EFFECTIVE BUT EXPENSIVE.

Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 3

EFFECTIVE BUT EXPENSIVE.

Mrs. Brown at last had foutul a cook ik—» really first-rate cook, but one who, unfortunately, knew nothing about the manipulation of a gas-stove. Mrs, Brown, therefore, sent her husband to the kitchen to exivlara matters. This he proceeded to do very thoroughly, lighting each of the many burners in order that the cook really might see how the range was operated. While he was still explaining, a message called him from the kitchen. "Oh, well," he remarked, as he turnAd away, ''you'll soon learn how it works, won't you, Martha?" Several days elapsed before the master and cook met again. Then, one morning, Mr. Brown happened to meet Martha in the hall. "Well," ho asked, "and how's tbe range doing?" To liis. and Mrs. Brown's utter consternation, this -was the reply: ! '"Deed, sir, that's the best stove I . ever did see. The fire you kindled for i me four days ac;n is still a-burning,. and it ain't eveiulowered once!"