Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-03-16
The TASTY Match
BIZ HoRATIo ALaER, yR.

'@ess man, resident in the good city OF
Boston, and was well known on Change
some twenty years since. Although
well-to-do, and abundantly able to sup
port wife, forty-eight years had
elapsed and still he was bachelor.
xo tell the truth, there was very little
romance about John Gregory, and il he
ever did marry, probably money would
Aave more to do with determining his
choice than any softer sentiment.
SoJohn Gregory, avoiding the matri-
nonial snares which were laid for him
by enterprising matrons who had large
families of daughters to dispose of,
lived quietly in modest house, for
which he had been fortunate enough to
secure capable housekeeper who I'M
derstood his peculiar tastes.
Janet Campbell-this was the name
of the housekeeper-was of Scotch birth
and lineage, but had been brought to
America while yet child. by her IA
sher, who fancied that he could succeed
Better in building up fortune in the
&NCN WITH bllftu lU6 Olus
Apart from the fact that Janet's par
ents were dead, and that she, their on
~ child, after various mutations had
subsidized, at thirty-fiye, into her present
post, which she had now held for eight
years, there is nothing especial to tell.
Those of my readers who are good at
figures Will find no difficulty in compu-
ting from the data have given that
she had now attained the age of forty
Rhree-
Janet was not handsome. She never
had been, for that matter. Neither was
she particularly the reverse. She had
q plain Scotch face, with shrewd
Gwinkle of the eye, perhaps, that
eyinced her worldly wisdom, and was
scrupulously neat in her person and at
tire, though very little accustomed to
making display in the latter.
But Janet was model housekeeper.
Mo one knew better than she how to
prepare the coffee for her masters
caste No one understood better just
how brown the toast should be-no one
could better determine just how much
90 broil the steak for breakfast. So
MIR John Gregory, who had keen
appreciation of good living Tin plain
way) and real, genuine comfort, felt
that his housekeeper was a treasure to
him, and even an unprecedented fall in
she price of stocks could scarcely have
occasioned him any greater consterna-
sion than the intelligence that Janet
intended leaving him. However, Janet
had no intention of the kind. She knew
when she was well off, and she might
have sought long before she could have
found more comfortable quarters, or a
place more to her liking than was pro
vided by her present employer. But a
circumstance occurred which, in the
short space of twenty-four hours,
changed the relation which subsisted
between the two.
This was the way it happened: One
morning, after completing his savory
morning repast, Mr.. Gregory took his
cane from behind the door and walked
down to his Office. Here, as was his
custom, he paid his first attentions to
the paper, which his office boy had laid
on his desk, ready for perusal. First
despatehing the leader, which proved
TO be grave essay on the state of our
foreign relations, and then passing on
to the other editorial matter, he at
length came to the advertisements, to
which, as business man, he regularly
paid his attention. While glancing
over these, he came at length to one
which he at first read carelessly, then
with an air of attention, and finally,
laying down the paper, pushed up his
spectacles and exclaimed, BLESS my
soul! Well, this is singularr'
Surprising that the reader may feel
a little curious to know what it was
that Mr.. Gregory considered so singu-
lar, we will take the liberty of glanc-
ing over the paper which he had just
laid down, and read the advertisement.
1t ran as follows:
INFORMATION WANTED-Of Janet Camp
bell, who came from Scotland in the year
Hs40 If she is living, and this notice should
meet her eye, she win find something very
much to her advantage by calling on Peleg
Brief, Attorney at Law, No. - Court
street"
'Bless my soulm calculated John
Gregory. "Well, this is singular. To
think of it being my housekeeper, too.
I've heard of such things before, but it
never came home to me. as / may say,
before. wonder now how much mon
ey she is likely to receive, for of course
at is money. Very much to her advan-
tage-that's what the notice says. 1
declare, I've good mind to go and see
&his Mr.. Brief. Janet has not seen it,
and may be in some sense considered
TO be her representative"
Acting upon this determination, Mr..
Gregory took his hat and cane, and,
with more than his usual alacrity,
turned his steps in the direction of
Court street He soon found himself