| Show from the ladies nepo repository stOrY MOTHERS cooker COOK Gr nr BY XE t una cap goule FOULE the countenance 0 of o mrs airs La 14 laurense IN wrense enge wore worn a somewhat troubled expression as afe she bhe bated seated herself at the dinner table and the shadow deepened as she passed the plate of bread to her hu band it was not quite done in the centre of each I 1 slice was a small mail spot not larger than a half hal dollar doltar bile bill b ull uli I 1 a spot that was not baked through it was not raw dough but a little just a very little ael iel soggy Y not every one would have no tic tio edU not ayery one would have troubled ahm tin m selves 10 say any quy thing about it and not every wife av would iava lava ave avo oared eared lared whether or not her husband did notice it but dut hirs birs jirs AIrs lawren r awrence knew harryy harry narry 1 auld guld noice noce it she knew he would remark upon lipon it and she knew those remarks would rankle in n her tier sensitive heart hence her anxious anxious look lock it was as she sho expected As mr lawrence laid the silca slice he be had llad just taken beside his plate he exclaimed in rather a querulous tone heava bread again as I 1 am alive it does aremo me ie as though we might once in a while have llave some bome same that was light and fit to eat ea it is enough to scare a mans appetite lot let byn hyp ba be never so hungry to have such stuff as thil set before him t the a bread is not so heavy eavy li my y dear said his hi S wife wige mildly it is 3 very light and with the exception of a small smail spot baked nicely icely Ise lse I 1 seethe tithe empty ings m myself self seit and wet wt the doughtiest dough dought let iest my girl g should spoil it and aria had bad I 1 not been called out ortho of the tho kitchen to rep elte elye compan com pansi aj I 1 should havo have tr ended to the baking As it was avas she drew it from tie tae oven a fe few av moments too soon it is s nick nice light bread and as bridget said good when aher I 1 pointed gut put tila tilo fault the master may mry cut out th the V damp spot and ill eat it myself f but mary alary almost ayery time aime apu bake something is the matter and I 1 cant calit see why it should be ba so 11 SD dont ont lii lil pray ray make inalie me out so 0 bad a housep keiper keeper thop eh r as all that said hh its wife wipe pleasantly plea santi y though a c close lose iose observer might have hare noticed a tiny teal teai tear risti nestling ing lug in the corner oar 10 f her hopeful ayer ye idohl dont pray it is not oftener than once ones a month 1 th tha thathy tny tany thing happens to either elthe bread cake caie no p or pl pip pie but as s they pay say accidents accident swill vili vill happen in the best of families so there will oice once in ina t u wh v b ile le failures happen to the best of cooks I 1 I 1 never waver know v any ny one yet but had bad once aneja a a while bad bid luck luck res responded r her ber Ausband ihn shani shand rather contemptuously that phrase ought to barban bar banished from the tiie kitchen department my aly mother other and the blessed name vas was fully fally my mother has cooked these forty years and more and never had bad had juck jack I 1 tell you mary you should eat some of f her bread once it makes mr mv mouth water to think of it I 1 shall never again eat such victuals as sila she USA to cook this was the point which mrs mr lawrence dreaded she had heard so much about mothers cooking during the two yea years Is of heh het he wedded life that the slig sill hest allusion to it made her lier nervous she could bear to be fretted at if every every thing was not quite to the taste tasted she could endure to remain shut up in the tiie close kitchen morning after morning though she knew other young wives mates of her tier girlish years were promenading the pleasant streets because she silo loved her husband truly and ten len tenderly derly and tind it was a pleasure to mi minister alster aister to his rather dainty palate while to be fretted at sometimes she knew was part every womans comans experience and on she enst ast have to tir bear with a smiling face though the heart a ched ached ever so sorel sorely borely y she could e even ve 0 have borne to be called careless extravagant wasteful though she knew the adjectives would have been misapplied because in ia all those thin thins things 9 she could have proved to her husband she vai was vas daily amending but to be censured because she did not cook like his mother was more than she could bear patiently tient ly it was a hopeless case for no wife ever did cook like a mans mother and for a good reason too mothers having the hearty appetites of little growing boys to deal with while poor wit wife has the fastidious pastes bastes of a tn man n and mayhap too of one who loves to eat she did not reply at once to her husband could conid not indeed for there was a choki choking tig struggling in her tier throat but with woman wornall heroism she swallowed it whole and then pleasantly 1 I know harry your mother is a paragon of a cook for all ers are arid and I 1 should like dearly to eat some of her nice victuals I 1 do wish avish and her voice assumed an earnest tone 1 I do wish you would wohld take me to see her and let me serve an apprenticeship