Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-24
A DIFFICULT SUCCESS.



-Land o. mani but you are smart to
think on it'll" exclaimed Aunt Hepsy
Wakefield. in undisguised admiration,
when the minister's new wife had un-
folded her plan of paying the church
,iebt by means of cookery book. I'D
pay so cents to get Mis- Dsa. HubbeIl's
recipe for rozbry shrub. any day. Law.
I've asst that woman fort unnumbered
times, but haven't never got it An
readin' cook books amt waste o. q
woman's time, for there never was a
man 30 shiftless he want enterpisin'
enough to try new victuals.
Mrs. Wharton, installed In one Of the
great Boston rockers fanking the stove.
which now gazed at the world with q
very red cyclopean eye, took out neat
notebook and trim lead pencil Il
particularly want the receipt for those
excellent doughnuts you made for the
last missionary meeting, she began in
that historical tone which contains q
compliment with greater delicacy than
any other. Then with an nutler disregard
of the fact that she had been warned
she could get nothing definite from
either Aunt Hepsy or Mrs Dea- Hubbell.
sue continued: "And am going to ask
you to be exact in measures. / have
found the average cookery book some
what uncertain, and she sighed with
Retrospective WEAKNESS, thinking of the
occasional failures in the parsonage
kitchen.
Wall, it has allus 'peared to me there
was somethin' in cookin' We couldn't tell,
like twice two, say, and Aunt Hepey
sagely nodded her head and looked al
her visitor over her spectacles in a way
that made her benevolent old face seem
four eyed. "An' some folks takes to il
natural. an some don't. An that AIM
provided for in the rules
"That's just what think, intcrpose
Mrs Wharton nervously; "but / wani
my book helpful to those who have nc
natural knack Now how much milk
do you use for doughnuts?"
@Why, that all depends on how many
you want to make When / was
married to my first. Levi Corp by name
and dreadful smart man he was. toe
-one Of them Corps from Louisville
used to make bushel for batch. an
though say it. never made a bushel
as vans ct, an"
@And is the milk sweet or sourl..
@Why, both, ye know. Ny, / never
shell forget the first batch ever madel
I'd been married fortnight an 't@as
comm harvest. an film the men was
III. <4ifs,,S 1nlnw H. ~.,st1. 49,. ..f ~
never cooked any to speak OF, our folks
to home bein' great hands to stram out
things an I'm good sewer. But see
to myself: 'Hepsy Skinner. sez /. you've
married man as has to work, an you'll
hev to take holt an / took holt
lively. Them furst doughnuts was good
as any ever made, an it was As years
ago come June made 'enl.
Il have no doubts Of their excellence.
Now kindly tell me how much sweet
milk and how much sour, persisted
Mra Wharton
That's all the sourness of the sour
milk. Inever let mine get sour as fury.
You can tell ginerally jes how sour 'tis
by the fizz when you put in the soda.
Some women never have knack to learn
TO do that exact Ny twin sister Liddy
Ann was one of them kind, an If a
woman can't cook, what is she with men
tliinkin' more Of their poor mortal stom-
acls than they do Of their immortal
souls2 / don't say Liddy can't cook al
all, but she want reliable; an I've
allus thought that was one reason 4
Elnathan--that was her husband; he
was nephew tooId Gineral Eilas Stone
married agin afore she was fairly cold
in her grave. Not that I'm agin second
marryin's. she added quickly. remem-
bering that the minister's wife was 6
second @helpmeet, shut / believe IN
payin' proper respect. an so forth, an
when Elnatlian went OF an married
Lnwella Ware six months after Liddy's
funeral was preached, will say that
said to Mr. Jackson--I was livin' with
my second then, Dea. Jackson--sex /, ]
hope Elnathanu git his come-up-ance in
this world, and not wait till the next
which. whatever we say about it, ain'l
as well known 10 rs as this
The snow had begun to beat with muf-
fled insistence on the windows and the
yellow canary IL tie gilded cage, feeling
more comfortable. began to chirp Bus
ter. tie ginger colored terrier by Che
stove. So and the tall, big faced
clock tiekcd svIemnly. as became ia
years.
-Aunt Hepsy is . splendid cook. but
ye cart git nothin' out Of her. Mrs.
pea I:ubbel1 had told the ministers