Show MOTHERS CAKE PROM FROM KANSAS A Oe Story raving a Bearing on fortunes in 1 th the Metropolis J I New York Sun Bun The woman who was telling the story was wa the best lIt gowned of all the tb women in the cafe cate It 11 seemed to amuse the be becom company com around her table and some BOme at nearby seats help listening to it itI I 1 nevus never Me aee a piece pie of ot fruit or pound cake that I dont think of my poor dear mother out hi f Kansas she Me was say sayIng tog Ing Did I ever tell you about the cake she sent ant me Welt It Jt was Wall the I first Christinas Christmas I was wu In New York I Prom From my DU chill c little bedroom in tn ft a I rooming rOO house half way up town I used to write to her ACT the rosiest reelect letters letter of ot my i progress eM and anti expectations expectation It used u to I cheer my gloomiest hours bours to see what I I lies lIell I could put down on paper for tor the I I gratification and nd comfort of the little old lady One night ht when I had hadner any 57 dinner ner I remember sending nellA her a along along along I I long letter about bout plans pleas I was wag making to bring my little sister east and give her the education e n she ought to have haveA A few days before fore Christmas I got gota I a letter in hi mothers own labored lared writ writing writIng writing I ing She said she be knew I hankered for fora I a taste of the fruit cake we always had at home at Christmas time and she had bad made a whole big bis one for me and aad had shipped it by express I 1 promised myself m el that one of mothers nourishing fruit cakes at hand haDd handI haDdI I would be able to sustain u myself elt w n a nt athe the e t oft off days and I sat in expectancy next day clay when the bell rang lD and Del the maid maJd came tolling toiling up the two flights to tell toll me DIe that there was wu a package for tor me meThe meThe II The climbed up with a around around around round parcel almost as ae big as sa a wash washtub washtub tub tUL Ha He eW ekl up the book ok for me to I sign alp and remarked Incidentally Charges Charge are 46 45 maam inaam Mother had sent Bent it collect all the way from i the little Kansas Kan town Six The fruit cake cale w was was wasas I as far beyond my reach as a Tiffany tiara So the tM bore it away while I muttered something about i dropping into his office with the money as soon as I had been to the bank I Then Tun I wrote a strictly private note to tomy tomy tomy my little sister telling her to tear up I any notice that might be sent ent to mother by 1 Ue company telling her the parcel 81 was Wall undelivered I have hare an idea let they Ute have some such IRIc system teIn they Then I sat at down awn and wrote a fresh fre h letter to mother telling her how much I I had enjoyed th u the cake and describing all the fictitious persons who had shared it with me and who sent their I congratulations co ns to her ber on her skill ski as asa asa asa i a cake maker I ran rao out and mailed the letter and went back and cried myself elf to steep sleep And that was the end of the cake asked one of the women at the table I Oh no continued the narrator Three months month Utter tater I went to the suc auction auction suction tion sale pale of unclaimed express packages and bid it in for 45 cents Mothers fruit CruIt cake is so o wholesome and solid that it will keep for a year If It up to the house now each ch of you shall ball have a piece What exclaimed one of the men Was this event as recent Cent as u that The story teller toiler smiled bewitchingly You know she he said turning her look to the fat tat and apoplectic person who was presumably the husband it was Wll a acue case cue of love Jove at lint first sight with Mr X and ant me meY Yes Y assented Nen the fat one and weve we just shipped to mother a fruit fruitcake fruitcake cake cak that tbt so 80 crammed with twenty dollar gold pieces that ta t theres no room for raisins I |