The morning call., 1892-06-12

gestiOn Of another writer and give him his
exercise in a baby-jumper instead, but
George. the brute, actually pitched the
baby Jumper out of the house, carried the
walking-stoOl upstairs, and took the baby
by the hands and insisted upon making him
walk. he had him running around In a
few DAYS, but the child was only year and
a half old, and If ever he becomes cripple.
I will know his fathers brutality laid the
foundation for It,
But the great bone of contention was
food. Now you know as well as that
every paper In the country that pretends 10
know ANYTHING about the subject CONTENDS
that every woman should know how to get
up little appetizing dishes out OF mere
tTifles and that il is attTactlveneSs and va
rietv rather than abundance that satisfies
the appetite. But | never could get George
TO see that I have had dozen different
dishes on the table at once and that man
would growl because there didn't happen
to be beefsteak and potatoes. He told me
once If I'd give him beef and potatoes every
day / might have all the entry meSses to
myself. He actually grew to be vulgar IN
spite of everything did to try ana sur
round him with refining influences. l made
him the loveliest dressing gowns, after pat
terms 1 found in The Womanly Woman, and
The Home Lovers Friend, but be never
would wear one OF them, except one win
ter when he looked after the fire for few
weeks. and he wore one out then. But L
was telling you about how he treated me
about cooking One day my girl left me In
a huff because l had been experimenting
with a new recipe out OF Uncommon
sense in the Kitchen and l was compelled
10 do my own work. l didn't mind II very
much because The Ladies' Home Coun-
sellor' had a .snOle lot Of new recipes l
wanted to try, but this day George brought
home two friends Unexpectedly. He was
taken abaCk to find Jane was gone, but SAID
lust to give them light supper and lt would
be alright. didn't mind IL a particle. just
did as Miss ParnIgher advises Us IN 'Goou
Cooking went TO my pantry and took IN
yentOrv Of what l had. This was just the
chance TO show George that there was some
advantage in being able to do something
with nothing
"Of course there were plenty Of preserves,
and Jane had baked the day before, but
there was no cold meat in the house and l
could only find half box Of Sardines. How
ever, there were two eggs, and l found five
cookies in the cake box. / chopped my sar-
dimes fine, boiled the eggs hard and cut them
In slices. L found few pieces OF celery
which l chopped with the sardines and,
putting each cookie on tine china plate, l
dropped some of the chopped sardine on it
and laid slice OF egg IN the center lhe
effect was beautiful. l wrote out the sug-
gestiOn the next day for the Ladies Home
Counsellor. l ran out into the garden and
hastily gathered some nRstuTtiums and gar
nished each plate with the dainty leaves.
These l put beside each place at table. l
had cherry preserves served In my best
sauce plates. Fortunately there was some
sponge cake in the house, and in
corner ] discovered bonanza in the form
Of the mereSt sheet Of an Edam cheese.
This | grated up and put up upon crackers
that | had soaked in milk, and with gar
niture OF naStuTtiumS II looked lovely. and
m . I
into the front parlOr and secured the two
large candelebrG, each with nine candles,
and, putting one at each end Of the table,
lighted them. The table did look beautiful,
the silver and glass and iine white linen set
ting off the lights to perfection. / was
proud TO think my husband could invite his
friends to such a meal, prepared In an
emergency. ran upstairs and smOothed
my hair and put on bow Of George
favOrite bue ribbon, fastened down
and summoned my guests TO supper.
But what is the use when you
have a brute Of a husband? George
took one look over the table and
noticing the candles, grinned as only lie can
and said: I told you I'd brought you
home 10 light supper, you know, boys,
Help yourself to the candles, Dick and
those odi0us creatures laughed as If 1t were
a joke. l told George after that l ought to
get divorce, and he actually told me yes, /
ought. from all the tUm-fOol wOmen'S pa
pers l read. But be never did sympathize
with my desire for higher culture.
" But the worst was about Uncle Ben's
chair Georges Uncle Ben is very rich.
you know. and everybody expected he
would make George his heir. / don't know
now whether be will or not. George came
home one day and told me- Uncle Ben was
coming TO spend a month with Us. or
course l was delighted. and we talked the
matter over and decided that as he was old
and something of an invalid there ought TO
be an easy-chair IN the room he was 10 oc-
cupy There wasn't one in the house that
could be spared, so George gave me So and
told me to 60 down town that day and buy
one, and | told him / would. After George
was gone though, l got thinking Of a num-
Der Of other things we could get If l could
only COHtTiye some way 10 arrange an easy
chair for Uncle Ben without buying
one. Then / had a bright thought
l would make one. had read
how in tile House Furnisher and
knew exactly what TO do. / was so de-
lighted l set 10 work at once. l got lovely
clean barrel for six bits and had a carpenter
come and saw of about halfway through it