The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-05
The SnitZen
Party
"A Pennsylvania Dutch Story
By Sara EHnaker Amber
copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

the winter kitchen eve since the
early dinner hour of half-past ten for
the special occasion of the snltzen
party for her 1~7-year-Old daughter
SOoSie.
1t was a rule for snitzen parties to
come early and stay late. BY
O'Clock Leah Lapp's neat kitchen was
almost uncOmfortably full of Amisn
boys and girls about Soosie's W age.
Every one at this interesting party
came armed with a paring-knife.
When all were seated in prim rows
around the walls of the ROOM. Leah
Lamp smilingly gave to each n a
bright tin basin filled with Red
Streaks and Yellow Sweetings.
Vars Benjie Stoltz?" asked Lissy
Planck of Benjie's sister.
Hes cooming ven tie horse be
shoed,' answered Debbie.
At the mention of Benjie Stoltz by
Lissy one might have observed the
rosy color on SoOsie's face deepen.
She cast a scornful look at Lissy as
she whispered to her nearest neigh
Dor: She's badt off. Ven | hat ask
for te boys | be ashamed of me. She
can hat him."
The apple snitzen now began in
earnest. 1t required two and one
half bushels of pared and sliced ap-
pies to thicken one barrel of cider.
The young folks knew this, and that
until the allotted task was completed
they could not go to the barn to
play and feast on fassnachts and
cider.
What with pairing and much talk
ing and laughing Benjie's horse trot-
ted into Jacob Lapp's lane without be-
ing heard. Nor did they notice when
Benjie himself stood in the kitchen
door, a broad smile on his round face,
until he called III loudly: I've gates
all te while"
Everybody laughed louder than
ever, and Lissy Planck exclaimed,
with a %coquettish tess of her head:
We'll, now, Benjie, amt you smart
vunst?" and she edged closer up to
Debbie to show him there was room
and welcome for him to sit next to
her.
Benjie evidently had other plans.
With a direct gaze at SOosie, who was
shifting a Red Streak" so busily she
could not see Benjie's glance. he
picked up a stool and placed it close
to her chair. After removing his fiat
crowned, brCad-rim hat carefully with
two hands, he sat down, remarking,
calmly: Il belief / sits ona haer.
Vars my snitzen-tish?"
Leah Lapp, whose duties as host
es kept her busy going back and
forth, hurried to him with a tin dish
that was beautifully bright, the very
newest one in her possession, a fact
Benjie commented upon with iaward
satisfaction.
"Soosie." called Benjie. softly eds-
ing his stool still closer to her chair
here is a nice snitz."
At this appeal, SOosie perked
her head to n side as saucily
as a robin. as she exclaimed: "Geef
1t to Lissy. She wants it,"
Benjie began to pare apples gloom
lily after Soosie's rebuff. "She don't
like me at ais he thought. "She
meaned it Saturday nights" he al
most grOaned out loud, wen l trew
te pebbles up to her window and she
wouldn't COON town. She said she
Altered te dattie not be sleeping.
'Tain't so. She cares not II he sleep
or ma sleep; II she likes me she
cooms town and talks wis me in tie
best ROOM" Benjie heaved a sigh.
All this had not been lost on Lissy,
although she was seemingly very gay
with Ikey Stefnhauser all this time.
She felt so sorry for Benjie.
The big tubfuls of apples were
emptied at last, and the great basket
fuls of snitz were ready to put in
the cider in the morning. This
cider Jacob Lapp was now boiling
down in the outside fireplace.
All the work being done, Leah and
Jacob Lapp now went of to bed, &C
cording to custom, to allow the younl
people to enjoy themselves.
I've will te barn gaen," said Soosie
"Now COON ALL" and she led the way
swinging a lantern back and forth.
Then Christie Lapp, Soosie's broth
.er, said in his slow way: Il tinl
old Maids is a nice blay for te wee
minis and te MEMS"
yah. veil, 1t is" said Soosie, eager
iy. Coon on, Amos" and sh
marched down the barn floor, linking
arms in his, to the evident DISCUS
of Benjie, while they all sang tn
time honored doggerel. When the
came to the words: $50 give u
your arm" in the song there was