Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-01-15
Amusing Her

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What do you do with all that
fruit you're carrying home?" inquir-
ed the proprietor OF the cigar stand.
Il see you with a crate about every
other day"
Il keep pigs" replied the regular
customer Il ind II hard work some
times to tempt their appetites. but
they generally Ike a little fresh
fruit. The raspberries that tried
them on yesterday seemed to please
them, SO thought ia take 'em some
more. Raspberries are fattening,
too, and give the pork nice flavor.
lou take a hog that's been fed on
raspberries-"
"oh. cut It out" said the cigar
stand man. But, honest. how
large family have you got?"
Myself and the madam" replied
the regular customer she's pre-
serving. When 1t comes to putting
up fruit that's where the lady
shines"
She puts up the fruit and you
put up the money" suggested the
c.gar stand man.
That's the idea" said the regular
customer. Il furnish the fruit and
the glass jars and the rubber bands
and the sugar and pay the gas bills
and she does all the rest. It's divi-
sion of labor. Fine business"
Il don't believe It pays to put up
fruit, said the cigar stand man. I'VE
find It cheaper to buy what preserves
we ned. Just about as good, too"
You must be crazy" said the reg
ular customer. "Cheaperl Say, all
these berries cost me is 10 cents a
box, buying them down on the street.
Il doesn't take me more than hour
or so to go there and get 'em either
and the walking's good exercise.
There's a little outlay for jars. Of
course, but if you can manage to
keep them they'll do to use again.
The sugars a trine. can buy quite
a sack of 1t for five-dollar bill"
We'll" said the cigar stand man,
III you figure that up and your time
and your wife's time. how do you
stand then?"
My wife's time really doesn't
count" said the regular customer.
when she's busy preserving, which
is most of the summer and fall. she
can always make a little time by
just throwing a snack OF some sort
on the table for dinner instead of
putting in an hour or so cooking a
meal. Think of having all kinds OF
Jams and jellies and preserves down
cellar all the year around. No. ben
zoate Of soda and glucose dope. but
the pure article made from the real
fruit that you've selected yourself.
Plums, cherries, strawberries, black
berries, raspberries. grapes, peaches
all kinds. Any time that you want
pie there's the filing right on
hand-or it would be on hand If we
kept it."
Eat It up about as fast as you
make it. eh?''
Give it away little faster than
we make IT," corrected the regular
customer. That's the great trouble.
You see. my wife is of liberal dis
position, and she's proud of the jel-
lies she makes. so we don't get SO
much of a show at 1t ourselves. II
you came to the house. for instance,
you'd get some raspberry preserves
for supper. You'd naturally say that
it was the best that you ever tasted
when the lady told you that she'd
make II herself. Then she gets all
swelled up over II and insists on your
taking home a jar N sour wife. II
it's a relation that comes she'll get a
half dozen jars out, Just as like as
not II the milkman makes some
remark about the jelly looking good
enough to eat when he pokea his
head in the kitchen he gets a jar
as we'll. If anybody gets sick it's .
Jar for them"
What do you do it for. then?"
asked the cigar-stand man.
"A woman has got to amuse her
self some way" said the regular Gus
toner Putting up preserves is
about as harmless and cheap as any"
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