Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-08-19
SJNBURY Pa. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 49, 1871.

and ragged, and her mouth full of baked
potatoc. -Four other children of various
sizes came running TO look at me.
sis your mother in ?" inquired.
"No.D
''Is there girl here who wants pacep'
'No.n
''Do you know whether there is one in
The builainsT"
''May be it's up stairs!n screamed an old
cronc from bed in the corner of the room
rs Itook out n paper TO see if L had moi
mistaken the number.
ascended narrow staircase, and pass.
ed along q dark, gloomy corridor.
knocked at q door, and repeated my in.
quiries to q yellow, .sickly looking woman,
with u babe in her arms. She knew moth
ing of any such advertisement, but il
might be in the next room. At tho next
room they thought that perhaps it was up
stairs. So was handed along from one
TO another until l reached the fifth lloor.--
There l gained the extraordinary inf0rma-
ton that it was probably in the back yard.
Reaching the ground floor in safety, l pro-
ceeded TO the rear, where there was n three
story house on the same lot, with u space
of only about ten feet between. An old
man sat on the pavement smoking.
GLOW many families are there in the
building ?" 1 asked.
lie cogitatcd q moment before he re-
Piled
Twelve, SIR,
II was true The hall ran through the
center of the building, making four rooms
OH each floor, and each room contained a
family. One man, q shoemaker, had a
wife and seven children. / visited every
room before | found the one the girl had
advertised from. 1t was the most respect
able looking one Of the lot, and the occu-
pant was young, tidy, wcl-dresscd wo-
man. My spirits rose like foam but went
down as quickly. The girl herself had not
come yet.
! wheeled very abruptly and hurried to
the sidewalk. Ugly words rose to my lips,
i but did not speak them. i wondered if
Ellie had ever visited such an abode. TAX
ing out the paper again l read:
mo. 13S, West strcet-a young girl
who understands her business, and is neat
and obliging.n
1t was only two blocks off. This time l
was fortunate unough to hit the right room
at the first knock. The girl herself opened
the door. Her manner was q little forbid
| ding. l fancy she belonged to the snap
| ping turtle order. Nothing daunted, how
| J
GLOW many bc's there in your family,
sir - she asked, as she surveyed me from
head to foot. L dress we'll, as q, general
rule, but it was windy day, and | was in
a part of the city where the streets were
not watered. Consequently, the damsel
before me could not make up her mind on
the instant whether l would answer for n
master or not. | gave her the number che
would be expected to serve.
'Do there be carpet on tho girls
room ?'' = ..
Eyes. Now please inform mo if you
know how to take care of the whole upper
part ofthc house and dining-room, and will
do it well 2" ......, -,
"Do there be any fires to make ?n
cone or two, think"
81 guess the place wouldn't suit mo. l
never makes fires. Boys always docs that
where l lives"
was afoat. didn't fold and put my
newspaper in my pocket any more. | read
as L walked. According to my printed in-
formation, the most desirable person for
me to visit was ''smart, capable and will
ing GIRL" in the neighborhood of Myrtle
Avenue. Quite q stretch from the west
part of the city, but l went. 1t was y five
story tenement house again. l gave q
dirty boy quarter to run up stairs and
make inquiries for me, and he never came
back to report. Near the third landing
found the maiden. She was staying with
n ''friend," in little room twelve by four
teen. The ''friend'' was dealer in old
clothes, and was just sorting over a cargo.
The smart, capable, willing girl had seen
siXty-iye summers, and her hair was as
white as snow She was sitting with her
feet in pail of water, trying TO cure corns,
SO she said. l left
Twas getting olightly out of tcmpcr when
l reached the sidewalk. ~ dog harnesscd
into small cart obstructed the way.
raised my foot and removed the whole es-
tablishment into the street. After that |
felt better. Turning for comfort to the
paper, | found "SituatiOns Wantcdn by
several in the immediate vicinity, and
rendered unto all the light of my counte-
nance. One girl had just engaged" An
other did not like to go where they did not
keep "full set of help" A third seemed
qualified for our purpose, but her cousin
was dead, and she could not come for II
week. The fourth didn't like our location.
The fifth made very pointed inquiries about
the number of girls we had during the last
year, and then declined engaging where
they changed help SO often. The sixth
didn't ever ''negoshumaten with gentle
man; "the madame must come herself, y
The seventh wanted too many privileges,
and had lost her front teeth.
The eighth asked my name and place of
business, but never having heard of me be-
fore, very drily remarked that 'sho only
! lived with tho liret families" Tho ninth
was a iair-haircd. blue-eyed German, who
was not only willing, but exceedingly anX-
ious TO undertake anything, She promised
to 20 to my wife in the course of an hour,
wJl. j, thoroughly disgustod with this
OF Wind particularly with this portion
my watch ahad just explored, looked at
~ una IL was TWO oeioeS'
When reached .,m,. . 49,, .-,,,.
ner hour, Ellie met me 'I;he usual din-
"Did the new girl come Yhs; o,
"No, | haven't seen any, "'N''
did not give vent TO my pent-up g.
tions | only played the sympathizinG
, husband, aud tonewhat orestiallen, starte'
ON another tour Of the same nature mex
morning,
| Without mentioning it to Enie, dc
. termined 10 saye time aud try the miglll
! gence office, polite clerk q the ontrane'