The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-09
HOW TO PRESERVE LOVE.
1 pound of tenderness.
1 ounce of sympathy.
ounce of consideration.
Carelessness to taste.

This is a familiar article of food
that women delight in preparing
and setting before their husbands
relatives and friends. Indeed.
with most women it is standing
side dish that they keep always on
hand in the refrigerator, ready to
serve at q moments notice.
Besides having an especial knack
of cooking it up. and, as a general
thing, all the culinary knowledge
that the average young womsn
possesses when she assumes the re-
sponsibiIity of housekeeping and
making a man comfortable, is how
to mike chocolate fudge and an
gels food for her own friends and
family, and cold shoulder for her
husbands.
To properly prepare this disb
begin by making a freezing mix
ture composed of equal parts OF
selishness and determination to
monopolizs your husband, and of
jealousy of every one he has known
and loved in his past life.
Be careful about this All men
have frieads and relatives of whom
they are extremely fond. but to
make this dish properly it is neoes-
ssry to destroy all such ties at once
Having prepared your brine,
plunge your welcome to your hus-
bands family and former associates
into it, and let it remain until thor
oughIy trapped. When your moth
ar in-law comes to visit you give
her a greeting that is 20 degrees
below zero. and keep the tempera-
ture stationary at this point.
Let her see that you disagree
with her on everything from poll
tics to pie. Reject, as imperti-
hence. every particle of advice that
she offers. Leave her alone while
you go off to amuse yourself. Show
her that you do not intend to pet
and spoil your husband as she used
to when he was boy.
If your husband has no mother to
regale on cold shoulder. you can
serve it to his friends 1t is quite
the proper thing to pass around
when his old college chum Gale, or
some good fellow that he has known
for years and who has helped him,
perhaps, with money and advice.
and encouragement, and has been
one of the good influences of his
life.
What the friends are, however,
does not count with you. The
more your husband likes them. the
mure liberal you should be in hand
ing them cut the hunks of cold
shoulder. Let the man see that
you believe he is trying TO entice
your husband off to go on bat
with him.
Force the knowledge on the wo-
man that you see through her, and
suspect her of having tried to marry
your husband and failed, and that
hef seemingly frank attitude to
ward him is nothing but deep,
dark design.
One of the chief recommends
tions to this dish is that it requires
suoh very short time 10 prepare,
and that a little Of it goes such a
long way.
A mans mother is sometimes
heroic enough to pretend that she
does not know what she is eating,
and force it down her throat rather
than let her sons feelings be hurt,
but the first tt ste of it is enough
for mans friends They never
come back for a second bite after
having it served to them once.
Geld shoulder is always served
with sauce piquante of rudeness.
The most delightful sweetmeai
in the word is love, but many
houskeepers have difficulty in keep
ing it. They find it very easy to
make in the springtinle of youth,
and think that they have preserved
a sufficient supply of it to last
them as long as they live, but to
their surprise and ohegrin when
they need it most, along about the
autumn of middle age, or the winter
of old age, they find that it has
soured or become moulded, and is
nnfit for use.
Without doubt love is hard 10
keep. but the reason that SO much
of it ferments and turns to vinegar
is because house-keepers are SO