The Somerset reporter., 1892-12-29
MOTHERS COOKING.

NOIh Elk - NOtth Nj.
The Plainfied bows always had the
name of being smart, aud guess Lutte
Baker was just about the smartest boy
the old town ever turned out Well, he
cam by it naturally. Judge Baker was
known all over Western Massachusett ;
rs the sage of Plainiirld, and Lute's
WAS II Kellogg before the
Judge married her-she had more faculty
than Il dozen of your girls nowadays,
and her cooking was talked about every
where; never was another woman, AS
folks said. could cook like Mis- Baker.
The boys--Lute's friends-used to hang
around the back porch of mornings just
to get some of her doughnuts; she was
always considera e and liberal to grow
ing BOYS. Maybe Lutte wouldn' have
been SO popular if it had not been for
those doughnuts, and maybe he wouldn't
have been so smart if it hadn't been for
all the good things his mother fed into
him. Always did believe there Nils picty
and wisdom in New Engl nd victuals.
Lutte went TO amherst College and did
well; then he taught school fora inter,
for Judge Baker said that nobody could
amount to much unless he'd taught
school Il spell. Lutte set on b ing law
yer, and so presently he went down to
Springfield aud read and studied in Judge
Morris office, and Judge Nor is wrote a
letter home to the Bakers once teStifving
to Lute's "probity" and "acumcn
things that are never heard tell of except
high up in the legal profession. How
Lutte came to get til western fever
cant say. hut get It he did, and one win
ter he up and piked Oft to Chicago. and
there he hung out his Single and Joined
a literary social and proceeded to get
rich an famous. The next spring Judge
Baker fell of the woodsllcd While he was
Smuggling it, and it Jared him so he kind
of dropped and pinned around a spell, and
then one day up and died. Lutte had to
come back home and settle up the cs-
tate.
When he went West again he took a
wife with him Emma Cowles that was
everybody called her En- for short)
pretty as II picture and as likely Il cir, as
there was in the towns ip. Lutte always
had Il laundering for En-, and En- never
thought there WAS another such Il Young
fellow as Lutte; she understood him per-
fectly, having sung in the choir with
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Chicago. En- wanted to do her own
work, but Lutte wouldn't hear To it, 50
they hired il German girl that was Just
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mons cool; of the ohtnse hnt villim,, i'm.
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made I'm nnh,nnr In, nnxt a,.,n;no
When mta ann, L!,,o ,hnro ,,,,, ,,,,,,'r,'
nuts on the tablc-hrau,ifn lilo nln1h,
ORIG douohnnts thot f,i,l,. ra.I,nd uitj
The homTlv dnlirinm. .,nt i,,ent eff Tnn
England. ME ME ono I'm f.lt hnrt
Il ones H. hoc,nsn IVA na,,,, -,
much cl.o evnl,innd Into ,.h,n ,n,,n
how or her lhev DON'T tastn lie moth.
er.s''
Next day En- fed thorrst of the aouyb.
nuts ia = nonr man hn ca,a, .,,d s.,;d
he was .,arIino ,,'rhoml van unarn, ,
said Inc. win hi. hnrt ruu eff qr,tituJ,
and his month mi uf Lon,,l5,nts. g.,