Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-01-30

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q was adSnhe WAS to 20 now you'd
. trial. and IL Our own meals"
&s.N wouldn't hurt me any. I'll 90
ont and ask her what she means BY such
conduct, anyhow "
"But wish you wouldn't. She may |
fare up aud leave us In tho lurch."
LEI her aarei When the time comes |
that We can't hos, our own house we'll |
leave III.
"Mr. Bowset, please let the girl alone
for me 10 deal with, entrested.
"l'll just speak Afew words 70 her, you
know" he replied, and a. l went into
the sitting room he went into the
In about two minutes heard . crash
OF crockery and the bang Of door, fol-
lowed by the sound OF the girls feet on
the back stairs, and five minutes later
she came down with her bundle and
skipped out without word TO me. Mr..
Bowser came In soon aitcr that, coat oil,
sleeves rolled up aud . roller towel tied
around him, and no explained:
~ simply asked her Il she thought this
house was . saw-mill, and she called me
q mastodon and Jew for her bundle. Is
she fair specimen OF the help you have
had to deal WITH"
"Yee
swell, you and all other housekeepsrs
have my deepest sympathy. l used 10
think it Was your fault that 80 many
girls came and went, but / want to
apologize aud take II all back"
"But what shall we do?"
"Do? Why, I'll run the kitchen until
| f.r hpa h f,a At nd then at q uirl "
After he had been At work fer few
| minutes l crawled out to see how things
were going. Ne was washing dishes.
He had tbs teapot. milk pitcher, butter
dish, napkin rings, two pie tins and the
crockery all heared together In dish-
pan, and while he washing them with n
dish towel he was wiping them on ono oil
baby's old skirts taken from the hamper
IN the stairway. There swere streaks Of
dishwater clear down TO his heels, and Z
dozen new grease-spots had appeared or
floor and table, bnt he insisted that u
right b. ck and leave him alone and
had no instr nctions to give. He had
everything done up In half an hour, and
when he came in to sit down he said:
"Eyerything out there Is as slick ~
pin, snd breakfast 10 all planned for
That girl would have been eioshin3
HIOuuu uutit w v OtOGA DCIOiS bhC LIN
her dishes done. I'd like to be 10 you
place about month. I'd make some b
| ZEN wonder why they were ever born"
"Bnt every house has just such trou
BILE.
"Theu you women ought to leauge to
gether TO protect yourselves.
what are you going TO have TO
break lasti'
"Never you mind, MIRA. Bowserl II
don't get you the best breaki fast you hay
seen in year I'll give up that l don'
know nothing about house"
About midnight heard him mutterinl
In his sleep:
Take two eggs-saleratus-hve min
utes--greased ra.-0ne tablespoonful T.
| each person"
1t usually takes me all Of twenty min
rtos TO get Mr.. Bowser out OF bed In tn
morn NJ, and tue task 10 never accom-
plished without resort to fiction as 10 tn
! lateaess OF the hour. On this particu'
morning he slipped out before l wa
awake. and he had been working in til
, kitchen full hour before got down.
No man can be made TO believe tina
there Is . right and wrong way to sh OF
: or table cloths. Mr.. Bowser had set II
: table lust ~ aDy other man would. III
= cloth was wreng-side-t0, the teaspoon
!, IN the &c cry dish. the sugar bowl ruu
ming over, add tho meat piAtters an
bread plates hal changed duties. Son
u OF hs sIices oil bread were two inch,
ID thick. aud some almost az thin as pspe
ID and two o, them bore Indispensable p Foa
;. that he had cut his finger while Gu til
= his bread. -
II lie requested me to sit down while
Is brought In the meal. He had his G.
y finger In rag, black on his nose, fnl
on his ears, and his face had that col
7 peculiar to rod pant he also W.
d lame In his lett leg, caused, SIS ate
. falling on his foot. When he had ever
thing on the table he looked around wi
a seli.sHtisned air and proceeded to
the hopors. Poor Mr.. Bowseri He b
}. put the steak into q spider without b.
tsr or greasr, and II WAS rs black - &C
= and rather more taste,css. W.,
= poured the CT fee the grounds insies
ts iilling half tho cup, and tho eggs he..
fried ID some rancid lard tue girl had |
away, could not be approached neal
~ than two feet. He had sttt plpted to ba
4. acme potatoes, but they were hare
\, warmed through.
Il In his goodness OF heart he had toast
me piece Of bread, And when 1t fell Ii
the ashes he had washed Oh ~ mu
i. foreign substance IS he could with ,
Isl brush.broom used about the stove.
TT tried hard to keep my face straight, |
~ my feelings finally got away with II
. and Mr.. Bowser locked up with an
jured air and said:
.You never cooked better meal In
your liie-you nor any Of your Relate
o. for Q thousand years backl"
q, just then saw that he had used
- tin for the butter dish. aud l had
" laugh again.
"Look here, Mrs. Bowserl" he sho
ed, a. he bobted up and almost OF
turned the tah'e, .sthis thing has r.
=. too far--too farl ! see now where
e'' trouble lies. l see now why no girl
stay with you.