LUCY'S BISCUITS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1893

LUCY'S BISCUITS.

"I LOVE you, Lucy; but I cannot eat these biscuits."

So said a young married man to his wife in the early days of their married life. Lucy was a fine pianist; she understood the arts of embroidery and crochet and knitting; she was quite skilled in water colors; and she took high honors when she graduated from college; but she could not cook. That part of her education had been neglected. When she married, because she loved him, a young physician just getting into practice, and undertook to do her own work, how she regretted that some of the hours she had spent over the embroidery frame or at the easel had not been given to a more thorough acquaintance with the culinary art! All day long after those words of her husband were spoken, she seemed to hear, "I love you, Lucy; but I cannot eat these biscuits."

So Lucy set herself diligently to work to "conquer biscuits," and then bread and meats. After many failures, she was happy in seeing the relish with which her husband ate the food she set before him, and she resolved

inwardly that no daughter of hers should ever undergo the pain of hearing her husband say, "I love you, my dear; but I cannot eat these biscuits."—Christian Advocate.