THE CAN OPENER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145085, 9 September 1916, Page 7

THE CAN OPENER.

(By Walt Mason.)

This handy tool, the household pet, wo ply with skill and speed; and in the modern kitchenette it’s really all we need. The shining tool that opens cans makes household work a joke; it supersedes the pots and pans, the stoves that used to smoke. In olden times the. toiling wives were always on their foot; they'wore away their weary lives preparing things to cat. They fried the meat, they baked the beans, they cooked the spuds, I wist; they had no time for magazines, for euchre or bridge whist. How fortunate the. modern wife, with many a leisure hour! For she can Jill .with glee' her life, and languish in her bower. . And when at evening comes her man, impatient for the cats, she says, “PH open up a can of beans or deviled beets.” It lakes throe minutes by the clock to get his meal. in shape; he’s*so well trained ho doesn’t balk; or try to make escape. It may he, as hand over hand, ho throws the victuals .in, he sighs for grub that isn’t canned, that doesn’t taste of tin. It may bo that his vagrant mind recalls the old-time, steak, the dishes of the good old kind his mother used to make. But idle are the man’s regrets, and vain his hopes and plans; this is the ago of kitchenettes, and things put up in cans.