The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-05

A young lady who prides herself on
/ being a good pastry cook returned from
a visit to neighboring town and in
formed her friends that she had learned
| how to make a new kind of cake which
is simply delicious"
Her friends all urged her to make one
and let them help eat it. She decided
upon a better plan than that. She
bought sack of the finest Of flour and
spent an afternoon making a dozen
small cakes according to her new re-
ceipt Then she distributed all but one
of the cakes among her friends At
supper she told the members of the fam
lily that she had treat for them.
"One of my new kinds of cake" she
said. TT is simply grand. Melts in
your mouth, and the aavor-wel,
can't express it," she said as she took
a large bite. The rest of the people at
the table followed suit. There was a
long silence. The young lady stopped
the process of mastication. She looked
at the others at the table. Some of
them had reached for their water
glasses and others were holding their
napkins to their mouths. She fed from
the table to the kitchen. There on the
table she saw the bottle she supposed
was vanilla extract It was labeled
"Castoria." That night she wrote
eleven notes requesting her friends
never to say cake to her
To be a good or a fairly good cook is
an accomplishment that every wife
should possess, and it is also a good
thing for young men to know how to
cook, but it is not always best for them
to let their wife know it, as shown by
the experience of a Topeka young man
recently married.
The husband, who had spent many
rr1fT he IN n mo nd n
was used to having his food cooked by
himself and others who never heard of
a cook book, ate everything his wife
cooked and made no objections Imi-
tation leather steak and waterproof
biscuits were no novelty to him and
his wife, whose whole culinary expe-
rience had been over a chatting dish,
commenced to think she was a born
cook, until hubby informed her that
he was immensely fond of that non
aesthetic concoction known as the pan
cake. She volunteered to fry a stack
for him for breakfast. She went to
the kitchen. The husband went to the
back yard to cut kindling.
He heard a good deal of noise in the
kitchen and wondered what it was, but
he was a wise young husband and did
not investigate. Soon, swish-swat,
and something went past his head and
struck the side of the woodshed with
a resounding thud. 1t sounded like
spent six FOUNDER. A solid mass in
the shape OF a pancake Ieu at MS TeeI.
He looked at it and struck it a blow
with his Ratchet. Then he went to the
grindstone. SWish-another cake sailed
past him. Then he heard a wall. WHEY
gave up the job, retreated in tears and
refused to be recOnciled. Hubby went
into the kitchen and in a few minutes
took a pile of red hot cakes into the
dining room where his wife sat crying.
He said not a word but commenced eat
ing the cakes. She finally did after
pretty good. She ate another and be-
fore the meal was over hubby had
fried three stacks. He explained to
his wife where he had learned to make
cakes. He was very nice about it, and
also explained to her how nicely he
could fry bacon, make coffee and soda
biscuits At the office that day he told
his friends about it; such a good joke,
he thought. A day or two after one of
his friends mentioned pancakes, and
the young man was mad as hornet in
a minute. The trouble is that ever
since that fateful morning he has had
to make pancakes, fry bacon, make
coffee, bake potatoes, and soda biscuits
three times a day. His wife is still on
a strike.
A young lady. who is quite an accom-
plished vocalist, was called upon to sing
at party. She did but under difficult
ties
She chose as her selection 1.-The Holy
City" and took her place by the piano.
A young man, not knowing she was to
sing, had wound up a large music box.
The young lady started to sing. The
young man tried to stop the music box.
He pulled all the levers but it would not
stop so he grabbed the cylinder and
hung on. He held as tight as he could
but it was hard work.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, lift up your
gates and sing" sang the young lady
and just then the young man, who was
becoming tired, Ioosened his hold on
the cylinder of the music box and the
thing revolved far enough to play Hello
ma Baby, Hello, ma Honey" He grab
bed the machine with renewed energy
and hung on. The young lady blushed,
faltered, missed a few words but the
piano kept right on and she chimed in
with "hozanna to your king just as the
music box slipped again and played
Send me kiss by WIRE honey my
hearts on fire" The young lady broke
down completely and fed from the room.
SO did the young man and the music
box kept on grinding and finished strong
with the music to the words Send me
kiss by wire"
A Topeka lawyer, who is always GER
tain that his client is innocent, was
standing in a court room a few days
ago when young man was brought in
to be tried for stealing a buggy whip.
The young man had no one to defend
him and the lawyer promptly offered his
services. He had not heard anything
about the case but he waded in and
worked hard to break the testimony be-
ing given against the young man. An
officer caught the boy in the act of
stealing the whip from buggy stand
ing on Kansas avenue. He gave his
evidence. The lawyer found that the
officer had sworn to the warrant and
that he did not know whose buggy it
was.
Your honor" said the lawyer in
pleading the case, this case has been
improperly brought. The officer knows
nothing about the whip. He did not own
the whip and does not know who it be-
longed to. The boy says it was his whip.
There is no evidence to the contrary.
Give the prisoner the benefit of the
doubt" He then euIogized the boy He
was certain such a bright and honest
looking youth would not steal. The
prisoner was finally DISCHARGED That