Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-11-29
CHATTER ".
THE CRY OF A CHILD.

pretty hands folded in her lap and her
eyes glimmering with playful triumph.
"What is it," he asked. II think |
know. You think | came off second
best in the encounter, and so / confess
/ did"
"Still, these things are TO be rene
died" she said, with an imitation of his
own deliberate gravity. Good cooks
and good housemaids. The very best
are TO be had by the score; and it is
quite right-quite-to always treat them
with kindness and consideration, but
never submit TO what they term their
ways. Let me see. Servants are a
fruitful source of discomfort"
"Mary, on my word you are too bad"
And" she went on, lone Of two
courses must be adopted-if the SER
wants cannot get rid Of their ways. we
must get rid of the servants. Oh,
George. George, do you see now a little
of that which We, withour lack Of firm
ness and governing powers, have to
endureg'
1T is not their fa.lt. poor things, nor
ours said DR.. Hyde, ap0logetically;
''they are, as we are, the victims OF an
evil system which has been at work for
many generations. SO, after all, what
can we eXpect?'
THAT depends. W. send for our ser
wants to lecture them. Poor cook is
rather m~iddle-aged, and much too plump
to please a doctors critical eye; and so
her lesson is given with unmerciful
severity, accept her notice, and cleverly
turn the tables upon her by entering it
in our notebook as from to-day. Then
comes the housemaid. a very pretty girl,
whose figure any lady might envy. She
is, from head TO foot, as perfect rs any
| picture ever painted. So we smile at
what in poor cook would have been inn
~pertinence. and we dismiss her with a
fatherly admonition to take things
cheerfully as they come, and-a sover-
eign. AS we cannot make SO strong
and palpable a distinction, we send one
| for the cook as well. Moral: If you
must go to service, it is better to be a
| housemaid. with a fine figure and a pail
of bright eyes. than a middle-aged cook
very much too plump! DR.. Hyde, an
ashamed of you"
Try as he would, he could not help
coloring under her merry laugh at hi,
discontinue, and yet the ring of that
laugh gladdened his heart, il was such
an old familiar laugh, and he had not
heard it since his friend fell III and died,
II see where the whole business j:
wrong" he said. keeping a lodging.
house is not your forte, Mary, and lee
turing servants is not mine. Ny moth
er has a very stately h~ousekeeper who's
walk alone would quell a mutiny dowr
stairs. You may depend upon il tina
housekeepers are born TO keep servants
in order; we do not understand them
You have not been TO see my mothe
lately, Mary"
II have not had time, George"
well you must make it, even If you
have TO give up this house, and you
must do that. | need not tell You wha
you already know, that my mothe
would give you a lifelong welcome, am
you may safely leave the boy to me-"
II know" she said. ''and love you
mother dearly, but must go my Owl
way. Let me try this house, George
just for one more year, and then If 1t
a failure | will
WELL" he said, in her thoaghtfu
pause, ''you will what?'
"Try something else"
Upon my word, Mary, he said, ''yol
are almost enough to vex one. Wher
is your regard for me if, in this perver
sity or mistaken sense of independence
you persist in keeping an asylum TO
eccentric old gentlemen and semi-im
beetle students Of medicine. l nigh
say, in the same way as the magistrat
did when he forgot part of hls speech I
the culprit before him, here you are,
young ard beautiful woman, wit
friends who would gladly take care @
you and your boy, instead of which yo'
let lodgings TO troublesome people,"
"Just for one year more she pleaded
"And then should the house be a fai
ure?"
I'VE will see."
"You will come to my mother"
Eyes" she said at last, ''if / want
home, I will come, there now, are 20
satisfiedY"
quite" and he lifted her hands fror
her lap and kissed them. THAT is on
comfort, if at the end of a year you fin
this house a failure, and you want
home, you will come to ours"
"Yes, how is it George, that you a
ways have your OWL way with mel"
Because he said, with the ligh. {
q pure and tender love in his face, "yo
know it is for the best, viii you CON
and see.my mother nowY"
at is so late, almost haby's be
time"
"You may safely leave him to Marth'
after those repentant tears and the so
ereign."
Very reluctantly Mary let herself |
, persuaded, after a long visit to baby
!. cot and many an injunction many time
/ repeated to Martha as To the care 81
was to take of him.
|, "Sit with him, Martha. and take
! book or a little needlework till / rerurl
! there's a good girl. and be sure you :
! not leave him, not for n moment"
|. mo, ma'am," said Martha, mot II
one single instant, bless his heart"
"Have you q booky"
81 don't care for reading just nov
thank you, ma'am; | am embroidering
} smoking cap for my young nan and
will get ON with that"
! "You remind me, Martha, said Mar
taking q ~half-crown from her purs
"this should be your evening out, b'
) you will not mind, youcan have to-mo
. row instead"
q 1T does not matter a Bit said Ma
tina, with magnificent indifference, II
is sure to call, and cook a answ'
1 him. Young men must be taught tn
Z they cannot have all their " way.
never encourage such nonsense"
. Mary only smiled. What different
$ In this respect was there between mi
tress and maid after allY
O. s'That will buy you q pair Of gloves
q she said. And do take care OF bah
0 Put the cot by the bedside, and you q
. sit at the window; it will DO more live
2 there
II proved much too lively for Aiarth
y Mrs. Coombes, not being wanted In q
ttteEsp, came W and It'd 3aFthD \