Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-07
.es the queen ssnin tina. I hardly knovvas

see the queen asnin tina. hardly know vAas
do or say
"whers's the SUPPER
This cold question brings M 20 nysh
Jus: q minute, dear
20 Gus into tie KItchen- and have . short
talk witt Mary, N toe course OF which
hand her s. bill She soon has q tabiecloth
On the table, AMI makes every preparation
fer supper except tie bringing On Of ths
eds5ies
The queen sits in M usu4. 'aea, with bar
back 70 the table, e1lnly H. g over the
paYers she Gas brought from Ia ~fiice
go into the kitchen and lcoa aaxicusiy
cot Of the SIDE door, whence ~leS OF tbs
street can be o5.alled-
..Tharz Proy..lence!" calculate fer, entity,
at last; here he lsl7
| won't say Low | manage to put before
the queen a supper such as would do credit
TO any cook II Christendcu-
Nor does soc ask any questions She takes
what there Is, appears thankful. and con
verses With NE on literature, art, music
anything AID everything but housekeeping
And bow love her for IT.
But before the children go 10 bed they get
such WASH as only mother can give them
Saturday night:
Supper IS just over, and the queen and
are about 10 compare notes
BY the way, my dear, called IN Of
Cones as came home, TO get some candies
for the children. and the oookkeey-r Incl
dentally remarked that ne hoped Liked the
suppers he bad furnished i've or ax tIms
during the week WHAT did he meanf'
oh, that all right A little private mat
u 4 4 t,,.
way that MAKES me feel like q fool
Well, nev-r mind Let NE tell you about
the Office Here is my statement have
drawn it up very carefully
| take the paper and hastily look IL over.
Why, when did you set briggsi SEQ be
is down nere for $1,000 policys'
YES; | made the arrangement With him,
and wrote his policy on Wednesday, after
considerable talk. wrote two other policies,
as you see TOO, each Tor the same amount,
with Swlutun and Cane
Stood Why you are a business womani
H4lioa ~ :ou nave Fau.e, TOO. There
IL man | had almost givenu up Ina.- ueea
after him tor year hut wa afrari (
should never gel him, and that. as somebody
says. be would 60 Gown to the grave without
penny in his pocket, rs far as insurance VAS
concerned he always SAID DE had no tina
to talk insurance"
He hat 70 find time TO talk TO me. By
the way. have opened up new territory for
you. and have secured the agency for the
Millennium and Equatorial tire company
They should add a thousand or two to your
yearly income. shouldn't they dear"
We'll should think they woI.e." ex.
claim rnpturously why, you are better
insurance uian than am"
The queen tells me OF her business doings
in that quiet matter o: fact way of hers, and
then comes the question dread
How nave you been getting along az
homef-
God bless her She does not press the Ques-
ton, but she lets me go back TO the Office on
Monday morning, while she clears the decks
for general bousecleaning.
asked her on Thursday how she had man
aged TO get rid OF all the evidences OF my
housekeeping-how she had got tue carpets
80 clean, replaced the broken china, cleaned
the bird cage, repaired the curtains and put
tho houSehod in running order again.
Her answer, with just the faintest quizzcal
smile, was
System my dear Systemin-- George c
jerks IN Pttsburg Bulletin