Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-09-17
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The True Story of a Sauce.


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! s"nd-nitured soul took tamsey in
i upon these terms One day pupil
desired To learn how to make two or
thee German dishes. Her husband
i eNpec'el 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
~ know how Yuu let me teach
/ her
The professor said Thanks.
Jamsey, and told the pupil that her
assistant had made a specially of Ger
man cooking aud would be only too
glad to give her the requisite tuition.
The lady accepted, and Jamsef was
nnspeakablt happy. He gave three
lessons and did il SO well that both
/ professor and pupil were deeply
pleased Better still, the pupil, who
WIS very well to do, gave the little
cripple a 50 bill He thanked her.
ohuckled, and then went home as fast
as hi lameness would permit When
/ be burst into the room where Mrs.
Mueller was -crubbing the underside
ol the table, and handle that aston
lshed woman clean, crisp bill, she
rould not find words TO express her
feelings
She went to a closet. unlocked
& L
took from it Dutch cap. black
velvet with band in which
red, yellow, blue, orange, green and
violet were massed i'll crazy style, and
put it on the boys head.
She said: My boy. you have
earned yonr first money, aud you are
now q man You shall wear mans
hat That hat is what my husband
wore when he got out OF his appren-
tlceship and became a brewery man,
free aud 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 Jamsey
mastered the profession. Jamsey
was sorry to hear the news, because
he was ambitions to learn everything
there was in regard to the kitchen.
He had made little money during
the time, and he had bought cook kerry
books under his teachers advice.
The latter had also presented the boy
with foreign books, especially those
in French aud German, which were
unknown tongues to her. but not to
Jamsey
He had also secured number of
implements aud had refashioned many
to suit his own ideas. He was going
on Il, and though small for his age,
he had already the soul OF 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.
Muellers sickness, and his insurance
was very small
At the furthest there was but Sl200.
anl ont of this came the expense of
the funeral and the cemetery. In
Riyington street they follow the an
cient Irish practice of robbing the liv-
ing to honor the dead. There was
fine hearse and many carriages, cof-
fin, which the neighbors called per
fectl1 illigant, lot and handsome
tombstone
There were the usual funeral festiv
tiles, and when this was over about
500 remained. Mrs. Mueller, the
evening after the funeral, said
'Jamsey, we'll have to go to work
very soon We have only q little
money and it won't last two years il
We are we'll, nor one year if anything
happens TO us.
Jamsey said: 81 start ont tomor-
row. Fran Mueller, but YOU are too
old to work at ALL I'll ges the work
and take care of you, and so Jamsey
started
He tried one restaurant, aud the
proprietor, with an oath, said he didn't
want any children around, Get
out
He tried another. and there was no
vacancy He answered II or 10 adj
vertisement4, but received no reply
He then secured employment in Bow
erv restaurant, where on the third day
he was brutaly beaten by waiter
whom h detected robbing the owner
He was plucky boy and was not
/ disheartened 1t was very hard, how
I ever, and it became doubly hard when
Mrs Mueller one morning could not
get up. and the doctor said she would
have to remain in bed for many
weeks.
The new burden acted as a stimuaut
upon the boy He was up early in the
morning and made the breakfast and
cleaned mp the rooms He then fr-
ranged medicines and cold luncheon
on the table alongside of the bed and
thea went mp into the street to look
for employment. An emit month
passed. and then inspired by h ppy
thought he presented himself one
morning before the proprietor of one
Of the great restaurants of the city
The proprietor said I'm afraid
I you're too Young, my son, but You
might go down stars aud see the heal
chef. He attends 10 that part Of the
/ business Jamsey was encouraged
I bv the manner if not the matter Of the
speech and went to the great kitchen
beneath the dining hail The chef
hal Just come in, a handsome. blacl-
mustached. sy-cheeked Alsatian. who
looked at the boy aud said; well,
what is it?'
Jamsey sa d. ia like to be a cook
here, sir
Tho ckef smiled and said in his own