Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — Something of the Sort. [ARTICLE]

Something of the Sort.

“I see you have buckwheat for pancakes, ” she said to the grocer. “Yes’m.” “My husband was saying this morning that we ought to have some.” “Just so, ma’am.” “It ought to have maple molasses to go with them, hadn’t it?” “To be sure." “And you have got some just fresh from the trees?” “I couldn’t say that, ma’am.” “But isn’t it the season when they make it?” •> “It is and it isn’t They make one kind of maple sugar up in New England from the trees in the spring, and another kind frqm sorghum in New Jersey in the fall. You are too late for the spring brand, and too early for the fall kind, but you will find our dill pickles an excellent substitute for the interval." The woman thought it over and th«w. took a quart of vinegar.