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Title: The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives

Author: Elizabeth Strong Worthington

Release Date: August 4, 2008 [EBook #26187]

Language: English

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_"If a wife is allowed to boil at
all she will always boil over."_

The Gentle Art
_of_
Cooking Wives

By ELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTON

Author _of_ "How to
Cook Husbands," etc.

Published at 150 Fifth Avenue, New York
by the Dodge Publishing Company

[The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives]

COPYRIGHT IN THE YEAR
NINETEEN HUNDRED BY
DODGE PUBLISHING CO.

[Illustration: "CONSTANCE"]

I

"Girls, come to order!" shouted Hilda Bretherton in a somewhat
disorderly tone.

"How can we come to order without a president?" queried a
rosy-cheeked, roly-poly damsel answering to the name of Puddy Kennett.

"I elect Prue Shaftsbury!" screamed Hilda above the merry din of
voices.

"You can't elect--you simply nominate," said Prue.

"I second the motion," said Nannie Branscome, and her remark was
instantly followed by a storm of "ayes" before they were called for,
and the president was declared elected and proceeded to take her seat.

"Young ladies," said she, "we are met to consider a scandalous----"

"Scurrilous," suggested Hilda.

"----alarming article," continued the president, "entitled 'How to
Cook Wives.'"

"Here! here!" interrupted Hilda again, "we can't do anything until
we've elected o