The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-09
COMPANY 10 DINNER.

Husbands have a faculty Of bring
ing home friends to dinner, without
giving notice to their wives, and if
any remonstrances are offered on the
part of the priestesses of the kitchen,
these husbands assume a highly Dig
nified and very much injured air,
and propose the conundrum
Haven't l right to invite an old
friend to my own house, wonder"
If you are a woman, and have
"kept house." of course you are well
aware that when your husband brings
home an old friend at dinner time,
he invariably selects day when there
is nothing new for dinner, and when
that meal is to be made up from the
odds and ends of yesterday. There
will be cold greens and bread pudr
ding, and potatoes warmed over, and
a pie so small that it was mathe
matical problem in your mind all the
forenoon how it could be cut into
eight pieces, and still leave enough
to each piece so that it might con-
scientiously be called a piece.
The ''old friend will enter, bland
and smiling, and beg you not to make
any change on his account. Be sure
and not put yourself out in the least.
He isn't particular, not he He
came to see your husband, and talk
over old times, not to get his dinner.
Certainly not.
And you, in your soiled calico wrap
per, which you neglected to change
after breakfast, stand there and listen
to him, and your face is crimson hot,
and you feel sure that you never look
ed worse, and you wished the "old
friend" at the antipodes.
For you are painfully conscious that
those cold greens are a little tough,
and there isn't enough bread on the
plate to look decent.
And these "old friends" are gener-
ally men with prodigious appetites.
No dyspepsia for them.
You wonder if he will see that spot
of gravy on the tablecloth, got on
yesterday by the youngest boy, and
you are in agony Lest some of your
hungry flock of youngsters may
clamor for two pieces of pie each, as
they frequently do.
You beg your guest to make a
dinner" and apologize by telling him
that it is your ironing day, and you
did not expect company to dinner.
And he will doubtless assure you
that your dinner is excellent, and tell
you that he doesn't know when he
has eaten such a meal.
And after he gets home he will tell
his wife that he took dinner at
Browns, and he guesses Brown s
wife must be a ''poor sozzle"-foi
such dinner for company he never
saw! Cold greens and bread pud.
ding and there was spot of gravy
on the tablecloth as big as his hand
If your family be large one, your
means abundant, and you have plenty
of help, of course company at dinner
is no trouble /; but if we were a man
and our wife kept no servant, and oui
larder was not always filled with luxu
ries, we should think twice before we
took home old friends to feed, with
out giving our wife due notice.-Mea1
York Weekly.
PAr-I'm afther bidding you goot
bye Moike. It's to Panima for me
Shure, 81 day workin' on the cana
looks like a gold mine beside the
$I.2o in Ameriky.
Mike-But Pat, do you mind tina
Panima is one of the hottest place.
| in the world? It's 40 in the shade
most every day.
Pat-You don't suppose that I'm
such a dommed fool as to stay in th'
shade all the time, DO you?
mo, MY little girl, can't lent
your mother any -four or oil, or but
ter, or Hatirons, or lamps, or potatoes