The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-30
A Mdgdzine Story That Made the
 Knowing One" Sit Up and Notice
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

house and prepare three square meals day in two hours" "I'll wager a man wrote that story" I said presently. No a woman is the author" said my friend quickly. What makes it all the
 worse. I bet she never kept house day in her life. If these literary people had to do the things they write about they Here was mercifully spared a trade against the literati by the furious ringing of the telephone I picked up the magazine my hostess had cast aside and during her absence scanned it unmercifully. ran across this paragraph among other things:
 If ye are to believe the society novels of the day, all the women buy their gowns in Paris, live on lobster and champagne,
 occupy box seats at the theatres and ex-
 ceed the speed limit"
 Now, then,'' l thought. here Is a
 writer coming out ip print and saying if
 we can believe the society novels of the
 day, and if he or she can say so pub licly, why then may we (my hostess and
 D not question whether the writer of the
 article who said his heroine cleaned up
 a five-room house and got three meals
 day in two hours?"
 the story I had started, just returning to the drawing room of Miss Betty Me Cerren, where they all gathered round and got busy wits samavor or some thing. and some chocolate frappes. l had just got to the samavor when my hostess came back Did you ever make chocolate frappe'' l asked, and how often do you use your samavor?' Us that "a riddle?' she queried quaintly No" l insisted. I'm really thirsting for information. Why, you know as well as l do" said she, that samavor is a parlor tea ket- tie. and as for chocolate frappe, it's nothing but coarsely frozen water-ice- sometimes favored with liquor in eombi- nation with fruit juice coffee or some thing. The chocolate frappe never has to do with cream. The chocolate frappe you speak of-why, it can't be that It must mean a chocolate mousse" No" I averred, "the story says dis tinctly that it was chocolate frappe. Then 1t would be a Chocolate mess in- stead of a chocolate mousse,' said my hostess. That's another fool writer who
 doesn't know what he's talking about" l smiled and said Just one more question and then I'm done"
 | Reading from the magazine I put the sentence interrogatively: What would be the effect of contin- | uous diet of Lobster Newberg. chocolate | frappe, mushrooms, sweetbreads cham pagne, abstinthe and creame de menthe?
 That's what the society heroines live on. '"They would have chronic indigestion ! and complexions like lemons," she said quickly.
 Then where do heroines get their sparkling eyes, rose bloom cheeks, buoy ant carriage, and lissome grace We read about?" I asked. Prom beefsteak and potatoes. irish stew and oatmeal,'' said the practical housekeeper.
 But society heroines," I insisted, 1 couldn't eat anything so plebeian'' Whose writing that nonsense, she l snapped quickly. Some one in the same magazine. if you | please, out of which you got yours, I | told her And we really ought not to be so critical after all because novel writing | is a profession and novelsts must cater | to the popular demand That's the req son they don't write about beefsteak and onions, but about chocolate frappes and
 absnthe
 And, by the way,' I added curiousy. | Docs a real good housekeeper do all her
 marketing and groceryng over the l phone?"
 | "Of course not" my hostess told me. Shed be cheated to death, in the first
 rlace if she did, and in the second place | she'd get short cuts and tough meats | Is the very lazest thing that housekeep-
 CT can be accused of"
 You have precious little imagination"
 I said quickly.
 l Well, the ephemeral literature of the 1 day is so sobbish that I can't learn much l from that source, assure you.'' she said, grandiloquently.