The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11
she trusted that we would see the error of

our ways
MORE MIND THAN MATTER.
The last lady who appeared was slender,
had a sharp nose and an inclination % down
everybody. I'd back her TO fight John L.
J Sullivan and win every day. l simply
! asked her one question: "Csn you cook
boiled dinnerw is it boiled dinner you
want; a regular workingman's dinner
And what sort of a lady are you that has
that's IL strikes me that it's mighty
poor eatings that you're going to
give me that l can get at me
brothers house any time" Then she went
on in a straight string. A woman l know
! who had come in to help me fix the books
! began to cry, and the little dog barked, the
| birds sang at the top OF their voices, and
for once my maternal parent was frightened
| but rose to the occasion; | hadn't been
taught 20 play poker for nothing. SO after
disappearing from the room for a moment,
! / came back and announced | have runE
| the call for O policeman; he will be mere
| In less than Ave minutes, and If you're
! not out by that time III have him
| take you 70 the station house. She de-
! parted, but for fully Ave minutes after
ward we could hear her cursing as she
| went down the street and expressing her
! opinion OF anybody who had boiled dinners.
! The woman / know said to me: "How
brave you aren And my parent knitted
her brows and asked: when there
ia no call how can you ring for a police
| man" And said: THAT comes from 60
| ing to the theater; have seen it done there,
and bluffed like the stage hero"
THE JANTToR AND THE SCRUB WOMAN.
Now we are in the hands Of the scrub
woman. She is amiable, placid. and has a
| large and interesting family we take in and
| do for. | think, though, that the scrub
woman has missed her vocation. She would
have been prlEe in dime museum, for,
although she looks healthy, | am sure she
| eats soup She will start out TO make pure
and sweet a small closet, and before it is
one-third done she wants her second bar of
! soap, STILL this is a small failing. So far
| she and the janitor have got along amiably,
and that means a great deal in a fiat.
He is a rather dignhed gentleman,
| and, when my things were COM
| ing In, he suggested that shaw
be put around a small statue Of Venus for
fear it might deprive some Of the children
in the neighborhood. Since then, Venus
! has worn my storm coat and a sailor hat,
and looks exactly as il he were starting out
to paint the town red. He has criticised
my furniture, and 1 heard him say In a
semi-appToving manner: "You might
know she came from the south-people
down there always expects to have plenty
| of roOmy beds and roomy graves" This
was true, but not altogether cheerful. He
| has diued with US once or twice, and, when
! | say us, mean the scrub-woman and her
! progeny, and has eaten a salad dressed by
me, simply saying that lit wasn't as bad as
it might be, though for his part he liked
more seasoning"
He doesn't approve Of my size, and, al
though am willing to obligs him in many
things, don't think / can possibly grow.
He says the lady who lived there before was
a fine-looking woman, that impressed, and
he has made me quite conscious that would
| not impress even the cat. Still, think we
| will be friendly, that is, my intentions are
| good. What hfs are win probably depend
on his appreciation of our cooking.
IT ALL SEEMS 80 FUNNY
to me- / hear people grieving over the
trouble Of getting places OF their own, but
there is certain TO be a funny side, and IL
| one will only look at the funny side the rest
| don't matter. You know, my friend, | am
a believer In homes; of course, they can bo
made In any place, but one that is your
very own and where. whether you are big
or little. whether you impress or don't, you
are, IN your own way, mistress of all you
survey, is most delightful. And it's right.
Do you know why l asked that woman
| about the boiled dinners It's because know
some wretohed bachelors who have to live at
their clubs aud at smart restaurants who
have asked me If they couldn't come and
| dine with US. And when | have said, "Y es,
and you can have just what you want"
have invariably asked for boiled dinner.
Years ago man taught me what boiled
dinner was; nto the big pot must go one
or two chickens. plenty of good potatoes, a
head Of that curly cabbage, some car rots.
| green corn-indeed, every vegetable that
! can be boiled-and to flavor 1t all
must be a piece of bacon. When
| everything is taken out and each put
into its own dish, the chickens will be as
| white as milk and as tender as possibl o.
! The vegetables will be sweet and fairly melt
| in your mouth, and the piece Of bacon ma y
| be presented to the scrub woman, Then,
| for desert, with this dinner you have boiled
| apple dumplings. If that is the working
mans dinner 1t is very good one. But
| can tell you there are very few cooks who
! know how to COOK it, and there are very
few men who don't like 1t. 1t tastes a heap
better when it is as it should be than the
various fancy dishes of which they tire. So
| no cook reigns in the Bah kitchen who can
not compass boiled dinner As Wang says,
She'll not reign; she'll not even sprinkle"
THE FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE.
As said before, c"s is helped along
| good bit in most ever hing IL one will only
! look for the funny of it. Then the
and you are deal better woman for the
| laugh.
That is a wise woman who can smile at a
| compliment, be pleased and forget 1t.
That is wise woman who can smile at an
| insult and never see 1t.
That is a wise woman who can smile when
the little worries are coming about and
! make Of them little bits OF fun.
| That Is a wise woman who can smile
when she gets up, and who can go to sleep
with smile, for in this way she greets
the coming day, and at the eud Of it she has
| blotted out all the disagreeables.
| That is q wise woman who has a smile for
] bar frieDda and her eDeniaas IL will kaan kha
| first and it is the best weapon against the
| last.
! That is q wise woman who can smile no
| matter how she fells. She is the woman
who has learned to rule not only herself, but
will gain dominion over the cook. And that
means that she governs comfort.
| You mustn't misconstrue IL, my friend,
| whether you are man or woman. but do
extend you an invitation 10 come and have
| smile with Bah.