Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-10-06


she.
Never saw tin oven" | exclaimed. Il
thought you said you had cooked in two or three
families
They does not have such things as them, though
rejoned my old lady.
Nothing was to be done Of course, but to in
struct her into the philosophy of the case and
having spitted the joint and given numberless
directions, | walked off to my room to superin-
tend the operations of Kotterin, to whom had
committed the making of my bed, and the sweep
ing of my room, it never having came into my
head that there could be wrong way of making
bed; and to this day it is marvel to me how
any one could arrange pillows aud quilts to make
such nondescript appearance as mine now pre-
seuted. One glance showed me that KOtterin
was just caught and that had as much do in
her department as in that of my old lady Just
then the door-hcl rang.
%, there is the door bell, exclaimed 'Run,
Kotterin, and show them into the parlor
Kottern started to run as directed and then
stopped and stood looking round on all the doors
and on me, with wofully puzzled air.
The street door, said |, pointing towards the
entry.
Kottern blundered into the entry, and stood
gazing with look of stupid wonder at the bell
ringing without hands, while went to the door
and let in the company before she could he fairly
make to understand the connection between the
ringing and the phenomenon of admission. As
dinner time approached sent word to my kitch-
en- to have it set on; but, recollecting the state
of the heads of department there, soon followed
my own orders. | found the tin even standing
out in the middle of the kitchen, and my cook
seated la Turk in front of it, contemplating the
roast meat with full as puzzled an air as in the
morning. l once more explained the mystery of
taking it off, assisted her to get it on to the plat
ter, though somewhat cooled by having been SO
long set out for inspection. | was standing hold.
ing the spit in my hands, when kotterin, who
had heard the door bell ring, and was determined
this time to be in season, ran into the hall, and
soon returned, opened the kitchen door, and po-
litey ushered three or four very fashionable look
ing ladies' exclaiming:
"Here she is"
AS these strangers from the city, who had come
to make their first call, this introduction was far
from proving an eligible one; the look of thun-
derstruck astonishment with which greeted their
first appearance, as stood brandishing the spit
and the terrified snufing and staring at poor Mrs.
Tibbins, who again had recourse to her old pock-
gravity, and it was evident that they were on the
point of broad laugh; so recovering my sef-pos-
sion apologised, and led the way to the parlor
Let these few incidents be specimen of the four
mortal weeks that spent with these "help ps," du-
ring which time l did almost as much work,
with twice as much anxiety as when there was
nobody there; and yet everything went wrong be.
sides. The young gentlemen complained of the
paf ahaso Of 10 fbn.r nd IL
streaks Of black coal ironed into their dickies,
house was stached so stiff that you might as we'll
have carried an earthern plate in your pocket;
the tumbers looked muddy, the plates were nev-
each one, and as to eating and drinking we ex-
pcrienced variety that we had not before con-
sidered possible. At length the old woman van
knowing active damsel with temporablc steel
trap, who remained with me just one week, and
then went off in fit of spite To her, succeeded
rosy good natured merry lass, who broke the
crockery. burned the dinner, tore the clothes in
ironing and knocked down everything that stood
in her way about the house, without at all decom-
posing herself ABOUT the matter. One night she
took the stopper from barrel of molasses, and
came oft singing up stairs while the molasses ran
soberly out in;o the cellar bottom all night, till by
morning it was in state of universal emancipa-
ii n. Having done this, and also dispatched an
entire set of tea things by letting the waiter fall,
she one day made her disappearance. Then, for
a wonder, there fell to my lot tidy efficient
trained, English girl; pretty and genteel, and
neat, and knowing how to do everything. "Now,"
said to myself, 81 shall rest from my labors."
Everything about the house began to go right,
and looked as clean and genteel as Mary's own
pretty self. But, alas this period of repose was
interrupted by the vision of clever, trim looking
young man. who, for some weeks, could be heard
scraping his boots at the kitchen door every Sun
day night; and at last Miss Mary, with some
smiling and blushing, gave me to understand
that she must leave in two weeks.
"Why, Mary" said [, feeling little mischeiv-
Gus, "don't you like the place p
go, yes, ma'am."
"Then why do you look for another?
II am not going to another place."
"What, Mary, are you going to learn trade? ?"
"No, ma am"
"Why, then, what do you mean to do?"
81 expect to keep house myself, ma am" said
she laughing and blushing.
"Oh, ho!' said l, "that is it" and so in two
weeks 1 lost the best little girl in the world;
peace to her memory.
After this came an interregnum, which put me
in mind of the chapter in Chronicles that l used
to read with great delight when child, where
Basha, and Elah, and Tibni, and Zimri, and Om-
ri, one after the other, came to the throne of Is
rael all in the compass Of half dozen verses
We had old women who staid here week, and
went away with a misery i'll her TOOTH one cook,
who came at night and went off before light in
the morning; one very clever girl, who stayed a
month, and then went away because her mother
was sick; another, who stayed six weeks, and was
taken with the fever herself; and during all this
time, who can speak the damage and destruction