JUST HOW: A Key to the Cook-Books. 16mo, $1.00.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.
PREFACE.
"Wait until you are helped, my dear! Don't touch the pie until it is cut!"
The old Mother, Life, keeps saying that to us all.
As individuals, it is well for us to remember it; that we may not have things until we are helped; at any rate, until the full and proper time comes, for courageously and with right assurance helping ourselves.
Yet it is good for people, as people, to get a morsel—a flavor—in advance. It is well that they should be impatient for the King's supper, to which we shall all sit down, if we will, one day.
So I have not waited for everything to happen and become a usage, that I have told you of in this little story. I confess that there are good things in it which have not yet, literally, come to pass. I have picked something out of the pie beforehand.