Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
THERE is one thing should
i like to own" said the Bus
mess Man. who already Owls
By Harriet Brunkhurst

mess Man who already owns
more things than some people think is good for
man, and, next to owning 1T, / should
like to get a smell of ia cellar, an old fash
toned cellar"
Wine CELLAR" querled the Lawyer.
Wine nothing! \ cellar, real, old fash
Toned country cellar such as we used to have at
home when | was boy
Hear cried the After Dinner Speaker.
: We have heard extolled the glories of the old
oaken bucket that hung in the well, the loft in
the old barn, the hill down which coasted,
the bride path down which Spooned, the
dark closet of fearsome recolectionS; but who
ever heard of cellar, 1t is up to YOU to
plain old man.
Well" said the Business Man, the cellar
has them all stopped 1t is as big as the ground
floor of the house, SO low you have to stoop to
avoid the beams, and though it has plenty of
windows they all darkened soon the
cellar is filled. Maybe you fellows think
Sherry would be in it if he went up against that
old cellar
For Heavens sake either tell us about it
or ring off - grumbled the Lawyer.
. In the first place" resumed the Business
Man. unperturbed, you light candle, find
pan, and your sister goes with you
Sister: came a derlsIve chorus
Going Down Cellar
MO one like her for that old cellar She
knows your tastes, and she knows where the
treasures are. There are two parts to it. One
a hotel for awhile. At the south side there are
rows of casks.-no. no. only cider and vinegar
with just enough room to get to them; for next
comes a double of barrels filled with pota-
toes.-the kind they cook at home the
taurant kind is relation. The next rows of
barrels have the biggest assortment of pump
klns, squashes turnlps parsnlps. radlshes, and
such things that you ever saw. Along the walls
are rows of cabbages; the west wall, that is.
There are onions and beets in baskets, and
could put my hand the place where the
horseradsh roots are buried-some different
from this stuff Whv, that makes YOUR eyes
smart even to look at it. it strong Then
there are boxes filled with earth, covering the
whitest, crispest celery that ever grew, and by
that time YOU are up against the coalbins, with
room to spare either
But it is the other side YOU really want.
NV oh, my, There are more barrels here, rows
and rows of them at the south side of the room,
and they filled with apples. Such apples,
Baldwins, plppins northern spies kings, green
ings, pound sweets, spltzenburgs, russets and
dozen other kinds that you know only by
memory loaded names such as crooked tree
apples, old big tree apples and others mean
ingless to all except those belonging to the
initiated circle.
north wall, strong shelves; but YOU never pass
them without testing the screws just once more,
for here is what YOU used to call the fruit =
preserved. YOU know, in glass Jars three hun
bred of them. How | used to gloat over it ,
I've heard people rail against canned things
but YOU can just bet they never had any
like that. they would be respectful
about it. 1t has fresh fruit, tropical fruit, and
fancy fruit beaten mile If don't know
Mothers cellar YOU dom know anything about
1t The lower shelf has rows and rows of glasses