The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-15

Yes, / want another-"A tidy girl to
do housework in a small iamily-gOod
wages and good home.n That's the
way my advertisement always reads, and
as soon as the paper is out the girls COM
mence coming. Tidy girls from ten to
sixty.iye years old come pulling tho bell,
and when told they won't suit they put
ON such look OF contempt for the door,
the doOr.plate, the front gate and the en-
tire institution that the world seems
three degrees hotter than before.
always engage the girl; this is because
OF an idea OF mine that can read human
nature, and because ] do not fear to tell
them in plain English what is expected
Of them. After the door bell has been
pulled about five times, the right looking
sort Of girl makes her appearance. She
saws she saw the advertisement, and is
| invited in. She says she can do any kind
OF cooking, loves to wash, is fond Of child
rem, can never sleep after five o'clock ~
the morning, never goes out in the even
ings, does not know young man in De-
troit, and she'd he willing to work for
| low wages for the sake OF getting good
home.
She was told to drop her bundle, lay
off her things and go to work, and great
burden rolls off my mind as congratu-
late myself that the prize medal girl has
arrived at last. She's all right up to
about seven in the evening, when she Is
suddenly missed, and returns about ten
o'clock to say that she "just dropped out"
to get a postage stamp,-The next day
she begins to scatter the tea spoons in the
back yard, stop her ironing to read a
dime novel, and ut supper time wants to
know II can't send the children off to
live with their grandfather, get cook
stove with silver-plated knobs and have
an addition built onto the kitchen, That
evening big red headed butcher walks
in, crosses his legs over the kitchen table
and proceeds to court Sarah. She dOes't
last but day or two longer and then We
secure another.
This one is right from New Hamp-
shire, and does't know asoul in Michi.
gan, and yet she hasn't finished the dinner
dishes before u CrOss-eyed young man
rings the bell and says he'd like to see
Hannah for moment, After seeing him,
Hannah concludes not to stay, as We are
so far from st Johns church, and as We
don't appear to be religious people,
The next one especially recommends
herself us being "just like their own
mother to the children, and isn't in the
house half a day before she draws Small
Plea over her knee and gives him a-regu-
lar old Canadian waltz.
The next one has five recommendations
rs a neat and tidy girl, and yet it isn't
three days before she bakes the shoe
brush with the beef, washes her hands in
soup tureen, or drops hair into the
pudding.
growl about these things after while,
but / am met with the statement that
they had worked five years for Governor
this, or Lord that, and that in all this
time no one has so much rs looked cross
eyed at them. am called mean, ill.tem.
perCd, particular, fault-fnding, and all
that, and the girl goes away wondering
why the Lord has spared me rs long M
lie has.
We've been wanting u good tidy girl
for these last twelve years, and suppose
that we may go another dozen and still he
wanting.