The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-22
THE MAID OF

When Mr.. Standish Mayfiower Ply
mouth and family first made the Com
stock their place of residence they found
MANY things not as back i'm the land Of
the Puritan. Having been I'm the habit of
''scrimping and saving" all the days of
their lives, the Plymouths have met with
much that ''riled" them. They did not
turn up their noses at the ''big silver dol
lar,n but they kicked like steers" as
often as they were given n dime as change
for a two-bit piece when they rendered
that coin i'm payment OF a 10cent pur-
chase.
Mrs. Plymouth being a s~emi-invalid.
and there being half n dozen little Ply
mouths to rare for, it was necessary
for the family to nave "a female servant
TO cool and do general homework. But
to find just the kind Of help wanted was
the trouble. So many girls were taken in
and turned out at the Plymouth mansion
that there seemed 10 be almost a process
sion coming and going.
The Plymouths had almost constantly
i'm the papers an advertisement OF
.'Wanted-A girl to cook and do general
Homework. Address Mrs. s. NJ. p, this
Office" Though the Plymouths were we'll
TODD and ''good pay" they soon had
utu ~ III ottibhk tEs ehA
class tina il became necessary to drop the
Mrs. S. NJ. p" from the ''ad.," and even
then about the first question an appli-
cant at the newspaper office asked was:
''who is il that advertises for a girl-Mrs.
Plymouth"
Being answered in the affirmative, the
girl would cry: "Just As l expectedw
and bolt without another word.
Mr.. Plymouth was one day lamenting
I'm the presence of a friend-an old Com
stocker-the impotency of all the female
help" in the country when the friend
said: plymouth, o should have an
can girl. You have been trying foreign
born girls, and all city born at that. You
should nave an American girl and "a girl
born and brought up on a farm. That's
the style of a girl for you."
THAT is So" SAT- Mr.; Plymouth,"i
nave felt all along that il / could find a
girl that was reared on n New England
farm all my help roubles would be over.
The girls here are all too ~extravagant n
wasteful-haven't the least idea Of econ
omy. But where am 1 to find a farm
II know the very girl you want" cried
the Comstocker-"Not a girl from a New
England farm, but the same thing; a girl
from a big California ranch. She is from
Modoc county, Cal. She has lived on her
I'LL F.lIltl IlIT vi I'll - III
ho,ncer, She's about 10 wears old and
WEIGHS l65 pounds. / call her the Maid
~ ki,uras' Owing 10 her disaUreen,ent
with n stem mother she recently left home
and came 10 relat,yes i'm this CITY: but She
is not one of the kind TO he dependent.
She wishes TO earn her own living. and /
can assure Won that She is a stormer TO
work. Yo,i shall have her, Plymouth
will send Won INV Maid of Alturasrn
Tbe Comstocker was as good as his
word-he sent his urotepe 10 the Ply
months.
About n week after he met Mr.. Ply
mouth and i'm the CHEEKY tone of one who
saeIs thai Inc has done a service cried:
,Hello Plvm. old boy. how goes IL with
the Maid Of Alturas ~
80 Great Jerusalem. man. don't sneak
IN ms ~ your Maid OF Alt,Iras,, She's
uone-I couldu't keep her. Why she would
have deyoured three New ENGLAND farms.
WHY She has not the slightest notion of
,he scale Of bo,Isekeering shifted 10 a
family In town. She is emf ont for n conn
n;ssary III subsistence for an army -
..Wasn't She n good cook p,
,.Yes n ynod cook. b,t having acouired
,h. art IN her fathers ranch. in the great
waIiev ,v;ng M the base of the Sierras' she
les i.rge and neculiar notions."
uAhi In what resnect %,
.yVa,il no ragards f,,ei sbe would No,