The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-10
TIE PRETTY WAIfHR GIRL.
BY LIEUT.. J. DAKK CHANDLER.

BY LIEUT.. j. DARK CHANDLER.
The first place we remember to have
noticed ber was at Dan Trostle's Franklin
House, Chambersburg, Pa, when Gen
eral Patterson's column occupied that
pretty little town in the spring of 1861.
She was merely one of the helps about
the house-waited on the tables, made
herself generally useful, aud during the
long, pleasant evenings firted outrag-
eously with the new-Aedked Union
officers, young in years and experience.
She was evidently got up for the waiter
girl business, for truth compels US to say
that at FIRST she looked as little fitted to
her position as possible. She was a tall
brunette, of fine form, regular features,
with pleasant expression and a decid-
edly prepossessing and lady-like manner,
and her clothes fitted her in way that
made her look like a countess beside the
exuberant franklin County girls, pro-
fuse alike in form and raiment. She was
not at all prudish, and had strings to her
bow ranging all over the gamut, from a
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 mentioned.
Patterson's column moved to Hager.-
town, and Lizzie was in the dining-room
at Yengling's Washington House when
the first officer got there to dinner. Or
course was glad to see her, and re-
marked:
Halo, Lizzie! 1 thought you were
at Chambersburg?"
"Oh, no." and she showed her pretty
white teeth pleasantly 81 have come
down here to work. Your movir & away
threw me out of place, and had to
follow"
Ohi-ah l-yes-very true. Get me
another piece of chicken, will your" and
the officer thought no more about it ex
cept to reflect that he was glad she was
there to wait on him.
At the Washington House Mary Lamt
first saw Lizzie, and figured her up to
Royce Cludham with the slightly super
cilious remark:
every gorgeous style of hand-maide1
they get up here"
"Yes; saw her yesterday at tn
Franklin, in Chambersburg"
"An itinerant young lady, probably.
"Doubtless."
Then the column moved to Williams
port, and Mary Lamb told John Eusin
ger, of the Potomac Hotel, that if b
couldn't aft I'd water in hisguests' room
he had better turn his house into a saw
mill. He said she should have pumpfu
right away, and in five minutes Lizzie ar
peared with it.
"You seem to have left Hagerstow
and Chambersburg," etc., said Mary.
apparently"
An army attachment~
"Oh, no; have TO work for livin,
and go where it is to be had"
Then your military attachment
entirely financial, and your patriotisl
speculative" pursued Mary, with hi
mouth full of pins.
"Idon't understand you, but expe
it is"
"Ah what charming naivete."
"The which, missT
"No, thank you, nothing else," al
Lizzie demurely departed. Then Ma
Lamb turned and looked at the do
which closed after her as though it W
particular difficult sum in arthmet
further along in the book than she h
ciphered. A few days more passe
The battle of the Falling Waters "
added to history, and Patterson's colun
occupied Martinsburg. Royce Cludhs
secured couple of rooms at John M,
cabee's Union House and hunted
Mary.
I've got good quarters for you, Ma
at the Union House. You'll be CO
Portable know, for that pretty wait
girl is there who attended to you
Hagerstown and Williamsport."
"Well, that young woman m
be remarkably sudden in her movemeI
We haven't been here four hours O
selves. How did she get here? Keer
private balloon, probably"
Haven't the slightest idea. Yo
have to ask her how she locomotes, if J
want to know"
Mary Lamb had been at the Un
House two or three days, when
morning she heard Mrs Maccabee jaw
as only an irate landlady of the
times could jaw. The new girl had g
off yesterday after supper to see so
other girl, and hadn't come back,
her help was wanted, and she was |
mean, good for nothing, and gener
TO be condemned in consequence.
didn't turn up until the second morn
after, when she came in with her h
tied up and looking as though she ha
slept Tor week. She said she had
taken sick and stayed with her fri,