Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-18
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HER UNEXPECTED GUESTS.
Trse Tslo of Young wffe,s Dinner tc
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Trse Tale of Young Wife's Dinner to
 Husbands Friends.
 Young Mrs. Witherby has had most remarkable experience. She was mar ried a year ago. and of course she told her husband that she would always be ready to receive and dine his friends in proper style She had been brought up on the good, old-fashioned system, and she knew that no emergency ever found her mother unprepared. There were always cold potatoes in the ice chest to reappear as mashed brown potatoes; there was always cold chicken to be served as chicken frieasee or chicken hashed on toast Stale cake served with sauce as cottage pudding, am brosial coffee, cheese and waters always finished up an impromptu dinner, which the unexpected guests found more delicious than a meal of many courses. Young Mrs. With erby knew that this was as it should be. She had read in the Young Honsekeeper's Guide to Happinessn about impromptu meals, and she felt that if only one knew how to hash the potatoes and make the coffee no de- scent of strangers was to be dreaded
 Mrs. Witherby has been getting her summer outfit ready and last Thursday being the cooks day off she decided to sew all day and to get George to take her to a little Bohemian restaurant to dinner At o'clock she heard his voice in the hall. He was hospitably en- treating someone to make himself com fortable in the library In two or three minutes he had come up and an- nouneed that two of his college chums were downstairs, prepared to dine with them. Young Mrs. Witherby was slightly annoyed. but she knew that she was sorry it was the cooks day out, but that she woald get a dinner up herself
 She donned an apron and started for the ice bex. She looked for the iAevita- bls cold chicken, but it was mysterious 1y missing. Neither were there four large, cold boiled potatoes from yes terdays dinner, as there should have been. Mrs. -Witherby was somewhat disconeerted. The contents of the ice box were a small pot of butter half a pint of milk and small saucer of cold cabbage. She went hastily to the closet, her mind fixed upon canned soup, an smelstte with jelly. some canned peas and some eansed fruit
 In the closet there were three eggs, two slices of rye bread and ten cans of tomatoes. Then Mrs Witherby recalled the fact that the cook was to set bread that night, and that the grocer was to come for orders the next morning. She felt nearly desperate, but resolved to serve piekled fish. potatoes and tomatoes if nothing else came to light. But even hSr9 she was frustrated. There was not shred of dried codfsh left and the po- tato box was empty She sat down by the sink and wept. How could she serve dinner of stewed tomatoes and cafe noir? Clearly enough she could t'The Young Housel1eepers' Guides" were false. They were built upon the mistakenpremises that every ice chest always contained a cold chicken and that calSe-box always had stale cake. Mrs. Witherby wept the louder as she considered how she had been imposed upon.
 Later Mir. Witherby took his wife and college chums to dinner at little Bo- hemian restaurant. And if the feast cost him seven dollars, or whereabouts. 1t was clearly the fault of that system of domestic education which always assumes cold chicken and canned fruits N Y World.