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Show The HAPPY HOME By MARGARET ERUCE V-.V.V.N.NVVf2 Overdoing the Favorite Dish Sluf w;is a very yuiin wife ami -mother so young tljut hlie and her baby daughter buth won; their hair bohbed i n i J every one looked astonished as-tonished that hhe should have a baby at all. S h f was a very young rook, I too, ami hadn't yet got beyond the point where half of her culinary ex-IMTlmeriU ex-IMTlmeriU turnei out to be wwful failures. She certainly could make wonderful Ouecu of I'liddlngx, though. Her youthful youth-ful husband Kinac-ked his lips over It the first time she made It, anil declared de-clared It the finest dish he had ever aten. She grew pink with pride, and had It ng;rlri two days laler. lie was enthusiastic about It again, and made almost as much fuss over It as he had the lirst lime. Not tpiHe so much fuss, you know, but nearly as much. So she had It again -M the end of the week. This time he merely said: "Ah, Queen of I'uiMliigs tonight." When she fiorved the dish again a few days later, he said nothing at all. He ate It hebrlily, and even scraped the last bit from his dessert glass but he said nothing at all. The ve;y yTumg cook gazed at him 3 liJ VI il Vi.irl-'S Ions and silently, nd her eyelids narrowed nar-rowed wisely. It was three weeks or more before Queen of Puddings was served at that little table-for-three. Tioth the baby and the baby's father had forgotten nil about It. Then suddenly sud-denly It appeared at dinner one night. In all Its eustardy richness, Its rtiiyiny Interior, Its bit of quince jelly spread under a blanket of delicately browned meringue. "Gosh !" exploded the head of tht house, Shilling It rapturously. "Look at that heavenly sight. Queen of Pud' dings, as I'm a starving man !" And he took three servings of it, and gave the baby a bit of Its wholesomeness. Queen of Puddings appears on thai table only at rare intervals now. It takes a birthday, an anniversary, or n visit from one of the young husband's college friends to bring It about. And never, never is It greeted with silence or taken as a matter of course. |