Show real ice on the me cake minature mi lature snowdrift gathered in the back yard used by pew cook to ornament the piece de resistance of the feast tal T al as told in a mothers Mc meeting efing it was at the luthera Mu thera meeting ana u they were discussing that question of new falling the servant tirl girl problem tale of woe followed tale of woe in sorrowful procession yoa ladles ladies of brooklyn do certainly seem to have a great deal of kroull tro ull tible said tho the visitor from north dakota but as my oung eon son aptly boult puta puts it there are others iii it ray my section of the country the help comes conies mostly the swedes ol 01 there are large settlements settle menta mattered scattered all over the state they aake make good servants too after they am re trained but in the training ah ab there theres the rub A short time ago I 1 bad had occasion to engage a cook not for or loye love or money could I 1 find what I 1 wanted so anally I 1 waa was forced to go to one of the swedish villages I 1 found a girl who was just over her liter sister told me but who she also assured me would be quick to learn so back to town I 1 went with my greenborn creen green horo torn groaning inwardly at what WM was before me but her slat alst r had mid mild truly minna ninna was quick to learn her iler great difficulty was the language the idioms of it I 1 say and many and funny were the mi mistakes she made on that account but these I 1 expected one day when I 1 was expecting company to dinner she specially distinguished herself in giving directions I 1 told her to make a loaf of sponge cake and to ice it in her best manner oh yes she could do that and let me add she did 1 I need not worry about an anything thIng she told me smiling away like the cheshire cat the dinner was a perfect success so much so that I 1 was bragging to my envious neighbors of the treasure I 1 had found in to my greenhorn green honi cook when minna brought in lit the dessert the rake cake did look simply splendid and minna triumphant but as she set it before me I 1 turned cold with horror for that girl had taken me most literally and had iced the cake with the most mgt immaculate miniature ehe she bad had been able to scrape together in the back yard new now york press |