The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-24
HYPATIA'S sHERBET.
Tom Found the Freezer and the Icicle,
But the Experiment Failed.


"As have before remarked" said
Hypatia, Il was not cut out for the
present economical sphere 1 occupy. l
really was meant to order things by
the barrel, instead of the pound, have
two new dresses a day and not give 4
rap whether or not the cook handed
over three-quarters of the filiet of beer
to her deserving cousins at the back
door. How 1 could have shOne in such
surroundings" She sighed pensively.
What have you been doing now -
asked her brother, apprehensiVely. T
Il didn't do it at ALL" explained
Hypatia. s'It happened last Sunday
when you were away. We had Tom
Ferguson coming TO dinner because he
boards. and 1 thought it only charita-
bic te give him glimpse of real home
life"
Always tlaoughtful!'' murmurad Hy-
patia's brother. admiringly. TON lives
at 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 10 O'Clock in
stead of l O'Clock. He said he thought
perhaps I'd like to go to church be-
fore dinner. I told him I'd go if he
would wait till made the lemon sher-
bet for dessert. / was really glad that
he should see 1 was not ashamed of
having to save % cents by making
the sherbet at home. Tom said he'd De
delighted, and couldn't he help2 So
we went out into the kitchen, much
TO mothers dismay. Our new cook
hadn't appeared that day. I boiled the
syrup and put II to cool and Tom found
the freezer. Don't you have to use
salt or something?' he asked, appear
ing with a little shaker of table salt.
restrained him and got out the nve
pounds of rock salt. He appeared i'm
pressed by this and asked where the
ice was. I told him / was going to
borrow the icicle next door. but he
looked so sort of wild l had to explain
that in the winter time there was usu-
ally an ieicle of from twenty to fifty
pounds adjoining the WaterSpout be-
tween the next house and ours, and as
our neighbors hadn't a freezer 1 had
unrestricted use of the icicle. I said he
might break it up for me.
so he pushed up his cuffs and moth
CT tied Bingham apron on his over
his beautiful frock coat. He was as
charmed as a little boy with a new top.
He smashed the ice almost to powder
before 1 could explain to him. Mean
time I had been straining the syrup
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 OILY
about fifteen minutes, so I thought (
would do him good-work up an appe-
tite for dinner. / left him and went
to slip into church clothes. When 1
came back he was still turning franti-
cally. Something he said, must be
wrong with the ice. I don't believe
icicieS are the proper thing at all.
Why. the crank turns as easily as at
first
Il tried it. and so it did. 1t was really
most extraordinary. The bucket was
solid with ice and salt. and yet the
sherbet showed not the least intention
of freezing. / turned and Tom turned
and we worked for half an hour more
He insisted it was the fault of the
icicle- He said he had never heard
of any one freezing ice cream with an
icicle. and one never got good result.
unless one followed cook book pre-
cisely. He said he had no patience
with experimenters and between turn
ing 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
children if / had no. had an inspira-
ton. / said I should open the freezer
and take a look at the strangely re-
fractOry Sherbet. / did so. We both
looked in at once and gave our heads
an awful crack. There wasn't so SnucS
as the slightest dab of anything in that
can. It was empty
'Why-what-" began Hypatia's
brother.
Tom said.'' concluded Hypatia.-
TON said that of course he. had
emptied out the watery stuff he found
in it. He wanted to get it all ready
for me to put the sherbet in and save
time. The goose didn't know the wa
terry stuff was the syrup and lemon
juice / had painstakingly boiled and
strained before his very eyes And
we had spent solid hour grinding
away at an empty freezer packed care
fully in ice-and we didn't get TO
church-and we had sponge cake for
dessert !"