The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-17
The Unfortunate Affair of Mrs.
Dingle's Hired Girl.

Full details OF the unfortunate affair Of
Mrs Dingle's hired girl have not yet
come 10 light, but enough is known to
warrant the statement that a more la.
mentable accident has rarely occurred in
St Louis. Mrs, Dingle lives in nice
house on benton street, goes into society
a good deal and dresses we'll, and as a
matter of course. the hired girl initiates
her mistree4 as far as possible in attcn.
ton she pays 10 personal adornment
Mrs. Dipglo opreared in 4 pull back the
other morning, with a hustle, which at.
tracted the hired girls admiration. and
as it was Thursday, and she would have
the afternoon 10 60 out in, she resolved
to appear in a hustle like that of her
mistress at all hazards. She went at
once to constructing the attachment to
her dress, but found great difficulty in
making the hustle in its outlines follow its
depressions and convcIutions of the one
she was initiating until the happy thought
occurred to her to utilize the clothes line
in giving form to the obstinate protnber.
ance. She wen, out and took the clothes
line down and ascertained subsequently
by winding the coil of rope up loosely
that It made the perfection of stuiiiag for
the tu>il' srIlngy, undulating aud plia.
lle She used sixty.three feet and half
Of rope in all, and was perfectly satisfied
with her work. At three o'clock in the
afternoon she started out for promenade
and to keep an engagement with her
young man, street car driver, but
walked down town, feeling that after tax.
Ing 70 much paius, she was too fine a fig
ure of woman not TO show herself. She
enjoyed the walk immensely until she had
nearly reached Franklin avenue, when
she felt slight witch in the rear. She
! turned but uiin't notice anything
Around the corner, though. she heard a
boy calling out "sassingcrs - aud another
one across the street yel,d .naix !" She
went on her way with scorn. When she
felt the tSiteh again, and looking around
this time she saw something Sh saw a
small rope reaching back around the cor.
ner. aud from the manner in which it
moved she knew that boy must have
hold of the other end OF it. The dread.
full clotbes.line 10 her hustle h.l h~rome
loosened at one end, and the boys had
got hold Of it She knew they hadn't
got it all yet for she could feel it paying
out like hose from reel. At first she
nearly tainted away, and then she started
to run, but then it was Of no use. The
boys played her as fisherman would o
trout and showed great deal Of science
keeping a moderately taut line but run.
ming along near enough to the hired girl
TO prevent too great strain on the tack
le. They would have landed her some
where, probal y. bu: that she had pres.
enee Of mind to spatch up a hay knife or
} exhibition in f. ut of the hardware store
and cut the rope with it. No sooner wai
she set free than she darted for street
} car and went home again. She wouldn'
: meet her young man with fat hustle
and the loss of her clothes.line had lef
absolutely without any style whatever
When she got home she had high fever
. and it was 10 her delirium that she CAV,
r to Mrs. DiDgle all the details of the dis
iressing occurrence.