River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-07

"Why can't she conner inquired my
wife. fShe says she's doing some sewing
for herself, and can't go out this week"
replied John.
''5o and tell her that sne must come.
That my house is upside down, and both
the girls are sick"
But Nancy was in no mood to comply.
John brought back another negative
go and say to her John that | viii
not take no for an answer. That she
must come. l will give her a dollar
day."
This liberal offer of dollar day was
effective. Nancy came and went to
work next morning. 0fcourse, Ann did
not come back; and as it was Hannahs
last day, she felt privileged to have more
headache than was consistent with clean
ing paint or scrubbing floors. The work
went on, therefore, very slowly.
Saturday night found us without cook
or chamLermaid, and with only two
rooms in order in the whole house, viz:
one chamber on the second story. BY
great persuasion, Nancy was induced to
stay over Sunday and cook for us.
An advertisement in the newspaper
on A1O8Gay Rlo ~ CpuIplC
of raw Irish girls, who were taken as
better than nobody at all. With these
new recruits, Mrs. SundeTlaed set about
getting things ''tO right" Nancy plod-
ded on, so well pleased with her wages,
that she continued to get the work OF
! one day heightened out into two and so
managed to get a weeks job.
For the whole of another precious
week we were in confusion.
Chow do your girls get along?"
asked of my wife, upon whose face l
had not seen a smile for ten days
Don't name them, Mr.. Sunderland
They're not worth the powder 1t would
take TO shoot them. Lazy, ignorant,
dirty. good-tor-nothDg creatures.
wouldn't give them house-roOm."
"I'm sorry to learn that. What will
you do?" I said.
Dear knows! / was SO we'll suited in
Ann and Hannah, and, to think they
should have served me sol | wouldn't
have believed it of them. But they are
all as destitute of feeling and principle
as they can be. And John continues as
sulky as bear He pretended to shake
the carpets. but you might get a wheel
barrow load of dirt out OF them / told
him so and the impudent fellow replied
that he didn't know anything about
shaking carpets; and that it wasn't the
walters place, any how"
"IIe did?"
eyes, he did. / was on the eve of or
dering him from the house"
I'll save you that trouble" | said
little warmly.
Don't say anything to him, if you
please, Mr.. Sunderland" returned my
wife "There couldn't be a better man
about the house than he is, for all ordin-
ary purposes. If we should lose him,
we shall never get another half so good.
| wish I'd hired man to shake the car
pets at once; they would have been
much better done, and | should have
had Johns cheerful assistance about the
house, which would have been a great
deal"
That evening | overheard, accident
ally, a conversation between John and
the new girls, which threw some light
upon the whole matter.
'John, " said one of them, what made
Mrs, Sunderland's cook and chamber
maid 90 aft and lave her right in the mid
die of house clainin'?"
Because, Mrs. Sunderland, instead of
hiring a woman, as every lady does, tried
to put it all off upon them"
"Indade And was that it7h
Eyes, it was. They never thought OF
leaving until they found they were to
he imposed upon. And, to save fifty
cents or dollar, she made me shake
the carpets. | never did such a thing in
my Ii before. l think l managed to
leave about as much dirt as 1 shook out.
But I'll leave the place before / do it
again"
$50 would I, John. 1t was down
right name imposition, so it was. Set
waiter to shaking carpets"
81 don't think much has been saved"
remarked the waiter, "for Nancy has
had dollar day ever since she has
been here"
"IndadeW
Yes; and besides that, Mrs. Sunder-
land has to work like dog herself. All
is might have been saved, if she lad
hired couple of women at sixty-two
and half cents a day for two or three
DAYS, and paid for having the carpets
shaken That's the way other people
do. The house would have been to
rights in three or four days, and every
thing going on like clock wOrk."
| heard no more. | wanted to hear
no more. 1t was all as clear as day TO
me. When J related to Mrs. Sunder-
land what John had said, she was, at first,
quite indignant. But the reasOnbleness
of the thing soon became apparent that
Silc Ib(aitl ilOI bttJ tANhliO0ASh7N hAit'1 CIV
had acted very unwisely.
This is another specimen ofyour
savings at the spiggot, | said, playfully.
There, Mr.. Sunderland! Not a
word more, if you please, Of that, she
returned, her cheek more flushed than
usual 1t is my duty, as your wife, to
dispense with pfudence IN your house
hold and if, in seeking to do 50, | have
run a little into extremes, think 1t i'll
becomes you to ridicule or censure me.
Dear knowsl | have not sought my own
case or comfort in the matter"
My dear, good wife, | hastily said,
in soothing voice, 81 have neither
meant to ridicule nor cenSure you. Moth
inc was further from my thoughts"
''You shall certainly have no cause to
complain of me on this score again" she
said, still a little warmly. "When next
We clean house, / will take care that it
shall be done by extra help altOg
DO so by all means, Mrs, Sunderland.
Let there be, if possible, two paint
cleaners and scrubbers in every room,
that the work may all be done in day
instead of week Take my word for 1t,
the cost will be less. Or, if double, l
will cheerfully pay it for the sake of see
ing order from chaos rise more quickly
than is wont under the ordinary system
of doing things"
NV wife did not just like this speech,
l could see, but she bit her lips and kept
silent.
In week we were without cook
again; and months passed before we
were in anything like domestic comfort.
At last my wife was fortunate enough to
get Ann and Hannah back again, and
| then the old pleasant order of things
was restored. / rather think, that we
shall have different state of things at
next house cleaning time. certainly
| hope so.
a Great Fight With Indians.
To-day the most admired military man
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