| Show mrs archer s angel food cake by ELEANOR WEST by the authors publishing company aull be sure to come wont you archer be the all it sole go weve had at mrs honer and bo be there it itil 11 a asplen 1 chance for you to get acquainted oh yes the committee wanted to aak ask you to furnish an angeio aggei food od everybody said that th ono one took to the last sociable was the they ever tasted you dont know many compliments 1 heard for it veil elf I 1 must hurry along ive a lot e places on my list yet we got sociable up in such a hurry it ng us much time well ill tell they can de pendon your angel then mrs archer be sure and e early voluble mrs wiley bus away still talking I 1 argaret archer came back from door her pretty face wearing a idled look sae wont went directly to cupboard and taking out the cookk nervously began turning its tes ea finding the page for which was searching she bent above it lying its directions intently it ais ns as if it I 1 ought to be able to do T she assured herself 1 I simply of 4 ti nervously began turning its leaves it t she went on emphatically id d I 1 wont say anything to rob t it I 1 dont want him to know it t little goose I 1 am aw then she led ed the cookbook cook book and began to gel get per er I 1 I 1 vas was lesa lesi anan a month since rol rob her er brought his brida to the old le estead stead but sho she was already well uch ii with their thrifty 7 neighbors to know with what scorn the acknowledgment that she could not cook would be received the tact fact that she had spent all lier time clerking in a store since she left school would seem no excuse to them there had been one other sociable since she came to the neighborhood but fortunately her mother was visiting her lier that week and it was sho she who made the angel food cake that had created nich fuch fao lao rable comment margaret could cook vegetables e very creditably so with the 1 pies les and cakes that her per mother biad left baked up when sno went home she had gotten along very well so far but nhat was she to do new she must manage in some way wal to live up tip to the reputation that that angel food calio calco had given her her cheeks grew hot as gs she saw in imagination the critical looks that were bestowed upon ach cake as it t was cut she never could face those excellent housekeepers housekeep ors again if it her cake failed to bear the test and she must one for they we were re depending upon her Tho next morningan mornin gas soon as rob was out of sight she got the cookbook down again it opened readily to the t page this time margaret fastened fasted ed its leaves open on the kitchen table one and one half cups sugar ono one cup flour whites of ten eggs sho she read slowly on through the directions it look very hard she thought cheerfully and her heart grow lighter very care carefully hilly she put the ingredients tog together ethor the eggs were beaten until hr arm ached tha the sugar was sifted again and again at last the frothy mass was ready for the oven she put an armful of wood into the stove slipped the cake into the oven and then began to clear off the breakfast dishes slip she glanced up at the clock it was half past ninel she had been two hours getting that cake together well I 1 dont caro care for that if it it is only good and I 1 really believe it will be of she thought complacently ive got goi all day to do tho the snork ork in anyway for rob is helping the smiths thresh and he wont bo be home hoine to dinner she began to hum a little tune as she swiftly cleared tho the table she kept close watch of 0 tho the clock three quarters quartets of an hour for lor baking the cookbook cook book said I 1 1 she would have have time to run cut and gather the eggs L sho she tied on her sunbonnet sun bonnet and arid hast bened ned out to tho the barn fifteen minutes later she came back with her apron f full till of eggs and was met at the door by a strong eau suu ss something burning she rushed to the stove throw threw open the oven door and aas as herrly choked by the smoke that rushed out her cako caho was burnt to a black cinder she jerked it out of the oven and carrying it to the door she scraped it out into a pall pail then she looked ruefully at the empty tin 1 I must have had too hot a fire she concluded ill have to make another tho the oven had timeto time to cool down before she had the next cake mixed up and she took care not to have very much clr birj she was very anxious this time and determined that this cake should not scorch every few minutes she opened the oven door and looked at it it raised nicely and seemed to bo be in no danger of burning at the end of the three quarters of an hour it vas was almost as white and doughy look ing as when she put it in she decided that something must be done there was not fire enough this time that was sure she would put a little wood in the stove she hastened out and brought in a handful and put it on the dying fire ten minutes later she carefully opened the oven door to look at her cake it was about half an inch in thickness margarets lips set in a determined line the spirit of her fighting ancestors was aroused she would not be conquered by a more cake she was hot and oh so tired but she wenc heroically to work again A little after 4 rob came up the walk whistling the threshing at smiths was finished and he was wag home early at the door ho he stopped in surprise margaret who was always ready to receive him in the dant iest lest of afternoon dresses when he returned sat by the kitchen table in a soiled morning wrapper her hair was disheveled and sprinkled with flour one hand was ZIN 9 T aff burnt to a black cinder done up in a white cloth and two fingers of the other hand showed great burns her head rested on her arms and she was crying bitterly rob was startled it was several minutes before he lie could understand what was the trouble at last however with her tearstained tear stained face hidden against his coat margaret sobbed out a history of the days disasters rob laughed but it was a comforting laugh Is that all he exclaimed cheerily dont worry about that little wife I 1 my mothers hired girl all one year for nothing the very tory cako cake she always used to havo have mo me make I 1 got to bo be quite an expert rax pert at it its a pity if I 1 cant make one more ten mint minutes ites later rob enveloped ID 11 a great kitchen apron was busily at work stirring up another cako cake its lucky we have plenty of eggs how many cakes did you make anyway he asked as ho he noticed the great pile of egg shells margaret looked foolish aa as sho she answered tou you know what a silly wife you had married did you poor boy she tried to speak lightly but rob caught the note of wistfulness wistful nesa in la her boice margaret was very seng sec 14 41 tite about her deficiencies in the colln ary line rob took the sweet face between two very floury hands and hastened to assure her for the twentieth time that ho he did not care the least bit in the world whether she could bake bako a cake or not that evening at the sociable airs wiley bustled up to margaret ing your angel food cake inas as simply delicious mrs archer I 1 believe it was even better than the one you brought before and that is saying a good deal I 1 am coming over some day to have you shoy me how to do it margaret and rob exchanged laughing glances Marga margaret iet could afford to laugh then but she registered a vow that before the next sociable sho she 4 anould be ablo to make an angel food t cake equal to that one and she kept lier her word they almost lived on angel food cake for the next two weeks and it seemed to margaret that she never would want to see one again but at the end of that time even her mother could not make a better one |
