St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
JILL'S SILVER SPOONS.
A Family Disturbance About Them.

A Family Disturbance About Them.
"Jack,'' said Jill. one evening in Febru.
ary as they sat before the fire, 81 think l
shall try and have recital for my music
class soon. You know what help the
one had last sunni. er was to them,
Very well, my dear; just as you say.
"What bothers me" said Jill, taking up
pencil and paper, "is to know how to
m axe room for all the papas and mammas.
Wa were rosded before, and have more
pupils now
ooh, we can manage, guess. You can
borrow chairs of the Greys."
Eyes" said Jill, slowly, "but l shall be
obliged to invite thirty anyway"
"Let me see /; there are the Deans, the
Updegrafs, the Hills and
The Greens, the Palmers, the Deweys
and the Lesters-well, you know who they
all are, and as said, there will be thirty"
"Maybe they won't all come, suggested
Jack
ooh, of course they won't, but | shall
have to plan for them all, and I've only
dozen coffee cups.
81 hope you are not going to the bother
of having refreshments, exclaimed Jack.
Certainly. Do you suppose any one
could have company in Eldredge without
having refreshments? To be sure, no one
thought it necessary in Independence,
where Madame Sterling gave her recitais
in different private houses, but here
Jill's expressive pause was meant to cen
vey some idea of the enormity OF such an
offense against general custom.
"But nv dear" persisted Jack, chow
can YOU do it? You know i. is LOO cold to
cook on the gasoline stove il the little
kitchen"
Jack and Jill had been taking two meals
dsy s'out" since the coming of winter
had mace the garnet kitchen uninhabita-
HE The little hall bedroom had been
transformed into breakfast room, which,
in mild winter, was easily heated by the
gasoline stove, but now that the thermo-
meter was down to zero, they were obliged
to get what they could On the base burner
| in the sitting room.
~ shall only have coffee and two kinds
of cake, and believe | can bake them III
this stove" said Jill, referring to the base
burner, which had an ovC' i'll tie rear.
After the evening had been decided upon
the cold ''snap' continued so long that the
event was postponed until the following
Tuesday. One of Jill's particular friends
Mrs Dewey, living on the outskirts OF the
town, offered to bring freezer of ice cream
and also to help her that evening, so jill
felt that with Jacks help, she could ge
along nicely. Her music pupils took thel!
lessons on Wednesday. so that she hae
Monday and Tuesday in which to make
her preparations.
Monday morning was SO cold that sh'
brouoht the extension table into the LITTLE
sitting-room and took her long unused
china and glass and silverware from th'
closet and washed and polished 1t. Whel
noon came, Jill, more accustomed u
musical and literary work, was nearl.
tired out and Jack, seeing her weary look
and-shall we tell it Hearing some eros
tones declared his intention of assisting
in the cake baking. This cheured Jill
wonderfully, and she made rapid prepa
rations for the work. Nearly nine month
had elapsed since she had made cake
but she was quite an adept in making Ger
$ tain kinds and she felt no uneaslness o
that score. She first prepared a whit
cake from a familiar recipe, which ha
never failed her. One cupful of butter
two cupfuls of pulverized sugar, on
} cu pful of sweet milk, whites of tv
eggs. three cupfuls of -four, three tes
spoonfuls of baking powder, essence
almond.
Jack beat the batter SO faithfully, ths
it went into the oven beautifully smoot
. and white, and when Jill peeped in, tiftee
minutes afterward, it was coming up liz
1 q feather, but beginning to brown. Nov
! her trouble began. She knew an owe
l on ght not to be changed, but she WIS
. Obliged to close all the hampers to pr
r vent the cake from burning. Cons
!, ouently, the oven cooled too much, and
was an hour and half before the cal
was done. Meantime gold cake hs
been made, which she intended to cut
!, small SQUARES and cover with yellow fros
Il ing, but, through the delay in baking II
white cake, the second one fell when 81
. took it from the oven, not great dea
~ but enough to vex Jill, whose feet al
r hack were aching. She next made cho
r olate LAYER cake, and this was perte
r. success. At the same time, she was 81
q deavoring to make some fondant lcin
: following the directions in Zen Dolla
r. Enough" Five times did she boil I'll
; before it would cream, and she wished
II hundred times that she had never
r. te1opted to have refreshments But tn'
" she succeeded, and she had two III
o. cakes, in spite of the SLOW BAKING i
s white cake received.
k The next day was busy one, spent
d sweeping busting and, getting everythlI
T. ready for use. When evening came J
" was thoroughly tired out, but received
IF guests with smiling face.
& Recitals are something new in EIdred
10 and her little pupils were most OF TIM
j thoroughly frightened. Some played We
"a credi:ably, but two or three almost bro
down. But teacher and parents knew tt
w the object of these recitals was to gain ct
r. fdence, and they were neither surprl'
IN nor disappointed. :,
as While the music was in progress M
Mt Dewey and Jack were making the coffee
to the little kitchen, and after the last nun
en- was played the refreshments were serv
en- The coffee and the two cakes DILL did
lie pass the gold cake which haa proved ST
I'd a failure) and the ice cream were EMO.
he by all.
n. As soon as the last goodnight was spol
an Jack and Jill prepared some dishes OF
N. cream and cake, and Jill took them to I'll
neighbors down stairs who were not at
- recital.
10. Going to the kitchen again, Jill propos
re. as it was only few moments past ten,
to they wash the dishes that night. Jack
~ willing, and they began their work v
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