Mrs. S. W. Swingle, gentlemanly lady of red-haired beauty, say
tackfully, “I will employ you at great risk. Please arrive to my home
to-night.”
There I went. This S. W. Swingle lady reside with her husband and
children respectively at Railroad View, N. J. Her Mr. Swingle, to which
she is married, is a timetable as well as a husband. His soul is full
of trains. He arrive home at 6.43 and require dinner at 6.59. He go to
bed at 11.04 and demand breakfast at 7.22 so he can catch 8.12 train.
When I got on this job I dishcovered that my tranquillity was going
to be very scarce. I must greet milkman at dawn-light and continue my
domestic science all day until exhausted.
Mrs. S. W. Swingle, with sweethearted expression, say that busy folks
is most happy. If this is truthful I should prefer to be slightly
miserable on Sunday and Thursday afternoons.
Yet I remain stationary in employment until Monday when sorrow arrive
wrapped up in a Paper Bag. I shall tell you how was.
At hour of 2.44 Mrs. S. W. Swingle arrive to kitchen with cutting
expression peculiar to scissors.
“Togo, why for do you prepare such bad food?” she decry with angry
rage. “There is no uplift in your biscuits. Your beef is boiled until
it lose all originality. Mr. S. W. Swingle, who is far from strong, say
your coffee is the same. And so forth. You must learn to discontinue
this. If we cannot fare better you must farewell.”
My soul feel punctured by this conversation. It seem very brutal for
me to go loose again when jobs is so infrequent to obtain.
While thusly I was thinking I find on tip-shelf of pantry one slight
brown book. It was wrote by a Kitchen Professor and bore this
remarkable title:
“PAPER-BAG COOKING.”
This paper-bag food was invented by a French professor, I read. How
economical those French can be! I thought. I had oftenly heard how
French chef could make stylish meals out of mere remnants. They are
famus for deceiving pork till it taste like chicken and giving boiled
codfish the same expression as turtle soup. To such genius paper bags
is easy problem.