The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
rHEY DIDN,T HAvE sHERBET.
Tom Was So Eager TO Help That He
Upset the Pet Plan Of
HyDatia.

News, Il was not cut out for the
present economical sphere | occupy.
by the barrel instead Of the pound,
have two new dresses a day and not
give a rap whether or not the cook
handed over three-quarters of the
fillet of beef to her deserving cousins
at the back door. How could have
shone in such surroundings" She
sighed pensiyely.
"What have you been doing now?"
asked her brother, apprehensively.
II didn't do it at ALL" explained
Hypatia. 1T happened last Sunday
when you were away. We had Tom
Ferguson coming to dinner because
he boards, and / thought it only
charitable to give him glimpse Of
real home life.'
Always thoughtfull" murmured
Hypatia's brother, admiringly. Tom
lives at a club-and is six feet two
and his income is scandalously
large"
Hypatia merely looked virtuously
panied and innocent. "Well what did
Tom do but appear at ten o'clock
instead Of one o'clock. He said he
thought perhaps I'd ike to go to
church before dinner. / told him I'd
90 II he would wait till / made the
lemon sherbet for dessert. ] was
really glad that he should see ] was
not ashamed Of having to save 2s
cents by making the sherbet at-home.
Tom said he'd be delighted, and
couldn't he help? So we went out
into the kitchen, much TO mothers
dismay. Our new cook hadn't APP
peared that day. boiled the sirup
and put it to cool and Tom found
The freezer. Don't you have to use
salt or anything?' he asked, appear
ing with a little shaker of table salt.
/ restrained him and got out the five
pounds of rock salt. He appeared
impressed by this and asked where
the ice was. told him was going
to borrow the icicle next door, but he
looked so sort Of wild / had to ex-
plain that in the winter time there
was usually an icicle of from 20 to
so pounds adorning the waterspout
between the next house and ours. and
as our neighbors hadn't freezer, I
had unrestricted use az the icicle. /
said ne might break it up for me-
$50 he pushed up his cuffs. and
mother tied a gingham apron on him
over his beautiful frock coat He
was as charmed as a little boy with
new Top. He smashed the ice almost
TO powder before / could explain to
him. Meantime had been straining
the sirup and lemon juice into the
can Of the freezer. We had a great
time getting things fixed, and Tom,
Of course, said he'd turn the freezer.
1t takes only about Is minutes. so ]
thought it would do him good-work
up an appetite for dinner. l left him
and went to slip into church clothes.
When came back he was still turn
ing frantically. Something he said,
must be wrong with the ice. / don't
believe icicles are the proper thing
az all. Why, the crank turns as cas-
lily as at frsti'
81 tried it, and so it did 1t was
really most extraordinary. The
bucket was solid with ies and salt,
and vet thu sherbet showed not the
least intention of freezing. l turned
and Tom turned. and we worked for
half an hour more. He insisted 4
was the fault Of the icicle. He said
he had never heard OF anyone freez-
ing ice cream with an icicle, and one
never got good results unless one fol-
lowed the cookbook precisely. He
said he had no patience with expert
menters, and between turning the
freezer and arguing we both got so
exhausted and cross that no doubt
we would have been slapping each
others faces like two naughty chill
dren II I had not had an Inspiration.
said should open the freezer and
take look at the strangely refrac-
tory sherbet did so. We both
looked in at once and gave our heads
an awful crack. There wasn't SO
much as the slightest dab of any
thing in that canl 1t was emptyls
"WAy-what-" began Hypatia's
brother
'Tom said" concluded Hypatia,
"Tom said that Of course he had
emptied out the watery stuff he found
in st. He wanted TO get it an ready
for me TO put the sherbet in and
save time. The goose didn't know
the 'watery stuff was the sirup and
lemon juice had painstakingly
boiled and strained before his very
eyes. And we had spent a solid hour
grinding away at an empty freezer
packed carefully in ice--and we didn't
get to church-and we had sponge
cake for dessert"