The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-23
Amusing Her

"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
81 keep pigs" replied the regular
customer II find it hard work some
times to tempt their appetites, but
they generally like a little fresh
fruit. The raspberries that l tried
them on yesterday seemed to please
them, so l thought I'd take EN- some
more. Raspberries are fattening,
too, and give the pork a nice flavor.
You take a hog that's been fed on
raspberries-"
"Oh, cut It out" said the cigar
stand man But, honest, how
large a family have you got?"
Myself and the madam" replied
the regular customer She's pre-
serving. When it comes to putting
up fruit that's where the lady
shines"
"She puts up the fruit and you
put up the money suggested the
cigar 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"
II don't believe It pays to put up
fruit" said the cigar stand man. We
find it cheaper TO buy what preserves
we ned Just about a. good, too"
You must be crazy" said the reg
ular customer. Cheaper Say, all
these berries cost me is 10 cents a
box, buying them down on the street.
1t doesn't take me more than hour
or so to 90 there and get 'em either
and the walkings 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 trife. | can buy quite
a sack Of It for a 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 them"
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 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
,ruit that you've selected yourself.
Pfums, cherries. strawberries, black
berries, raspberries, grapes, peaches
all kinds Any time that you want
4 pie there's the filling right on
hand-or it would be or hand II We
Kept It,"
Eat It up about as fast as you
make 1t, eh?"
"Give it away little faster than
We make IT," corrected the regular
.ustomer. That's the great trouble.
tou see, my wife is of liberal dis
,osition, and she's proud of the jel-
les she makes, so we don't get so
much OF a show a. it ourselves. IL
'ou came to the house, for instance,
1ou'd get some raspberry preserves
or supper. You'd naturally say that
. was the best that you ever tasted
ghen the lady told you that she'd
rake It herself. Then she gets all
welled up over It and insists on your
7s1ing home a Jar tn your wife. II
IS relation that comes she'll get
alf dozen jars out, just as like as
OF. If the milkman makes some
emark about the Jelly looking good
nough to eat when he pokes his
cad in the kitchen he gets jar
well. If anybody gets sick it's
az for them"
What do you do It for, them
sked the cigar-stand man.
"A woman has got to amuse her
alf some way" said the regular Gus
1mer. Putting up preserves Is
bout as harmless and cheap as any.
Chicago Daily News.