American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Girl Wanted.

Yes, want another-"a tidy girl to dc
hOusework i'll small family-gond
wages and a good home" That's the
way my advertisement always reads, and
rs soon as the paper is out the girls com
mence coming. Tidy girls from ten 10
sixty five years old come pulling the bell,
and when told that they won't suit they
put on such look of contempt for the
door, the door-plate, the front gate and
the entire institution that the world
seems three degrees hotter than before.
always engage the girl. This is be,
cause of an idea of mine that / can mad
human nature and because l do not fear
to tell them in plain English what is ex-
pected of them. After the door bell has
been pulled about five times the right
looking sort of a girl makes her appt ar
ance. She says she saw the advertise
ment, and is invited in. She says she can
do any kind of cooking, loves To wash, is
fond of children, can never sleep after
five o'clock in the morning, never goes
out evenings, does not know a young
man in Detroit, and she'd be willing 10
work for low wages for the sake of get
ting good home.
She is told to drop her bundle, lay off
her things and go to work, and a great
burden rolls off my mind as l copgratu
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 postage stamp. The next
day she begins to scatter The teaspoons
in the back yard, stops her ironing to
read dime novel, and at supper time
wants to know if l can't send the chill
dren off to live with their grandfather,
get cook stoye with silver-plated knobs
and have an addition built on to the
kitchen. That evening big red-headed
butcher walks in, crosses his legs over The
kitchen table and proceeds to court
Sarah. She doesn't laet but day or two
longer and then we secure another
This one is right from New Hampshire
and doesn't know a soul in Michigan, and
vet she hasn't finished the dinner dishes
before cross-eyed young man rings the
bell and says he'd like to see Hannah for
a 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, 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 rcgu-
lar old Canadian waltz.
The next one has five recommendations
as 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 turcen, or drops hairpins into the
pudding.
l growl about these things after awhile,
but am met with the statement hat thy
had worked five years for Governor this,
or Lord that, and that in all this time no
one had so much as looked cross-eyed mt
them. | am called mean, ill-tempered,
particular, iault-fnding and all that, and
The girl goes away wondering why the
Lord has spared me as long He has.
We've been wanting "a good, tidy
girl for 'hese last twelve years, and
suppose that we may go another dozen
and still he wanting.-W. Quad, in O"r
Firostde Friend.