The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28
The First Horne t,,r,,sr

A bride of the midwinter became
about week ago the mistress of coy
little apartment up town, all screens and
dyans and rugs, after the most ap-
proved fashion. She tells an amusing
story of the first dinner in their new
home:
''Ours is one servant establishment,
80 saw to everything, as we housekeep-
ers say''-this with a grimace- myself.
It would have been better, possibly, if I
had not. We sat down to dinner, de-
lighted to be in our own snuggery, and
Harry unfolded his napkin with an air
of complete satisfaction. Soup was first
it was dreadfully weak and tasteless.
Then we had bit of salmon with a
white sauce Imade the sauce and it
looked all right, but when it was served
it turned out sort of gluey paste-sim-
ply UNBEATABLE.
''Harry behaved beautifully, however,
and made no comment. When he be-
gan to carve an underdone duck he
asked quickly if took care to look up
my cooks reference We had a lettuce
salad, which was undeniably good, Har-
ry dressing it on the table. I am trying
to live on an allowance, so dessert was
preserved ginger, with cheese, waters
and coffee. Jane made the coffee and
it was excellent. But got up from the
table hungry, of course. When we got
into the other room noticed Harry did
not light his cigar, which he always
likes after dinner. He walked up and
down two or three times and then he
said:
How soon, Puss, ought dinner in
vitation to be returned?'
without an idea of what he meant
replied, oh, quite promptly, I sup
pose
In that case,' he went on, 'as l have
just dined with you won't you be good
enough to come and dine with me?
"And though I was wretchedly morti-
fed I was too starved to decline with
dignity, as felt ought. And we went
off and had a cream soup, a steak with
mushrooms and meringue glace. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
A Family of Giants.
Mrs. Margaret Larkins, who was in
tered in ST. Joachim's cemetery, Frank
ford, few days ago, at the age of nine
ty-two years, came of an Irish family re-
markable for physical strength and Ion
gevity. Mrs. Larkins' maiden name was
Scannell, and her father was well-to.
do raiser of horses in the village of Lu-
rig, County Cork. A descendant living
in Philadelphia, who has visited the old
Scannell homestead, says that the vii
layers still point with sort of clannish
pride to a huge capstone which he re-
moved from the archway of limekilr
and placed in the position it at present
occupies in what was to be his future
home. After his marriage at the age Of
! forty Mr.. Scannen settled down to farm.
ing.
The next farm to his was owned by a
cousin, whose descendants, three strap
ping daughters, now manage the dairy
plow the fields and reap the harvest and
do whatever ditching and draining the
soil requires. The Philadelphia who
met these three ladies AYERS that theil
occupation has not tended to unsez
them, and that on the way to church OF
Sunday neither by dress nor demeano1
are they distinguishable from the mos
blue blooded of their countrywomen
The Scannell family has been prolific il
giants. One of the brothers of the de
ceased lady still lives in Ireland and is O
extraordinary stature. A cousin residing
in this city stands TT. 81 in. in hi
socks, and another #. 81 in. An uncle
Michael Scannell, was the parish prizes
at Tarsed and attained great age. 4
nephew some years ago won wager b,
lifting from the ground a barrel o
white lead weighing several hundred
pounds.-Philadelphia Press.