The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-11

I've vi ny ~
are thrifty ard conscientious, know what
to do with bits of cold meat or potato;
but there arc some things we do not
know what to do with. Fer instance,
mcut Pic, Ii thGre is good deal ttft,
ehti1gh f5r Il meal, the problem is easy
enough; but if there is only a scrap
pie! Such nice crust and gravy! 1t is q
Thug we Buy, hnA this Next day We put
its gravy, cover itso it will not get too
enough to heat through-just while we
the meat iii tho ma!n) for lunch. Re-
silt: every II wishes the nicely broilcd
ham, and the meat pic s'scrap' remains
the same size as before. At least, that
is what happens in my house, and when
l am very apt to write about what hap
pens in ''my" house,. =.
Thon there is csla mac1iercil Who
ever knows what to do with cold mack
crcl? One can souse cold trout, or escal-
things with cola ticked.ub Goldfish; SIT
cold mackerel is too much of a problem:
1 have tried b%roiling it, if it was broiled
was first broilcd; have tried the oven and
The frying-pan; but everything is q fail.
ure, yet who is willing to deliberately
erel? Once I had a whole cold mackcrel
The provider In our house delights In
buying things by the lit dixie ~mackereij,
or by the bhst.el llihe fiavy beans), 6r
BY the 66-p6und box dixie cod-iish), and
everything becomes a problem in elimin-
alton before we get through. Well, we
had q kit of ''bcautiful'' mackcrcl, to
which The family took kindly fer t'uuitu
u spell:, Tt,ci wN Had 10 take Il long
fest, Ono morning, as W. were to have
three extra guests for breakfast, I had
n of those ''bcautiful" mackcrcl
cooked. l knew 1 could expect, nothing
from the family; st tuntgrsd I'LL lily
Hopes OH the guests. Not one of them
evcr ate mackcrcr! There lay the ma
jestic, solitary creature untouched upon
platter! What did | do? | put on
my hut, took the platter just as it was;
ran around the corner to Mrs;
WHO Sometimes docs washing fol- ,,
ne, and who has a houscful of growing
'hildrcn. The "kit'' followed later. for
wa desperate.
Perhaps the reader tray .i,tnk Mft;
:rsS.ss IiIgiit solve my problem about
craps; but she docs not. l can carry
Ter whole mackcrcl, but 1 cannot carry
ler s~scraps." There are III ,nty of PEG
PIE just like hes, ere there hot?:
hgH:n, what can Ii body do with a cold .
fried egg? ut is such q nice fresh egg ,
and the others tasted SO good..' 1t is
co~nscicntiously slipped Into put
in the ,ee-bea aid "refeif1d 10 the COM
mittee on ways and mcans.'' And a
hard. time the ''commit1c" has with it.
usually putting it on the table just as it.
Is, and urging every onc to ''pleasc finish
up that egg" no enc wisllcs TO, any
more thnn lhu s'committcc' does.
Perhaps VIC are all too dainty! I am
very much inclined to think VIC arc; but
every time ] conclude that l am, surely,
and that it is high time that J disciplined
myself, / also find that. when confronted
by tEat piece OF meat pic Offset by
broiled ham, or that cold mackcrcl O,
that cold fried egg, | weaken. ! claim
no singularity in this weakness. an
strengthened in it (f ! may use Il seem
ingiy contradictory phrasc) b. most O.
my equally dainty friends.
Well, what shall VIC do? Shall w
shut our eyes. as it were, and throw al
these good scraps" into tho garbage.
box? That is too bad: With SO man,
hungry people in the world.
For myself, ] have found a poo
woman living alone with ono little girl
who can always use such. 1t is no
easy to find just such 4 person. and it /
q good deal Of trouble to carry tho ETH
''scraps@ to her when She is found; but j
is quite worth while. If they are be
slowed in the right spirit. they will b
accepted, and will be of decided boncf,
not only to the poor, half-fcd wo1ra
and child, but TO the donrr whose con
science is made easy. Taking trouble
is not bad for any Of us, il taken rightly
and ogather up the fragments ti,at moth
ing be lost" may be our part in soivin,
some OF the great social questions of til
day concerning the redistribution OF prop
erty.' This simple service is rot roman
tic, surely; but it will be found "sort G
satisfyin' if faithfully tried.