The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-02
THE AMBITIOUS MAID.
How She Falsified In Order to Elevate th,
Status OF the Family.

Mr.. and Mrs. i young married
people over in Brooklyn, of comforta-
BILE but not pretentious fortunes, re-
Gently had occasion to wonder at q
Difference that seemed Suddenly to
have crept into the bearing OF their
acquaintanees toward them says the
Woman About Town of the New York
EUeni,ag Sun. 1t was a little mex
plicable, to be sure. but none the less
delightful. and SO they went on enjoy
ing it even while they wondered about
il.
Now. a short time ago the young
housewife had engaged demure-
looking maid. a very Jewel of a serv-.
ant and wholly devoted to the inter-
ests of the family, but that this maid
could have anything to do with the
new state of affairs had not yet oc-
Cured to them.
On one OF the recent warm days Mrs.
tt met a friend on the street and
paused for Il moments greeting.
how very fortunate you a: ito have
the luxury of yachting whenever you
wish. this dreadful wcather!" congrat-
ulated her friend. &
Yachting whenever we wishr'
echoed Mrs L Il aon't UNDER
stand you.''
Haven't you yacht of your own
this summer" asked her friend
Neither this summer nor any other
summer" said Mrs. tt positively.
| why" answered the friend, "a
fortnight ago my husband and called
ut your home Sunday afternoon. Your
maid came to the door and told
us that Mr.. t and yourself had
gone out for the day in your new
yacht
Mrs. tt unused deeply thereat,
/ but decided to say nothing to the
maid. A few days later, however. a
woman friend calling said: by the
way. | have not yet seen you driving
in your new carriage, think"
But [ haven't any new carriage
replied Mrs. + in amaze. What
do you mean?:'
Why" answered her visitor, q.
short time ago when | called Your
maid told me that you had gone out
driving to try your new horses. y
A sudden light broke upon Mrs.
T--'s mind. On the instant of her
guests departure she sought out her
faithful servant.
Mary she said '.did you tell Mr..
and Mrs. M not, long ago that we
had gone out in our new.yacht:?''
'Yes'm. y said Mary
and did you, tell Mrs. c. that /
had gone out to try my new horses9"
':Yes'm," again said Mary.
and have you told any other things
like that to other pcople??"
.Yrs'm.n
And then it came out that not only
was Mary perfectly devoted to the
family fortunes but was more ambi-
tious for the elevation thereof than the
family itself, and that upon every pos
sible occasion she had given like in
formation to their friends. To one
visitor she had said that they had gone
out to refurnish their country home,
to another that they had gone coach
ing with a party of friends and to
still another who had called in The
evening that they were giving a din
ner at-Delmonico's on that particular
night.
,'Oh. Mary. how could your" moaned
!
what trouble You have brought upon
us?''
y ain't seen none yet" responded
the ,astute maiden. Everybody looks
| pleased an goes away and comes back
Iquick again. an shure isn't that what
We like9n And wasn't it little un-
just that Mary's devotion should have
been rewarded by prompt DISMISSAL
"A Taste OF Kentucky Blue-Grass.
In the course of the ten days that
followed the last ten days of May. !
had an opportunity to taste it pretty
well, and my mind has had a grassy
flavor ever since. | had an opportuni-
ty to see this restless and ftful Amer
can nature Of ours in /. more equable
and benefcent mood than / had ever
before seen it in: all its savageness
and acridness gone. no thought now
but submission to the hand and wants
OF man. | afterward saw the prairie
of Illinois, and the vast level stretches
of farming country of northern Ohio
and Indiana, but these lands were no
where quite SO human, quite so beau
tiful. or quite 50 productive as the
bluegrass region. One likes to see
the earth's surface lifted up and un-
dulating 4 little, rs if it heaved and
sWelled with emotion; it.suggests more
life, and at the same time that the
sense Of repose is greater. There is
no repose in prairie; it is stagnation.
it is II dead level. Those immense
stretches of flat land pain the eye. as
ifall life and expression had gone
from the face of earth. There is Just un-
evenncss enough in the blue grass re-
gion to give nobility and variety to the
landscape. From almost any given
point one commands broad and eN-
tensive entertainments fields of wheat
or barley, or corn or hemp or grass or
clover, or Of woodland pastures. JOIN
. Bata10ugits, t's Ccntstry.
Why He Didn't Stay out West.
A young man who went West
filled with enthusiasm and desire ia
grow up with the country" surprised