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Show THE EDITOR IN TROUBLE. His New Way of Making Cake Wa Not Popular. The editor of a monthly magazine recently started a "cookery page." A few days ago an athletic-looking woman wo-man craved audience with him. She was seen to be carefully concealing something under her apron. "Are you the man?" she asked, "who published that new way of making cake?" He admitted that he was. "You said, 'Mix . washing-soda with the flour, and stir in a little bran and sweet oil to give, it consistency.' " "Ye yes," stammered stam-mered the editor. "And you said, 'Add syrup and a gill of vinegar, and two ounces of gum arabic when the cake is half baked.' The gum arabic, you told us, was to give the cake a rich appearance ap-pearance on top." "I believe you arej right," said the trembling editor,! "Well, take that, then!" And the indignant in-dignant woman floored him with a weapon that felt like a club, but which instinct told him was a chunk of the cake. |