Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-21
"A WESTERN zADN>S SUPPOSED EX.
PEREEISSE;S WITH HER SER.
WANTS.

HELP IN THE KITCHEN.
IL desire to advertise for a girl to do general
homework, said q Laramie lady to the business
man OF the Nyc Boomerang. II have had some
little trouble and annoyance during the past
year, and would like, if. Il could, to get a good
girl who differs in many respects from those l
have been wrestling with. Last fail heard of
good girl who was working for a neighbor of
mine and went to work Systematically to get
her. found out afterwards that it was put
up job on me, and that the neighbor wanted me
TO get the girl more out of revenge than any
thing else. The girls name was CleOpatra
She wanted s27 per month and the use of the
piano. l was so sure that she was good girl
That engaged her on that lay out Cleopatra
had SO many lovers that we had to move the
sofa into the kitchen ON Sundays. and
my husband and myself sat around on
the floor. while Cleopatra wooed the festive
mule-puncher. We wanted to throw all
the home influence we could around Cleopatra.
SO that she would feel perfectly cheerful and like
one OF the family. She used to wear nv dresses
when was away. but when l asked her to let
me wear her wardrobe she seemed hurt and her
whole system was churned up with cOnvulsive
s0bs. By-and-by my dresses got kind Of shabby.
as the result of continuous wear by CleOpatra
and myself, and SO she got dscontented and
Went away. Then l got nice girl from Ne
braska; but Just as she had learned to make a
pie that would yield to the softening influence
Of time. she married a man from Bitter Creek,
VINO was so cr0ss-eyed that. when he Wept the
scadinG tears would roll down the back of his
neck. then secured a girl from the old coun-
Try. She couldn't speak the English language
fluently. and SO we didn't have a very sociabIe
time OF it. When would tell her to wash the
dishes, she would generally black the stove or
bring in a scutte of coal. I used to pour out
my soul to her sometimes and ask her to con-
tde in me- but she had Il far-aWav look like a
nno n
at dinner asked hertO bring in the dessert but
she dldn grasp my meaning and through some
oversight. brought nthe disll-rag on a tray She
Used to Wasfthe chiltlrenS faces with the stove
rag and brush their hair with the shoe brus.l and
In that way soon won their esteem and regard
One day, while we were at the table She
Drought in the soup. and in an unscuarled mo-
ment stuck about seven inches of her thumb in
the hot soup. i'll order to get a more secure grip
on the tureen. In the first impulse of coy and
maidenty surprise she thOu@htlcSsiy dropped the
tureen and soup in my husbands lap. MY hus-
band is Shy and rather reticent man. but he
arose with graceful movement to his full
height and killed her with the carving knife.
and kicked her CORY remains under the table
After the inquest l got a hollOw-eyed girl from
Fort Collins She was an orphan. with pale
hair that she used to work up in the hash. She
was proud and impulsive in her nature.
ana ate everything in the house. We used
to hear her in the middle of the night
iOfagHig around AFTER cOId PIE. ana fragments of
rich and expensive grub. She had a singular
yearning for jam, and an impassioned longing
for preserves that we never succeeded in
quenching. When the jelly and fruit cake gave
out. she would sadly turn her attention to cold
ham and mustard, with the smoulderng ruins
OF aked beans and cold cabbage and vinegar
We stood it till groceries came up so, and apples
got to be seven dollars aud a-half barrel, and
then we asked her to send in her resignation.
Shortly after that my husband made an assign
ment. What fwOuld like now is a good girl,
not so much as companion and confidential
promoter of financial ruin, but more to wrestle
with manual labor in the kitchen, at so much
per wrestle and board. I'm not difficult to
please. but don't want to pay the same salary
that the cashier of a bank gets just for the sake
Of having a pampered mental in the house who
doesn't do enough work to drive away her
ennui"