"Thank you, Dan," interrupted the wife, "but there isn't any 'might' about it. I paid the cook this noon, and what do you think? She marched right down herself and bought that hat!"—Edwin Tarrisse.
It is probable that many queens of the kitchen share the sentiment good-naturedly expressed by a Scandinavian servant, recently taken into the service of a young matron of Chicago.
The youthful assumer of household cares was disposed to be a trifle patronizing.
"Now, Lena," she asked earnestly, "are you a good cook?"
"Ya-as, 'm, I tank so," said the girl, with perfect naiveté, "if you vill not try to help me."—Elgin Burroughs.
"Have you a good cook now?"
"I don't know. I haven't been home since breakfast!"
MRS. LITTLETOWN—"This magazine looks rather the worse for wear."