Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-09-17

also of n great sauce. What hid peal
name was no one ever knew He had
come into Rivington street in the arms
of drunken woman who inexplicahly
had considerable money Oh this ac-
count, and also ON account uf her gem
erosity, she was welcomed by the so
ciety of that downtown district,
Her name was Mary Her faulty
name was somewhat obscure. Once
when arrested she gave it as Jones,
another time as Schmidt, a third rs
Bonaparte and fourth time as wash
ington. This variety showed her to
be a woman of some information, if
nothing else
The baby was bright-eyed h''le
thing, which was lame. The woman
was kind enough TO it in her own
rough way and left the child largely
to its own resources.
1t was clever and soon found out
which of the neighbors were kind aud
liked children and which did not
jsmscy. for SO it was called by its
mother, managed 10 get along like
thousands Of others i'll the submerged
Tenth. He grew. but on account Of
his intirmity grew in different wag
from the other children Of the neigh
borhood, He did not care mitch for
playing, but liked housekeeping.
dolls and other girlish recreations
When he was four he could make hun
self quite useful in the kitchen aud
was so careful thai he could be safely
iutrusted with plates, turEglers. When
he was six his mother died,
No one ever appeared TO claim the
body, and the city buried it without
ado. The kind-hearted policeman
talked Of taking the boy to nice orr
phau asylum. whore the children are
all dressed in uniform mud are trained
to walk alike, talk alike, eat alike,
read alike and think nike aud very
often to misbehave aud die alike
He found to his surprise that even
| down in Rivington street there was
an invincible antipathy to asyluns.
Mrs. Mueller, a childless Getman
woman, said that the baby should
stay with her as long as she lived aud
that no Irish policeman should take it
away aud have it ruined in an asylum.
So Jamsey became member of the
Mueller family, which consisted OF the
lady in question and her husband, who
was employed in an uptown brewery
Mrs, Mueller, like all German
housewives, had a mania for cleanli-
ness, In her particular religion it
preceded godliness, She had the
same reverence for scrubbing brush
that poor Hindu has for Juggernaut,
while bar of soap gave her more
pleasure than the heaviest black silk
dress
Undoubtedly the cornerstone of her
love for Jamsey was his taste for
household pleasures, and they made a
fine pair,
Although lame, he would lend fair
hand TO her scrubbing up the floors
and polishing the windows and in
doing the family ironing. He was in
valuable in washing aud wiping the
dishes, and by degrees he came to
cook all her favorite dishes as well a,
she herself did.
Once or twice she let kim cook bv
himself, when he surprised her by the
tastiness of his finished work. After
that, when she had what she cousid-
cred leisure, she would teach HIN all
the secrets OF old German country
cooking as she had learned it in her
youth, of fashionable Berlin cooking.
where she had beena cook some eight
years before marrying and coming to
this country.
Jamsey made wonderful progress
and at IL, as Mrs. Mueller fondIy nd.
mitted, was almost as good, if not verv
much better, than herself. The old
lady had not neglected Jamsey's edu-
cation. He had gone TO the public
school and had made fair progress
He had learned German from Mrs.
Mueller and her husband aud picked
mp capital smattering of French from
Monsieur Bouhomme, the poor little
cobbler in the basement Of the tene-
ment.
About this time Jamsey heard Of
the cooking school, 1t was conducted
by some charitable ladies' who lived
uptown and was held one even me- a
week.
He obtained Mrs. Muoiier's consent
aud applied for admission. He was II
pretty boy; though poor, was MS clean
and neat as If he had been a million
aires son. Although older thpn the
other children, he was admitted 10 the
class.
Before the first lesson was over the
teacher found in amazsment tbot in
many respects the boy knew more Of
cooking than she did. After three
months had passed. she said To him
one day
"Jamsey, yuu better go to a higher
school. ~
Jamsey knew of none.
Didn't his friends know?''
Jamsey had no friends.
The teacher thought herself and
gave him II letter to an eminent
teacher of cookery uptown. He was
very well received when he nrase,taJ
the letter, but was broken beorteJ
when told that the instruct,on rost
S25 quarter
Jamsey hal never ha more tba, ~
nany cents IN all his life. He muse I
little while, and then he said.
Please, ma'am, | want 10 learn
Cooking with You, and l haven got
any money. But if You'll teaeb me
what you know I'll teach you what |
know, and I'll wash your dishes and
clean your kitchen besides. in thu bar,
gain, " ~ '"i
The professor Of culinar, art
laughed very heartily and being a