Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-18
GIVING JIMMY THE CURE

good chance to follow in the footsteps of Aunt Sally. Of course, we ought to have jam, and now was the time to make 1t when strawberries were low. ordered a case and when I found how rid1culously cheap it was. I thought it was foolish not to get two.
 Send them up at once,' said to the clerk who was answering the phone For its getting late' We don't deliver he answered. He was aWfully stolid about it. too Don't deliver? Why, then, how will I get taem?'
 You can have somebody call for them, or we can send them by an ex- pressman, but ip that case you prob ably couldn't get them till late tonight I'll have some one call for them, l said. Please have them wrapped very nicely Then I phoned Jimmie's office. He wasn't in, but I told one of the other men to tell him to be sure to call for the berries I had bought. Please tell MT. CreeIman,' I said, that 1t is of the utmost importance that 1 nave these strawberries as soon as he can bring them this afternoon Yes, of course I knew they would be an awkward package, and large, too; but Jimmie is such a splendid giant that never dreamed he wouIdn t 1 be able to bring two cases quite easily on the surface cars. The fact is, my ~C%-1g | IAiAIifA l 4lcu IOiS5OLlGIl tue SlHC of berry crates. I certainly was sur prised when I saw him drive up to our flat in taxi just before dinner The chauffeur jumped off his seat and helped him lug huge package into the house.
 What are you going to do. have a strawberry festival?' he asked. What was the rush about these berries?
 I'm going to make jam of them, Jirnmie.'
 Jam? Why they'll make pile of
 You know you said your Aunt Sally always bought things in large quantities when they were selling low and
 They're not very low at present with $2.2o taxi bill attached to their little account. couldn't carry these crates, and when I found what a lot you'd ordered I tried to telephone to ask what was doing, but I couldn't get anything but the busy signal
 was calling up my friends trying to get a specially good recipe for a strawberry jam I think I have an ex- cellent one from an old lady who used to know your Aunt Sally, so maybe it's the same as her rule Jimmie'
 I don't care a hang whether it is or not he answered, and I made up my mind there and then that it's i'm possible to tell what will please a hus- band. After dinner he was more genial about the berries and he even began to help me hull them quite cheerfulIy. He said he used TO do it when he was a boy for his Aunt Sa- and then he broke off suddenly and began to whis- tie. After about an hours work, he suggested that we leave the rest till morning.
 " Oh no, Jimmie they're so dead ripe we must get them on the stove the first thing in the morning. I told him. +O I,,-IJ sa s4 takes till midnight!'
 Oh, very we'll he replied resign edly, and we did work till after il o'clock. The next morning Jimmie an nOunced that ne was going to play golf. It was the first time he had even suggested leaving me alone on Sunday.
 Aren't you going to help me with the jam" I asked tearfully, and he silently put his golf bag back in the hall cupboard.
 We began to weigh the sugar and found we had nowhere near enough, so Jimmie had to get some at a. delicates- sen because no other place was open on Sunday. He was much annoyed be cause he had to pay a half cent more q pound than we do at the grocery. It was , o'clock when we finally got the jam all into the glasses, and there was so much that we had to put some of it in our wedding present vases. Jimmie said he had wondered why, when we had needed a carpet sweeper and ice cream freezer, that our friends should have showered vases upon us, but now he saw it was a special prov idence for just such a. jam emergency.
 we were so awfully busy all day with the berries that we actually for got to get dinner. and when the last glass was put on the shelf. Jimmie said, Come on, now. if you have the strength to scrape off the jam, we'll go downtown to dinner
 He took me to my favorite res taurant and when I gasped at the order he gave he said, We deserve something pretty rich after all the econonlizing we've done in jam
 And isn't it funny, he hasn't once mentioned Aunt SaIly's name since that day ?"-Exchange