The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-09-18
Monltowof pilot.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IL. 1890
INCRIS BEAU.

friends" AS our little maid quantity
called the respectable lads who worked
hard all the week and came on Sunday
afternoons TO walk out with their sweet
hearts.
And poor Ingry, having no one of heI
own, either moped alone in her little
kitched or tagged along with some
other couple.
don't know whether the old saying
"two's company, three's none" i:
taken from the Swedish-but surely
those Svenski lads understood it prett,
well, and many were the meaning
chances and broad hints that lngry got
to that effect.
Had she been younger or prettier il
might have been different. Then some
one or other of those rosy-checked
maids might have moped alone in hel
kitchen while Ingry walked off witt
her young man-for we know the way
OF the world-but she was neither pref.
" nor young.
She was great raw-boned creature
with yellow skin and deep voice. but
she was an honest, good soul, aud | felt
sorry for her.
One day our maid told me with
bright face that the girls would nc
longer be bothered with Ingry, for she
was to have a friend soon now; she had
sent the money to Sweden to bring him
over.
/ think that it was not alone the ser
wants on our little street who were in
terested in "Ingry's BEAU" as we
called him. A good many ladies had
l. f1,. tnxt
the relations between mistress and maid
are apt to be little confidential.
On an afternoon out lngry had looked
up situation for her expected friend,
and it was understood that he was to
be mau-of-all work for family in an
adjoining street.
| don't know whether this CASE
would come under the law against con-
tract labor, but anyhow the immigra-
tiOn committee, or whatever they call
it, didn't modest him, and he came duly
to hand.
| have said that Ingry was big and
yellow ard loud-voiced, but we never
realized how very large and how aw-
fully yellow and how terribly loud
voiced until we saw her beside her
beau.
He was a mere boy and at least
head shorter than she; his cheeks were
pink aud his voice little timid squeak.
| am no phrenologist or physiognomlst
but if there is anything in the theory
that small, narrow head, with a re.
treating forehead and chin, denote
weak intellect, his must have been
feeble indeed.
60 ~, nyt,ro-cinr haturnn
a shipper and Il grin and he was extreme
" stupid, but 1ngry seemed to think
him the perfection of manly beauty and
intelligence. and when he was near heI
her face beamed with such pride and
fondness that you almost forgot how
plain she was.
He did not keep his first place long
and after that he worked at first one
thing, then another, coming always
between times to Ingry for money.
The most of her Thursday after.
moons were spent in finding him places
and all of her money went for dressing
and keeping him. while he grew lazier
and lazier until finally he didn't pre-
tend to work ut all except ut an occa-
sional odd job for meal or an old coat
or hat
1t was really pathetic TO see poor
Ingry working and saving for him and
receiving not even thanks in return.
She grew thin and worried-looking and
the maids began to whisper that Ingry
found her beau an expensive luxury:
and we ladies were wondering if her
love and patience would stand the
strain much longer, when the climax
came.
After living upon her labor and earn
ings for a year he told her that he
thought she was too old for him 10 mar
ry and that he was going to look for .
younger and prettier wife.
This was more than she could bear.
and rs her mistress was away at the
time she came TO me in her trouble.
With tears rolling down the homelv
cheeks that had grown wrinkled il
working for him she told me what the
fellow had said
| was indignant | knew that Ingry
was as soft-hearted rs Il child and that
he would work on her Svmpathies anG
continue to impose upon her just us he
had done and determined to get riC
of him ut once.
'Ingry.n said l. why don't you sent
him back to Sweden?'
"Oh. Good Az do dat?"
| told her that She could and | ever
offered to loan her the money for hi:
ticket.
She had an Interview with him and
he seemed just as willing to 90 as he
had been TO come and so the arrange.
ments were soon made for his return
passage.
When Ingry took him to the depot
she brought him in to say good-by to
me. She had fitted him with new
suit throughout and some way had TIED
in his button-hole bit of gay ribbon
bearing the name ',McGinty" in large
black letters
| was half-provoked, half amused,
and | told lngry 10 take it off, but he
waved her away, demonstrating in
Swedish
No he say he like it; he will wear
1t to show them in the old country. ,
said lngry. So let the matter drop,
and. beaming with vanity, he strutted
away.
For a few days think In@ry feared
that he might return. but when a week
had passed without signs of him she be.
gan to look relieved and happy.
In the course of month letter
came TO lngry from Sweden, bearing
the sad news that her protege had died
upon shipboard and had been buried al
sea
| think that lngry had the true philos.
opher's spirit when she said. through
her falling tears. Nobody have lose
much" But to this day | can't help
feeling that my Conscience would be
easier had | not allowed him to start
away with that ill-omened ribbon tied
10 his best suit of clothes N u H.
4 Funny Country.