Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1905-11-18

That would do for the culinary depart
ment, she argued
She removed the student lamp from
the center table and spread upon it
square piece of plain linen. handed
down by Grandmother Harris Then
she went to trunk which she had
never opened since the day it left the
farm. and one by one she lifted out
the treasured pieces of family crock
cry. There were tears in her eyes now
and they We're not bitter tears. She
began To feel strangely content. The
idea that Herman might fail to pro
duce the viands for the feast never
entered her head. Somehow or other
he had always accomplished what he
started to DO ever since the day he had
braved Farmer Green's bull to steal
for her certain red checked apple
which she coveted
When she heard Herman's step at
the door she was just putting the
chrysanthcmum he had brought her to
wear into n slender vase to grace the
center of the table.
As she flung open the door she fairly
!
| gaspcd The bundle he carried in Ell
thcr arm rose above his shoulder. She
sat down weakly on q fiat topped
trunk hy the Kitchen table" to watch
him mpack the bundles. He checked
off each package.
zone can chicken soup. one bottle
picked onions, two turkey drumSticks,
ditto slices of white meat. stulIing and
| gravy, one tin pail of cranberry jelly,
one wooden dish filed with mashed po-
tatOcS. one can lima beans. one Silk
celery. one mncc pie Dust So" how
thick it is with real raiSinSH. one sack
| OF nuts 0lIvc you got Il hammcr0 and
two apples"
Janet looked at the remarkable com
| bnation with eyes turned suddenly
grave
Herman, that cost You more than
table d'hotc dinner wo"ld. and now
how are we going to cook IL"
MO t of it was cop,.rd It the deli
catcSscn shoO. and haven't we two
stoves. or rs good rs two stoves? Draw
out that oil contrlpion of yours"
She Sprang to her feet II few mo-
| mcntS the tcakcttlr WIS boiling and
the water was ready ~ pour over the
coffee In the little Frrnch pot. which
was then left to drip. The cranberry
sauce and the rest of the cold dishes
We're set forth in brave array on the
china from the farm.
While the soup cooked in the chat
ing dish the potatoes and the gravy
nj hnatnI ia,
the oil stove. and when the soup was
served the beans took its place in the
chatting dish And the two young PEG
pie who had forgotten to be h)mrsick
and hcartSick seated Themselves; at eli
ther end of ridiculously small Thanks
giving dinner table
At last they sat over their nuts and
raiSins. Last year they had eaten
them in front of Il blazing fire In
stinctivcly Janet glanced toward Il ra-
diutor in a distant corner of the room
1t did not look cheerful but the steam
was escaping merrily from the valve.
and that was something to be thankful
for. Then she looked back ut Herman
She ought to be thankful for HIM too
She gave a little sigh of coAtentment
He looked up quickly. 1t sounded like
old times.
"Do you know" she said Wondering
ly, II never supposed this place could
be so much like home"
Home is what people make it
what two people make it," he cor
rected
He had stopped picking over the nuts
now and his hands were clNSpcd under
the table He did not want her to see
that they We're shaking. He had made
the plunge so suddenly!
81 don't think this room is just what
we ought TO have. but we can get n
nice little fiat of three or four rooms
and you would not have to stop your
work, so long rs you like it so much
but we would make sure the front
room was cheerful and light for you
to write in. think its Il sure cure
for Inconsistencies for both of us
She sat staring ut him. ut first $ Old
ly; then gradually the color came into
her checks and the expression on her
face changed
Il don't understand" she said but
Herman knew that she undcrSto od him
perfectly
Il am just Offering you prescrip-
ton. signed H. Blake. NJ. d.. to be
taken three times Il day. breakfast
dinner and superb husband and a
coZy little fiat"
Janet was rcgaining her composure
with dclicateSScn cOOking?"
well" he maintained Stoutly, lit is
considerably better than poor restau-
rant food, and when ScoIlard X Co
wake up to an appreciation of my real
worth you can queen it over Il real fiat
md Il real maid"-
u think | will try the prescription"
And that IL why Herman Blake has
always maintained that while most
men win their brides by the aid of the
florist or the candy maker he wooed
Janet through Il delicatesScn shop
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