Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-29
Amusing Her

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What do you dc with all that
fruit you're carrying home?" inQuir-
ed the proprietor of the cigar stand.
81 see you with a crate about every
other day"
I keep pigs. replied the regular
customer i find it hard work some
times to tempt their appetites. but
they generally like a little fresh
fruit The raspberries that I tried
them on yesterday seemed to please
them. so | thought I'd take en- some
more. Raspberries are fattening.
too. and give the pork nice flavor.
You take hog that's been fed on
aspberries-''
"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 it comes 10 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
4 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 as good, TOO"
You must be crazy" said the reg
ular customer. Cheaper, Say, ali
these berries cost me is 10 cents
box, buying them down on the street.
1t doesn't take me more than hour
or so to GO there and get EN- 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 trifie. | can buy quite
a sack Of it for five-dollar bill. d."
Well" said the cigar stand man,
If 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 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
a pie there's the filling right on
hand-or it would be on hand If 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
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 show at it 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 it herself. Then she gets all
swelled up over it and insists on your
taking home jar 10 Your 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 gooc
enough to eat when he pokes his
head In the kitchen he gets a jar
as we'll If anybody gets sick it's a
jar for them.
What do you do 1t for, them
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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