Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Making a Cup of Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Making a Cup of Coffee.

According to Lamartine, “it is the •hardest thing in the world to do the simple things in life and do them right. Who can keep his temper? Who knows how to control his appetite? Where is the man that can hold his tongue? Who knows bow to forgive an injury? Where is happiness to be found ? What man knows how to live,?” and where is the woman that can make good coffee? It must be one of the hard simple things that Lamartine refers to, for where there are a score of housewives who can make firm jellies and delicious preserves and pastries, there is . not one who can be depended on for good coffee 365 days in the year.