Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-03-29
life these warriors against Satan lead

life these warriors against Satan lead.
What is their home lifes While they
are battling agains. the powers Of evil
and advertising themselves good deal
more than they are morality and re-
| ligion, what is their record as they
journey through said unfriendly worlds
In the extreme left wing of this de-
tachment, in front Of the hotel, there is
a woman wearing gray shawl and a
pair of red yarn mittens. She Is car
rying little child In her arms and q
small satchel by means Of strap over
her shoulder. Perhaps l ought to say
that each one carries his own baggage.
But would Ike to know the future of
that little child II ! embarrassing
about over the country, fighting a
straw Satan with miscellaneous brass
band, with no home to remember,
nothing but the clash Of arms and the
BRAY Of the trumpet, together with that
OF the gentleman who does the speak
ing for the party. But will change
the subject.
had very trying experience last
week. 1t was painful, but not fatal
l had been travelling all the night be-
| together fighting for my very exister oe.
l got a room when / arriv.d and re.
tired to seek much needed rest. had
just retired, in fact, having carefully
locked the door and left the key in the
| lock, that the curious could not look
in through the key hole and see me as
| l lay there asleep and make a $1,000
painting of me.
| Tuat than thara Woe =. el;Oht rattla AZ
the door, such as you hear when a
chambermaid attacks it with a pass
key and comes in the room to sweep
| holes in the carpet and fill your lungs
full of debris. l smiled to myself, for
my own key was in the door, and l
| said softly as / bathed my blushing
| features in the pillow, "Ahal ahal We
cannot enter now" But she contin-
ued to rattle away with her key, and
| soon saw, with horror, that my own
was beginning to lose its grip, and fin
| ally it fell to the floor with loud re-
| port, having been pushed out Of the
lock from the other side.
can hardly describe the horror Of
my situation. / thought of handing
my handkerchiefs and perfumery over
the transom TO her, and begging her,
II she had mother or any other rela-
tives in whom sac had any confidence
whatever, TO go away. / thought of
| going TO the door and telling her that
we had better go through life as near
ly as possible by separate routes, and
that | needed rest really more than |
| d ID society, but did not dare get out
OF bed for fear the door would open,
and | was wise, for it did now burst
open as | had feared, and tall girl in
the prime of life, with flashing eye and
distended nostril, came into the room.
With wild shrek, covered my head
with the bed clothes. shuddering till
my teeth, which were in tumbler of
water near by, chartered together.
Go away, you hateful thing" |
said, land never, never come back
again any more"
But | want TO change them sheets"
sho said.
go away" said, again. even
your voice is hateful in my sight.
Take my beautiful Seth Thomas silver
watch, if you will, but, oh! go away,
and heaven will reward you even bet
ter than that"
She then skunk from the room, but
it was long time before could go to
sleep. Even then my dreams wero
prehension. l thought | was being
pursued by red-eyed unicorn with
! navy-blue stomach and q Chinese Ian
tern tied to his tail. | tried to shake
him eff, but could not. He led me
down into the Internal regions, and in
sisted on showing me the iron bridge
and the high school, and spoke of the
great progress of the place, and said
that they were likely to get new and
competing road in there this summer;
and he showed me the library and
walked me ont to the fair grounds and
down on the lake shore, so that could
take sulphur bath, and spoke of tho
desirability of the climate for people
with bronchial affections, and wanted
me TO speak of il in my letters to the
press, and said he would pay me well
for II.
Just then heard a knock on my
door. l was so glad to have anybody
knock, instead of picking the lock,
that | asked, Who's there" A rich,
manly voice replied, Me-.
was glad to hear the welcome voice
of one of my own sex, and so undid
the door for the gentleman with great
alacrit-. Just as / was bounding
! lightly back toward my couch with
merry laugh, the party strolled in to
the middle of the room bearing a small
but rare collection of clammy, mucil-
agnous towels She was heavy set
chambermaid with terror cotter hair
and bass voice.
i do not complain. I do not muir
muir. do not repine. But / say that
a chambermaid ought not to do tls.t
way. A chambermaid who has a bass
voice ought TO seek out some other
calling. She may put guests slip
pers so far under the bed that he can
not get them without ca ling out tho
hook and ladder company. She may
weep over his letters from his wife or
drown her SORROWS in his bay rum, b It
she ought not to take bass voice into
hotel and expect to escape criticism.
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