Mrs. Alexander King killed all her geese the twentieth of December. We all helped pick them. We had one Christmas Day and will have one every fortnight the rest of the winter.
The bread was sour last week because mother wouldn’t take my advice. I told her it was too warm for it in the corner behind the stove.
Miss Felicity King invented a new recete for date cookies recently, which everybody said were excelent. I am not going to publish it though, because I don’t want other people to find it out.
ANXIOUS INQUIRER:—If you want to remove inkstains place the stain over steam and apply salt and lemon juice. If it was Dan who sent this question in I’d advise him to stop wiping his pen on his shirt sleeves and then he wouldn’t have so many stains.
FELICITY KING.
ETIQUETTE DEPARTMENT
F-l-x:—Yes, you should offer your arm to a lady when seeing her home, but don’t keep her standing too long at the gate while you say good night.
(FELIX, ENRAGED:—“I never asked such a question.”)
C-c-l-y:—No, it is not polite to use “Holy Moses” or “dodgasted” in ordinary conversation.
(Cecily had gone down cellar to replenish the apple plate, so this passed without protest.)