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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1910)
WOMAN OF GENIUS Inhere -are people In the world who never act unwisely uuti yet never get on. On the contrary, there are peo ple, who always act unwisely and yet always pet on. The explanation may be in the -fact that the former have no originality to lift, them above the level of competition and the latter have genius. My wife woou "after we were mar ried developed a passion for what I called old trumpery. She attended auctions, and any hideous rug. rick ety clock or crazy chair put up for sale was sure to be bid in by her to lum ber up the house. As to bric-a-brac. I couldn't turn round without smash ing some ungainly pitcher, big at the girth and little at the bottom, espe cially made to be knocked over. There were old swords, old blunder busses, pieces of armor, rugs so home ly that It would make one sick to walk over them, engravings yellow wilh age, pieces of tapestry with pictures on them of stiff looking people looking sour as vinegar. In short, everything in the house was either old or ugly or both. A practical man, with no nonsense about me, I managed to keep the wolf from the door as a bookkeeper. I had Inherited $5,000 from my father, which I placed in a savings bank to draw 3 per cent interest. It did not remain there long. My wife's insane passion for auction purchases ate Into it grad ually, but surely, till my nest egg had been turned into a lot of miscellaneous truck which any sane man would con sider fit only for a junksbop. Mrs. Moneypenny had friends who were as crazy on this subject as her self. They would come into the house and go from room to room admiring this bit of coffee colored lace fit only for a rag bag. that miniature of some fat woman with a coronet on her head in a chipped oval frame, a clock with a pair of rusty weights weighing per haps twenty pounds each and the sound of a donkey engine in winding. "My dear." I said one day to her de spairingly, "my $5,000 is reduced to live hundred." "Five hundred! Then 1 made a mis take In my figures. I thought there was only three hundred. After all. I can get It." "Get what?" I cried aghast. "The Rembrandt! I have absolute proof that it Is genuine, and it is go ing for a song." "Oh. heavens." I muttered, sinking n to a sofa "to be tied to a lunatic! And to think what is to become of our poor children!" She sat down beside me and put her arms about me. but said nothing. What could she say? She was under the control it her passion, with no power to resist It. She must be not only dragged down to poverty herself, but drag husband and children with her. Within forty-eight hours she had the last cent in the savings bank and got her picture, a dingy painting of a man dressed like a supernumerary in a theater, the only feature plainly visi ble being the tip of a red nose. The day after the thing was brought home one of her friends, a lady, met me ou the street and congratulated me on the valuable addition to my "col lection." - I stared at her grimly and passed ou. while she looked at me. wondering if i had lost my senses. Going home. I abused my wife for an hour. She was patient about it and made no reply, but at last when I begged her to get rid of the stuff and reform she agreed to do so. "Very well." I replied. "I will send for Moses, who will make you a bid for-the lot. We may get a few hun dred dollars out of it." "Leave that "to ine. dear,' she re- j plied. "You haven't time. Co lo business, and I will do all that is nec essary." 7 The next day the morning paper contained a notice that Mrs! Ajtoney penny was to sell at auction her treas ures, which she had been years accu mulating, as she was. about to go abroad to make another "collection." At sight of this announcement, I. nearly fainted, but revived on remem bering that the rubbage was to be sold. For days before the sale I was be set by people with printed lists in their bands asking me what such a number could be had for at private sale. I turned away from all. saying that I didn't know and I didn't care probably a dollar would secure any thing in the lot and it would be a large price. Well, the sale came off. 1 was busy at the office making a trial balance and got home after it was all over. Everybody uad gone, and I found my wife looking depressed. When I saw the house devoid of the trunipery with which it had been encumbered I rejoiced. "Thank heaven." I exclaimed, "it's gone! What did you save out of the wreck?" "Unluckily two of the persons I ex pected would take the most of It at the largest prices were suddenly call ed away, and that spoiled everything." "How much?" I asked. "I had figured on $25,000. but