Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-03-30

what are you going to put UP this
coming summer the younger Wo-
man asked Mrs. Simmons, loosenlng up
her furs. Every year as soon as the
holidays are over l begin to plan 1or
the warm days, and / always put up
great deal Of fruit"
II suppose that you will consider
me a perfect heathen, Mrs: simmons
up anything at ALL haven't Tor
years. We buy all we need"
"Una well, yes, of course, it's great
deal of trouble" murmured the call
er, 'hut the homemade ones are SO
much more delicious. And so pure, you
i-nowi"
ga long time ago when 1 set up
housekeeping I thought so, too" Mrs.
Simmons said. tBut that first year l
had nine glasses of jelly and fourteen
glasses of jam left over at the end of
tie season, and 1 began to have my
doubts. Then, too, 1 wasted a lot of
material making things that didn't
succeed or that spoiled and 1 was dis
couraged."
Brides always have such trials!"
"I think Mr. Simons had more trials
than I. OF course, I thought it was
my fault because I was young and in
experienced, so the next year 1 sent
for a professional who put the whole
lot up for me. When saw her after
ward she said that it was a bad sea-
son for preserving and the fruit was
70 blame for her lack of success. l
did not know till then that there could
re good and bad years for fruit.
Eyes, indeed" the caller said. Some
years I have had to add apple to
everything and even then it did not go
WELL"
81 took lessons at cooking school,
Mrs Simmons went on. Still my
preserving was unsuccessful. Besides
even if it did by chance come out all
right, 1 had to make such quantities
Of each kind in order to make it pay
economically that my family got sick
and tired of my offerings. Finally we
began to buy of the grocer some things
Lut up by a woman, and in that way
we have had variety and purity at one
and the same time. There's no dan
ger of their spelling. because we buy
| only as we need and if the goods
aren't good, for any reason at all, we
can get our money back. You don't
have to consider breakage, either.
we'll remember the time when my pre-
serve shelf was overloaded and fel
with forty-six glasses of jelly and
every one was smashed to little bits.
Eyes, such an incident would be
nard to forget" said the caller. "But
une feels like such a poor housekeepel
| to refrain from putting things up wheI
| everybody else one knows is doing it.
eS, Know L lett THAT way OIISS,
| Mrs. Simmons conceded. But L brave
| y got over it. You see, when people
became aware of the terrible fact tina
1 was doing nothing to help the frui
merchants along they sent me in glass
! es of their own work, and their kind
ness has made me realize few things
At first relied on the gifts and Sc
them aside to use A Sunday tea OF
for a luncheon or so, but after awhile
I became wiser.
| zone famous cook, whose skill a
preserving 1 had heard praised TO
| years, brought me four glasses o
various things, remember, and 1 wa
so pleased. One was burned, one wa
| spoiled and the other two hadn'
i ielled, so that we had trouble eatini
| them even with spoons. OF course
when you have guests at luncheon an
the jelly insists on running to the fou
corners of the dish you can Away
say that the room is too warm, blu
when the thermometer shows beloI