| Show i HOW TO COOK A HUSBAND the recipe given to a school in one of the lecturers before the bal cooking school recently gave this recipe for cooking a husband which is not commonly found in the books on cookery A good many husbands are utterly spoiled by mismanagement some women go about it as if their husbands were balloons and blow them up others keep them constantly in hot water others let them freeze by indifference and carelessness some keep them in a stew by irritating ways and words others roast them some keep them in a pickle all their lives it cannot be supposed that any husband will be tender and good if managed in this way but they are really delicious when properly treated in selecting your husband do not go to market for him as the best arc always brought to your door it is far better to have none unless you will patiently learn how to govern him see that the linen in which you wrap him is properly washed and mended with the required number of buttons and strings tightly sewed on tie him in the kettle by a strong bilk cord called comfort as the one called duty is apt to be weak they are apt to fall out of the kettle and to be burned and crusty on the edges since like crabs and lobsters you have to cook them while alive if he sputters sp utters and busses fusses do not be anxious corae husbands do this until they are called done add a little sugar in the form of what confectionery confectioners ers call kisses but no vinegar or pepper on any account A little spice improves them but it must be used with judgment do not stick any sharp instrument into him to sec if he is becoming tender stir him gently watching the while lest he adhere to the kettle and so become useless you cannot fail to know when he is done if this treatment is closely followed you will find him all the more de hirable but do not be careless with him and keep him in too cool a placy philadelphia times |
