Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-05-22
AN EXPERIMENT.

4 AIN LA 1OlM LIN L,
81 don't think, said Mr.. White
that the hay-crop ever promised Sc
dncly'
J "Indeedw said his wife, absently
and if there isn't any fall in the
price of fruit" he added, "our peach
orchard is going to net us a cool one
hundred dollars.
AS he spoke he flung the homespun
towel with which he had been wiping
his hands over the back of the kitchen
chair.
"Oh, George, do hang up the towel,"
said Mrs. White "The nail is just as
near as the chair-back, and l have
enough steps to take in the course OF
the day, without waiting upon you.
you are always grum bling about
omething," said the young farmer as
he ierked the towel on to its nail.
There! Does that suit YOU
Here is a letter from Cousin Dora
George" said Mrs. White, wisely avoid
ing the mooted question. "She want.
to come here and board for a few
weeks.
well, let her come" said White
at won't cost US a great deal and 3
little extra money always counts W
at the years end
'But, George, | was thinking
about what? ?"
"Why, | am so hurried with the
work, and there is so much to do"
"That is the perpetual burden o
your song said Mr.. White, irritably
Women do beat all for complaining!
Wont you hear me out ?" said Mrs
White $50 l thought it would he
good plan to giee Dora her board, i
she would helpme with the houseworl
little. 1t will accommodate her, an
it will accommodate me.
But it won't accommodate mel.
said George White cavalierly. "Really
Lefty, you are getting absolutely lazy
Mrs White crimsoned.
no one ever said that of me before,
said she.
"But just look at it, said the farm
er. Tell me of any other woman il
the neighborhood who keeps a girl
Why, they make boast of doing thei
own work"
They all have sisters, or mothers
or grown up daughters l have none.
"Pshaw!" said White. Ridiculous
OF course you have to work. We al
do, don't we? But your work don
amount to row of pins. l don't know
of any one who has it easier than yol
do"
That's all that you know about it,
said Lefty, in a choked voice
Write to Dora that wen board he
for five dollars week." said White
authoritatively. "We must earn all tn,
money we can while there is a chance
Make hay while the sun shines, eh
And guess you'll manage to gef
along as well as other women do. Let
tE Now run up stairs into the gar
ret, my dear, and get me my blue jear
oyeralls, there's good girlr
Lefty obeyed, but the tears were il
her eyes, and a big, round ball was
rising up in her throat, and she coult
hardly see the jean oyeralls. as they
hung up high on one of the beams.
As she reached up. a loose board in
the garret-hoor tipped; her foot slippet
through on the laths and plaster be-
low, and, with a groan, she sank to tn,
floor.
The time passed on. and George
White grew tired of waiting
He shouted up the garret stairway:
Look alive there, Lefty! Do yoI
mean to be all day."
But no answer came. He ran W
stairs, to find Lefty lying senseless OF
the floor, with one leg broken, jus
above the ankle
Now you'll hare to get some one tC
do the work" said Lefty. not without
spice Of malice as she lay on the cal
ico-covered settee, with her poor ankle
duly set and bandaged.
"Not if l know it," said Georg,
White. Hire lazy woman Who'll
want dollar and half a week, anC
her board into the bargain, to do th'
work of this housef l guess not"
but what are you going to do?'
asked Lefty.
ITO do it myself, to-be-sure. Hal
an hour every morning and half ar
hour every evening ought to be enough
TO square up accounts" )"
well" said Mrs. White, Il shal
Just like to see you do itY'
'Then you'll have your wish" sale
her husband.
lie rose early the next morning anC
lighted the kitchen Ore,