Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
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I before the frSt lesson was over the
teacher found in amazement that in
many respects the boy knew more of
cooking than she did. After three
months had passed, she said to him
one day
"Jamsey, you better go to a higher
school.
Jamsey knew of none.
Didn't his friends knows"
Jamsey had no friends.
The teacher thought herself and
gave him letter to an eminent
teacher of cookery uptown. He was
very well received when he presented
the letter, but was broken hearted
when told that the instruction cost
$50 u quarter.
Jamsey had never had more than rs
many cents in all his life. He unused
q little while, and then he said
"Please, ma'am, l want to learn
cooking with you, and 1 haven't got
any money. But if you'll teach me
what you know I'll teach you what 1
know, and I'll wash your dishes and
clean your kitchen besides, in the bar
gain
The professor of culinary art
laughed very heartily and being
good-natured soul took Jamsey in
upon these terms. One day a pupil
desired to learn how to make two or
three German dishes. Her husband
expected to entertain some friends
from Berlin and wished to surprise
them. The professor was at loss to
answer, being, at matter of fact, ut
terly unfamiliar with Teutonic cook
ing Jamsey, seeing the dilemma,
whispered to the teacher:
81 know how. You let me teach
. her."
The professor said: "Thauks,
Jamsey," and told the pupil that her
assistant had made speciality of Ger
man cooking aud would be only too
glad to give her the requisite tuition.
The lady accepted, and Jamsey was
unspeasably happy. He gave three
lessons and did it so well that both
professor and pupil were deeply
pleased. Better still, the pupil, who
was very well to do, gave the little
cripple SIS bill. He thanked her,
chuckled, and then went home as fast
rs hi lamoness would permit. When
he burst into the room where Mrs.
Mueller was scrubbing the underside
of the table, and handel that aston
ished woman n clean, crisp bill, she
could not find words to express her
feelings.
She went to closet, unlocked
and opened an ancient trunk and
took from it Dutch cap, black
velvet, with O baud in which
red. yellow, blue, orange, green and
violet were massed in crazy style, and
put it on the boys head.
She said: "My boy, you have
earned your first money, and You are
now a man. You shall wear mans
hat. That hat is,what my husband
wore when he got out of his appren-
ticeship and became II brewery man,
free and independent himself.
The professor was very well pleased
with Jam ,ey's tact and gave the boy
very thorough training. Two years
he remained there, at the end Of which
time the professor said that Jamaoy
mastered the profession. Jamsey
was sorry to hear the news, because
he was ambitious to learn everything
there was in regard to the kitchen.
He had made little money during
the time, and he had bought cookery
books under his teachers advice.
The latter had also presented the boy
with foreign books, especially those
in French and German, which were
unknown tongues to her, but not TO
Jamsey.
He had also secured number Of
implements and had refashioned many
to suit his own ideas. He was going
on Is, and, though small for his age,
he had already the soul of a man.
About that time Mr.. Mueller was taken
sick.
Ere long the sickness ended, and
Mrs. Mueller was widow. What
money there had been put by had
been largely consumed during Mr..
Mueller's sickness, and his insurance
was very small.
At the fur,hest there was but $1,000,
ana out of this came the expense Of
the funeral and the cemetery. In
Rivington street they follow the an
cient Irish practice of robbing the liv-
ing To honor the dead. There was
fine hearse and many carriages, a cof-
fin, which the neighbors called ''per-
fectly illigant," lot and handsome
tombstone.