New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-07
WHEN THE COOK. lie TT

MRS. NOOLlWEDDE HAD As HEART.
BREAKING EXPERIENCE.
Like Good Housewife, She Prepared
Luncheon, but It Put q Bad Taste In.
Georges Mouth-While He Was Gone to
the Drug Store Old Friends Called.
She was in tears, and her dearest
friend sought to comfort her.
''What is it?'' she asked. Has some
body given a reception and sighted you.
just when you have a new gown? Or
have you. the invitation and not the
gown?'
''N-neither Oh, it is something per-
fectly awful"
HIN! I suppose, then, your husband
has been treating you badly. Well, as
long as he has you might relieve your
mind by telling me all about it. - 49,
. "He hash t either-l'd just like to-
him try it! No; the--the c-cook -
gone!'
"Pshaw! Is that all? Well, don t cry.
I'll stay and help you. Let me see, I
used to make lovely omelet at school,
It was cooked in a dustpan Oh, do let
us give dinner party! Hasn' It George
some nice friends whom he might ask?''
"Ye-es, he-he has. wish had never
seen any of them! wish I had put off
the wedding a year! wish I had let
Gesrge's old maid aunt come to live
with us!' @r~ 6.
The visitor looked alarmed. sYou
haven't any fever, have you, dear? And
does your head feel quite right?''
"No, it doesn't. Get me another
Northumberland, and I'll tell you all
about it. Just look at me-, will you, and
tell me what look like. - = 81
''I'd rather not, dear. You might not
like it,, IL suppose you have been try
ing to clean the SCOT out of the kitchen
chimney, haven't you?" .-~<'.-,.
'No, but I've been trying to cook
luncheon. George said he didn't feel
quite we'll after it was over, and he
went over to the-the drug store to get
something to take queer taste out of
his mouth. don't see why he need act
that way when had the loveliest roses
on the table and other things too''
''Well, don't be low spirited. Well
manage dinner, and there are lots of in
telligence Offices in town We-can buy
things ready cooked too - ~.
Ell don't care: I just don t care for
anything. I can>never hold up my head
again as long as I live"
"You don't mean to say that George
took too much of something to take the
queer taste out of his mouth?" Z *
"Of course don't mean anything of
the kind, and you are not a true friend
or you'd never suggest such thing I
cried little after he went out, and
must have got some SCOT on my face and
rubbed it in. just then the doorbell
rang, and, thinking the cook had per-
haps relented and returned, I ran to an
swer it. It was not the cook, and, oh,
Laura, who do you think it wasp
'I don't know. Your mother-in-law
perhaps" - -.
II wish it had been my mother-in-
law. She can cook. No; twas that hor-
rid girl George used to be engaged to
before he ever knew me. I never met
her, but I recognized her from her photo
graphs. ~
eff you never met her, how do you
know she is horrid?'' ..-:
''Humph! Any girl who could not
get along with George must be horrid.
Besides he has no taste at ALL can
never see trace Of beauty in the wom-
en- he calls pretty - IS:
But tell me about opening the door"
''Oh, when came face to face with
her thought should die! Her husband
was with her. Neither of them of course
knew me, and"- ]<'-.
II should think not, if you looked as
you do now. How did you manage to
tear your gown sop .,.-~
s'Caught it on a nail. They both
smiled when they saw me and asked if
Mrs. Nooliwedde was at home I saw
they thought was the maid, and, as
Stunning a brogue-you know I was al,
ways good at amateur theatricals-I
said: Faith, and that she is not. Who
shall / say was afther askin for her?'''
''Oh, you clever girl! Why, I should
never have thought Of such thing
in thousand years. Up -
eyes, wasn't it clever? But while
she was taking out cards and expressing
regrets heard George come in the back
way. In my agony lest he come out and
betray me. I ran back to the dining
room door, but before I could stop him
he cried out, sWhat is it, darling?'''
'.'You cont say sol Did they hear
him, and WHAT
II caught a look of frozen horror on
their faces as they turned and fed down
the steps. Oh, I thought I should Just
die, and II wish I had. =
''But perhaps, after all, they really
thought you were the housemaid. =
George says he-he hopes not, for
in that case what would they think. of
him for c-calling me darling?' =
And there was sound of weeping in
the room. Elisa Armstrong in New
York Journal.
Mary Seymour Howell.