The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-04-24
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We are what is called comfoTta-
BILE couple-me and my old lady.
l have money i'm the funds, some
house property and a coal agency. A
portion of the day L occupy in calling
for the rents and looking out tor the
postman, who may or may not (prob-
ably not. as rule.) bring orders for
coal. My good lady sees after the
house. when she is not having nap,
or looking out of the window, aud
blows up the servant girl. .s srtEst
We have several meals during the
day. We like little and often, and
our servant girls get rather overfed
and saucy after lime, if they don't
go away i'll. Ny good lady, iIs the
latter case, is generally very kind. to
them. Our last girl was taxed ill,
and we gave her a weeks holiday,
some soup, wine and oranges, and
her wages as usual. This conduct on
our purt affected our servant girl
deeply. and she insisted on sending
her sister as substitute while she
was away. iil 3GI ~
Her sister came very early. My
good lady got up and let her Ia. ,hc
was curtseying on the doorstep. sslf
YOU please. ma'am, I'm Jemima's sis
ter,' she said. "rake care" said my
good lady, ''you've upset the milk
can with your crinoline!" iA4' 5A5 ii1
She came in and began to clear
away the supper things, and dropped
plate. My good lady told her where
to find the breakfast things. and she
brought up cup without q handle;
it had slipped through her. fingers
somehow. My good lady said .sThe
girls willing, but she's nervous ~
We have some nice china ornaments
on the parlor mantlepiece. While we
were at breakfast she busted off q
couple of shepherdesses. Between
that and dinner time, though, she on
ly got through a tumbler and an egg
cup, l was beginning to think she
was getting steadier. .AHtt '.,e sea'a \
My good lady went down stairs to
see how dinner was getting on. She
came up, looking very vexed, in
deed. She said; 'Yo ou know the best
soup turren % 1 said, 81 do" She
said, "It's gone!" "How ?" I asked.
"To piecesw -, g..
She went down after this. and pres
emily heard smash. My good la
dy shortly afterward appeared. She
was in tears. She said, "Those two
cut decanters! !"
said, "rhis is really becoming se-
rious. Hadn't we better send her
about her business ?" My good lady
replied, GLOW unreasonsbly you do
talkl Her sister sent her here out of
kindness TO us. 1t will hurt her feel-
ings dreadfully il we don't keep her."
l said, chow about our feelings p, s
There was an awful smash down
stairs just at this moment. We sat
still and waited. Jemima's sister pres
emily made her appearance, weeping
bitterly. She said, "Oh ma'am, oh
sir, I'm the unluckiest girl that ever
was. I've fell down with the dinner
tray ~ .,..,..-
i said, "Will you be kind enough
to return home? We're not cross with
you, and here's shilling; only, my
good girl, depart while there is yet q
whole piece of crockery i'll the house"
She waved her arms wildly, and
skHoeked-a ~ few ornamental things off
a sideboard. allow can ever repay
you? she cried in pitiful accents.
| said, '.Y our presence here, my
good girl, is costing US, on an average,
about "a shilling a minute. If you
would only go away and. take anoth-
er situation-say, for instance in the
china shop at the conner of the street.
We might, with few years of pen
ury and privatiop, gradually recover
our losses"
She saw it in the. same light, and
went. ~ 81.
NY good lady then descended to
the kitchen to look after the dinner.
Jemima's sister had left a jug on the
stairs, over which my good lady tum-
bled and put her ankle out, also break
ing the jug.
Jemilna's sister has called on us
twice since since and said how sorry
she was. We have on these occasions
put the china up before speaking to
her. We think it advisable that she
should not come into the house any
more. aH -oa ly5it- tEN 10