Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 15, 1913, Page 7

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Dainty little Nellie Barton was cry- ing as if her heart would break. It was in vain that her best friend and neighbor sought to comfort her. This was the first cloud that had arisen in the matrimonial sky for Mrs. Barton, and, of course, after a season of per fect honeymoon bliss, it seemed to be a terribly dark one. “You foolish Nellie!” exclaimed Mrs. Dorsett. “Why, child, don’t you know that Ronald thinks the sun rises and sets for you, and always will?” “I don't,” asserted Nellle persistent- ly. “How can a man love his wife and find fault with her?” “Tell me all about it, dear, and let us see if between us we can't find some way to patch up this first do- mestic quarrel.” “Quarrel!” repeated the bride of a month in a terrified gasp. “Oh, dear, no—there has been no quarrel. I wouldn't speak a cross word to my husband for worlds, and as to Ronald, he's all cooing and smiles most of the i time.” Mrs. Dorsett smiled indulgently at her pretty, inexperienced sister-in-law. Her better half was a grim, sedate business man who did not do much in the cooing and smiling lipe. It made her heart feel hungry to lister to Nel- lle’'s innocent chatter, she felt girlhood's days fading fast away from her. “Go on, dear,” she urged. “It's about the meals,” confessed Nellle, with a little sob. “I thought everything was just suiting Ronald to a T. He praised by biscuits and said he just doted on my cookies, ple and sunshine cake. He said they re- minded him of food for angels. Then yesterday I found out that it was all | & mollow hockery.” “What, my dear?” “I mean a hollow mockery. I've been 8o upset I get flustered whenever I think of it. You must know that an old college chum of his was at tea last evening—a Mr. Stowell. 1 did my ! best to make Ronald proud of me. BEverything was light and dainty, 1 SO EROTNENRS “Too Heavy for Me.” mever saw a meal go off so nicely. 1 left the two gentlemen to their cigars at the table going over old. times, and sat down on the porch. The windows were open and I couldn’t help hear what they were saying. Oh, dear! 1 wish I badn't listened.” “What was it, dear?” inquired Mrs. Dorsett. “Oh, they got talking of old times. Mr. Stowell reminded Ronald of a glo- rious week they had spent together at the Barton home, before they were married. Such cooking! How moth- er did set out a meal that was a meal! Particularly how Mr. Stowell had never had such an appetite as eve- nings when mother had baked beans. Buch beans! And mince pie! Oh, it made his mouth water to think of it! Then Ronald got egged on to brag of his mother. That salt rising— um! um!” and pretty Nellle, in try- ing to imitate her dear ome, broke down again. “And apple sauce!” she choked out, as the last straw. Practical, loving Mrs. Dorsett tried to soothe her. “See here, my dear,” she said, “you are making a great mountain out of the chatter of two big overgrown boys. Now promise to 1o it and 1 will make everything right.” “H-how w-will you? sobbed Nellie. “WIill you keep a secret? “Y-yes—it it w-will do any good.” “Very well, mother fa coming to visit me next week. You say Mr. Stowell is going to come to fea agaln on his way home frem his tHp? “Yes, he is invited for Tharsday eve ning.” “Then Thursday evening, dear,” promised Mrs. Dorsett, with a little wrinkle of a smile about her lips, “those two overgrown boys shall just revel in all the dainties of old times.” Nellie’s gloomy face brightened up magically as her devoted sister-in-law whispered “the great secret” into her eager ears She hugged and kissed dear Mrs. Dorsett and laughed and chattered, and went home happy, con- vinced that never a new bride had such & dear, dear sisterin-law and ELAND, FLA., AUG. 15, 1913. , such a practical, sensible motherin- law, g { Ronald Barton ushered his friend an old-time chum into the neat, attractive little dining room at home, proud of the neatly set table with its glittering silver and glassware. Nellle never looked lovelier. It was when the maid brought in a great steaming dish of pork and beans that Ronald stared a | Mttle. “Butcher must have forgotten the :;mb chops,” he said half apologetical- “Always liked them,” declared Stowell, “Why, Nellie, isn’t this some new fangled sort of baker's bread?” in- quired Ronald, as he took a mouthful of the bread on the plate and made something of a wry face. “No, indeed!” resented Nellle with dignity. “That is the regular old-fash- foned home-made, salt-rising bread | that everybody dotes over.” “Guess our tastes are getting sort of perverted, old boy!” laughed Stowell. “It's deliclous, but—no, I thank you, plece.” Ronald’s eyes fairly bulged at the dessert. The apple sauce looked to him a poor, thin, cheerless dish to offer to an invited guest. Stowell looked around for some of that flaky | pudding Nellie had given them last time. And then came the climax as the maid soberly brought in three great slabs of mince pie—good ple, grand pie, but on a hot night—! “Teo heavy for me,” declared Sto- well, and Ronald glanced reproachful- ly at Nellie, and the table when finally abandoned showed remnants enouslzl to feed & whole family. { The gentlemen adjourned to tho| porch. Ronald experienced a species I of socia] Jiscomfort. It was oemlnu'. & fémarkable culinary demonstration she had made. He glanced at Stowell, who was solemnly pufiing away at his | cigar. He looked like a wronged man. He was bon vivant enough to enjoy | dainties and had anticipated some- thing light and toothsome at the Bar ten home “Guess we'd better stroll down to the hotel a little later and have a game of billiards, eh, Barton?” he sug- gested. “They open a new grill room to- night, I hear,” observed Ronald. “Why, mother, you here!” and the speaker sprang from his chair and greeted his mother with genuine glad- ness. “This is a surprise, Mrs. Barton,” | spoke Stowell. “Yes, I was busy out in the kitchen and was afraid the maid would spoil | things if I didn't superintend a little,” spoke the old lady demurely, as she had been taught by her plotting daug-: | ter, Mrs. Dorsett. [ And then the truth dawned on Ronald. He glanced at his compan- fon. Stowell had flushed up and look- ed hored. “Boys,” spoke Mrs. Barton in her winning, motherly way, “never forget that two healthy, all-day roving lads coming in to a heavy farm supper hungry as tramps aren't two dainty city-bred children of the larger growth. The ‘cooking mother did’ is Just the thing in its place, but, as I notice from what you left, it doesn't hold a candle to dear little Nellie's clever trifles. Why, when I go home from here, I'm a week telling the neigh- bors about the delightful things Ronald lives on nowadays!"” And that was the last that Nellie | Barton ever heard of “mother's cook- ing.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) COLD LIGHT IN TIME OF WAR' From a Military Point of View, Its Im- portance Can Scarcely Be Exaggerated. { I won't have mot.htr‘ Cold light is useful for military pur~ poses, for now every gsoldier can have in his knapsack the apparatis neces- sary for optic telegraphy. 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