The Portland daily press., 1888-07-07

conditions very carefully specified? To be
sure, it was signed Mrs. Frederic Lattimer
but, of course, one would use fictitious
name in a paper. The letter was written in
very plain terms; it said servants, and not
"hred girls" which was supposed in Hing
ham to be title OF greater respect, and stip-
ulated that the engagement was only for a
month. of trial, at the end of which time. If
Mrs. Lattimer was not pleased she would pay
their expenses home.
Harper, being looked down on as a servant
said the kind old housekeeper. lyon won't
have any ISOLATION with the family"
uon't care TO associate with the family !;
we don't associate with the men we make
shirts for" said Matte 81 shall have Dolly,
and Dolly will have me, and we shall both
for much more''
1t was only at Matty's earnest entreaty
tnat tne minister forbore to accompany them
TO their new home.
1T would look as if we expected to be re-
ceiyed as something more than we are she
said to Dolly. "And / want her to under
stand that all we ask is fair wages for fair
work"
So they went alone. smart-looking
maid answered their ring at the door-bell,
calculated their social standing at glance,
and left them in the hall while she went for
her mistress. Presently the girl came back
and conducted them to the kitchen. Mattie's
| ewes noted t1aL bUt WIS uQSWtpt. the
| range greasy and pile of unwholesome-
| looking towels lay on the table; for Bridget
| had been gone week, and procession of
supplies, each one worse than the last, had
held brief possession of her kingdom.
II am so 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 along the hall,
and the door was pushed open to admit a
beautiful boy of four, drawing tin horse
"oh, you darlingr' exclaimed Dolly, rap
turously.
But the boy drew back little, saying,
where's Bridget?"
And in minute the nurse bounced upon
hlm, AMI dragged him off, calling him "a
little torment, and a bad, naughty boy"
Mattie,s first bread, rashly undertaken
with Bridget's homemade yeast was an
utter failure, and the baby chung obstinately
to Joanna in spite of Dolly's Establishments,
while Mrs. Lattimer, knowing nothing of
housekeeping herself, had not a particle of
patience with ignorance in others, and chung
TO her deep persuasion that nothing but the
most vigorous putting down could ever keep
these girls from disagreeable assumption.
But long before the end Of the month Dolly
reigned sweet and serene in the nursery,
wore her nurses cap without an uncomfort-
able thought, ana drank in delight from the
shaded park, with its flowers and birds and
fountains, as unconscious of bitter seryitude
do bIO CLliuicu oub lUftu duu SudIu6u.
''As for Matte,' Mrs. Lattimer confessed
to her brother, "she's simply invaluable,
and l shall never be able to endure an ordi-
nary servant again, but if she hadn't known
her mind better than did mine we should
have parted the very first week. There's
one blessed thing your old Journal has done
for the labor question, and if my ship ever
comes in, ii endow the paper out Of graft
tude"
"Ah, always felt that was born to be a
benefactor," said the editor. Your ship
would have come in long ago, if you had
called me for pilot"
And which one did he marry?" asks a
saucy girl at my elbow.
Neither of them, my dear. Pretty Dolly,
in the course of time, went back to Hingham
and married farmer boy, who had worked
his way through college, and was not
ashamed of his wife for having made her
way in the same fashion; and Matte, for
aught j know, is middle-aged and respect
able old maid, living on her savings, and
educating heather in Africa. For this story
has nothing to do with marrying, or giving
in marriage, but with the fact that good
many ships that are continually at sea
might come prosperously in, if they would
join company with each other without re-
garding the fact that one might be mer-
chant vessel, and the other simply lugger.