Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-17
THE HOUSE OF THE
BLACKRNG.
BY FRED LEWIS PATTEE.
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BY FRED LEWIS PATTEE.
Copyright. 1905. by Henry Holt Z Co,

pitch right in and tell you how piaguey
good everything IA. 1t fairly makes your
mouth water whether you're hungry or not
and you eat like sin before you fairly know
IT. Take a Yankee woman now she'll say
nine times out OF ten. even IL her dinner 10
right up perfect: There now, I'm ashamed
to death over this hero dinner. I've he'd
terrible bad luck, and there amt a thing
mt TO eat" He initiated in high falsetto
voice "A complaining women. After she's
done runnin' her stun down you hain't got
no more appletite than a mousse
'oh, Chimmlny. that's easy" Ulie was
ehuckling nightly. Reason why Yankee
women runs down their vittles still Is cause
they don't know how TO cook anything
that's decent. Helm? Yar-r-r! e-e-e-e-ai
Oh my! say Amos. give us somesnr hard
Already" A great laugh rolled about the
tables The man Strengthened instantly
"Wha-a-a-y. therel'' he called: mother
county gone dimmercratjc! Say Is that
you. Tile? Well, let me ask you one: evey
try mess o genuwine Yankee bake beans7
Now l don't mean your scart. e-liv-
cred, hard-shell beans that's been sizzled
twenty minutes In a tin pan, but real. gen.
u-wine Yankee beans, such my mother
used 10 bake in bean-pot up to Connects
cut Course you never did; there never
was bean baked right this side OF the
Susquehanny Then take brown-bread ana
In1un puddin-Lord. now what does q
Dutchman know about Injun puddln all
kinder brown and curdly, with n skin iko
satin velvet plush, and rich Juice thatll
on the mourneTs benches. spite OF all YOU
can do. Then, take billed dish-rny stars,
1t makes my mouth water so I can't talk;
honest, il does. Look here II you'd ever ct
n mouthful of AIRY one of um there d be
yarler streak this minute up in the
northeast. which would be you maxim q
line fer the state o. Connecticut"
There. now, hear that wunst will yer'
ulie Strengthened up in well-feigned anger
Hes runnin down the cookin' our vim.
men does and, chimminy gracious. Won't
stan for that still, Nosuh. / won't STAN
for havin' the wimmin run down nosuhs
that allus makes me mad. Yessuhr' He
stole a side glance over at the widow
Krumrine. That's jest like Yankee. now
amt 1t wunst. It's Jest like 'em. II | waa
in the desert Of Satarey still I'd know q
Yankee wunst. I'd know him by his brag.
Yar-r-r-r! e-e-e-e-ei on, my! leigh, MINT
unconsciously Ulie was vocing large
era OF his native state. The old aptipathies
and resentments described by Washington
Irving as existing among the early KnIcks
erbockers. and springing up again farther
south among the Germans during the era
when northern Pennsylvania was a part OF
Connecticut. are still to be found In the
Teutonic portions of the state, where they
cling even yet like persimmons.
Look here, Ulie what are you standing
up for the wimmen for all to onceT'
Amos tipped a sly wink at the other end
of the table
''Oh. Tiles gone soft on the whole female
sect" volunteered a youth
Say, why don't you brace up, Tile. and
get one of EN- fore it's too late?' broke in
another. ITS comm on springs work and
you need a woman dretfully.''
Don't you-uns worry about me-" he
snapped I know what I'm about still.
Yessuhr'
Now. ule look here" Amos leaned far
over and addressed him in fatherly tone,
I'm your friend If you've got one In the
world; you know that Now you be sem
sible If you wait to get a handsum young
woman, then your weddiu' won't come Off
more'n a Dutchman's hat at a funeral,
You let me tell you something" He lowered
his voice confidentially. You lest edge
up to the wilder Kuhn. She'll take ye
with jump quick's a bat does a June
bug, and she'll make ye good wife You
en-, get a lot of work out of them children
OF hern. You go n see her, Ulie. She'll
take right to We like a yeller dog, and
don't believe you'd hev TO do the aslSn'.
She's kind o hard up and discouraged; her
first man, old Ezra, was awful shfless and
she havin' hard times. You take my adj
vice. Tile. and shine up to the widdes
Kuhn
"Humph," grunted Tile.
Jim Farthing heard very little of the runs
ming chatter. He sat facing the stove and
the summer kitchen where the women were
at work, and where Rose was fitting about
from point to point, the life and center Of
all the workers. Rose was a housekeeper
of skill and experience. and wherever she
was present at dinner like this she was
soon at the head of things. She was cool
ana reSourceful, and she forgot nothing.
At critical moments when generalship was
needed: when dish came out wrong at
the moment when 1t must be served, or
when 1t showed signs of giving out in
the very midst OF the meal. or when the
next course was not ready and the men
were waiting-at such tragic moments tho
women ignored the hostess and crowded
about Rose IT was worth while to sea
her then, with her cool-headed orders her
deft, swift precision of movement and het
complete mastery of the situation.
(To be continued tomorrow