Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-05-19
MOTHERS COOKING.

ever turned out. Well, he came by it nat
urally. Judge Baker was known all over
western Massachusetts, as the sage of
Plainfield, and Llltc's mothcr-she was a
Kellogg before the judge married her--she
had more faculty than a dozen of your
girls nowadays, and her cooking was
talked about everywhere; never was an
other 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 dough-
nuts she was always considerable and lib
cral to Cowing boys. Maybe Lutte
wouldn't ltye been so popular if it hadn't
been for these doughnuts. and maybe he
wouldn't have been SO smart if it hadn t
been for ell the good things his mother fed
into him. Alwit-s did believe there was
piety and wisdom in New England victuals.
Lutte went to Amherst college and did
well; then he taught school winter, for
Judge Baker said that nobody could
amount to much in ;hc world unless he'd
taught school spell. Lutte set on being
II lawyer, and SO presently he went down
to Springfield and read and studied in
Judge Morris Office, and Judge Morris
wrote u letter home to the Bakers once
testifyiug to Lutc's ''probity" and "acu-
men'-things that are never heard tell of
except high up in the legal profession.
How Lutte came to get the western fever
| can't say, but get it he did, and one
winter lie up and piked off to Chicago and
there he hung ont his single and Joined "A
literary social and proceeded to get rich
ana famous The next spring Judge
Baker fell oil the woodshcd while he was
shinEling it, and it Jared him so he kind
of dropped and pinned around spell. and
then one day up and died. Lutte had to
come back home and settle up the estate.
When he went west again he took n wife
with hm-Emma Cowlcs that was (evcry-
body called her En- for short, pretty as a
picture and as likely Il girl as there was in
the township Lutte had always had IA
hankering for En-, and En- never thought
there was another such Il young fellow as
Lutte; she understood him perfectly, hav-
ing sung in the choir with him two years
The young couple went west well pro-
vided
Lutte ana I'm went to housekeeping in
Chicago. En- wanted TODD her own work;
but Lutte wouldn't hear to it, so they hired
German girl that was just over from the
Vineyards CT the Rhine country
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