| Show t PLEASING HIS MOTHER Maude dear Im so glad to sea 0111 Perhaps 1 do look a little blue hard to plensocvery one but Its BO Yell its Mrs Benton I mean its mother But one has to try to please II motherinlaw for she being older cant afford to waste her tlmo trying to please you She Isnt pleasdd with my way of marketing and you know that I never did any before 1 waa married Only yesterday 1 wanted something extra because Mrs Ilentonmolher was visiting us and I asked the butcher for some mincemeat lie said they didnt keep It and suggested trying ho delicatessen store To cover my mistake I looked at my list and said Oh yes It was sweetbreads I want edI suppose they are at the dellca > Lessen too Hut he had them They looked BO different from anything I had ever t eaten maybe It was because I had never seen them before they wore cooked anyway the bill was awfully I high and because they didnt look In Itlng I just gave them to the Janitors wife George laughed about It but t Mrs Ben mother said It was very extravagant I made a delicious pudding custard lard sponge cake kind the custard part was lovely but the sponges were o tough I must have got the wrong kind George wanted to help wo with tho work but his mother said she never tad considered It a part of mans ad work She has a lot of old nshtone d notions about Its being degrading for a man to do womans work George always helps me doesnt yourI mean If you had one wouldnt he When Mrs BenhIs mother came Into the kitchen she looked around In t 2 Z 4 4 h j ert Itr1 u I Left the Table a superior way and said she didnt see that wo had dono much tidying up though we had been gone so long Of course after that George didnt of fer to help but went right Into the other room and hlsmyour mother said she would wipe the dishes I felt all choked IIPYOII see I hadnt had a chance to kiss George before ho went Into the parlorand he had been gono all day His mother doesnt think It dignified to do thai t n Then there was more trouble I offered her a nice dish towelone that I had hemstitched myself anc she fairly snorted When you have been married a little longer you will be willing to economize and use flour sacks for dishcloths as I do Ill get some 1 said What do they cost But this proved the wrong thing to say Sho pulled herself up proudly and answered Nothing they come with tho flour Itlght then I made tip my mind to please her because I really want her to like me So I wont to the market and told tho grocer I wanted some Hour Ho asked me how much and I said I needed a half dozen sacks but perhaps three would do I didnt havo anything to put the lour In so that I could get tho sacks and I havent discovered yet what I can use the flour for but I can use Santo of It for paste George has so many newspaper clippings George came home early for he know that his mother was shopping and that she wouldnt leave as long as there was a store open I told him to come and empty the lour and when he saw It he laughedllko Whole a goose can We put It I asked tearfully He looked around and then to the laundry tubs rushed oj Lue ot these wilt do only thing big enough he said Its the I told hIm that the i woman have to have It to wash In would although I thought him very clover to think ot musing It for tho lour n i Site must do with the ° other r for Olin small hub Wa8lG8 we red George an I was 110 l11lsell at his ingenious ness that I hugged him and Just his mother then came In and tit four blot them stolid she v wasllt IlleaRel You told nm that this Not at all she sold wits the the sacks I saved as Wo used tho flour But Wo hnolll been enough to usewh named long I hndllt any flour bought before this I just a cupful borrowed I ant afraid shin of Georges never WI approve Dally Nolis IUllrriae Chlcngt |
