BRANDY IN MINCE PIES

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1881

BRANDY IN MINCE PIES.

“They all put brandy in them!” said one.

“They all don’t! My mother has never put a drop of brandy into her mince pies since the day Bob said he could taste the brandy and it tasted good. Mother said then it was wrong, and she would never be guilty of it again; and if my mother says a thing is wrong, you may be sure it is wrong, for what my mother knows she knows.”

“How about mince pies; are you sure she knows how to make a mince pie good?” and a laugh went up from a group of girls gathered over the register of the recitation room, eating their lunch. But some of them winced a little when back were tossed the words:—

“If she don’t, she knows how to make a boy good, and isn’t a boy worth more than a mince pie?”—Nashville (Tenn.) Temperance World.