The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-26
TIE EVENING STORY
Planned by the Cook.
d. Ca,-l sTnn Girc

was mely-dW1ul money! SdTdil
was the cook at Lookout Castle, as
Colonel Ryder called his country home
on the Sound
Sarah had an honest look, even IL
it was a homely one, and appeared to
be very frank, but, alas for those who
haven't learned that every honey
cook has trick up her sleeve to be
played sooner. or later! What Sher-
lock Holmes himself might not have
suspected of that woman wrestling
her pots and pans was that she was
both Jealous and romantic.
Sarah had read many novel. They
were not about Buffalo Bill or the
James Brothers. They were novels of
love and adventure. They had heroes
and heroines. They had varlets and
villains. They had knights and chew
alters and maidens in distress They
| had their Duvals and Reginalds-
Sarah believed every line she read,
even to a princess clipping with a
sWineherd and living in cave there
after as contented as an old hen. she
had to spell out many word, but
she absorbed all. If the pudding
burned or the roast beef went to a
| cinder while she was finishing a
! chapter, it didn't take away a bit OF
the romance.
Sarah was jealous, and of Miss
Evelyn Ryder, 20 years old and some.
thing of belle, though she had given
! no encouragement yet to the half doz-
| en- young men who came flutterlns
| about. Why jealous? oh, there were
a dozen reasons, and Sarah thought
each one q good one
! The man of all work at the Castle
rolled into the waters of the Sound
! one day., and having reached bottom
he remained there indefinitely me
| colonel said it might be weeks
| job replacing him but Sarah Baxter
had one knocking at the back door
| the very mex day. His name was
Simon Schermerhorn. He was 25 years
| old and as homely as Sarah herself,
| and had red chin whiskers besides. He
could read a sign of keep Off the
Grass" and he could write his name.
But he was never heard to boast OF his
education. Sarah got him on the tele-
| phone, and while he was waiting to see
the colonel she said to him:
"Simon, I shall never marry a man
| unless he is hero. and so there's no
danger of my falling in love with you,
but I'm willing to make great man
Il don't believe I want to be
great was his dubious reply.
'Then you may go. We want no
StupidS around here.
But I'll try to be great if can"
That's more like it. Now listen.
When you are called in to see the
colonel say sir to him every time
You will see his wife. Say ma. am
| to her You will see his daughter
Say miss to her. She amt home
this morning, and she may see you
| first out doors. If she speaks TO you
clap one heel behind the other, thus
and bring up the right hand and re-
move YOUR chapeau and make grand
| bow. Let the plume in your chapeau
, sweep the grass"
what in thunder is chapeau. and
| where in thunder is mine?
"Oh. 1 forgot. Well. take off your
cap and make a low bow You
needn't say much, but let her see the
light of admiration in your eyes
'sThe same as if 1 was looking at q
fine BULLDOG"
simon, if you play the fool III
never forgive you! Can't you under
stand that I'm going to make a
great and rich man of you? Hist!
| The colonel wants you. RememDer
| that, sir
Simon could run an auto, cut
grass. fuss with a garden and make
| himself generally useful He was
hired on the spot. and the colonel
| later remarked to his wife:
HE doesn't seem to know enough
| to pound sand, but maybe we can
get along with him for awhile
That afternoon when Miss Evelyn
came home she ran across Simon
on the lawn.
You must be the new man." she
asked.
Eyes, sir-yes, ma'am--yes. miss,
he replied in his confusion, and then
moved his headgear and made a grand
sweep and bow. He fell over back
ward in doing it, and heard the girl
smoker as she passed on.
When her work had been done Tor
the evening the cook called Simon in
and read him a chapter from a ro-
nance and then closed he book and
said: Now. listen to me. Miss Evelyn
Is Yes
SHE'S like me in one thing-shen
marry hero or none.
But, ding it all, I'm no hero!'
But 1 m going to make you one,
if you've got the brains to follow my
advice
4 don't want to do anything TO
bring out the measles or mumps at
my age"' protested Simon.
IT'S no use talking to a ha1f-fool!''
exclaimed Sarah, as she threw up ner
hands. You can be the husband of
Miss Evelyn, as well not, and here
you are kicking about it,
Her husband"
4 tell you it's so. She's romantic.
I'll bet you anything she's thinking
right now that you are some cheva-
Iier here in Disguise
rs that the way girls are?'
1T is Simon. They run to romance.
If tin peddler comes along they are
ready to believe that he is a duke with
his old d. DIS on. Inside of week Miss
Evelyn will be sure in her mind that
you are here to WOO and win her.
BY gosh, but 1 can't believe it,"
said Simon.
mo, because you are not romantic,
but YOU take my word for it and do
Just as 1 tell you. 1 shall tell Miss
Evelyn the q. t. that you are the
son of a duke"
There were some funny things at
the castle during the next fortnight.
The cook kept at Simon till she al
most made him believe in her oft re-
peated assertions, and lie was quite