The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-07-24
THE PRETTY WAITER GIRL.

Wneu OeHSTdl IutleISOn > COluiuh ocou-
pied that pretty town in the spring 1861.
She was merely one of the helps about
the house-waited on the tables, made
herself generally useful, and during the
long pleasant evening fllrted outrageous
ly with the new-hedged Union officers,
young in years and experience She
was evidently got up for the walter-girl
business, for truth compels us to say
that at the first she looked as little fitted
to her position as possible. She was n
tall brunette, with u pleasant expression
and decidedly prepossessing lady-like
manner, and her clothes fitted her In
way that made her look like countess
beside the exhuberant Franklin girls,
profuse alike in form and raiment She
was not at all prudish, and had strings
to her bow ranging all over the gamut,
from second lieutenant to colonel
but they only appeared to get certain
distance into her good graces, when the
affair came to sudden termination with
the male party looking very foolish If
the name of Lizzie Anderson was men
toned. Patterson's column moved to
Hagerstown, and Lizzie was in the din
ing-room ut Yengling's Washington
House when the first officer got there to
dinner. OF course l was glad to see her,
and remarked:
'' Halo, Lizzie L thoughtyou were at
Chambersburg.
ooh, no." and she showed her pretty
white teeth pleasantly. 81 have come
down here to work. Your moving away
threw me out Of place, and l had to
follow"
ooh l-ah l-yes-very true. Get me
another piece of chicken, will you ?"
and the officer thought no more about it
except to reflect that he was glad she
was there to wait on him.
AT the Washington House Mary Lamb
first saw Lizzie, and figured her up to
Royce Cludham with the slightly super
cilious remark:
every gorgeous style of hand-maiden
they got up here"
&C Yes; 1 saw her yesterday at the
Franklin, in Chambersburg,"
can itinerant young lady, probably"
Doubtless"
Then the column moved to Williams
port, and Mary Lamb told John Eu-
singer, of the Potomac Hotel that if he
couldn't afford water in his guests
rooms, he had better turn his house into
n mill a i'll cha chpnlI hn a
pumpful right away, and in five min
utes Lizzie appeared with it.
You seem to have left Hagerstown
and Chambersburg," ETC., said Mary.
apparently"
Army attachment"
"Oh, no. l have to work for living,
and go where it is to be had"
"Then your military attachment is
entirely financial, and your patriotism
speculative" pursued Mary, with her
mouth full of pins.
81 don't understand you, but expect
it is"
"Ah what charming naivete."
The which, Miss ?"
"No, thank you, nothing else," and
Lizzie demurely departed. Then Mary
Lamb turned and looked at the door
which closed after her as though it was
particular difficult sum in arithmetic
further along in the book than she had
ciphered. A few days more passed. The
battle of the Falling Waters was added
to the history, and Patterson's column
occupied Martinsburg. Royce Cludham
secured a couple of rooms at John Mac
cabee's Union House and hunted up
Mary.
"I've got good quarters for you Mary,
at the Union House. You'll be COM
Portable know, for that pretty waiter
girl is there who attended to you at Ha-
gerstown and Williamsport."
"Well, that young woman must be
remarkably sudden in her movements.
We haven't been here four hours our
selves. How did she get here? Keeps
a private balloon probably"
Haven't the slightest idea. You'll
have to ask her how she locomotes, if
you want to know"
Mary Lamb had been at the Union
House two or three days, when one
morning she heard Mrs. Maccabee jaw
ing as only an irate landlady of the war
times could jaw. The new girl had gone
off yesterday after supper to see some
other girl, and hadn't come back, and
her help was wanted, and she was bad,
mean, good for nothing, and generally
to be condemned in consequence. She