CURED WITHOUT MEDICINE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 232, 24 June 1908, Page 3

CURED WITHOUT MEDICINE.

The young husband who had been an only son at home, petted. and indulged beyond every point of reason, began to show , of'.'petty royalty soon, after his marriage.' Most of his friends were men of great wealth' who lived ~ extremely. well,, and association with them^made'him somewhat, bard to please in the" matter of cooking. Scarcely. a> meal at his home table passed without criticism from' him.- • f "What is this meant for?" .he would ash, after tasting an. entree that his bride had racked hor brain to prepare. . "What on carth .is .this?" he would say when dessert came on. *" ."Is.this supposed to be salad?" Jio would inquire Sarcastically when : the ' lettuce was ' served. ' Tho merry-hearted little wife stood it as long as she could, and finally decided to retaliate. ; The next evening she wore her very prettiest gown, and fairly bubbled over with wjt.. They went in to dinner. . CTho soup-tureeni was. brought''in. -. Tied tb one handle was a decorated,card, and on tlirtt card was written in a big,*round hand; "This is. soup." ~ : Roast, beef followed, with a'-.placard announcing:.

"This is roast beef." { • i The potatoes' were labollcclJf:..' The. gravydisli wa3 .placarded. The olives • bore a card marked. "Olives," the saladrbovvl, carried a tag. marked "Salad," and'-flvhen the icepuddiiig camo in a card announced, "This is really ice-pudding." . j; <■ • -The wife talked of a thousand different things all'through'the meal,i'never once referring by word or look to the. labelled dishes. Neither then nor thereafter did she say a word about them,, and never'since that evening has the captious husband ventured to inquire the name of anything/-set before him.