The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-06
Kitchen Help.


general housework," SAID Laramie lady
to the business man of the boomerang.
~ have had some little trouble and an
noyance during the past year, and would
like, If / could, to get good girl who
differs In many respects from those l
have been wrestling with. Last fall l
heard OF q 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 Oh
me, that my neighbor wanted me to get
the girl more out OF revenge than any
thing else. The girls name was Cleo
p4tra. She wanted twenty seven dollars
per month and the use of the piano i
was SO sure that she was good girl that
l engaged her on that layout. Cleo
patra had 30 many lovers that We had 10
move the sofa into the kitchen on Sun
days, and my husband and myself sat
around on the floor, while Cleopatra
woocd the festive mule-puncher. We
wanted to throw all the home influences
We could around Cleopatra, SO that she
would feel perfectly cheerful, and like
one of the family. She used to wear
my dresses when Was away, but when
she seemed hurt, and her whole system
was churned up with convulsive sobs.
By and bye my dresses got kind OF
shabby, us the result OF continuous Wear
10y Cleopatra aud myself, and SO she got
oiscontented, and went away. Then
got nice gnl from Nebraska but just
as she had learned to make pie that
would yield to the softening influences
of time, she married a man from Bitter
Greek, who was so cross eyed that, when
he wept, the scalding tears would roll
down the back OF his neck l then Sc
cured girl from the old country. She
couldn't speak the English language
fuenily. and so we dun lave u vcIy
sociabie time of it. When | would tel
her to wash the dishes, she would gem
eraily black the stove, or bring III Il
scutlle OF COAL l used to pour out my
soul 10 her sometimes, aud ask her ~
confide in me, but she had q flr-away
look, like "a man who can not pay his
boaId-bill. One day ut dinner 4 asked
her 10 bring III the dessert, but she didn',
gra p NY meaning, aud through some
ovel sight brought in dish.rag Oh a
tray. She used to scrub the CHILDREN s
face with tine stoye-rag, and brush then
halr with the shoe brush, ana i'll thai
way soon won their esteem and re- ard
Ole day, While We were at table, she
brought IN the soup, and IN an un-
guarded moment stuck about seven
inches Of her thumb III the hot soup, Ill
ORDER 10 get more secure grip on the
tureen. In the first impulse of c,,y AID
maldeniy surprise, she thong htlessly
dropped the tureen ana the soup In my
husbands lap. Ny husband Is n SLY
aud reticent man, but he rose with IA
graceful movement to his full h,lgth,
ana killed her with a carving knife, ana
kicNed her CORY remains under the table.
After the inqu st, L got a holloway Ell
girl from Fort Collins She was All
orphan, with pale hair that she used To
work up i'll the hash. She was proud
and inIpulsive III her nature, aud ate
everything in the house. We used 10
hear her LII the middle OF the night for
aging around after cold pie aud frag-
ments of rich and expensive grub. Size
had singular yearnlng tor jam and al
impassioned longing for preserves that
we never succeeded III quenching.
| When the Jelly aud iruit-cake gave out,
she would sadly turn her attention t.
cold ham and mustard, with the smould-
ering ruin of baked beans, and cold
cabbage and vinegar. We stood it until
groceries went up 80, and apples got to
be seven dollars and half barrel and
then we asked her To send in her reslgna-
ton. Shortly after my husband made
an assignment. What 1 would like now
is good girl, not so much Is COM
panion and confidential promoter OF
financial ruin, but more to wrestle with
manual labor i'll the kite. EN- at 80 much
per wrestle and board. I'm not difficult
to please, but l don't want to pay the
same salary that the cashier of bank
gets, just for the sake Of having a pam.
pered mental in the house who doesn't
do enough work to drive away hel
ennui.-Laramie Boomerang.
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