Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-02
BILL ARP ON COOKING.
THE COOK QUITS AND UNCLE WILL
lam TAKES A HAND.

He Tells All About It and Also Discusses
/ Other Subjects of q Domestic Character.
| He Unreservedly Expresses His Fondncss
for Better HALF
"Boast not thyseh Of tomorrow, for thou
| mowest not what day may bring forth y
| No, we don't dident know last night tina,
Mrs Angelina Peacock wouldent be here thi:
morning. Nobody knew it until there was q
| tap at the door and voice said Mrs Peacock
sent me to tell you she sick-can't come nc
| more for to cook till her get we'll" David
saith: weeping may endure for night, but
| Joy cometh in the morning" That is 50 as
general thing, but right smart depends or
| whether the cook comes in the morning. Nc
cook, no joy. Mrs. Arp wasent well nohow,
and so persuaded her to be calm and serene
and let me manage the breakfast; and SO
called Carl and Jessie, and we made a regu.
| lar frolic Of it, and had the best breakfast We
have had for a month
| Mrs Angelina Peacock can't compare with
| us when we take notion to cook She does
her best, but she is old and rheumaty, and
weighs about $50 pounds, and got fat and
greasy while cooking in old Virginny befo
de wah She is not the lovely maiden tina:
Goldsmith wrote about in the Hermit, when
he said:
Turn. Angelina; ever dear,
Ny charmer, turn TO sea
That was another Angelina. l used to cry
over her and wish that was Edwin when be
clesped her to his breast.
TEACHING THE CITY GIRL TO MILK
Every member of family ought to know
how to cook. There Is no other way of feel
ing independent Let the cook quit if she
wants to. 1t is no discredit to anybody to
cook. 1t is about as honorable as it is to eat,
and is more scientific and takes more brainS
A hog can eat, but he can't cook But
want it understood that am not a standing
candidate for that business just want my
family to feel independent, so that when the
cook quits it is not case of utter despair.
Our children have never rebelled against these
domestic accomplishments. They can cook
and milk the cow and make up the beds and
make their own clothes, and are always will
ing to do 1t when there is necessity.
I saw Carl milking the other evening, and
a sweet, pretty girl, who was 10 kin to him,
was standing close by holding the bucket for
him, and it did look 80 ''confectionary," as
CODE says, that / wanted a photograph OF
the lactean scene. There was Savannah
girl up here not long ago, and she had never
seen cow MIXED and Carl had to explain to
her the process, how that one teat was for
sweet milk and one for buttermilk and one
for cream and one for the calf, and the
sweet innocent believed it, every word.
But about this cooking business am not
uttering the sentiments of Mrs Arp She is
constitutionally opposed to getting up early
in the morning. She is willing to cook din.
ner and supper, but has no liking for cooking
breakfast nor washing the dishes. She is nc
great admirer of King Solomon either, and
sometimes hints that his respect for women
and children was very limited, for he wanted
switches and thresh poles for the boys, and
kept three or four hundred wives to wait on
him, and his definition Of virtuous woman
was, "She riseth while it is yet night and Civ.
eth food to her household" he actually
wanted his wife to get up before day and 60
to cooking, while he slept until the bell rang
for breakfast
She thinks it enough for a mother to nurse
and worry with raising eight or ten children,
and after the crop is laid by she is entitled to
rest, and think SO, too. She shant cook IL
can help it. She has made q thousand lit
tie garments and worked ten thousand but
ton holes in her life, but, thank the good
Lord, her eye is not dimmed nor her natural
force abated. No; she shan't cook. Our
colored nabor, Mrs Fletcher, always comes
when she can, but she is raising a crop her.
self and can't make full hand in our kit
chen.
MRS ARP GOOD SPEAKER
But variety Is the spice Of life, and some
how l like for something to happen that
changes the monotOny Of things and gets ups
commotion and stimulates our energies.
like for the cook to quit and the washerwoman
to strike once in a while l Ike for the
bucket to get into the we'll or young cyclone
to threaten US. like for my vest buttons to
come OFF and my under garments TO get
ragged SO that Mrs. Arp will be sorry u me
and beg me to buy some new clothes, and ]
can say with sigh, / can't afford it, these
will do me very well it doesn't matter how ]
look like to work In the garden while the
sun Is hot and hear Mrs. Arp calling mo from
the window, "You had better come in ths
house; you will make yourself sick again
working In that sun"
/ like for her to hear mysterious sound,
away in the night when deep sleep falletb
upon a man but not upon a woman, and when
get up and meander bravely all through and
around the house hunting for robbers and
ghosts just to show her what a protector she
has got. She is going TO St Simons next
week and am going to stay at home Some
Of her married children are going with her,
and she Is to chaperon the chaps or matron-
ize the party. or whatever you call 1t. Idon't
know whether she is going to lave in the salt
sea wave or not, but can see her now stand
ing upon the beach and, with extended arm,
repeating the speech Of her school days:
Rou on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee IN vain
Thou glorious mirror where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself On tempests-
Oh, she was a speaker, she was and she is
speaker yet. She speaks TO me sometimes
wish that every aspiring soul could go to
st. Simons, or somewhere, and look upon the
eea-the ocean II q man hes q soul how il
expands It'll How dininutive be feels In the
presence of this mighty work Of God! But
hundreds 60 there just like they 60 TO q cir
Gus They have no new emotions. no increase
Of reverence and no decrease IL their own
conceit.-Bin arp IN Atlanta Constitution
Good Woman.
Mra Felicia Grundy Porter, who diad at
Nashville, Tenn, Was one Of the notable
women Of the south She was q daughter Of
The late FeIir Grlndy Van Buren, aft.,rrav