Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

entire year. Fudge and angels food are
not very filling for a hungry man"
Fudge and angels food-the idea! /
decided on menu of six courses, and
spent ten days in looking up the recipes
for 1t and studying them. Unfortunately,
the eXertion made me so tired that | be
came mentally upset and was apt to con-
fuse a recipe for Italian cream with one
for creamed lobster, and they are very,
very different. However, when New
Years day really came and Harry said
that he must spend the greater part of it
at 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
you"
"She wanted to- but | told her that she
needed holiday and must take it while
| got the dinner. She then confessed that
she didn't want to 60 out because her
beau was coming to see her and would be
offended II she was out. | told her that
made no difference; that what you did
on New Years day you did the year round
and if she did not work on that day she
would doubtless be married to a million
are and living life OF luxurious ideness
within six months
"Humph. Did she go them"
"She did. Then | set to work, aRl,
OH how | did work, but somehow nothing
was-well, 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 il the house was on fire
and ii he could be OF any use"
well, luckily, you could air the whole
place thoroughly before Harry came
home"
81 did. BY noon l had cooked enough
to feed a regiment-dnner was to be at
three-but somehow it did not seem very
appctizing, so | decided to have only four
courses; that was a more economical din.
ner for a young couple anyhow. When
Harry arrived, promptly at three, | was
all ready and trying to look as if | felt
cool and hide the two burned and one
cut finger. | 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; |
had forgotten to stuff the chickens and
| had put salt in the cranberries instead
OF sugar. but that was mere detail, for
the table looked lovely with all my best
linen, embroideries, silver, glass and
china on it. As | wanted to surprise him
thoroughly, | did not tell him that had
cooked ii myself meant to tell him that
at the very last"
AS sort Of postscript to the dessert
How nicc!"
NJ hm. Wei, though he had said he
was wildly hungry, he did not eat-just
played with things. lie kept starting to
s[elk, too, and then shutting his mouth
tight without saying a 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, we'll rather
more forcetully than was quite necessary,
he said: We'll, dear, it is New Years
day, and | have resolved not to lose my
temper for an entire year, but / must
say one thing: the girl who cooked that
dinner must be dismissed before to-mor-
rows sun Is up. \ woman who would
give a hungry man underdoue chicken.
overdoue potatoes and asbestos pie. wouid
be capable o.. numbering Us in our beds"
"OH, well, YOU need never tell him that
you cooked that dinner"
Il didn't tell him, but he undertook
to discharge the cook, and she did!"