Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-16
MIR. CLEVERSON'SCOOK

'Soup as salt as the Atlantic and
as nasty; fish boiled to rags and served
floating in greasy water ike Jumps
of cucumber in a tub in an East End
cookshop; beef that eats like charred
chips and potatoes with bones In.
And you call it-dinner?"
Mr.. Cleverson tranStiXed a small
portion of some leathery substance
on a prong and regarded it with The
dubious look Of naturalist observing
an unknown and probably venomous
reptile, then with an effort freeing
the fork he pushed his chair from the
table and contemptuously turned his
back upon it.
81 am very sorry dear" said his
better-half, in the meek tone that
sometimes turns away anger. "She
said she could cook"
Mr. Cleverson faced about briskly.
''Said she could cook" he cried
with scornful emphasis. "DYe think
II a stranger came to me and ordered
q thousand pounds worth ofgoods and
said he had the money in the bank
to pay for them, that I'd take his
word? No, Mrs. Cleverson L make
inquiries-I get references-l satisfy
myself. Said she could cook
pshawl"
Eyes, George, and got references
and made inquiries. Cooks last
place was at butchers, and he as
sured me she had given every salts
faction"
Mr. CleyerSon gasped.
HAS it come to this2n he asked,
more in sorrow than inanger. "Have
/ fallen so low as butchers cook:
How could you imagine that the
cook of a man whose ideas Of the
sublimest of all arts could not posi-
bly, soar higher than satisfying
steak or crude sweetbread, would bt
able to minister TO the educated TASTE
of an Alderman of the city Of Lon
don and liyeryman Of two great com
= panies? | never was so insulted ii
my life, aud when man is insultet
by bis wife in his tenderest feelings
Mrs. Cleverson, it is time for him Il
make practice of dining at his clu
when there's no public dinner he cal
60 to-"
The meek little womans eyes file
with tears.
Il hope you won't do that, dear, o
shall never see you, except at break
fast and on Sundays
"If man can't get anything t
eat at home, he must eat elsewhere
A man must cato live" rejoine
the Alderman, sententiously.
"Tll try again. Perhaps L sha
have better luck"
Pooh! You have engaged eigf
new cooks in twelve months and ever
one worse than the preceding Bt
you have reached low-water mar
> with your butchers COOK, Mrs Cleye
Y son, and got to the end OF my p
thence, and it's time l intertere'
l Pay the woman months wages ar
- send her about her business, and l
take the matter in handful engal
D a cook I'll show you where the fau
4 lies, Mrs. CleversOn; and III eat Il
head off If | fail to find womf
cook who is an artist in the kitch(
and credit to an Alderman OF Il
city of London. / won't have a che
The man who engages a chef ceas
40 to be master Of his own house"
Mrs. Cleverson could have laugh
for delight, she could have dane
49, for joy, so heavy had been the To-
~ now lifted from her mind. Bt
! being wise little woman-thou
- she had engaged butchers cook
:, she did nothing or the kind.
n' II dc hope YOU will succeed" S
said, speaking from the bottom of /
. heart, and let the matter drop
The hungry Alderman returned
town aud dined. Afterwards, feeli
~ more comfortable, he drew up an
vertisement
Wanted, a woman cook by a &
tleman who considers the prepafat
Of feed fine art, and that a DIM
iCh should always be dream Of delig
No second rate spoler OF good IN
:. need apply, as proof Of ability will
y required. Wages no object"
There he murmured, CONF
Gently, "now, perhaps, I'll get d
r1 ner at home"