with her I 1 assure you I 1 would willingly coz con cook as she doe does it H I 1 oni only y knew her way and then it is to too loo 0 bad too here we have been married almost two t vo years and arid 1 I have never seen one of your relations come lets give up going to new york this fall and go to out in the country to your fathers wont you mr air lawrence did not answer at once he ile was in truth a little ashamed of til the only reason which had so long deterred him from introducing his wife wire to the paternal homestead she was a city born and city bred woman had been nurtured in affluence and always mingled in fashionable society and bedad he did hate to have her see eee the contrast between his bis lowly home and countrified country fied relations and her stately residence and genteel friends it was a reason to be ashamed of and he lie knew it for not holier were tha associations that clustered around the city home borne nay not as holy were vere they as those which clung to that low brown home with its mo mossy eaves its arching ems its rippling spring its ia earning beaming garden its straggling orchard it its broad sweep of mea mca meadow ilow and alid its dim old forest so ifal a picture wili its ilg lights ats and shades aud and well too did he know that in all that nik mik etrue trag trae m a n and lu in sterling fatemi i i t IT ill in fixedness of purpose in warmth add and de tie 1 of ho lie rt the aged agud part portents lits whom oe e had I 1 left e ft years rs before under that bumble roof would sta eta stand to say the tha least side by itse sl deith wilh with those v ho w bad had claimed the th young of f hi li vl abife Y yes yeb es mr lavrence lawrence was asli asil ashamed amed of the oufa reason that hid had Get gee deterred erred him so long from froin introducing to I 1 Is parents the gentle one ab nb whom their only son had chosen for his life companion and so though lie put her off with an excuse puse abdin at dinner rier tier yet yel aate afterward hward arward athen hen they sat together on the life soa sora boa ng that hilf h lif lir hours eliat chit ablach ili alwa s a bowed him himself self sulf he ie assenie ilo lo 10 ller iter wish 1 and that thai dav day dai week was dk decided aided upon as the one which should present mary to his fi lends and as she yet earnestly suid suld present to lier tier some of mothers victuals letu als 1 I will write them today to day they have haie a mail on thursday and if they do not receive it thell theli why salura sataru vs will carry it and ss they are uj at ways at chu church rii ril they can get it sunday we must always make some allowance for country mails but if they get it sanday sunday there will be e time enough ere tuesday noon for a deal of cooking and I 1 tell you marv man buch such a chicken pla pia as see in the tha of mothers ta a le it yon eyou you eat since you were a roy woy interrupted err opted she aptly 0 1 im so you youre youra re going 0 mg J 1 I hall shall make me a 4 new check shick apron this dflia I 1 apan to be be in ill he the kitchen ox or pantry all tiie the time gime ime Y 11 never talk of mothers victuals aber lei lel this vit only cosay thos this th is tates tastes lib like hers liers and that awill wui be praise eliugh I 1 in suppose and ana and the abe the young husband now nov all good nature kissed the soft add and beautiful cheek presented and went oil on laig lais way feeling beehn jor for the time quite satisfied with ilis his darling wf although her tier victuals did not taste to him hira like those of his ids boy hoods board the tho next tuesday dir bir add and MO lawrenc Lawre pc on their way to tho the olden older home horpe i of the husu hust husband nd four our houps hours ride in iu an express train left theun them within ten tea miles nines of the A carriage was hired at once ibid aad they proceeded eded As they entered it itata air lir lawrence ce observed gayly garly our lir horses ses poo booras as bay pey hay ivok took ean can easily emly carry us there by noon we shall ba be I 1 in p good tor for the ilia chick chicken en piel aud shail shall subtle hub Aub tle s ao 0 o justi justl ceto ja N rs tiia the w wife ii f i I 1 hope it will g be AV wide i a and de deep ap N ever fear flar L know them of A old sald said he and giving the word io to the driver th y were off and after aft ir passing many ay iy a pleasant ifield fieldy aid now and then olen under under ow uie shadows of patches pat clies ciles of woodland they turned aadu noon into what whal seemed deemed a long grassy laue A lalit played in a the husbands eye as and he whimpered softly as s though he lie feared to break a holy spell hiis ibis tiis it A the tho hostead road ive played on its sunny bunny banks nany many ail nil au hour wll wih wil the only brather tin tan avan ever gave me and ano along this we posed nheu nhen we carried him hla to ls ills litt little legrave grave bita otty inea thick ivich autumn flowers J h a sprigg pring time iise memories that cluster here and an ha he turned turned his head aud and an wiped away a lear tear 1 A moment arterina ahter after rind and they diew drew 1 l up lefore before a little low roofed house broyn and mossy ba but neat and cheer cheerful ul with rich rlph festoons fes of ilin giu vines hanging at all about