The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-18

A1vPo wnoSo enJoymene OF respect
able ladies' society has been for years
limited to the waiter girl. It has been
90 with me. Hence her power. Doubtless
many good-hearted country girl. on being
employed in q single mems boarding house,
has started IN with the honest purpose Of
behaving modestly and being agreeable alike
to all: But the boarders viii pay her little
attentions, compliment her, speak politely
to her when they come in to meals pleas
antly to her on leaving. and CALAMITY to her
between these two times. This has its effect
Ever-recurring attentions and compliments.
like the attriuon of water, after a while
show. The girl becomes pulled mp with
adulation; she can not stand prosperity.
The once modest girl, blushing from the
country, becomes imperious. From smiling
boarders, she changes to receiving them
coldly; and on, and on, until the kindliest
attention from the poor male boarder is met
with disdain. She has become the Queen of
Hash.
A boarder begins to feel-it lmperceptibly
creeps upon him-that his daily hash de-
ponds upon the arbitrary will of this
queen. He becomes crouching to her.
When one anywhere, or under any circum
stances, becomes dependent upon another
who can give and withhold feod at pleasure,
1t humans the hungry dependent. The poor
men-boarders discover, all too late, that
they have been for months forging their
own chains.
The proprietor or proprietress OF the
boarding house never seems to understand
that the hired girl has become a veritable
Queen of Hash. The queens influence is
something mysterious and subtle. and seems
to be fully understood only by herself and
her thralls.
So she occupies a throne erected in
hash house, and yields scepter which
cows the boldest boarder. The poor men
endure on through many weary months,
hoping for q Change new dynasty-but
ever hoping against hope. For the
landlord or landlady can not, like the
boarders, feel the CALLING chains; and the
queen never thinks of abdicating-no, no.
too soft a thing Her subjects can only
console themselves with the thought, there
is no Queen of Hash on the Shining
Shore"
have gone to my breakfast. when the
queen would stride into the dining-room,
looking as If something had crossed her, set
down my coffee with Jerk, the bread with
slam, the potatoes with bang, and the
beefsteak, knowing she could not hurt it,
with a crash. Thin, as she moved majestic
ally away, would say, not knowing hardly
what to do, but filled with a desire to show
my loyalty, "lts nice morning." which she
would notice no more than she would the
barking of small dog coming family from
| five or six blocks away. At such times feel
great heart-emptiness; feel world-weary,
and as if would like to be on the shining
| and no gnats.
The only thing that diverts the thoughts
of the downtrodden boarders from gloomiIy
dwelling on their enslaved condition is the
watching of the new boarders-their conduct
for few days after they come in, and be-
fore they are finally crushed. The CHEEKY
The top of the mornin' to yez" of the new
Irishman; the smiling "Wie-gehts' of the
German; the hearty, laconic Howl Of the
| American, are, in few days, changed into
a deeply respectful GOOD morning, mics, "
which sometimes she deigns to notice, but
| oftener does not.
A new border may for a while get along
charmingly with the queen; she smiles on
him-he grins responsibility. He enthusi-
astically tells the other boarders that she is
"a nice little duck" They say no
thing: each has been there. The elated
boarder even contempiates marrying the
| queen. Poor fool in brown duck, the idea
| of his becoming allied to royalty! It is only
the fiuttering of the moth around the can
die. His destruction will not only be sure,
but tremendous.