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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1923)
Adele Garrison "My HuhhaiuT* Love” Mie Verbal Duel Itet-s Dean Staged Witli Madge. Do. old dear. Coming to make sure I don't Flip bichloride into the potatoes?” Hess Dean looked up from Mrs. l-'urUee'a kitchen sink, where she was preparing vegetables, her lips con torted in a mocking grimace. It took -s all my will power to laugh carelessly, 1 but 1 accomplished it. "I never would behttlo your powers by imagining anything so crude," I retorted. Then, with a glance at the gas stove, as yet unlightcd, 1 brought the tea kettle ta the sink. "If you’ll pardon me, while I fill tliis," 1 said courteously. She moved out of my way a bit jerkily. "What's tile big Idea?" she asked, her eye* narrowing. "Where's Moth er Durkee?” The phrase revealed to me one rea son for n-.y little friend s dislike of Hess Dean. One of the few feminine weaknesses of "Her FlufTlness” Is an aversion to her real age being known, and those of us who love her care fully humor her in this respect. Mhe isn’t silly about it—r-1 think she loves the name of "Mother" from Al fred’s lips, and fiom Della's, but I, for instance, as long and as Intimate as our friendship has been, never would dream of prefixing "Mother” to her name. I wondered if Dess Dean used the appellation in speaking to her. “Mrs. Durkee is lying down.’’ I said, stressing the title ever so slightly. “She Isn't feeling well and she commissioned me tti get dinner for her." "Does that mean that you prefer lo chef it alone, or would you like a scullion to assist you?” she asked with an impish grin. It was no part of my plan to have her leave before the evening was over, as in self-respect she would be | compelled to do if 1 treated her frig idly and refused lier assistance. And that, for the present, at hast, she meant to ignore the circumstances of our last leave taking in the Catskills, so humiliating to her, J plainly saw. So 1 shoved my dislike of her Into the background and answered her sally in kind. “References, Gilt-halged.” “That depends upon your referen ces, the wages you expect and your behavior," I said, laughing and mov ing toward the gas stove with the filled tea kettle. “References, gilt-edged,” she an swered promptly,. "lJehavior. unex ceptional to unjaundlced eyes—that's a good one, I think,”—she inter jerterl impersonally with a laugh at her own phraseology. “Wages—well, let us say, the smothering of one's painful sense of duty and keeping one's hand off.” Her lone was the essence of care lessness, hut I knew that her words, particularly the last ones, were a di rect challenge. t stiffened Involun tarily as l heard them, made a pre tence of difficulty with tin- lighling of lim gas stove until 1 could frame a reply. "If s maid's behavior 1* aatlwCftr tcry. 1 never cavil at her w;)grs.” I answered at last. "But—my birth place is next door -to Iowa. Have you seen the snap beans? Mrs. Durkee said she had planned them for din ner.” Bess Dean “Play* I p." Purposely I had given her the chance to assume, as I had, that the conversation had no undercurrent of si rlous menning, and she promptly played up to me. But there was a noticeable edge to her voice as she replied: "The beans are right here in this bag beside mo. I was going to cut them up after I had put the potatoes on to boll." 1 smothered the housewifely com ment that rose to my lips concerning the condition of the potatoes by the ) time the beans were conked. That she was abysmally ignorant of cook ing lore, I guessed, and I quickly drew on my imagination for a ruso •..in. would save the dinner without hurting i.-r feeling*. "1. I. >ou spoke of boiling," I mil nil ill i 1 ly. "or 1 would have forgone 'in’. Mrs. Durkee wants Sfalhipe'l I. a oeg for dinner." The i-’ • i i her voice was more pro "unoed this time. ■ i ,i ••• II have to engineer that job! I’ve oaten Mrs. Durkee’s, though, and I’ll tell the world they're some high mark to aitn at, even by so gifted a genius as yourself.” Slate Will Help Pay Cost of Paving <m City Street City Commissioner It. W. Dunn of the department of accounts and fi nance has been advised that the slate will pay its share of $11,000 of Ihe cost of paving Forty-fifth street from south line of the Deaf and Dumb institute to Redman avenue and east on Redman avenue to Forty second street. Never cook cabbage in a covered vessel. Our Children Mother Goose tails oil the Teacher. Jaeky llorner carried a note home to his mother. It mas from the feather. After Mother Goose had wiped her spectacles on the corner of her red handkerchief, she read: “Dear Mother Goose: Please come to school to see me about your son, Jaeky Horner. TUB TBACIIBH “What have you been doing. Jaeky?" sold she severely to the gay laddie already in his corner licking his thumb. “Nothing," said Jaeky, tailing an other lick. "Don't believe he did. either,” said the old dame to herself, “but I'll have to go over and see what ehc has to say' as soon as I get these children shut in the shoe. 'Twouldn't do to have him left back." “The trouble with Jaeky,” said the teacher, puckering her brows and digging holes with her pencil in the desk blotter, "is that he can't get, by that pie-ln-thecorner thing. Ho keeps thinking, "VVhnt a great boy ani I" when nil the credit for the Job belong* to someone else. "Soyr you know, perfectly well that you put that plum in his pie on pur pose. It wasn't hard for him to find it or eat it either. Of course It was all right for the first time at Christ mas when he was 3 years old and all thut, but you needn't have kept it up until now when ho Is 9 lie still pulls plums from other folks' pies and cheers for himself.'' "Tut, tut!" said oMther Goose. "Look here, my dear. I'm .1 mother and you are not. 1 have a mother's heart. It takes a lot of patience to bring up a child. You must have pa tience with him! ' "O, I have. But five years ef the same old stuff Is too much even for the patience of a teachei. lied ’ a moron if this sort of thing cnitiii ues much longer." “A Whitt?” demanded the old dame bridling. "What was that? I haven't any children of that name in my fam ily. I* isn't a gr'-d Knglish name, is it? What family are they?" “A very ordinary family. Indeed.'' said the teacher firmly. "The sort tliat do little els« than eat pies other folks bake. Not well thought of at all. Keep on. feeding pies to Jarky and he'll bo one surely!" "Woe's me," moaned Mother Cioosc. ' My Jaeky? Whoever'' And It a good pie, too! 1 make * myself." "The very ww - ■ ' '• !," announced the teacher with a of a surgeon ‘.vying "Jt roust " < ' "Really, if this goes on. I'd rati iave Hump ty Dumpty. At least he's trying to get away from himself and there’s always plenty of adhesive." "Not a hit like the Dame's school,” murmured the troubled Mother Ooose as she waddled home "Still, Jacky must keep up I'm afraid I'll have to cut down on that pie. Poor child! Ha does love It. And I do like to have my pi<s appreciated. But there's tliat teacher—" (r'orj'riglit. ,9IS ) lice Want Ads produce Results. Saturday Will* Be the Big Day for Men! Extra Salesmen— No Charge for Alterations— Every Sale Final Men! Here’s a Message That’s Right Over the Plate! 466 Men’s and Young Men’s New Spring Suits _ - -—^ One and Two-Trouser Suits of High Quality 86 SuitsWere 30.00 \ Saturday 251 SuitsWere 35.00 ( 1102 SuitsWere 40.00 / 27 SuitsWere 45.00 ) hm!%J Every suit is a good style, every material all wood, every suit well tailored and well finished. They are reduced only because sizes are broken and for that reason we do not wish to carry them as regular stock. We have made the reductions important enough to effect j immediate disposal. Make your selection early. 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