Evening star., 1907-11-16
JOBSON'S ICE CREAM

got through ToaClHk IN W.
Friday evening last.
Mrs Jobson of course. had to ask him
what the contraption was. But she
has deadly fear of these discoveries
of Mr.. Jobsons.
Ice cream trsezer. said MIR. Joosoh-
Patent ice cream freezer Bu.liest thing
of the sort 1 ever had peek at Won
derfuI. the way these brainy ducks invent
things to tighten household labor Most
ingenious hew-gag ever looked at
Yes" said Mrs. Jobson But my
dear. what would We want with a patent
ice cream free1er?''
M. Jobson planted his cigar in the
other side of his mouth and looked at
her pityingy.
What would we want of it?" he in
auirad What would we want of an
egg beater. or a skillet, or a tea kettle.
or dishmop, or a lemon saueezer. or
any other blamed thing that's useful and
necessary? What do we want with
bed coverings? Why don't You talk
sense once in a while?
But" suggested Mrs Jobson, we
only have ice cream at home cnce IN a
while. on Sundays. and then you know,
We always have ii sent in"
"Uh-huh, that's right-we always have
1t sent In broke in Mr. Johson. Sure
thing we do. And If you had your way
we'd have our corned beef hash and our
Irish stew and our beefsteak and onions
and our stewed turnips sent in as you
call 1t. Any old thing to save yourself
a hands turn. You'd have all the junk
we eat sent in If 1t tasted like the passe
remains of Chinese new year feed
you had the running of everything around
here-which thank heaven, you haven't.
just yet
"Put isn't ire cream a bit different
from corned beef hash. for instance?'
mildly demonstrated Mrs Jobson- You
know. everybody. almost. has the Sum
day ice cream sent in. and they
There you go with that Internal every
body gag of yours again. peevishly cut
in Mr. Jobson. Who the dickens is this
everybody that you're always raving
about? I'd like to have peek at this
everybody mutt that you're tossing up
at me all the time. day in and day out
he or she. or 1t, whatever every
body is. must be a queer looking tizzy-
wizzy"
oh 1 mean the folks we know" said
Mrs Jobson "All the folks we know
| have their ice cream delivered from some
regular ice cream place on Sundays.
| oh they do. hey?' growled Mr.. job
son. And what's that to me. permit
| me to inquire, madam? What in blazes
do 1 what they have delivered?
| What is it to me if all the women Of
| your acquaintance are so blamed lazy
and trfling that they get everything on
earth that they eat and drink or that
| their husbands and children eat and
| drink sent in, on Sunday any other
day? And what's your idea. anyhow. in
| fighting like a shewolf every time
make any kind OF a suggestion around
these works, anyhow. Hey?"
''Oh. no fighting at all: said Mrs. JOB
| son, mildly. only 1 thought you liked
the Ice cream that we have occasionally
at home on Sundays. the kind that's de-
| lvered and you've always said that you
enjoyed it keenly. and, anyhow. 1t really
costs more to make Ice cream at home
| than it does to have it sent in. and the
bother. too. of making 1t at home is to
be considered. and then. too
Wait! Wait. Wait minute!' thun-
dered Mr. Jobson. Just look me In
the eye for a minute or so while l am
that the ice cream you have sent in here
on Sundays tastes like shoamaker's wax
that's been saved out Of fire down in
Swampoode?'
Really, said Mrs. Jobson, Il don't
recall that you ever
And as for the bother in making it..
| that you are frenzied about. did you
ever know me to duck or dodge bother.
madam, when / had a good purpose in
View" demanded Mr.. Jo5son, sternly.
And did you ever know me to balk at
getting any household necessity. like
ice cream, on account of the cost Of the
same?'
Well Mrs. Jobson managed to get
in. you know cream costs lot now, and
If you use eggs. why. eggs are very high.
too, and then, you see, you'd have TO buy
the freezer, and good freezers cost
lot. and some of them don't work at all.
and we have SO little ice cream during the
winter that it would hardly pay. would
it, and then as / say. it's such i'm
mense lot of work to make
stop that thundered Mr.. Jobson.
stop that gibbering like runaway
phonograph. / want to tell you, madam.
that + m getting tired o. being bullied and
browbeaten and sauelched this way
that's what l am I'm not going to tol-
crate it any longer.
"Oh, said Mrs. Jobson, Il was only
putting it TO you the way the matter
looked to me. but if you really want ice
cream made at home-why-"
That's all right about what 1 want
madam" growled Mr. Jobson. l not
only want home made ice cream, but
I'm going to have it, and you might
just as we'll put that III your hay-fever
pipe smoking apparatus and take the long
draw on it. In going to have one litti-
thing my own way around this dump
once every thousand years or so. | can
tell you that
So, on Saturday. the next day, of course.
Mr. Jobson had the patent ice cream
freezer that he'd seen demonstrated
in a downtown window. sent up to his
dOmtctle. That evening ne gave mrs.
Jobson divers and sundry directions as
to the purchases she was to make for
the making of the ice cream which he
was to manufacture, and all o. this mate
rial was duly installed by the time. soon
after breakfast on Sunday morning. Mr.
Jobson having finished his cigar, descend
ed to take up the manufacture of ice
cream, He sent Mrs. Jobson forth from
| the kitchen for the Book of Directions
| as to the Use of the Patent Freezer and
| this he studied for long time. Then
he got out Book of Recipes which
he'd bought the previous evening, and
turning over to the ice cream recipes. he
doped out that stuff for a long time. too.
Then he began. He broke a whole lot of
eggs and scattered their shells around
promscuously. Then he shook up and
smeit of a lot of bottles of f1aVorings that
he himself, not trusting Mrs. Johson to
do it, had purchased. ending by dumping
a little of each laVoriag into the mess he
was stirring. The howlful of stuff looked
a good deal like a wartime poultice when
Mr.. Jobson got through stirring it. but it
saying nothing. stood by. Then. the ice
already packed around the freezer, Mr..
Jobson began TO twist the hewgag.
The patent ice cream freeZ ars Book
of Directions solemnly stated in The
| preface that any kind of ice cream could
be frozen in the freezer within five min
utes or less. Mr.. Jobson. to make sure,
gave the twisty thing eight minutes OF
turning, and then he pulled off the lio
of the cream receptacle to peek In. II
was still a soggy. strangely vari-colored
stringy. knotty. clabberish mess. Mr..
Jobson didn't notice that in replacing the