Show in the old frontier days an army officials wife laughs gally gaily nt at what she la Is pleased to term the fastidiousness of some of her fr friends Jends you should have been with me on tile tho pi plains ains site she remarks 1 I I remember when my illy husband and I 1 stop pei for a tinie time in a texas frontier house whore where several civil engineers were also boar boarding dhir tho the ton ten and coffee were served in cups without saucers them was in fact only one spoon in the establishment and that belonged to the sugar basin F from rom chenco it t would bo be removed to stir each cups contents as they were prepared by the hostess and started down the long table sometimes it would be overlooked and lost then a search would be instituted where la is oh mrs blake you have the spoon I 1 would send it ba back ck to tile the tray and meal ineal would proceed |