Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — A Resourceful Bride. [ARTICLE]

A Resourceful Bride.

Her first venture at cooking dinner 'tn her own home had passed successfully, and they sat in silence at opposite ends of the table wondering at the novelty of It all and gazing at each other. “Honestly, honestly— heart —did you like it, Fred?” she asked finally. "Never enjoyed anything so much In my life,” he said, and swallpwed a lump. { “Everything, everything—from soup to pudding?” “Every mouthful, from soup to pudding,” he said, bravely. “Oh, I’m so relieved then,” she said, as a huge sigh escaped her. “You see, I forgot to order the syrup for the sauce for the pudding, and I had to have something, so I took the cough syrup, and I was so afraid you’d taste It!” “When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain” was the work of Henry Kirk White. For many years it was supposed that he wrote lFat sea and under circumstances of-great danger,..but when hia papers were examined after his death a memorandum was found that the poem had been pomposed at- home one quiet summer afternoon. Rye ia believed to be one of the most’ modern of grains; Lt was not known to the Egyptians; no ancient nation has a name for it before the days of the Roman Empire.