Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-12-27

entire year. Fudge and angels food are
not very filling for hungry man..
Fudge and angels food-the ideal !
decided on a menu of six courses, and
spent ten days in looking up the recipes
for it and studying them Unfortunately,
the exertion made me so tired that / be
cane mentally upset and was apt TO con.
fuse recipe for Italian cream with one
for ereamed lobster, and they are very,
very different However, when New
Years day really came and Harry said
thai he must spend the greater part of 1t
az the office going over his accounts felt
that success was sure"
BY the way, haven't you a good cook
And didn't you let her help and advise
your"
She wanted TO, but told her that she
needed a holiday and must take II while
] got the dinner. She then confessed that
abe didn't want 10 go out because her
beau was coming TO $50 her and would be
offended If she was out. ! told her that
inside no difference; that what you did
on New Years day you did the year round
and II she did not work on that day abe
would doubtless be married to million
aipe and living a life Of luxurious idleness
within ak months"
"Humph. Did she 90 theng"
'-She did. Then / set to work. and
oh, how did work, but somehow nothing
was-wen, quite like the pictures In the
household magazines. The odor of things
burning, too. became so strong that the
man from next door--a perfect stranger
came over TO see if the house was on fire
and If he could be of any USE"
We'll. luckily, you could air the whole
place thoroughly before Harry came
home"
Il did. By noon had cooked enough
to feed regIment-dinner was TO be at
three-but somehow it did not seem very
appetzing, so / decided 20 have only four
courses; that was more economical din
ner Tor young couple anyhow. When
Harry arrived, promptly at three, l was
all ready and trying to look as If l felt
cool and hide the two burned and one
cut finger. l had decided that three
courses were enough for anybody save a
giutton, by that time"
Well, am sure that everything was
very nice"
'It-well, it was not quite perfect. 7
had forgotten to stuff the chickens and
L had put salt in the cranberries instead
OF sugar, but that was mere detail. for
the table looked lovely with all my best
linen, embroiderles, silver, glass and
china on it. As l wanted 20 surprise him
thoroughly. did not tell him that / had
cooked 1t myself meant to tell him that
at the very last"
as sort of postscript to the dessert.
How. nicei''
MINI Well, though he had said he
was wildly hungry, be did not eat-just
played with things. He kept starting TO
speak, too, and then shutting his mouth
tight without saying word. Something
was wrong with the coffee, though ] had
put IN twice as much as the cook book
said. As he set down his cup, well. rather
more torcefully than wac quite necessary.
he said! Wen, dear, It is New Years
day. and have resolved not to lose NV
temper for an entire year, but I must
say ono thing: the girl who cooked that
dinner must be dismissed before to-mor.
rows sun Is up A woman who would
give a hungry man underdone chicken.
oveTdone potatoes and asbestos pie. would
be capable of numbering us in our bedsp "
-Oh, well, you need never tell him thai
you cooked that dinner"
Il didn't tell him, but he undertook
70 discharge ths cook, and she did,"