Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-12
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daintily helped herself to another
spoonful. "In fact, | think 1t Is the
very incest | ever tasted 1t was per-
rectly lovely of you to bring 1t
home," -,
81 first tasted this sort OF jelly,
said Mr.. Dobley, reminiscently,
'while on a bicycle tour in France.
Freshington and | had stopped at
quaint old inn for breakfast. They
brought in some of this jelly re-
member perfectly-with some cream
cheese on a grapevine leaf and some
rolls and coffee. We had neither OF
us tasted the jelly before ana we
thought it superb. The other day
while buying some fruit at Soakem s.,
on Broadway. | saw the same oddly
shaped little glass and | ordered some
sent home" .,
at is better than American jellies,'
said Mrs. Dobley. Il wonder how
they made it?' -.
I'VE asked the inn keeper about it,
said MIR. DOblcy, land he told us then
that il was made right in that little
town. the town this it is named afer,
town. the town that it is named after
and that has become famous just
through this preserve. 1t is put up
by the women folks. and the fruit is
raised by the men and marketed. 1t
| Is the one industry of the place. There
are groves of the white and red cur
rant bushes-thousands of EN-. They
live in an atmosphere of sweets Even
the children all work picking and
stringing the currants
GLOW charming it must have been!'
said Mrs. Dobley; "and what a pretty
name: Bar de due? Do you know |
think it would be a most interesting
subject for a paper that | am going to
read before the Domestic Science
! Club on Thursday afternoon? The
Superiority of the French Over the
American jelly That would be sure
to create a discussion. And a dis
custom always leads to a quarrel! And
when we have quarrel at our club
we know that we are really making
progress and taking the matter seri-
ously. | wonder where | can find out
all about the town and the manufac-
ture of the jelly?"
"Why. in the new Labyrinth Ency-
clopedia. of course" said Dobley; I'M
doubtedly the greatest work of the
age, a copy of which I purchased for
| you some six months ago. and which
! | presume You have never opened
"You bought it for me?' asked Mrs
Dobley in some surprise.
II thought it would be handy for
you to have around in case you might
I 10 vi II n WI n ~
pened to be away from home" eX
planned Mr.. Dobley.
ooh, see," said Mrs. Dobley, that
was very nice of your
There is no word in the English
language; no name of any town or
book or person: no science. no study
or art that is not fully and compre-
hensively explained in that wonder
full book" said Dobley. Great scien-
lists have worked for years in inves-
! tigating and perfecting the definitions
of simple words-and writers have
been paid thousands Of dollars for
certain descriptive articles. IIistori-
ans, photographers. mathmeticians
geographers have labored over it 50
that it is now the most complete and
reliable thing of the kind in existence.
When | go to the office today you
take that volume from the shelf and
read up on the subject Of the jelly you
are so interested in. You will learn
when it was first made and by whom;
how it has been improved in quality:
how the industry has fourished until
the town has become known through
the world al exactly the amout that
is exported. e number of bushes of
currants in tie place and their yearly
yield; the profits of the English and
American trade. All there is to be
known on this subject will be spread
before you and you will acquire a
store of valuable knowledge instead
of wasting the morning over frivo-
lous novel;"
Il shall certainly do So said Mrs.
Dobley, "and / shall certainly have
my paper all ready to read tonight. /
suppose it will not be necessary for
me to explain that | have obtained the
facts from an encyclopedia"
"You might mention" said Dobley,
that visited the town while on n
bicycle trip and that ! investigated
1 the matter fully while there
THAT will be quite interesting
remarked Mrs. Dobley.
and it will be also true sale
Dobley, "The slight additional detail.
you can obtain from the encyclope
dia"
That night when Mr.. Doblev re
turned he found Mrs. Dohley in thu,
library with a towel about her head
and a worried look.
"I've been searching through this
old book all day" she said. "and
can't find it! | hated to have to con.
fess that I was so stupid. but can
not find one word about the jelly"
"Tut-tut,' said Mr. Dobley, gayly!
don't let that worry you, you prob.
ably don't understand the Labyrinth's
system of indeXed classification.
Mrs. Dobley looked mystined. 81
found the word in my old school die.
tionary" she said, lin the geographic
cal names. But 1t didn't speak of the
jelly. 1t just said "a town in the De.
partment of Mouse of the Ornain riv.
er, France"
"There," said Dobley, "is where
the superiority of the Labyrinth sys.
TEN comes in! This is where it simply
lays over every work of the sort
Here" he said: rapidly turning to the
entire history of the most famous