The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-16
Our Daily $bOrt Story

second cupfui of the lukewarm coffee, he smacked his lips and said:
 matters should go wrong and l
 snouid die and leave you unprovided for, Iucretia, you must go to some swell ca.erer or restaurant and ask for the prvhege of making one batch of coffee TOT them. Make 'em let you do it once ana you can ask your own price. I've Deen coffee drinlxer all my life, but never found any like you make" That evening Lucretia's mother came over and Samuel ldid nothing but sing the praises of his wife's chops and cof-
 Tee. He was too enthusiastic and persist
 ent to suspect.
 TOT some days he was promptly on
 time to supper. Then one day he was nait hour late again. Lucretia was nttie cross, but the chops and coffee were piping hot. Tn fact, Lucretia made both fresh after Samuel came. This happened several times. Sometimes Sam ueI was more than half hour late. One mgnt ne arrived an hour late and found that Lucretia had not yet had supper. Sne explained. with symptoms of sullxi- ness. that she had had a hard day, and
 leit too tired to cook two suppers. Sam
 uei was all sympathy. and roundly cursed the necessity that made him late. He
 was deiighted. however. at his good for tune In having her company in partalxing the meal. After this she generally wait ed for him. once in awhile letting him sup alone in order to demonstrate that she had not given in.
 one day he brought a friend home to supper without warning The atmosphere in the house went down nine degrees lower than the thermometer would reg ister. Lucretia declined point-blank to make any change in her plans, and cer- tainly 1t was skimpy meal, and Lu- cretia sat like stone image at the feast. The friend was embarrassed, but Sam uel was delightfully obvious to the trouble and fairly bubbled with wit and small talk. After supper he produced cigars, and with his friend sat for a good two hours at the table chatting and telling stories. while Lucretia fairly frothed at the mouth waiting to clear the table.
 The atmosphere continued pretty chilly for some days, but it never touched Sam uel.
 You have found another admirer, Lu- cretia," he said, next evening. Tom says 1t was the coziest and most delight full little supper he ever attended--wants to come again. He's particularly crazy about your tea biscuit. By love! they
 were good last night. But particularly he's stuck on the splendid homehKe feel
 ing here. Says if he could find a girl
 who had good sense like you who knew enough to leave men folks alone and still maintain her dignity and place as
 the real mistress of the house, he'd
 marry-and that's a great compliment,
 because Tom is a confirmed old bachelor you know"
 And for days wherever they went, Sam uel would talk of scarcely anything but the delightful little supper, and Lucre- tia's grace as hostess. when. by love she didn't even know I was going to bring him."s
 T didn't know how she managed il without any notice." he said to her
 mother. but she couldn't have had a | sweller layout if the invitation had been given a week before"
 Some days later he dropped in with
 another friend unexpectedly. They were | compelled to wait some time for supper
 ash trays and matches appeared beside
 the coffee cups. And Lucretia was al her best as an entertainer. Other domestic matters adjusted them. | selves in much the same manner as they | arose. Samuel was irrepressibly cheer. ful and fattering, and could not be got. ten to admit that anything Lucretia did was wrong. And Lucretia took more and
 more delight in living up to Samuel:
 high opinion of her.
 And they lived happy ever afterward The moral of this story is that VOL | can catch more flies with fnolasses thar
 with vinegar.