Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-01

~entire year. Fudge and angels food are | not very filling for a hungry man" Fudge and angels food-the idea! I 1 decided on menu of six courses, and spent ten days in looking up the recipes l for it and studying them. Unfortunately the exertion made me so tired that be- came mentally upset and was apt to conj l fuse recipe for Italian cream with one l for creamsd 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 cooky And didn't you let her. help and advise i you?" F3sh8
 "she wanted to, but told her that she needed holiday and must take 1t while got the dinner. She then confessed that | she didn't want to go out because her beau was coming to see her and would be l offended if she was out. l told her that made no difference; that what you did on New Years day you did the year round and if she did not7work opsthat day sba would doubtless be married to a millions are and living "a life of luxurious idleness within six months. Z,
 '9Humph Did she go thens" X oh, how did work, but somehow nothing was-well, quite like the pictures iR 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"
 Well, luckily, you could air the whole place thoroughly before Harry came home" fGsa
 sT did By noon I had cooked enough to feed regiment-dinner was to be at three-but somehow it did not seem very appetizing, so I decided to have only fouI courses; that was more economical dinJ ner for young couple anyhow, When Harry arrived, promptly at three, T was all ready and trying to look as if L felt cool and hide the two burned and one cut finger. had decided that three courses were enough for anybody save glutton, by that time" s
 ''Well, am sure that everything waal very nice"
 ssIt-weil, it was not quite perfect; l had forgotten to stuff the chickens and I had put salt in the cranberries instead of sugar, but that was mere detail. fDr the table looked lovely with all my best linen, cmbroideries, silver, glass and china on it. As I wanted to surprise him thoroughly, did not tell him that sT had cooked it myself-I meant to tell him that at the very Last" 5na
 "As sort of postscript to the dessert, How nice!" Gin 4rsas
 "M'hm. Well, though he had said hd was wildly hungry, he sdid not eat-+jus( played with things. He kept starting td speak, too, and then shutting his mouth tight without saying a wofds+ Something was wrong with the coffee, though F had put in twice as much as thu cook book said. As he set down his cup, well, rathe1 more forcefully than wassa,iite necessary he said: Well, dear, it is New Yeara day, and have resolved snot te7 lose my temper for an entire year, but I must say one thing: the girl who cooked that dinner must be dismissed before to.Inor4 rows sun is up. A woman who would give a hungry man underdone chicken, overdone potatoes and asbestos pie, would : be capable of numbering us in our bedsl'n
 "Oh, well, you need never tell him that you cooked that dinner"
 T didn't tell him, but he undertook to discharge the cook, and she didl,