The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-01-28
wANTED-Ao GIRL.

wANTED-A GIRL.
"I desire to advertise for a girl to do
general housework," said a Laramie
lady to the manager Of an intelligence
Office. al have had some little trouble
and annoyance during the past year,
and would like, il could, to get good
girl who differs in many respects with
those / have been wrestling with. Last
fall i heard Of good girl who was
working for a neighbor Of mine, and
wer.s- --aawork systematically TO get her.
! found afterward that il was a 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 the use Of the
piano. was so sure that she was a
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 my
self sat around on the floor, while Cleo
patra wooed the festive mule puncher.
We wanted to throw all the home inilu-
ence we could around Cleopatra, so
that she would feel perfectly cheerful
and like one of the family. She used
to wear my dresseswhen ! was away, but
when 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
kind Of shabby, as the result Of contin-
uous wear by Cleopatra and myself, and
so she got disconnected and went away.
Then | got nice girl from Nebraska |;
but just as she had learned to make pie
that would yield to the softening infu-
ences Of time she married a man from
Bitter Creek, who was so cross-eyed
that. when he wept. the scalding tears
would roll down the back Of his neck
then secured girl from the old coun-
try. She couldn't speak the English
language fluently, and so | didn't have
a very sociable time of it When /
would tell her to wash the dishes she
would generally black the stove or bring
in a scuttle Of coal. used to pour out
my soul to her sometimes and ask her
to conhde in me, but she had PARKWAY
look, like a man who cannot pay his
board-bill. One day at dinner ! asked
her obring in the dessert, but she didn't
grasp my meaning, 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 shoc-brush, and in that
way soon won their esteem and regard.
One day while we were at the table she
brought in the soup, and in an unguard-
cd moment she stuck about seven inches
Of her thumb in the hot soup, in order
to get a more secure grip on the tureen.
In the first impulse of coy and maidenly
surprise she ,houghtlessly dropped the
tureen and the soup in my husbands
lap. My husband is a shy and rather
reticent man, but he rose with agraceful
movement and killed her with the cary
ng-knife, and kicked her CORY remains
under the table. After the inquest |
got 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,
and ate everything in the house. We
used to hear her in the middle Of the
night foraging around after cold pie and
fragments of rich and expensive grub.
She had a singular yearning for jam and
an imprisoned 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 smold.
ering ruins Of baked beans and cold
cabbage and vinegar. We stood il till
groceries came up so, and apples got to
be seven dollars and half barrel, and
then we asked her to send in her resig-
nation. Shortly after that my husband
made an assignment. What l would
like now is a good girl, not so much as
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
diffiult to please, but ! don't want to
pay the same salary that the cashier OF
1 bank gets just for the sake of having
a pampered menial in the house who
doesn't do enough work to drive away
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