Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-22

CS, want hilUtHSf--t tidy Sitt
to do homework in q small fami-
ly-good wages and "A good home.
That's the way my advertisement
always reads, and as soon rs the
paper Is out the girls commence
coming. Tidy girls from ten TO
sixty five years old come pulling
the bell, and when told they won't
suit they put on such look of
contempt for the door, tho door
plate, the front gate and the entire
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 be-
cause 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
sort OF a looking girl makes her
appearance. She says she saw the
advertisement, 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 oes
out in the evening, does not know
young man in town, and she'd
be willing to work for very low
wages for the sake of getting a
good home.
She was told to drop her bundle,
lay off her things and go to work,
and a great burden rolls off my
mind as ! congratulate myself
that the prize medal girl has arriv-
ed at lest. She's all right up to
about seven in the evening, when
she is suddenly missed, land returns
about 10 O'Clock to say that she
'just dropped out to get a post
age stamp. The next day she be-
gins 10 scatter the teaspoons In
the back yard, stops her ironing to
read q dime novel, and at supper
time wants to know if j can't send
the children off to live with their
grandfather, get cook stove with
silver-plated knobs, aud have an
addition built on to the Kitchen
That evening a big red-headed
butcher walks in, crosses his legs
over the Kitchen taole, and pre-
ceeds to court Sarah. She doesn't
last but day or two longer, and
then we secure another.
This one Is right from old New
Hampshire, and doesn't know o
soul in Michigan, and yet she has
not finished the dinner dishes be-
fore cross-eyed young man rings
The bell and says he'd like to see
Hannah for q moment. After see
ing him, Hannah concludes not to
stay, as we are so far from Saint
Johns Church, and as we don't
appear to be religious people.
The next one especially recon-
mends herself as being just like
their own mother, to the children,
and isn't in the house half day
before she draws Small Plea over
her knee and gives him regular
old Canadian waltz.
The next ons has FIVE recommen-
dations as a neat and tidy girl, and
yet it isn't three days before she
bakes the old shoe brush with the
beef, washes her hands in soup
tureen, or drops hair into the pud-
ding.
/ growl about these things after
awhile, but l am met with the
statement that they hid worked
five years for Governor this, or
Lord that and that in all this time
none has so much as looked cross
eyed ut them. ! am called mean,
ill-tempered, particular, fault-find-
ing, and all that, and the girl goes
away wondering why the Lord
has spared me az long as He has.
We've been wanting a good tidy
girp for these last twelve years. -
and suppose that we may go an
other dozen and still be wanting