Like Mother's Cooking

Au enterprisüig baker advertises "minee pies like inother used to make." There is soinething queer abcrat the idra that orie'a mother could cook better than any other woman who ever lived. Eacli generation of men, when they reach middle life, lauds mother's cooking, and compares it vrith bis wife's cooking t her disadvantage. When that mans boy gets a wife of his om he tells her what a good cook his mother was, and so it goes generation after generation. Now, according to this theory, the art of cooking has been steadily deteriorating, but of course this is not trae. Wonder if a boy's appetite has not something to do with the idea that his inother was