Judge — June 7, 1913 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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waved his hand despairingly to the kitchen table, where the grocer’s boy had dumped the vegetables. The kitchen table resembled a particularly productive field of crops. Almost its entire surface was covered by a luxuriant growth of green leaves, which overflowed to the floor. At the back of the field, a dozen pale green and crimson stalks waved a leafy canopy nearly three feet above the table. In the midst of the green leaves there flourished a fertile bed of straw- berries, and in one corner of the field was asmall bed of tomatoes. “There is enough stuff here for twenty people! How shamefully that grocer has cheated us!’’ cried Mrs. Earlywed indig- nantly. ‘*Henry, how much rhubarb can you eat? “One of those long green sticks would be enough for me,"’ replied Henry sadly. “Then that will be enough for any one,’’ laughed Mrs. Earlywed. ‘*Do you think one bunch of spinach apiece is enough, Henry?’’ “Sure thing!’” “You see, I don’t want your mother to think me recklessly extravagant; at the same time, there must be an abundance of everything. Henry, take three of the ripest, largest tomatoes, peel their skins off, and put one on each plate of lettuce.”’ “Peel them?" snorted Henry, after a few moments’ strenuously unavailing ef- fort. ‘‘You can’t peel the skin off! You've got to cut it off, and when you get through there is darned little tomato left,” and Mr. Earlywed held aloft a small, round, red object the size of a good-sized walnut. “Oh, dear! I know that is not right, for I have seen Mary peel off a fine, thin skin. It comes off as easily !’" “It does, does it? Well, I don’t won- der Mary left, if that is what you asked her to do!” Mrs. Earlywed now placed the three bunches of spinach, still nodding on their stalks, which she had carefully washed and dried, in a saucepan of cold water. In another saucepan she placed the rhu- barb, from which floated long, red strings. It was some time later that Henry, Henry's wife and Henry’s mother sat down to dinner, the former nervously apprehensive, the latter grimly anticipa- tive. The aggressive severity of the rustling black silk was only matched by the cold austerity of the keen, piercing eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Earlywed exchanged dis- mayed glances when she left her sardines untouched. These, served on delicate pieces of toast, with slices of lemon, were the only thing, with the exception of the olives and the ice cream, of which they felt perfectly sure. “Where are the rest of the chops, dear?’’ Mrs. Early urned horrified eyes to The piquancy, of rbet is attained by using a dash of Abbott's Bitters, Sample of bitters by mail, Hp cents in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, When a flood sweeps over a vast area, desolating the cities and towns which lie in its course, the appeal for assistance gets a unanimous re- sponse from the whole country. With all commercial and social order wiped out, an afflicted com- munity is unable to do for itself. It |must draw upon the resources of |the nation of which it is a part i} | In such an emergency, the tele- phone gives its greatest service when it carries the voice of distress The Voice of Reconstruction to the outside world, and the voice of the outside world back to those suffering. At the most critical time, the near- est telephone connected and work- ing in the Bell System affords instant communication with distant places. And always the Bell System, with its extensive resources and reserve means, is able to restore its service promptly, and in facilitating the work of rebuilding, performs one of its highest civic functions, LAMERIGAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES only. Hot Springs. Ark, Porttand. Me. ta Ga. ‘ which has stood the severe test of time. tered by medical experts, at the Keeley Institutes ff For full particulars write To the Following Keeley Institutes: Oklahoma Cite. Okla SEN, Stites St Waokesha, elahoma Cit ¥ Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System or Liquor and Drug Users A scientific treatment which has cured half a million in the past thirty-three years, and the one treatment Adminis- f In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com