New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-10
MOTHER BURC'S CAKE, All
She's Laying Thick Frost'ng on
for Two Hundred Guests.
CUMBERLAND VALLEY lOYl
Little Fresh Air Children Can
Hardly Wait for Next Wednes-
day, the Time to Start.

The Burgomasters wife is busy these
early August days setting her house IN
order and stocking up the larder against
the coming OF her company. And well she
may. for they're coming two hundred
strong
Think of that. Two hundred company.
It's almost enough to staeger the mag
nation of even so thrifty and methodicai
a person as a burgomaster's wife. TWO
hundred company and for two weeks.
Think OF the pies that must he baked and
the buildings that must he steamed. and
the cakes that must be frosted-yes' siree'
especially there must be the frostlns-
plenty OF good, thick frOsting.
And think too. OF the guest rooms mat
have got to be aired and the bouquets OF
snapdragons. Sweet Williams and holly
hooks that have to be picked to give a
touch OF color 10 hospitality. Well-s day,
II will mean some work sure enough.
Bother says Mistress Burgomaster.
Bless you, no. The only bother VIII be
If I'm not ready for them. When That
special train gets here | want to have
every lnlnE ali dIItHSfh' ~ 'ihN N"'
just enjoy the whole two hundred of them
for the whole two weeks.
You will see the reason for putting 4
this way, kind reader, if you Will step
down 10 the Broad street station. In Phll-
adelphia, some day, and hear the mega
phone man call a train over the Cumner-
land Valley branch. II he happens TO be
one of those exasperating persons that
plays crescendo on his final syllables
but loathes his penults and antepenults,
you'll get an effect something like this:
Board. Train for Harrisburg. csburg.
'lsburs burg burg. burg. burg, burg,
burg" Then. IT, being prospective pas
senger and anxious to know whether or
not your train is under discussion. you
rush around and secure q timetable and
finally get il open at the right place, YOU
will find a list OF names that Will make
your head. too. I'LL with visions of burgo-
masters and their wives. All right along
the same branch Of railroad, one right
after the other. YOU see Harrisburg,
Mechancsburg. Dillsburg, Gettysburg
Shippensburg, Chambersburg. Martins
burg and Mercersburg
Anu lIlc company VIZ wv i' wv
hundred Tribune Fresh Airs that the peo-
! pie OF five Of these burgs. not to forget
| Carlisle and NeuviIle. on the same line
| have invited to come visit them for a
fortnight. beginning August H.
Some Of these guests have been enter
tanned In this region before, and they, a'
! least, know that those pies. puddings and
we'll frosted cakes arc not mere pigments
| OF the imagination. but good joothsomc
! confections and pastries OF the material
kind They know also that tho people
! OF this Cumberland VALLEY are among the
! most hospltable I'm the world. even though
| their guests be- only humble little Fresh
| Airs with their scanty wdrdrobcs done ny
/ In denim bags
II their dreams could come true every
one OF the two hundred prospective guests
| would be picking golden rod and astcrs or
| the mountainsdcs to-day. for they al
know they are going and are waiting anA-
! iously for next Wednesday.