The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-28
GIRL WANTED.

Yes, I want another-'sA tidy girl to
do homework in small family-good
wages and good home" 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-fve years old come pulling the
bell, and when told that they won't suit
they put ton such a look of contempt for
the door, the door-plate, the front gate
and the entire Institution, that the world
seems three degrees hotter than be-
fore.
I always engage the girl. This is be-
cause 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 q girl makes
her appearance. She says she saw the
advertisement, and is invited in. She
says she can do any kind Of co oking,
loves to wash, is fond of children, can
never sleep after five o'clock in the
morning, never goes out evenings, does
not know young man in Detroit, and
she'd be willing to work for low wages
for the sake of getting good home.
She is 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 postage stamp. The next
day she begins to scatter the teaspoons
in the backyard, stops her ironing to
read a dime novel, and at supper time
wants to know if can't send the chill
dren off to live with their grandfather,
get cook-stove with silver plated knobs
and have an addition built on to the
kitchen. That evening big red-nead-
ed butcher walks IN, crosses his legs
over the kitchen table, and proceeds to
court Sarah She doesn't last but
day or two longer, and then we secure
another.
This one is right from New Hamp-
shire, and doesn't know a soul in Mich
igan, and yet she hasn't finished the
dinner dishes before cross-eyed young
man rings the bell and says he'd like to
see Hannah for moment. After see
ing 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 as 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 reg
ular old Canadian waltz
The next one has five recommends
tions as 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 a soup tureen, or drops hair
pins into the pudding.
I growl about these things after
awhile, but I 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 had so much as
looked cross-eyed at them. I am called
mean, in-tempered, particular, fault
finding, and all that, and the girl goes
away wondering why the Lord had
spared me as long as He has.
We've been wanting ''a good, tidy
giri'' for these last twelve years, sup
pose that we may go another dozen and
still be wanting.