The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-02-04
wanted-A Girl.


81 desire to advertise for girl to do
general homework" said Laramie
lady to the manager of an intelligence
Office. II have had some little trouble
and annoyance during the past year,
and would like, if | could, to get good
girl who differs in many respects with
those l have been wrestling with. Last
fall heard of a good girl who was
working for neighbor of mine, and
went to work Systematically to get her.
found afterward that it was put-up
job on me, and the neighbor wanted me
to get the girl more out of revenge than
anything else. The girls name was
Cleopatra. She wanted twenty-seven
dollars per month and tho use of the
piano. / was so sure that she was q
good girl that engaged her on that layS
out. Cleopatra had SO many love- o.
we had to move the sofa into the
on Sundays, and my husband
self sat around on the flor, wlilD d.
patra wooed the festive mule ptrnchet!
We wanted to throw all the home influ-
ences we could around Cleopatra, so
that she would feel perfectly cheerful
and like one Of the family. She used to
wear my dresses when l was away, but
when l asked her to let me wear her
wardrobe she seemed hurt, and her
whole system was churned up with con-
vulsive sobs. BY and BY my dresses got
nous wear by Cleopatra and myself and
so she got disconnected and went away.
Then L got a. nice girl from Nebraska;
but just as she had learned to make pie
that would yield to the softening influ-
ences of time she married a man from
Bitter Creek, who was socrossleyed that,
when he wept, the scalding tears would
roll down the back of his neck. ri then
secured girl from the old country. She,
couldn't speak the English language fur
emily, and so / didn't have a very So
cable time oft! When 1 would telkher
to wash the dishes she wouh generally
black the stove or bring in scuttle of
coal. l used to pour out my soul to her
sometimes and ask her to confide in me,
but she had PARKWAY look, like man
who cannot pay his board-bilL r One day
ut dinner 1 asked her to bring in the
dessert, but she didn't grasp my mean
ing, and through some oversight brought
in the dish-rag on tray. She used to
wash the children's faces with the stove
rag, and brush their hair with the shoe
brush, and in that way soon won their
esteem and regard One day we
were at table she brought-in, the sQul,,
and in an unguarded moment she Stuck
about seven inches of her thumb in the
hot soup, in. order to get "a more
secure grin on the ttsfeA3h In
the first impulse Of COY, and
maidenly surprise she. = Thought
lesly dropped Me tureen ana the sonp n
my husbands lap. MyAhusbeedis aslN
and rather reticent mar, but herose with
graceful movement 10 Nm fan gieisht,
and killed her with the carving knife,
and kicked her CORY reIhalss under The
table, After the inquest got . hollow
eyed girl from Fort Collirs. Size mas an
orphan. with pale hair that si>e used 70
work up in the hash. She We proud and
impulsive in her nature, and 6fe, every
thing in the house. We used to hear her
in the middle. of the night. foraging
AROUND after cold pie ami fragments Of
rich and expensive grub She hSds a
singular yearhing for jshfa and an ini6as-
stoned longing for preserves that Ne
never succeeded in quenching. WIN
the jelly and fruit-cakes gave out 4she
would sadly turn her attention to enid
ham and mustard, with the smoldesi1g
ruins OF baked beans and cold cabbexe
and vinegar We stood IL till groceries
came up so. ana apples got W be seven
dollars and achalff q hnfrlS ami fhesHwe
asked her toTsend in her. resignation.
Shortly after that my husband made an
assignment. What would like now is
good girl, not so much q a 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 bank gets Just
for the sake of having pampered mcnial
in the house who doesn't do enough work
to drive away her ennrii. Bill Nys's
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