The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-02

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have In the World l. . refinement a in
eonprehenEible % them q sGnserit.
Had not The lady been = real lady, there
fore, checking o. the instant any Gttenp;
% The part Of her servant gals " to talk
gusip IN her presence, she would have
found herself in weeks time in poses
mon Of an artesiaa veil ful q tia:
sort Of Knowledge Of which Grsee
Greenwood remarks, ssh knowledge
il poTer.S
Qtbe nineteen servant girls whose pro-
fessiou vas mainly cooking, not one knsS
how 70 boil = potato or brol : steak
right Thar minds we're TOO intent on
Other thingS 70 pay any attention to such
email matters. The mIin thought SGs 70
hurl the food into the pot or bake pan,
wrong cad foremost, slap-bsng, anyway
70 il vas only done in the quickest time,
and they could Be Cd among their gossips.
Ny triend spent six Ueen patiently Try
ing every other day to teach ons Of these
tramps Bow 70 cook = steak, md the very
lIs, day she could do u DO better than tbe
6rst. They al seemed 70 have 4 small
set Of iron ideas shout work which could
not have been broken into With blast Of
dynamite. Besides cooking, sweeping
Hnd dustlng vas regular part Of their
profession. Dspeodir- On this sort Of
work for their living. DIE would natural.
ly suppose they would take pride in il
and 6nd out the best possible Ways Of do
ing it. They do DOT. OF the whole blss-
sed lot not ooe could or would dust the
room properly. In the matter Of repair
ing The family ironing before 1t Wa put
IN place, the lady found Just oDe Of them
Who could ssE 90 = button right. The
Torst feature about them EHs that they
wouldn't Learn 70 do things we'll. Thsir
sole thought Ess TO &c; their work Of
their hands.
Every day the lady vas obliged TO 20
over The house from garret to cellar and
spy after them. Unless she did this they
were Alnost eert1in 70 shirk Avsy = din.
ner pot With greasy water LETT in It all
night or 70 throw rags and rubbish down
behind cellar stsps, or 70 let whole losTes
Of bread mould and waste through their
or the eotee pot, tea pot and
milk pitcher 70 soak in : beautiful state
from month 70 month without being
EGshed. In the matter Of washing dishes,
also \ part Of their profession, two Of
the nineteen might be said to perform
this important work with bare deoeoey.
Two nonths Eu the longest any Of these
royal ladies deigred 70 remain. No
sooner va ons Citizen fGirly settled, add
her mistress beginning to hope that this
particular one nigh; Be the ieSei sne
vas in search Of, than the nonAdie inst
met would begin 70 stir uneasily, and Oh
the nesconer would 70 like The wind.
She would perhaps 20 out 70 call on
friend in the evening, only = lev ulnu:
eh,H and the neIt morning abe would
send for Der clothes with the nost triTo-
lous e1ense. Whatever the e1cuss wa,
the real reason would Be that abe Sas
tired O stsyin' there any how Onoe
ny friend thought she had the right one.
The girl fair geatle creature, Who seen.
ed % try TO do ~ she wa told. -Nov
We .hall have come peace" said The mis-
tres. The fair, gentle girl staid two
weeks. Then, on Saturday evening, she
aid she wished 10 20 down street on
business. She vent. On Monday : dirty.
faced boy brought word that Alice faint.
ed and fell down stairs, and abe wanted
her money"
None Of them seemed to have nsnor!
more than an inch long. They we're -
short Of recollection Is Il the!
had been in their do,ase md every one =
hundred JeArs old None Of them eonld
or would remember 70 pat = certain thing
in the same place twice. BOT one Of the
nineteen ever Pot the articles Of the weeks
wash in their proper places They we're
all alike in smother respect, TOO. The
new broom sweeps clean. The! were all
angels for the irst three days That fact
proved that they could all have done veil
i they would bat they simply would Dot
do it. Atl&st came one Who vas the sum
Of all TiIIainies. She was highly recon.
mended, "of eourse. They Al were. She
could scrub, bake, Eash and iron beaut.
fully. and her temper seemed - ehiltlIks
and bland - that Of the hesthen Chinee.
Bat she va the most snblrmely deceit
ful creature since the old serPent In
he Garden Of Eden. She did the kitchen
work like Yankee housekespsr II inst,
and In = weeks time had become lazy,
slAtternIy and impndent She made pro-
nisss a fair a. 8 reforming drurkatd,
however, and luther trlAl Eas given The
house mistress has some prejudiees. Ons
oil these d agIinst reaches. % I'VE
different occasions she had said 10 the
precious female tramp Sweep the kitchen
soor very eArefnllE particularly a night,
90 as not to leave any crumbs 70 draw
rosches," The treasure declared she did
il regularly. But reaches presently Be
gan 70 appearing black fellows a lat
spd veil fed ~ steamboat cook. Who're
did thsy come from! A little inspection
With : kitchen lamp, ore night after the
treasure, - usual, bad -gone out = lev
minutes revealed the appalling TACT that
she regularly brushed the sEeePtnEs Of
the kitchen floor away back out Of sight
under the stove! Another prejudice Of
The mistress vas lgainst professional beg.
gars. She had beIisf, may Be \ cold and
hea:tless one-b1t that Is neither here
nor there-thEt feeding professional beg
EArs il only encouraging Pauperisn, 90
she had gwen strict add repeated direct
:ors that food must not be dealt out to
.ueh from the kitchen. The treasure
aid. oh, yes, certainly, ske would never
rive them erumh. Happening around
lie back door At N unusual hour one
morning the hapless woman made The
unpIeasing discovery that her rsa41re
vas In Tie habit Of feeding : regular
colony Of Juvenile paupers. That partly
explained why the grocery bills had sud.
denly sSelled 50 alirulnglJ. Matters a
length cane to desperate pass when In
chasing upthe family linen Of : Sunday
zoe stocking belonging 70 The
master q The house EIs found nicely fold
ed IEay beside one Of Mis- Suiths bslbrig-
sans in The drawer With the baby e Iprons-
he house.mAster, nAn-iks, did not dis
cover the union Of this ill-assoEtsd pair,
and 1t would have drawn tears 70 the eyes
Of Potter investigating committee 70
see bow, after tagging AID swearing 70
set Mis- Smiths stocking over The lnsiep
81 his left foot, that protsne man leaned
back il his chair and declared bed Be
Observation-Disclosures II be ever
saS : house before where nothing wa
syer in its night place.
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