South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-15
x X X X X \ X X X X X X :
: MARRIED LIFE THE
= FIRST YEAR AFTER
i THE HONEYMOON :
By Mabel Herbert Urner.

e
tbs has just telephoned that he is
bringing a friend home for dinner at
T. Some one from out OF town-and
ne wants the incest dinner we can
have"
Anna looked up stolidly from the
cake pans she was carefully lining
with buttered paper
Well. we amt got much-only
roast and potatoes and beets and Gina
mon cake"
oh. but we must get something
lot OF things, This Is the first time
he has ever brought any one home to
dinner-and we must have something
nice"
Yes, miss-but we amt got time
It's after > now"
But we must-Anna. we must get
up a dinner somehow! I'll phone TO
/ the grocer and have them send the
things a. once. Now what shall 1
order?' snatching up pencil and pad.
Now, help me. Anna-help think Of
something we can prepare quick.
Grape fruit" triumphantly, well be-
gin the dinner with grape fruit" She
wrote down Two large grape fruit"
Then clams-clams on the half she'll
1t won't take long to fix them"
But you can't get 'em at the gro
GERS" protested Anna.
mo, I'll telephone TO the fish man.
Now what next? We already have
the roast and beets and potatoes
what other vegetable will cook
| quickly?"
Asparagus, that's real nice. Miss"
oh, yes" And she wrote down
Bunch of best asparagus"
Now what else-what else, Anna p"
That's all Wen have time for.
Nam"
Salad, we must have salad.
Haven't you some lettuce here?"
only one head, and it amt very
fresh"
Lettuce and tomatoes" went down
on the list
Now the desert! An ice? That
won't take any time. I'll telephone to
the confectioner for a block of Nea-
pontan and some macrOons. We have
fruit cake. Now is that all. Anna?
Is there anything else ?"
If we get time to fix all that we'll
be doing very we'll"
Then. when 1 telephone for these
things, you put an extra leaf in the
table and get out the best linen"
The next hour was a busy one. By
quarter after six almost everything
was ready. The table glistened with
the best linen and china. and the
many cut glass and silver wedding
presents.
Now. miss, you'd better stop and
dress" Anna urged for the third time
Yes, yes, in a moment. I've half
an hour yet. oh, Anna, we forgot
the flowers. We should have ordered
some fiowers-then / could have used
! that lovely glass vase. We haven't
anything for a centerpiece.
We'll. if they get a good dinner
they won't miss the flowers" grum-
bled Anna, with unconscious phil
osophy.
1t was only few minutes later
when Helen was hurriedly dressing
that Anna come 10 her door with a
look of blank dismay.
THE oven, INSIST won't burnt
ragically.
| 1T won't burn ?"
It's out-and won't light. The
roast's only half done"
Helen flew into the kitchen Reck-
less Of her pretty ~own, she knelt
down and tried 10 rs.ight the burner.
But her knowledge of a gas range
was limited A half box of used
matches and a burnt finger were the
only results.
"Oh, Anna, what can we do-what
can we do?"
A half-cooked roast. a cold oven,
no other meat or anything tC take it's
place. the coming in half an hour,
make a situation undeniably pathetic.
Helen was Cn the verge of tears.
Anna was stolidly beating the salad
dressing.
Parker-Parker" voice was
shouting at the bottom of the dumb
waiter. And far above could be heard
the buZzing Of the Parker bell.
"Oh, l do wish those people would
answer the dumb-waiter-so somebody's
always calling Parker!' It makes me
nervous enough to scream!" Helen
! was almost hysterical. And then
! again. What can we do-Anna, what
| can we do?"
Here their own bell buzzed, and
/ Curtis Confectioner" was called
/ from below.
That's the ice cream. Anna, but
! what's the use of having ice cream if
we haven't any meat?"
Anna drew up the dumb waiter. on
/ the shelf was the cream packed in
/ ice. and beside it was a number of
! brown paper parcels marked Parker.
/ fresh red Of a steak showed through.
There were times when Helen's
/ mind worked very fast-but it never
/ worked SO rapidly as it did now.
With a little cry she caught up the
/ package, tore off the rest of the paper
and disclosed a fine large pOrterhOuse
/ steak
Anna gasped. Why that's for
! Parker. miss-the family upstairs"
+, Hush" sternly, and hold this
/ dumb-walter-hOld ii tight Don't LET
anyone pull 1t up or down."
She turned the steak from its
wooden dish into a large platter. ON
the refrigerator lay the change from
= I'VE dollar bill. She caught up two
One-dollar bills and pinned them TO a
strip of the brown paper taken from
the meat, and one which she schib-
bed: ''Half-cOOked roast! oven GU
of order, Company at seven"
'Anna-here-put that roast or
here, too. Maybe their oven works
and they can use it,
But Anna was too astounded &c
/ obey quickly. So Helen flew TO the
I oven. dragged out the roast and pu
I in. pan and all, on the dumb waiter.
Now run il up quick, No, don
stand there staring after il, Come
cook this steak And cook il better
than you've cooked anything IN yodI
/ life And hurry-hurryi As she