Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — HOSTESS HAD TO OWN UP [ARTICLE]

HOSTESS HAD TO OWN UP

Domestic Secret Disclosed When the Guest Could Not Be Served With Pie, She was a woman pf resource and ability and when her .husband arrived for dinner with an unexpected guest she thought she had devised a way to meet the fact that she had but one piece of pie in the house and had Intended ter husband should have that. She instructed him that when she sent to the kitchen for dessert he was to say he could, not possibly eat any more than he had eaten and then the pie could, be brought to her guest without his surmising that there was but one piece in the house. This might have worked out all rlght ls ; thy'Dle had not been so bxceedingly good and her husband had not known this because he had it for dinner the day before. When the maid cleared away the dinner dishes the master of the house said he had no room for dessert. The guest said he felt the same way. Then, when the master thought it was safe to do so he changed his mind and said after all he guessed he would take dessert. The pie was brought. When it was half eaten the guest said it looked so good he thought he, too, would indulge. “No, you won’t,” said the hostess, and she told the tale of the pie.