip was as poor as {
- i;tt.-With considerable difficulty hs
managed to pay his tradesmen at the
years end; but Rev. Peter Cowslir
dined every day much better thar
many millionaires. And whyp Was
it on account of the poor clergyman's
wicked extravaganza Not bit o.
it; the fact is that Patty was splen.
did eook-a born genius for the noblesl
Of arts.
Many modern young ladies, having
purchased a terra-cotta jar and rem
dered it hideous with daubs OF paint,
compel their friends to fall down and
worship it, and call it art; other. girls
: torment us with the piano, violin,
banjo, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulci-
mef-and all kinds OF music; other
. girls sing. All these people work
their wicked willis upon us with i'm
punity. We grin; we say: "Oh, thank
you so much" because we are Obliged
TO do that; and our politeness is treat
ed as an encore. and then 5eur suffer
ings recommence.
. Pretty Patty Cowslip did none Of
these dreadful things; but she could
cook like Ude, Francatelh and Soyer
rolled into one. And pretty Patty
went UP to town, entered the school
!. OF cookery and came out as the senior
wrangler of the year. 1t was Patty
FIRST, the rest nowhere. M. Caramel,
the professor of Ornamental pastry,
proposed to her at once; but Patty re-
fused him, for, as we have said, she
Was ambitious. And then Miss Cow
slip issued neat little advertisement,
4teok modest lodgings in modest
West-end street. and began to teach
on hef own account.
Lord Fleshpotts was a widowed no
bleman. He had three unmarried
daughters-the Ladies Gwendoline,
Ermyntrude and Ermyngarde Case
roteslHis lordship was great suffer.
s'cr from indigestion and he was dying
of bad. dinners. No cook ever stayed
more than month in his house; each
.s of his daughters ruled the roast for a
week, and generally. the particular
: young lady who happened to be re-
sponsible for the dinner on any given
evening left the room in tears before
the, deesssett was put upon the table
II Lord Eeshpotts would only have
ained at his cluhSall might have beer
y we'll, but he PERSISTED in dining Al
home and the lives of his three daugh.
4 tersswere slow mariyrdoms.
1t CHANGED one day that they saw
Miss Cowslip's advertisement in the
St.James Gazette. Lady Gwendoline
pointed it out to her sisters. They or
-7'ttcrrd the carriage ssearly -thes~nex
morning, and they were ushered into
*sMiss Patty's neat little sitting room in
Park street. I'VE don't, want to take
lessons, Miss Cowslip,n said Lady
Gwendoline. We're too stupid, said
Lady Ermyngarde. .'And it would bt
no use, said Lady Ermyntrude. But
oh! Miss Cowslip, couldn't you come
every morning and give us few hints
- Tor pa is wasting visibly!" cried the
eldest girl.
'sits novelty that poor papa re-
quires," sobbed the second daughter
refreshing novelty and perpetual
e@Those are his very words
: Miss Cowslip; his cruel. heartles'
words. y e.
Has lord Fleshpotts ever tasted ap-
pc dun plingsp" asked Patty Cowslip,
solelnnly.
'lt's dish / never heard Of" ex
e.a'inet Lady Gwendoline.
They were favorite dish with his
q Majesty King George Ill" remarked
it44tg,the historian
~ And we've mover even heard o.
iheq1i sighed Lady Ermyntrude.
SOFT was arranged that Patty was
70 come the next day and teach them
V. how 70 make apple-dumplings. fol
@7lch she was TO receive a fee OF one
guinea, and as personal favor she
= S.o'e lbenraT charming little menu, In
much among the sweet dishes ap'
.ptafsd the item: "Apple-dumplings,
sla George 1rois. u
y ~ Two o'clock the next day Mist
s0Hslip was shown into their LADY