Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-07-09


er, with wages and conditions yer,
carefully specified? To be sure IL wa
signed Mrs. Frederic Lattimer, bu
of course one would use a fictitiou
name in a paper. The letter was writ
ten in very plain terms il said ser
wants, and not "hired girls" which
was supposed in bingham 10 be {
title of greater respect, and stipulat
ed that the engagement was only fol
a month of trial, at the end Of which
time, if Mrs. Lattimer was not pleas.
ed, she would pay their expenses
home.
"It'll come pretty tough on you,
Marthy Harper, being looked down
on as a servant" said the kind old
housekeeper. "You won't have any
'sociation with the family"
81 don't care 20 associate with the
family; we don't associate with the
men we make shirts for" said Mat
tie. 81 shall have Dolly, and Dolly
will have me, and we shall both have
the babies. / don't think we shall
care for much more"
1t was only at Mattie's earnest en-
treaty that the minister forebore TO
accompany them to their new home.
"It would look as If we expected
to be received as something more
than we are" she said TO Dolly.
"And / want her to understand that
all we ask is fair wages for fair work"
So they went alone. A smart-look-
ing maid answered their ring at the
door bell, calculated their social stand
ing at a glance, and left them in the
hall while she went for her mistress.
Presently the girl came back and con-
Quoted them to the kitchen. Mattie's
eyes noted that the floor was unswept,
the range greasy, and pile Of un-
wholesome-looking towels lay on the
table; for Bridget had been gone a
week, and procession of supplies,
each one worse than the last, had
held possession Of her kingdom.
81 am so glad it is not basement
and see what nice large
yard" she said to Dolly, whose eyes
were ready to overflow.
Something came gathering along
the hall, and the door was pushed |
open to admit beautiful boy Of four,
drawing a tin horse after him.
"Oh, you darling" exclaimed .
Dolly, rapturously.
But the boy drew back a little, say
ng-"Where's Bridgety''
And in a minute the nurse pOunced
lpon him and dragged him off, call
ng him ga little torment, and a bad,
naughty boy"
Mattie's first bread, rashly under
aiken with Bridgets homemade
'east, was an utter failure, and the
'aby clung obstinately to Joanna i'm
pite of Dolly's Establishments, while
Irs. Lattimer, knowing nothing Of
ousekeeping herself, had not a par
icle of patience with ignorance in
theirs, and clung to her deep persua-
ion that nothing but the most vigor-
us putting down could ever keep
nose girls from disagreeable assump-
on. But long before the end of
ne month Dolly reigned sweet and
creme in the nursery, wore her
urse's cap without an uncomforta-
lie thought, and drank in delight
'om the shaded park, with It's How
IS and birds and fountains, as un-
)nscious of bitter servitude as the
lildren she loved aud guarded.
"As for Mattie," Mrs. Lattimer
TO her brother, "she's sim !
" invaluable, and shall never be Z
Die TO endure an ordinary servant {
gain, but il she hadn't known her 6
ind better than did mine We should
i've parted the very first week.
here il one blessed thing your old b,
,urnal has done for the labor ques- n
IN, and if my ship ever comes in Y Y
] endow the paper out Of gratitude" b.
"Ah, l always felt that | was born ia
be benefactor," said the editor. te
Your ship would have come in long a'
o, if you had called me for pilot" ic
"And which one did hc marry" co
ks a saucy girl at my elbow.
Neither of them, my dear Pretty m
,lly, in the course OF time, went -,
elk TO bingham and married a far II
RS boy, who had worked his way "a
'ough college, and was not asham- y.
Of his wife for having made her Il,
Y in the same fashion and Matte, IN
aught | know, is a middle-aged
/ respectable old maid, living on a,
: savings, and educating heather ~
Africa. For this story has moth, IA
. to do with marrying or giving in IN
rriage, but with the fact that bo
ID many ships that are continually IN
sea might come prosperously in, le,
hey would join company with each An
er without regarding the fact that ~,
, might be a merchant vessel, and ~
other simply lugger. ala
ie record Of cures accomplished BY Hoods pll
aparilla can never be completely written. Tho II
llisr curative powers of Hoods sarsaparilla
successful when ever, thing else has failed. n eN
blood Is impure, your digestion out Of order. Ia
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
There is no real succesa ia any 40
suit in life withoat hard work. ~ age
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