The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-14

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salat?" Miss Larson nodded to-
ward the lettuce and the toma-
toes on the table. It's won
% Il der to me that folks don't
begin to have salats for breakfas. for
they have 'em for ev'ry other meal. Might
as we'll be horse in the fields says Mr..
Fisher one night. seems If I don't get
much to eat but grass So far as I'm con-
cerned, a bit Of grass is pretty refresh
in jes' now. It makes you fergit how dis
'greeable it is outside an makes you think
of summer an mosquitoes an lemonade.
Mos of us are born wantin' what we
haven't got an we go on cultivatin' that
feelin' till there isn't anythin' we really
enjoy when we have it. We don't see any
good in winter till after the Fourth o.
July an it isn't till bout Thanksgivin'
time It we begin to 'ppreciate the bless
ms of summer. I dunno but what mos
| things do look better gain at EN- from
way in front stead o. face to face. It's
| mighty little, folks or things, t look their
best close to, seems II. ..
II never make a salat but I think Of
Mrs. Layman. She's a little woman.
whose mothers responsible for a good
many of her uncomfortable days. She
| never taught Mrs. Layman to make fire
or handle needle, an when she was
| married she didn't know a potato from q
| turnip. That IS a fac, for one day when
l was there she wanted to make a potato
puddin an she used turnips stead of po-
tatoes.- Turnips are all very well in the
vegetable dish, but they don't belong in
/ the |puddin' place. an stayed after din
ner an explained the difference between
potatoes an turnips an carrots an oyster
plant, while Mr.. Layman went over to the
| store for cigar.
! 1T isn't safe to turn woman as igno-
rant as Mrs. Layman loose in the kitchen,
an I often think t Mr.. Laymans got
| courage t isn't in ev'ry man. He jes'
sits at that table an eats the nesses she
puts together an tells her how good they
are till I'm mos afraid the punishment of
Ananias an Sapphira III overtake him in
that little dining room of theirs.
| There s only one thing he ever refused
so far as I've heard an Mrs. Laymar
don't keep things to herself so the whole
neighborhood knows jes' howsit is Many
IS the time It Mr.. Layman S been 'viteC
down to dinner unexpected by other peo.
4 Pile in the fiat who'd smelled his dinner
burnin up on the stove while Mrs. Lay
man was readn' some poem that ID make
her blood thrill. She jes' yearns to have
thrills, but she could get 'em over a cool
box as we'll as poem, seems If. hTere':
the same uncertainty in both, seems if
for you can't aFys tell what the poe
means an you're never sure bout re
ceipt till the dish is outen the oven.
| / L
; thing It 1 ever knew Mr.. Layman t
plainly refuse an that was a salat. I
was the frs time I tried to make dress
, in',' says Mrs. Layman to me, says she
) and you'd thought she'd been peelin' on
ions to look at her eyes, an it was jes
$ as smooth as velvet seasoned to tn
queens taste. I forgot to order any let
{ tuce but folks are al'ys teliin' me to u.s.
) anythin' in salat an did. It took
, cup of col breakfast food an half a cul
t of col boiled nacaroni t was lef' from
dinner an chopped 'em all up an put tn
5 salat dressin' on 'ena. Jim wouldn't toucl
it. He says he didn't deserve such treat
, men, Is there any work as discouragin
: as housekeepin', Miss Larson, for If Their
+ is I'd like to know what it is, an sh
, twisted her face into q smile that jes
made me suffer with her.
'I dunno what a woman means wher
, she don't teach her girls their house
!, keepin' A. B. C.'s. Accomplishments ma!
mean plano playin an paintin', but cook
!. in an SEWN spells comfort, seems if.''
"Have you begun goin' 'thout you
3 breakfas'? Only two meals a day ar
9 bein' served In a good many houses jes
s now. can see how goin' 'thout 'conom
n ICES. money but dunno where it save
$ strenth. There's folks t III do mos any
8 thin. il You tell 'em it's good for EN-. an
it jes shows what a sufferin' people w
!. are. There's Mr.. Grant used to get u
d ev'ry mornin' at 2 o'clock to drink gias
f of milk. He'd set the alarm clock an
$ when. it went off he'd get his glass hal
e full Of milk an half full OF cream al
k drink It. He probably would be spoiiir
| his sleep an disturbin' the family vet.