The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

selves generally useful and do their best
to work up a comp imentary app title.
Now, the girls are bright and clever.
but they know about as much of {, acticaI
cooking as they do of the Fiji shorter cat
echism. Nevertheless they rummaged
into the larder and found some oysters.
and chicken in the ice box, and on this
foundation they set to work. They
stewed the oysters and they roasted the
chicken. They roasted II artisticaly I'M
der counterpart of slices of bacon, and
IL looked like a nice job Then the table
was set for four and the smoking viands
were dished up by the triumphant though
slightly flushed young women.
The oysters were pronounced really ele-
CANT, and then the chicken came on in the
role OF second course. II was beautiful
Jump chicken. and its tender brown tint
would hove delighted an artist-more es-
pecialy a hungry artist, A generous
slice of white meat was handed to one of
the young men, and in the excess of his
admiration he promptly helped himself to
a mouthful of it. Then he looked thought
full.
How is it?" they cried in chorus.
Very nice" he hastily replied, Then
he more slowly added: IF you don't
mind, I'll take a iitt Of the dark meat
off the lower end of the leg, please"
A moment laler the other young man
sampled his share OF the chicken and
then il was his turn to look thoughtful
He not only looked thoughtful, but he
also gu.ped a goblet of water.
A moment later everybody looked
thoughtful and a distressing silence en-
sued. 1t ended when the daughter of the
house took up the platter and hustled the
ch cken from the apartment and into outer
darkness.
1t was nice chicken and they are nice
girls, aud made delightfully."- picturesque
cooks in their snowy aprons, but the
painful fact remains that the proposes.
ing fowl had never been dressed!
They mean 10 keep it a secret, but
unlike the chicken-it was too good to
keep.
Once upon a time, says the Washing
ton Post there was a woman whose hus-
band became suddenly rich-so rich that
society in the provincial town where she
belonged was rot by any means elegant
enough for her. She had two pretty
daughters, who were so possessed of the
national gift of adaptability that after a
year or two at a fashionable school they
were qui e plesentable. The family came
to Washington. Society took no notice OF
them till a great lady who had once lived
in their home town took pity on them
ana invited the three--r obody so far as
| knew has ever seen the fourth MEM
her of the family, the father-to dine.
The mother was frankly impossible and
in site Of the previous coaching of her
daughters, she-well, she did everything
but eat with her knife. She ate her oys-
t RS with a spoon ard when the soup
came in it pleased her so that 10 have
the last few spoonfus she tilted her
paV
warning cough, caught mamas eye, and
sent her an awful look. Mama turned
purple. The hostess saw the look and
The blush. OF course, you know what
she did. You know what the traditional
hostess did when a guest broke a Sevres
cup. You know what the hostess in stor-
les always does. This one tilted her own
plate and scooped up the last drop of
her soup. Mama looked relieved, and the
hostess hardly dared put on her bonnet
for days after that for fear Of getting it
tangled on the rays of her halo. Nearly a
year afterward she head of the act of
kindress again. friend told her. The
frierd Rad met mama ard the two young
girls at the springs. Trey had speedily
discovered that they all knew the great
l-dy.
II think she is the most perfectly we'll
bred woman in Washington" said the
friend Don't you?'
TIE young woman hesitated.
she has such exquisite manners"
went on the friend 81 have never seen
her commit the slightest mistake"
"Oh she has very pleasant manners"
assented the elder of mamas daughters,
but she didn't strike me as being al
ways nuite-well, CONNIE IL faut you
know She does rather odd things at ia
bic, if you'll notice OF course, she's
dear, sweet woman-bUt, really, she ought
not to tip up her SOUP plate to get the
list spoonful, you know"
And that's what the greet lady got for
trying to live up to tradition. You can
fancy what she said when she heard
of It.