Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-12-19


with crepe paper, twisted tightly and the ends
fringed II then resembled the Old-fashioned
motto candies. That the motto couplet might not
be lacking, the following lines written and
inserted
Those Jell girls may be tart and sweet
But I've heard that they lack spice.
II of me you'll deign to eat
you'll vote me nice"
Grandma made a wonderful fruit cake-the
kind that lasts year aud improves with age.
This was surrounded with white parchment paper.
and covered with white paper dolly and fancy
edges This was laid carefully the waxed
paper, which covered the frosting studded thckly
with whole hickory and butternut meats. The
whole packed into round box, made by
Myrtles skillful fingers. To make ii she cut two
disks OF cardboard of the required size, and two
long strips of the cardboard the height Of
the cake the other narrower, for the cover. She
bound the edges together with gummed tape and
covered their junction with narrow strips of gold
paper. Then she neatly covered top and sides
with Christmas paper, all holly and mistletoe.
Lastly, she tied two bright scarlet ribbons about
the box one each way She made plump bows
and gathering the ends of the ribbons, sewed tiny
sleigh bells on Them that the box when moved.
gave forth a sweet musical sound.
Myrtle surveyed the box with satisfaction. her
head one side.
you ought to please" she said. you appeal
to the eye, the ear, and the palate"
The box certainly did present imposing APP
pearance. On the inside of the appeared
the lines:
'Of course this cake was made by mother
She says II IL don't suit she'll make you another"
A great generous bail Of cottage cheese
wrapped In paper and packed in a square box,
with plenty of tissue paper in the corners. Ac-
companying 1t was the legend:
"If Esau had known Of the cheese called cottage
He'd have traded for that, instead of the pottage.
There we're two generous loaves of bread. one OF
"salt rising" the other yeast raised. On a card
the lines:
Grandma says. when you boy.
And eating salt rising you could stop;
But IN case you tire of the od-fashiOned kind,
Here's another loaf, raised with the hop"
Packed about the loaves. and neatly wrapped,
each by itself in parchment paper, were a dozen
little individual butter pats nodded In the form Of
a rose. Myrtle wrote:
1--WE wonder If, when you eat you'll mutter:
Aha That tastes like Old Home butterP"
The Hnince pie was concocted with immense care,
from the careful choosing and mixing of the In
gradients 10 the construction Of the faultess, faky
crust just touched with the fantest hint of golden
brown. This was carefully packed between two
wooden plates. tied firmly together. On the top
plate was written:
'When is It true that a mans a mince pie?
Cannot you take the hint?
Why Il mans Mint Spy of course you know.
When he acts spy In the mint"
The duck was of course. the chef d0euvre OF
the whole undertaking. When tt was ready. lying
on its back with Its fat legs composed at its plump
sides IT surely did look appetizng. The Poet
I.ariat" as Tim called her, wrote the following:
Not porcne sucking but nice fat duckling
You draw for your Christmas dinner.
You ne'er duck
That was nicer to pluck;
We hope you will vote him winner"
Some beautiful red Brother Jonathan apples
were tucked In the corners, and glass of elder
berry ley. These were grandma's contribution
and she wrote, in a somewhat trembling hand the
following note:
Dear Johnny:
These apples cams of from the tree where you
fell and broke your leg that time. Do you re-
member? l wouldn't let them cut 1t down when
they cut the others The ederberry jelly
made from the eldrrberres that grow on the
bushes by the old swimming hole.
"MOTHER"
When everything was finished and the box
about ready 10 go, there still remained two things
to be done. One to put in the oldfashi0ned
daguerreotype of grandma with Aunt Myrtle
(taken at siXteen) standing one side OF her.
and Uncle John the other. Tits had been
taken many wears before. for relative and had
been sent away, and its existence forgotten. Myr-
tie had been named Tor her aunt. ana she looked
very much the latter bad done at her age. Aunt
Myrtle had died at eighteen Myrtle never
her. The other thing 10 he Enclosed was the anna
teur photograph of grandma and the present
Myrtle. She Lad posed in Imitation of the pose
in the early picture with her arm around grand
mas neck. The resemblance between her picture
and that Of Aunt Myrtle almost startling
When grandma looked at the two pictures to-
gcthor she shook her head:
'bo J really look old ut thatF' she sighed.
Il hate 10 send that To johnny I'm afraid it viii