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Title: How to Cook Husbands

Author: Elizabeth Strong Worthington

Release Date: August 7, 2008 [EBook #26210]

Language: English

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_"They are really delicious
--when properly treated."_

How To Cook
Husbands

By ELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTON

Author of "The
Little Brown Dog"
"The Biddy Club"

Published at 220 East 23rd St., New York
by the Dodge Publishing Company

COPYRIGHT IN THE YEAR
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND
NINETY-EIGHT BY DODGE
STATIONERY COMPANY

Dedication

To a dear little girl who will some
day, I hope, be skilled in all branches
of matrimonial cookery.

I

A while ago I came across a newspaper clipping--a recipe written by a
Baltimore lady--that had long lain dormant in my desk. It ran as follows:

"A great many husbands are spoiled by mismanagement. Some women go about
it as if their husbands were bladders, and blow them up; others keep
them constantly in hot water; others let them freeze, by their
carelessness and indifference. Some keep them in a stew, by irritating
ways and words; others roast them; some keep them in pickle all their
lives. Now it is not to be supposed that any husband will be good,
managed in this way--turnips wouldn't; onions wouldn't; cabbage-heads
wouldn't, and husbands won't; but they are really delicious when
properly treated.

"In se