1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
655 
leased over to the wosoan asd started 
to speak, but just then the conductor 
called out, “Pawtucket, Pawtucket.” 
The train had reached John’s I Aunt 
Huldah, always in a hurry to get off— 
so afraid the cars will naove on tefore 
she reaches the platform—stopped this 
time and gave the big box of doughnuts 
to the woman, saying simplV) “ I baked 
’em for my little boy, but I can bake 
him some more right away, and you 
can’t bake nothin’till you get out there!” 
“ Eight hundred and one North Cedar, 
eight hundred and one North Cedar,” 
Aunt Huldah murmured, as she finally 
stopped before a brown-stone front. 
“That’s what the letter said; but this 
can’t be John’s house I” She put down 
her shiny, black satchel, and nervously 
took out the precious letter. Yes, it was 
801, and this must be the place. She felt 
a curious sense of disappointment and 
loneliness. It was all different from what 
she had expected, and she seemed so far 
apart from all this grandeur. She had 
thought she would go into John’s house 
and help the young \\ife about her 
housework, and everything would be so 
cozy and homelike ! But now—well it 
was too grand for her, and she sighed as 
she thought of the little kitchen, and the 
humble furniture, and the brass kettle. 
“ But I’m not a-goin’ to back out now 
—not afore I see my boy,” she said, firm¬ 
ly clutching her satchel and starting 
across the street. Should she go to that 
grand, frent dcor, or around to the 
kitchen? “No, probably she keeps a girl,” 
she thought, “and I’ll not demean John 
—me, his own aunt—almost his mother, 
by goin’ back there to inquire for him 
So she marched bravely up the front 
steps and rang the bell with trembling 
hands. In a moment, there was a sound 
of light footsteps, and the door was 
opened. 
“What a pretty cretur 1 ” Aunt Hul¬ 
dah thought, gazing at the vision in pink 
and white and lace that had appeared be¬ 
fore her. “Be you John’s wife ?” she 
inquired after a moment’s hesitancy. 
“ I’m his Aunt Huldah that raised him !” 
she continued. 
The little “cretur” threw her arms 
about her neck. “ Oh, I’m so glad you’ve 
come !” she cried, bursting into tears. 
“ I know the Lord sent you 1 ” 
Then John’s wife told her how John 
had thought she was extravagant and 
they had quarreled. “ And when he 
came home this noon and there wasn’t 
anything to eat, he said he thought I 
ought to be able to cook something by 
this time, and I can’t—not good ! ” 
“ Never mind, never mind ! ” said Aunt 
Huldah, soothingly; “you can begin to 
learn right away. Let’s go down to the 
kitchen now, and I’ll show you how to 
mahe something that John used to like 
better than anything—doughnuts I I 
made a lot of ’em before I left home, but 
I gin ’em away before I got here. But 
he’ll like ’em all the better if you make 
’em— I know he will 1 ” 
So they descended to the kitchen, and 
the young wife was soon deep in the 
mysteries cf culinary compoundings. 
Aunt Huldah praised her as she watched 
her deft ways, and prophesied that she 
would soon be a famous cook. The 
doughnuts turned out marvels of un¬ 
adulterated lightness. “Good as I ever 
made,” averred the teacher. “And now 
I’ll make some biscuits,” she went on. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, 
We want an agent in every town 
in the United States to take subscrip¬ 
tions for The Bural. Any man or wo¬ 
man can earn $50 a month at this pleas¬ 
ant work in their own neighborhood. 
Send for terms. 
while you chop up that cold meat for 
hash. John always did like hash.” 
“Yes, I can do that,” was the eager 
reply; but—but—I forgot that I could 
do anything this noon.” 
Sitting around the cozy table, John, 
big, and bronzed, and gray, did full jus¬ 
tice to the viands spread before him. 
The hot biscuits were browned to a turn. 
The hash was most appetizing. There 
was some wonderful, yellow butter that 
Aunt Huldah had brought all the way 
from Middlesex. But, crowning all, were 
the doughnuts! Marvelous doughnuts, 
dainty doughnuts, sugared reminiscences 
of childhood ! John applauded every¬ 
thing. “ But the very best of all your 
supper. Aunt Huldah,” said he, “are 
these delicious doughnuts ! If my wife 
could make such doughnuts, I’d be the 
happiest man-” 
“ I made them, John, I made them all 
myself!” the little wife cried eagerly. 
“ Didn’t I, Aunt Huldah ? And I’m going 
to learn to cook everything—Aunt Huldah 
promised to show me—and do all the 
work and you won’t ever have to say 
that I’m extravagant, any more ! ” She 
gave a little sob, and a little laugh, and 
hid her face on John’s shoulder. 
ELEANOR ROOT. 
DUST BRUSH AND CATCH-ALL. 
T WO useful and pretty trifles for my 
lady’s toilet table. The dust brush, 
however, is just as necessary to the 
sterner sex and will make an appropriate 
present for father or brother, provided 
its use is explained. Being so pretty, it 
might not be understood that it is also 
useful. It is made of common hemp 
rope, such as may be bought at any 
grocery store for three cents a yard. It 
takes just one yard of rope to make it. 
Divide the rope into three equal parts ; 
place them together, and then double 
them evenly, and bind them firmly to¬ 
gether in the center with a piece of linen 
thread or thin wire. Then untwist the 
ends and comb them out with a coarse 
comb, and trim the ends with a pair of 
sharp scissors. A bow of wide ribbon 
covers the wire and makes the duster 
artistic as well as useful. See Fig. 174. 
You couldn’t guess what the catch-all 
is made of, and when told, pray don’t 
turn up your nose ! The day of small 
things is not to be despised when one is 
making Christmas presents for all the 
sisters and cousins and aunts, with the 
assistance of a very lean pocket-book. 
It is made from a small, crook-necked 
summer squash. Cut off a part, as shown 
in the sketch ; clean and thoroughly dry 
it and line with yellow satin, which is 
gathered on a wire to fit the opening. 
Place a layer of scented cotton at the 
bottom under the satin. Tie a bow of 
yellow satin ribbon around the neck of 
the squash, and you have a pretty, odd 
trifie, just the thing to hold pins, hair¬ 
pins and collar buttons. The under side 
will need a little paring off to make it 
set level. 
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