The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17

celery soup; aspic jelly. Aunt
Bella, where is that aspic that was in
the big covered dish. I'll break it up
and put it on the table"
"That theah cole soup, honey? l JUS
tuhned dat 'ah right outen de kittle
an set it simmerin'."
" Where?" Lucia fairly screamed.
But alas! haste was of no good now.
The precious jelly was in liquid state
again and would require quite four
hours to harden.
Lucia took her pretty underlip tightly
under her teeth, and thought a min
ute. Then she said to the boy, who
was still standing about, dreading to 90
home to his mistress and the scolding
that he knew would be his "Jimmie,
go down to Kramer's and get me three
or four pounds of boiled ham" (the
only cooked commodity to be bought in
Weston" and tell them to be certain to
send the ice-cream well packed in ice.
Aunt Bella, make up some waffles as
as quickly possible. And, Aggie, you
toast, and don you scOrch about twenty
slices of bread" And then Miss Lucia
went upstairs and put cambria wrapper
on over her white dress and came down
again.
"There is one thing they shall
have-a regular old Virginia supper"
she said, as she opened jars of honey
and cans of preserves.
She took the slices of toast when
they were done, buttered them and
poured over them her celery cream
soup, with which she had taken such
pains, making delicious cream toast.
Aunt Bella could make waffles as light
as air and the daintiest of hot biscuits,
and Aggie had won her reputation as
table waitress by her expedition in
bringing in hot bread. The salad
came by and by, carried in its cut crys-
tai bowl every step of the way by Char
lie Princes own hands. 1t was truly
the very king of salads, made of white
turkey-meat and celery and mayon-
naise. The ice-cream came along pres
emily, and when the ham had been
sliced and the extra forks and the soup
plates taken off and the supper ="
put on Aunt Bella was graciously
pleased to remark that it I" looked like
old times"
Certainly the faces of Mrs. Prince,
Mrs. Lacy and Mother Mowbray were
study as they took in that table.
1t was quite seven o'clock, and the
candles in all the old silver candle
sticks had been lighted, and the sweet
honey look of everything could not
have been surpassed.
The guests seemed to enjoy every
thing.
When young Devries took his fifth
waffle he said to Mrs. Mowbray, under
his breath, " Mother has always told us
about Virginia waffles and honey, but
these are the first ever ate. Can |
have another"
They had charming evening after
they left the dining-room and went
back to the parlor. Lieutenant Reale
discovered beautiful tenor voice, and
he sang love songs" Rose Marie -
and the Bedouin Love Song ITO
Mrs. Lacy's accompaniment, while
Robert Devries confided to Mrs. Now
bray that he was engaged to young
lady in San Francisco, and he hoped
that after they were married in the
spring he might bring her to see them.
Do you know" he said, " really
believe that your house is about the
only one where the genuine old customs
are kept up?"
Captain Stillman was talking pictures
and pottery to Lucia on the sofa. He
was in the engineer corps, and was only
going West for few weeks. 1t was
natural to ask him to stop again on his
way back. He did. Lucia told me
last year, when | visited her at Willet's
Point, that her husband says that he
fell in love with the sweet domestic
way in which she left the parlor to see
about that supper. And she said that
the only secret on earth that she had
from him was the story of their attempt
at a New England dinner-A. S.
Duane, in Home Maker