aunt the fact that s income was now more than five thousand a year her view of the reason why had married whidi included some thoroughly praise of s kind heart her opinion of the library board just what had said about mrs s and what though of the several in the cities she went home soothed by confession by find ing a new friend iv the of the domestic situation went back home to help on the farm and had a succession of maids with between the lack of servants was becoming one of the most problems of the town the daughters against village and against the unchanged attitude of the toward hired girls they went off to city or to city shops and that they might be free and even human after hours the seventeen were at s desertion by the loyal they reminded her that she had said i don t have any le with maids see how stays on main street between of maids from the north woods from the occasional and n � i and did her own � and endured aunt s in to tell her how to a for dust how to sugar how to stuff a goose was and won shy praise from but as her shoulder began to sting she wondered how many millions of women had lied to themselves during the death years through which they had to enjoy the methods in she doubted the convenience and as a natural the of the and home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life she considered her doubts she refused to how many of the women of the y seventeen their husbands and were by them she did not to but her eyes ached she was not the girl in breeches and a flannel shirt who had cooked over a camp fire in the mountains five years ago her ambition was to get to bed at nine her strongest emotion was resentment over rising at half past six to care for hu the bade of her neck ached as she got out of bed she was cynical about the joys of a single laborious life she understood why workmen and workmen s wives are not grateful to their kind at mid morning i en she was free from the ache in neck and bade she was glad of the reality of the hours were living and but she had no desire to read the little er essays in praise of labor whidi are daily written by the white felt and though she hid it a bit in the house she pondered upon the maid s room it was a small hole above the kitchen oppressive in summer in winter she saw that while she had been considering an unusually good mistress she had been permitting her friends and to live in a she complained to what s the matter with it he as they stood on the perilous stairs up from the kitchen she commented upon tiie sloping roof of boards stained in brown rings by the rain the floor the cot and its tumbled the broken the mirror maybe it ain t any but still it s much better than anything these hired girls are accustomed to at home that they think it s fine seems f oc to spend money i en they appreciate it but that t he with the of a man i o wishes to be surprising and delightful don t know but we might begin to think about building a new house one of these days how d you like that w why i m getting to the point now i fed we can afford one � and a ill show this something like a real house well put one over on sam and harry make folks sit up an take notice � es she said he did not go on daily he returned to the subject of the new house but as to time and mode he was indefinite at first she believed she of a low stone house with windows and beds of brick of a white frame cottage with green shutters and windows to her he answered well ye es might be worth thinking about remember where i put my pipe when she him he don t know seems to me those kind of houses you speak of have been it proved that what he wanted was a house exactly like sam s which was exactly like every third new house in every town in the country a square with a broad porch tidy and walks a house resembling the mind of a i o the party ticket and goes to church once a month and owns a good car he admitted well yes maybe it isn t so dam artistic but matter of fact though i don t want a place just like sam s maybe i would cut off that fool tower he s and i think probably it would lock better painted a nice cream color that yellow on sam s house is too kind of then there s another kind of house that s mighty nice and substantial looking with in a nice brown stain instead of seen some in you re way off your base when you say i only like one kind of house md aunt came in one evening when cared was fly a rose garden cottage youve had a lot of e q with housekeeping and don t you think i that it would be to have a nice square house and pay more main street tion to getting a furnace than to all this and aunt worked her lips as though they were an elastic band why of course i know how it is with young folks like you you want towers and bay windows and and heaven knows what au but the thing to get is and a good 