The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-10-07
For the Household Department.:
Other Peoples Pies.
lust YOU stop showing YOUR

Just you stop showing your fnger into
my pie ;" said the elder brother when the
small boy showed too decided interest in
his seniors love affairs and developed an
uumistakab.e preference for the society OF
the young lady concerned. She too no
doubt preferred the management of the
courtship to be left to the chief party in.
terested, and the small intruder was clearly
given to understand that he was. to borrow
his own select and expressive term Tout
of it."
Are not many of us just little too fond
of putting our fingers into other peoples
pies ? We will leave our own to burn in
the oven while We run over to make sure
our neighbour has hers all right. Some.
times we set to work and prepare it for he
ourselves bidding her attend we'll to the
baking thereof. It is so much easier to
mix other peoples pies than our own some
how. We have always the delightful con
viction that that particular pie of our
neighbours was a great success mainly be-
cause of our advice on ticklish point of its
construction. Yet in eight cases out OF nine
our dear friend did not want our advice; in
nine cases out of ten did not take it, Ifany
ingredient had been lacking she would
willingly borrow it OF US, and we OF her. Ii
she had really desired inform alton she
woull not scruple to ask for it; but gratu
itous advice is the one thing that is ever a
drug on the market" "Freely given"
does not necessarily imply freely taken"
Yet how very rare and exceedingly difficult
itv it is sought in the time of doubt and
trial
The AGO 1aintance who has trimmed your
bonnets and cooked your dinners and re
arranged your parlor, and altered the man.
ner of your parterre, directed the education
OF your children or managed all your spirit
al concerns is consulted on some impor'
tant sui j ct or at q grave crisis: 20 my
dear, you really mustn't ask me. shouldn' t
like to interfere. 1t might give offense you
know. Besides think such matters are
best settled at homo. Outsiders should not
meddIe with such things. I'm sure I'm very
sorry for you and hope things are better
than you think If could do anything
now I would be only too glad-but you
see how I'm situated"
Yes, though so many are anxious to have
hnger in the composition of the pie few
care to risk their hands in taking it from
the oven when it bsgins to burn.
All, but there are some who never mixed
anything for you in their lives, who will
hear of your trouble and with willing hands
and loving hearts they will come saying
Leave your work to me and rest" LET
me share the burden which weighs you
down." Il have thought of way out OF
your difficulty There are some to whom
I may go in housekeeping perplexity who
wi / take the trouble to sit down and think
the matter out; who will give the recipe
wish clearly and fully, and not only d
chaotic half with the rest to be blindly
bundered after. There are some who will
quietly place at your disposal some simple
remedy they have at hand instead OF re-
commencing half hundred patent medi
cines which have done them good at vari
Gus stages of their life and in widely differ
ent maladies. 1t is this kind whose fingers
wish put into my pie.
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