The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-13

there were muIJttuucS OF W0Mleu summary
situated, and the editor -auld E4e doing q
A-od Christian work ii he would put this
young woman in communication with some
one of them.
The Joint letter found its way ia due time
to the sanctum of o puzzled and amused edi-
tor, who frowned and laughed alternately
| over its contents, hnlf-disposed TO toss 1t In
to the waste-basket, but finally put it in his
pocket with a dozen other documents. 1t
might have remained there indefnateiss for
the editor was a young man, n had nc
personal interest IN the domestic problem,
but, during that day with his sister, his se-
rene enjoyment was suddenly disturbed BY q
series Of duh thumps upon the stairs, follow
ed by piercing screams.
aTherelH said Mrs. Lattimer, rashingRway.
"She let's the baby fan down stairs; lalways
said she'd kill It'll ! shall dismiss her the
minute Fred gets backl9 she painted, return
ing with the baby. 'Inever draw on easx,
breath except when the children are asleep
ts0h, by the way, Florence replied her
brother. i've got hold Of q solution for oil
your domestic difficulties. Never sayIm not
practical again, Here are two servants for
Won made TO order--a cook and q nursery
mathematics, sisters, capable, educated,
warranted by the minister; what more could
you ask2N
Raymond, what on earth are you talking
about?N
Its all here, yon can see for yourself The
fact is, I've been thinking a good deal about
this labor question;and one evening l wrote
a letter for the journal, purporting to come
from a Mrs. r.. j. Howe, setting forth her
troubles with servants, and appealing to the
host Of respectable, unemployed women for
help
'fYou miserable humbugl I read IL with q
~sympathizing heart and meant to write to
her myself-our cases were SO much alike
only ! forgot it"
GtfE.n Ia. 49, 49, --~Es.
maiden, who speaks for her sister and herself
and proposes to understand the job. She's
in serious earnest, too, and I'm quite inn
pressed by her letter. just read Ill"
Mrs. Lattimer read with a critical, not to
say skeptioal, dir.
I'D sooner have Bridget with an her pep
cry temper. Deliver me from superior, I'M
as-good-as-you-are servants. intend to be
mistress in my own house, and / want serv-
ants and not companions and friends.
Gan, right, you have my approval there;
but / thought the trouble was,
you were not mistress. They obey just far
enough to enable to keep their places and
draB their wages, and they have no concep
ton Of any other kind Of service. Nov, If !
we're q housekeeper, / should try these girls;
certainly you couldn't be worse off,
"If you we're q houeekeeper, you would do
just as the rest Of US do-bear the Ills we
know, rather than tempt the unknown
A6thdpN sOR 4 dm VAblOuhat4 uAuMhtul
that I'm not a womaE5 to go on doing q
thing to all eternity, because my grand.
mother did it before me, and my neighbors
will think il so queer Of me to try any new
way"
What are you going to do about the LETT
teri You really ought to answer it.
$50 j shall. / shall tell the Minister / have
forwarded the letter to Mrs. e. T.. Howe who
will correspond with him If she decides to
pursue the matter
II the EDITORS letter, proving taat Mrs. ~.
L. Howe was no myth, created deep and pro-
found excitement in che little circle Of three,
what can be said Of the eject produced by d
letter addressed to Miss Matte Harper, Offer
ing to her and her sister service in the
house Of the writer, with wages and condi-
lions very carefully specified? To be sure, 1t
was signed Mrs. Frederic Lattimer, but OF
course, one would use a fictitious name in a
paper. The letter was written in plain terms;
Ii said servants not fshired girls which was
supposed in bingham to be q title Of greater
respect and stipulated that the engagement
was only for a month Of trial, at the end Of
which time, ifMrs. Lattimer was not pleased,
she would pay their expenses home.
'ItU come pretty tough on you, Marthy
Harper, being looked down on as q servant"
said the kind old housekeeper. You won't
have no ~'sociation With the family"
II don't care to associate with the family;
we don't associate with the men we make
shirts for said Matte. / shall have Dolly,
and Dolly win have me, and we will both
have the babies; I don't think We shall care
for much more"
1t was only at Maftie's earnest entreaty
that the minister forebore 70 accompany
them to their new home.
1T would look as If we expected to be re-
ceived as something more than we are" she
said to Dolly. And ! want her to under
stand that all We. ask Is fair wages for feir
work.
SO they went alone. A s~mart-looking
maid nswered the ring az the door-bel, cal
culated their social standing at q glance and
left them In the hall while she went for her
mistress. Presently the girlc anne back and
conducted them to the kitchen. Mattie's
eyes noted that the floor was unswopt, the
range greasy and q pile of unwholesome-
looking towels lay on the table; for Bridget
had been gone o week, and q procession Of
supplies, each one worse than the last, had
held brief possession Of her kingdom.
n am 80 glad It isn't a basement kitchen,
and see what a nice large yard, +" she said to
Dolly, whose eyes were ready to overflow.
Something came Gathering aloig the hall
and the Gowr waE pushed open 10 admit a
beautiful boy %offour, drawing q tin horse
after him.
"Oh, you darlingi' exclaimed Dolly, rap
turously.
But the boy drew back o little, saying:
And in a minute the nurse pouneed upon
him, and dragged him OF, calling him "a ht-
tie torment, aud a bad, naughty boy
Matt;e's first bread, rashly undertaken with
Bridget's home-made yeast, was an utter
failure, and the baby chung o~bstinateley to
Joanna In spite Of Dollye Establishments,
while Mrs. Battimer. knowing nothing Of
housekeeping herself, had not q particle Of
patience with ignorance IN others. and clung
TO her deep persuasion that nothing but the