The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-02

audience
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crest. ling could d
Sarah stay underto5s
.ook farm. Pc: Alphonse 6s5
Farmer Frankifad. and the ire s
rmers, have been loved az
turned out to grass in less asp@.e.
it young Walter Franklin was a
pdern agriculturist. He had teIe-
hone in his cow house, and he could
igure up exactly what effect next
Years Canada wheat crop would have
10 potatoes planted in the dark of the
noon.
1t was in this shaded and raspber-
E1fed lane that Walter had wooed and
won her. And together they had sat
and woven crown of dandeIions for
her hair. He had imnoderately prais-
ed the effect of the yellow blossoms
against her brown tresses, and she had
left the chaplet there and walked back
to the house swinging her straw sailor
in her hand.
They were to marry in the spring
at the very first sign of spring. Walter
said. And Sarah came back to the
city TO pound her typewriter.
A knock az the door dispeiled Sarahs
visions of that happy day waiter
had brought the rough pencil draft OF
the home restaurants next day fare
in old Schulenberg's angular hand.
Sarah sat down to her typewriter
and slipped card between the rollers.
She was a nimble worker. Generally
in an hour and a half the twenty-one
menu cards were written and ready.
Today there were more changes on
the bill OF 1areti usual. The soups
were lighter. Pork was eliminated from
the entrees. figuring only with Rus
sian turnips among the roasts. The
gracious spirit of spring pervaded the
entire menu. lamb that lately ca
pered on the greening hillsides was
becomingly exploited with the sauce
that commemOrated its gambols The
song of tllP orStPs. thGU:Sh rot silenrec.
was diminuendo con anore The fry
ing pan seemed to be held inactive be-
hind the benehcent bars of the broiler.
The pie list sweIled: the richer pud-
dings had vanished; the sausage, with
his drapery wrapped about him. bare
II fingered in a pieasant thanatopsis
with the buckwheats and the sweet
but doomed maple.
Sarah's fingers danced like midgets
above summer stream Down
through the courses she worked Civ /
ing each item It's position according to |
IFS length with an accurate eye.
Just Adore the desserts came the
list of egetaDles-carrots aud peas,
asparagus on toast. the perennial to,
natoes and cern and succotash. lima
beams. cabbage and then
Sarah was crying over her bill OF
fare. Tears from the depths of some
livine despair rose in her heart and
gathered to her eyes. Down went her
head on the little typewriter stand.
IND the keyboard ratified dry accom-
1aniinent to her moist sobs.
For she had received no letter from
Walter in two weeks. and the next
tenn on the bill of fare was dandelions
with some kind of egg.
But bother the egg. Dandeions with
whose golden blooms Walter had
rowted her his queen of love and fu-
ure bride; dandeIions. the harbingers
f spring. her sorrows crown of scr.
ow, reminder of her happiest days.
Madam. ] dare you to smile until
on suffer this test: Let the Marechai
Iiel roses that Percy brought you on
ne night you gave him your heart be :
arved as a salad with French dressing
efore YOU. eyes ut a Sehulenberg I
lble d'hote. Had Juliet so seen her
We tokens dishonored the sooner
ould she have sought the lei bean
cribs of the COED apothecary
But WHAT . witch is spring. Into /
ie great coid cry of stone and iron .
message bad TO be sent There was s
me TO convey it but the little hardy i
,urier Of the fields with his rough t,
cen COAT and modest air. Re IS Il q
ue soldier of fortune, this denf-Ge-lion 4
this lions tooth is the French chefs Il
i him. FoHApa BIZ will assist III 8
yemaking WfeEsjsed IN my laG9s maj fl
own hair: gsegiz@ and eallsfv a;sl IN IS
he eRes Into thu b8iliae POI Il
q delivers tileS word Of his saTafela
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