arid aria a garien garden path radiant with blossoms but 0 o Q tiie ilia sti af pf agirs lawrence no one came cane to I 1 the e gate to nor dia any ora ona seem geem walting wailing on the W A shadow passed pissed over the thie love jove lit brow of ien len her ier b husband and as ha be assiad her to alight ailed ight he lie said pettishly my letter must have failed what a nuisance are thessi country mails but we we shaf shap shall shail find them home for mothe mother i never goes anywhere and drawing bip his aiels arm arm within liis his own he led her up the grassy pal pathway just ag as chev reache reached the s steps the door I 1 was vas opened and a little old oid dybman wiman dr dressed es sed ll 11 insl insert insi rt gown and petticoat advanced to lo 10 meet them ere airs alts lawrence had hid time to conjecture conjecta re who it might be the wrinkled hand Is ws clasped by her husband while the 0 r d 11 my r mother my dear mother my aly son I 1 71 harry ir mrry harry my dear boy is it you revealed to her in mose whose presence she now found h herself and is this your wife wire said the old lady turning to her tier kindly and taking her to her bosom besom as she would w a long absent dau daughter abter you are welcome child chu god bless you and spare you to him these irany a year for I 1 know by bi his looks you have made him happy indeed ome in children came come in and she fhe ho ushered them into a cheerful kl kit hit kitchen hitchen chen cheu r soon busy in m assisting them to rid themselves delvs of the dust that had gathered upon th their eli elp clothes and in carrin carrying I 1 off outer garments to her hernice nice ulce spare room put but dat but gat why in the world harry said she the wh when elt eit they were comfortably seated you let us know that you were coming tha that 1 have fixed up lap a little and had so metting good for your dinner have to take farmers fare now its pot luck today to day 1 N 11 if its only some soma of mothers cooking it w will eli ill do I 1 know said the young wite wife alfor for arry erry harry has talked of your victuals ati at early nearly every meal mial since ive known him and ive lve ve come coma on now not only to see cee you 1 but to llave have you teach me your ways that I may makelim make him love me all the more you wll will show giewont me uie wont you now mother that I 1 wih wib child said bali the old oid lady kindly her heart won avon ly by ty the gentle gentie ways of her new daughter but bat if harry thinks my cooking wil wll taste as if it used t to do he will be mi mistaken I 1 guess now that ires hes lived so long ili in the city and fed on its dai dal dainty 11 t f fare are mothers homely meals wont relish so ali als wll wil yes they vill will ing therm therl said her son emphatically and I 1 want avant while I 1 am here now cow you should cook just as you cu us used 1 e d to I 1 want the old oid fashioned tast taste i 11 i well ill try and suit you my boy hoy but hut go now and find father lles iles lies hes somewhere about the farm and be spry too for dinner wiil will soon be and aishe ha bustled about to complete her mrs lawrence watched her intently the I 1 cloth was soon luid laid and und neatly neatis tov tov top but in the i lama sama style been preVal eilt when the koiv now p aged Z e d woman came a blooming bride to her home horns the lignin lii ien len wai cag was faultlessly faultless Ty white but hut tt it was homemade bomma home made and not as fine even as that which winch her tier son usi d for his servant the dishes were free froin from lint and airey fairly airly shone but they wele were blue edged white ware such as her son used merely for baking upon while the cutley though pol shed v t labor was of such au an on shape that it w s emed to the ob server she c uld never handle hindle it and aud she I 1 boxed in ania v nn for elver alver but when the old lady prepared to dish dinner she watched her tier closer than eter eyer eyer ever and a mischievous smie jnue lurked in in the dimples that nesti d so coily cosily on br b r soft cheeks would ilarra H trav could hrry harry relish now guch such as a those A huge platter was avas brought from the buttery to the broad old hearth and then the iron cover removed from a pot of mple amble dimensions first the old lady took from it a 4 piece of salt balt pork al QI dripping with fat fal then followed i a mass m ass of boiled cabbage beets ruddy and so plump carrots golden as sunshine add and ana potatoes pes bursting their brown ski skins as th though h 1 jn a a haste to he be eaten and all ali al am rike t be the meat pia with grease mrs lawrence expected of gourse course each thach would be placed oil on a fe ep arate dish the tha W water wafer atar pressed the cabbage and ani it lumpa into a comely form ia yle yie beets and carrots atleed sliced sli iced and prid seasoned and atrid the skins ains removed from from the potatoes but not so proudly as though it were the dish of four and ana iid lla twenty laci iaci lack black birds and fit t to set be forea king the good mother cai car ried lied it to the table and depositing 1 H in iii the tile ci entre centre said pleasantly r thare cohere is 3 a ral real rai old oid fashioned ed dinner and I 1 hop it will vill uste usta to harry as I 1 it usei used to |
