The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-29


salmon taken from the oven; Sprinkle
the whole with a little finely minced
parsley and serve.
HOUSEHOLD PROBLEMS.
Aunt Trudy Relates an Experience in
Doing Things.
Button Rose Cottage,
Sept. the last, 1900.
Dear State Journal:
1 thot I would tell you how. cum by it.
Somehow it allus goes agin the Crane
disterbd, an / sort o. put out when
Jon Harryson cum in all a drippen wet
self fur one O. them joyful evenin's with
book fur it was ranen so hard / nu the
Paee sund1s do ike to hav It rane
decided, so one noes what to do for sure
an 1 was jes' settled as cosy as ktt'n
on a kushen when, as sed, Jon Harry
his umbrelly in the hall, an put his wet
shoes on a rug All the time he wus
had to cum fer advice. You see Jon Iar-
tyson, he was a kin of some OF Jane starr
F Peg house 60 When he Eei ere
Trudy, Minny is clean plade out. we
can't get a bird girl: an, the one we had ra
we goin' to do. That's what sum fer you
to tell me. Can't you jes' cum over fer
jes' tell us what to do? Minny hes ac-
shelly got histerriks' an got EN- haro'
An objecshun started like a It'll whirl,
win in my he'd. but didn't let on, jes,
you think 1 can help Minny, Jon, III cum
over erly." You couldn't POSSIBLY cum
tonite, could you?" falterd Jon with such
appealin' look as 1 never kin stan in
a boys face. an | sed Yes, III go.
wus on the car it begin agen: My, how
sosEelbel strangers are when they are out
in a storm! The rane was jes' ratlen on
Win6OS when
engeneer to back up an get some tolkS
on. But the engeneer thot that was ir-
reglar, an the car slid on. When We got
of a blk We were as wet if we had
waded into the Kaw. That's the way It
ranes in Observation-Disclosures. But it dosn't
down or stan still. 1 wus soon dressed
up in all sorts g things an, sit ten , cosy
made It was JUS an eailarat1n outen
after al oyerherd + sefner her IN cla sns
to put on OF cloes on rany days, an cum
anyway. Well, joins boy Fred was asleep
an Minny was better an cheerd up, be-
plan about a bird girl. After while we
morrow merr W / happen'd to think, as sed
.'goodnite'' how i had beer. been tn. there ito to
in the mornin', Minny. an I'll get brek,,
fust, an see to gettin' Jon off in time
T Way a h0w whe Yeu things what 70 & tod
her not to worry. In the mor-s1n at o.
an in three ninets had washed four APP
pies, split EN- in too, an put EN- in the
oven to bake 1 put in a It'll water, an
I sprinkled over sum suger- Then | put
on the granet stuer for otemele. l put
IN It. aPpee e an lit n salt TRen Wine colt it
was comm to a bile, fixed the CORY.
pnt p IN t on on ne pper af dipper
full of cold water an set It on the ire
sifted in it three hanfuls of Quaker otes,
bein' carful not to stir 1t a mite L let
it bile about three minets, an then turned
the fire out. Then my coffy billed one
minet an 1 turnd that fire out Then
broke too eggs for JON an one Tor Aain my,
them when they were jes' redy to etc. Jon
an Minny came in then, fur Minny sed
ciered the coffy with a spoonful of cold
water an gave them first there ,otemele
pies an bred an butter. The eggs I jes'
dropped a minet in a hot skillet, in which
'em rite out in the dish Taht way, they're
all rite. An Jon sed so, an the way they
YOU think me egytistickle if 1 wrote it.
But Jon, bragged lots on the Ut time melt 1t
cum out Mondys, becos he would have
time to reed it once. Minny sed she could
or three days an sho her how.
but the dinners sed Minny, I'VE must
hours hau el hard work every day, an don't leve
me time for any other work until am
all tired out eGuld get along reel eel wei FSa
dinners MY advis would be for you
we couldn't AFFORD it!'' they both cried
together. 1t wus jes what. 1 expected
them to say, an I was redy to anser:
WELL let's count up the cost of .gettin'
dinner: Meat, 20, vegetables. 10; butter,
O5: bread, .O5 coffy and suger an spice,
10: milk .05: fruit, 10; pie, 10: pudding,
O5: bird girl, .35-$1.25. Now can tell
you of several nice places, eileen. an home
cooken, too, where you can get all this
fur 20 ech-.60 fur you three; Then
there's allus nice home cooked things at
ladies' exchanges-jes' as cheep as. you
kin make 'em yourself an genrelly
whole lot better. I hope to see the day
when ladies' exchanges will be more
plenty than they are now, fur the relief
Of overworked women who can't get bird
girls.
Then advised that once a week Minny
should hire wido woman to scrub an
cleen She works for fc1scs for 10 an our,
an supports her little children, an keeps
'em together--at mite, anyway. She would
do there work well, an in lessen two
Wen, Jon an Minny. they Jes' took rite
Trudy could tell us what to do sed
JON IAN l jes' want her TO stay all the
week an help get her plans in oper-
ashun- But I sed couldn't sta longer
than Tuesdy evenin'. fur had herd that
Elijy was comm to dedicate the Audy
toryum, an / couldn't mis- seem him; so