The Joys and Trials of Battling with the Cook 'There are, it is an admitted fact, several diferent kinds of glee, pure' and malid whole range between. And. somentere' be 1 beSSala, which, it fe certain, Ereen thes two extrener is, ne, ightly om the latter side ie must women only, and moreover, Women who ure interested but spusmodically in their housekeeping:
No office worker experience' this particular glee, for she has no-time no inclinations that lead toward it, Neither does the house hat excel everything and never fails each day to give deep thought to household affairs and ponder over each item the daily books. But what jo, is there greater to the spasmodic housewife than the knowledge, suddenly acquired, that she can has "done down" the cook who been systematically "squeezing" her? It is a glorious, uplifted feel-ug, a one-up-on-you sort of feeling which, despite the rather uncom fortable memories of past triumphs on the part of the cook, fils her swith a mellow geniality which re. fleets on all around hei The really ardent housekeeper, how can she ever know this joy? She, careful scrutiny with. her the books each day, and her cautious questioning of the price of each item, has long been the despair of her cook, who makes what squeeze he can subtly gently, (for, however cautious, no housewife has ever really. been match for a Chinese cook) that the will never discover his wiles, And the office worker, sha probably. tives by contract with her cook, and after her day's work she has lite clination or time to probe very deep-into her household affairs.
But the housekeeper spasmodic, she savours er glee to the full. She has doubtless shirked matters of ate. "She is too lazy or too busy with other "important" offal to make a trip to one or the other of the markets to substantiate the jowels of her cook anent fis sonme= frat surprising figures. So the k—making hay while the sun ines—adds more and more to his daily squeeze. Until, at lant, roused! to wrath by the size of her bills compared with those of her, cateful and Punctilious friend the housekeeper sallies forth ping to investigate, disturbed from the even tenor of her daily way.
But glee cometh with the market and, once arrived, her wrath vanishes. "Her housewifely blood Toused, and she plunges into the glorious fray, surrounded by fruits and vegetables of every deseription. She inquires the price of this, she demands the cost of that, and in all she finds a difference which even further rouses he Hither and thither she hurries taking notes and. comparisons "Twelve cents_a pound! Why the old rogue hat" been chasing twenty. Bat hee weath fon ier at the thought What is coming to the "eld Toxue.™ She makes her purchases, happy in the thought of The discoafor they wil eae, at td retts home, with virtue, ast slackness forgotten, win 'And what a wonderful tine fix {fore her. er cook, confronted, con only make the feablet of excuses, trid tinaly gives way: before, ths newly acquired" knowledge of mistress, who, ati uplifted, has torved for" titi' beano which. cot her 12 cents Instead of 20¢ and sits serene and triumphant ct her table But alack, she will find next day, that a new dustbin' is imperative, the coolie must have a new brush Jand pan, and every: member of the staff has some itis for hhouschold use of course, why he must have a piece of soap. "And thus it continues until the tine is once moreser going, the ket prices gently soar, while the now dustbin seems to be doing well, and soap not so necessary a commodity. The cook—making hay while the sun shines—adds more and more to his daily squeeze, Until, at Inst, roused to wrath at the size of her bills compared—with those of her careful and punctilious friend, the spasmodic "howsewite again'sallies forth one morning to investigate. And s0 once more da
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