The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
TEE PRETTY WAITER GIRL.
BY LIEUT.. j. DARK CHANDLER.


BY LIEUT.. ]. DARK CHANDLER.
The first place we remember to have
noticed her 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, and during the
long, pleasant evenings firted outrag-
eously with the new-fedged 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 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 a way that
made her look like 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 a 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 Hagers-
town, and Lizzie was in the dining-room
at Yengling's Washington House when
the first officer got there to dinner. Of
course Twas glad to see her, and re-
marked:
"Hallo, Lizzie I thought you were
at Chambersburg?"
"Oh, no" and she showed her pretty
white teeth pleasantly; 81 have come
down here to work. Your movirg away
threw me out of place, and had to
fellow"
"Ohl-ah!-yes-very true. Get me
anotherpiece of chicken, will you?" 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 Lamb
first saw Lizzie, and figured her up to
Royce Cludham with the slightly super
cilious remark
every gorgeous style of hand-maiden
they get up here"
"Yes; 1 saw her yesterday at the
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 he
couldn't affHrd water in his guests rooms
he had better turn his house into saw
mill. He said she shouldhave pumpful
right away, and in five minutes Lizzie ap-
peared with it.
"You seem to have left Hagerstown
and Chambersburg," ETC., said Mary.
Apparently"
Anarmy attachmentP'
"Oh, no; 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.
L don't understand you, but 1 expect
it is"
"Ahl what charming natvete."
"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 wa.
added to history, and Patterson's column
occupied Martinsburg. Royce Cludham
secured a couple of rooms at John Mac
cabee's Union House and hunted III
Mary.
"I'ye 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 a
Hagerstown and Williamsport."
"Well, that young woman mus
be remarkably sudden in her movements
We haven't been here four hours our
selves. How did she get here? Keeps
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 Uniol
House two or three Gays, when on,
morning she heard Mrs. Maccabee jawin,
as only an irate landlady of the wa
times could jaw. The new girl had gon
off yesterday after supper to see som,
other girl, and hadn't come back, ant
her help was wanted, and she was bad
mean, good for nothing, and general, l,
to be condemned in consequence. Sh
didn't turn up until the second morning
after, when she came in with her hea,
tied up and looking as though she hadn'
slept for week. She said she had bee
taken sick and stayed with her frienc