The Republican journal., 1882-01-12

We "olC, luC uldlly uuLueSllC COutllN dUCti
for our comfort and convenience. The
range, the furnace, the running water
the dumb waiter, were all marvels. The
gas especially was a mystery and a ter
ror; for weeks she approached to light il
with quaking limbs. And as for the
speaking tube, her first experience with
that may be imagined; she came rushing
up three flights of stairs to our room one
day, and dropped gasping upon the floor
"Och, wlrra, wlrra Let me out 0
this"
"What is it, now?"
Himself is in it, man,
"What do you mean?"
"The 'ould one himself is below
'Stand up on your feet this minute
and tell me what's the matter,'
"Oh, mum, was irenin' beyant the
table, whin vice KEN street out o the
wall torninst me, an called me be name
Troth, thought the bones O me nd
soften wild the fright; and me, that hasn't
been to cOntession-the Lord presarye
me these three months,-yis an more
Meantime, in the due course of her ed
ucation, Miss Donnegan first took turn
keen surveillance, she sent up dishes OF
such divers and surprising compleXions,
OF sayors SO entirely unknown TO any
earthly cOndiment that we discussed them
with natural misgiyiDgs. What viands
she did not burn to clnder, she cOntriV-
ed by some other ingenious and success
full means to deprive of their native aspect
and flavor. In despair, Jane promoted
her up stairs; we had thought her dan
gerouS in the kitchen; she proved terrible
in the dining room. She mixed things
up bewlderingly dropped the knives
and forks on every side; passed cups and
plates to the wrong persons; split water
down our backs, tipped over the gr w on
the cloth, and showed herself capable of
such new and ineXhaustibe resources
of clumsiness, that we one and all shud-
dered at her approach.
But Jane had faith and Jane had pa
tience. She was confident of the ultimate
success of her experiment, and assured
us privately that Kate was getting on.
We tried to believe it, and meanwhile
lived in a state of CONSERVATION that may
be imagined it was simply a question of
endurance.
One thing that Jane had taken infinite
pains to teach her protege was to attend
the door properly; but as, poor Miss
Donnegan could never learn to distinguish
between people. She one day showed
into the parlor an lnslnuallng soap ped
dler who, before Jane could get down,
had made way with the mantle ornaments.
1v Oh f,r cb1
next day ushered the Rev. Mr.. HOmiy,
James honored pastor, into the same room,
and came beaming up stairs to her mis-
tress with -
81 have another av'em in it. num-"
''ln the parlor p asked Jane, hurrying
down stairs in alarm.
"The very same, Just" returned Kate,
following close at her heels
"Who is it? y
"See for yourself, mum; there's his
bit of paper. Oh, he has the eye Of viii
lain in him ~
Jane read the card and stopped a
change came over her face; she smooth
ed her hair and cast a hasty glance over
her toilet before opening the door.
"Why, what's this Kate p sherXclam-
ed in a tone of horror, as she tried the
latch 1.-The door locked ?"
Deed, an it is num- returned Kate,
producing the key with a triumphant
chuckle. 'I turned the key on my foine
lad the way he wouldn't make off Wid the
chiney.'
There were of course many harmless
and less mortitying mistakes which were
productive only Of amusement, as when
Jane, at the tea-table one night, asked
Kate if the mail had come.
1T did, num-"
"Then bring it in"
"Will | bring ii all, mum ?"
"Certainly."
In a few minutes a Iabored tread upon
the kitchen stairs, and presently in came
Miss Donnegan, dragging along large
bag Of Indian meal.
"Oh, dear. oh, dear what is that p
cried Jane.
"It's the male, jest"
"And what are you bringing it here
for?"
An didn't yerser Ak for it?"
81 did nothing of the sort"
"Slure it's this bl5sed minute yer're
after sayin' it.
"No, no, no; it was the letters | want
ed"
Then l hope to die, mum, but
thought it was male We said"
This was all very we'll amongst our
selves, but on more formal occasions
poor Jane, who had rigid notions Of pro-
priety was sorely tried and her patience
well nigh gave way. | can never forget
the first little dinner party we had after
Kate had been 'broken in" When every
thing was ready she was sent up to an
nounce that "the dinner Was served"
Jane had wisely taken the precaution
to make her repeat this phrase a half
score of times first in the dining room
But the expression was a new one to the
Donnegan mind, evidently ''mere sound
nothing and she was by no
means of those nimble wits that catch
things on the wing. | was in the paror
entertaining the company when the door
opened and she prowled into the room
her knees Knocked together, for she was
mOrtally afraid of strangers. She caught
my eye, made several mysterious and I'M
intelligible signs, hailed me with her arm
and moved her lips inaudibly. Finding
she did not speak l said encouragingly
"Well, Kate, what is it ~
"Zar-rved"
"Eh 2"
"Sur- rved'
'Sur- rived ?"
"Lord save us, forgot " she muttered,
cracking the joints of her hands and
breaking into a profuse perspiration.
"Did you have a message for me ~
"The din n-din-dinner-"
"Well 2"
1T is outside." she roared, swinging
her arm towards the dining room and
rushing frantically through the door.
How long Jane would have persisted in
her experiment, or whether Miss Donne-
gan would ever have mastered the ways"
it is impossible to say, for a timely acci-
dent suddenly terminated their relations
One day Jane, thinking the air unduy
dry in her room, and being herself hurri-
ed with some work, called down to Kate
to put pail of water in the furnace.
Miss Donnegan cheerfully obeyed; she
drew a large bucket Of cold water pre-
ceeded to the cellar, opened the furnace
door, and with her stalwart, vigorous arm
threw it full upon the white hot Goals.
There was kissing, rushing, a roaring