I didn't get it." "You mean $250." "No: the total Is $17,950. and $4,000 of this is for the Rembrandt. The rest went very cheap that Is. consid ering what it ought to have brought." Of course I supposed she was joking till I saw the bank certincate of de posit. The next week, as advertised, my wife went abroad for a new "col lection." from which she cleared $21, 00 We are now rich. I have resigned my position and am usually spoken of as Mrs. Monevnennv's Uusnand. HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE Self Heating Flatiron Keeps Hot For Hours. An improved form of self heating flatiron is shown herewith, the Inven tion of a Minneapolis man. Not only does the iron keep hot for. about two hours and a half at one-Jilling of alco hol, but the heat can Deregulated. In the body are the wicks, and to the rear rises a cylindrical tank which holds a half pint of alcohol. From this tank the liquid flows down to the wicks, which can be turned up or down by a key at the back. The filler plug is protected with a safety device, so there is practically no danger of ex plosion In any way. It takes only a few minutes to have the iron ready for use. and the implement Is Raid to remain heated for two hours and a half on a. half pint of alcohol. Pressed Beef. Select aiiecejvhich. Is suitebleoj a 7I5of""VonT. wclTTVg sTHiMjT Tdur pounds. Put into a kettle with enough boiling water to cover one-balf of the meat. Cook slowly one hour, then add a bit of bay leaf, a level teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Cook until the meat will fall In pieces, take from the liquor, cool a few minutes and cnop tine. Tack closely in an earthen bowl. Cook the liquor until reduced to three cupful and pour hot over the meat. When cold slice thin and garnish with parsley. . Tomato Catchup Wash ripe tomatoes, cut them in slices and ook slowly for one hour. Press through a sieve or strain to take out the seeds and skins. To one quart of this pulp and juice add one table spoonful of cinnamon, one of black pepper and one of mustard, one tea spoonful of cayenne, one-half c-up of salt and two medium sized onions chopped very fine. Simmer two and a half hours, then add two cupfuls of vinegar and cook an hour longer. Put Into bottles and seal. . Spiced Pears. Use sec feel pears, taking off but hnlf of the peel in a spiral shaving. Stick two cloves In each pear. Make a sirup of three pounds of sugar and two cupfuls of vinegar to each six pounds of fruit. Heat the sirup, put In the pears and cook until they can be pierced easily with a knitting nee dle, but are not soft. Take each pear up carefully and put Into a jar with out breaking, pour the sirup over, seal and set in a dark place. . Orange Compote. s Oranges for breakfast are easiest served cut In halves. They are de licious made in a compote with rice. Take the pulp out as whole as possible and drop into a rich boiling sirup, leaving it in just long enough to beat it through. Make a nest of rice, put the orange and sirup in it and serve with whipped cream.. Coffee Bread Pudding. Soak one cupful, breadcrumbs in enough milk to moisten. To this add two eggs beaten, one cupful milk, one and a half cupfuls cold coffee, pinch of salt, one-ha If cupful chopped nuts and ugar to taste. Bake until knife tried in pudding comes out clean. Serve with hard sauce or lemon sauce. Cheese Squares. One-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of flour and one-half cupful of cottage cheese. Mix all together, roll out thin and cut In three inch squares. In the center of each square place a teaspoouful of hard Jelly, turn the four corners of the square toward the cen ter, press them together and bake in a quick oven. Saute of Cold Meats. Cut slices of cold corned beef or of the canned beef. Lay In a hot pan with butter, salt, pepper, a tablespoon ful of vinegar stud two teaspoonfuls of mixed English mustard. Fry well on both sides, but not till crisp. Serve for breakfast with potatoes chopped and fried in butter, one side only. Cough Sirup. One quart of water, ene ounce of boneset. one ounce of licorice, one ounce of flaxseed, one ounce of slip pery elm. one pint of the best mo lasses, one pound of loaf sugar. Put on to steep and when done strain, tak ing rablespoonful doses until relief comes, then teaspoonful. All Great Men, Etc. "Pretty high priced doctor, isn't be?" "You bet he is! There's only one druggist in town that can decipher hi prescriptions." Chicago Tribune. RECTOR'S White Pine Cough Syrup Is a quick' and positive remedy (or all coughs. It stoqs coughing spells at night relieves the soreness, soothes the irrita ted membrane and stoqs the tickling. 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