The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

81 haven't anything stronger than
tea said the other girl Now loosen
your furs, and as the energetic person
tell me all about it. What are you eat
ing these dayS?"
"Scrappel and prunes"
Gracious me! Has the great He lost
his position? Did you enbezzle your
Christmas allowance -
But he's tired of eggs, and he says
he likes it. You see, 1 mean. break
absorption, the absorption of a year of
matrimOny-
Now you know I might learn scrap
pei like 1 did olives, but prunesl A fit
cause for divorce, don't you think?"
Il don't pretend to like it would a
good deal rather have my mush and
sausage separate. Still it is dreadfully
eastern; scrappel and cinnamon buns"
But then we're not asking the lady
from Philadelphia"
"Prunes, thought" The enthusiasm
commenced to thaw. "Pshaw, you don't
know them; those luscious fat ones that
burst open in the cooking, and then the
discovery is in when to serve them.
You must cook the old-fashioned oat
meal in double vessel two hours.
What time do you get up?"
'"They day before; that is, I mean 1
cook my oatmeal the day before. A
dish of stewed prunes is served with
each bowl of meal. Pour the fruit over
the porridge, use cream and sugar, and
you've a breakfast fit for the gods.
Sometimes l cook dates in my porridge,
too-but they have not the f1avoring
power of prune Juice. Then the rest
of our breakfast is baked toast and
chops or baked toast and chicken iverS
or sausage. Only we're having the
Sparerib fad at present" The enthu-
siastic one gathered up her rope bag.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
She carried a bulky bundle done up
in tissue paper. This brass loving cup
was bought here" she said, undoing it
as the man came out of the depths of
the curio shop, land I'd like to change
it for something else" The dealer
looked at the cup colby. He WASH t
sure It was bought there. "Oh, yes it
was" Her voice had the trained shop
per's edge on it. "A friend of mine was
with the lady when she bought it, and
the lady gave it to me for Christmas,
and 1 want something else for it. She
paid $3.50" The dealer didn't know
about it, and finally offered a bargain
in exchange. So she got an inlaid ivory
back comb with a tooth cracked, gave
up the brass cup and another dollar
and went home pleased to death.
Half ar hour later another woman
exclaimed, there's another brass low
ing cup just like the one I got before
Christmas" The curio man rubbed his
hands. He had succeeded in buying
for her the mate to the cup she had
purchased. "Ycu said there was not
another il New York." she walled. This
was the only other, which his partner
had brought from abroad. 81 wish you
had had the pair before Christmas "
| The curio mans sympathy was such
| that he had tears in his eyes. Il might
| induce Alice to give up the other The
| dealer was sure she could, and the
dealer offered her the cup and some
| thing else to give her friend at bargain
rates. So she bought the cup for $4.5(
and a weird ivorv backed comb with
/ two teeth cracked for 81 The latter
surely would make her friend give the
cup over, the dealer assured her. '.And
| then I'll have the pair she said in joy
fui anticipation And to this the dealer
! agreed. And when she was gone he
went into the back of his store an6
smiled at himself in seven of his dusty
mirrors.-Clsra Bellies Chatter, in Gin
cinnati Enquirer.