The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-27
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LOOKING BACK WARD.
Unfortunate Edward Bellamy! Well
may he cry to be delivered from his
friends, and especially from his good
friends OF Evanston, I'll. And yet they
meant we'll, there can bs no doubt.
They had read the political economist Of
the future, they had wrinkled their
brows and agitated the gray matter OF
their brains in the discussion OF his The
cries, and they had ended by taking
him, figuratively, to their bosom. "A
general meeting resolved upon a Bel
lamy happy-family arrangement, and
the millennium began. Who SO joyous
as the good housewives of Evanston! No
more outrageous demands from brigand-
ish helps. No more retreats to the at
tic OF a Sunday afternoon to allow the
maid to receive her best young man in
the parlor. No more complaints from
the same quarter Of the ~wretchedly I'M
tuned condition Of the piano, acting as
a hindrance to the progress OF
her higher culture. No more
worries, Just one serene atmos-
phere OF peace. The husbands
shared in the general JOY. The young
ones rejoiced that they would no longer
be compelled to eat biscuits OF the con-
sistency Of grindstones, and vary the
monotony of furtiyely ejecting frag-
ments Of their priced molars by heaping
compliments upon a mother-in-law who
had had the forethought to send their
| wifes to a cooking school. The old ones
smiled a quiet smile, and thought that
at last there might be some chance OF a
lull in those everlasting denunciations
of inefficient cooks.
But the bright dreams of Evanston
are clouded. "There is a town called
Evanston" chants the local poet, where
folks are fond of sleeping; they dis
charged all their servant girls and at
tempted JOINT housekeeping. Two
months a French chef fried their eggs
and ran things to suit his fancy, until
bankers meals got mixed with clerks,
and now they've rehired Nancy" What
a tragedy glimmers through the pathet-
ic lines! The housewife has relapsed
into bondage, and the "help" cavorte
around as OF yore. The husbands OF a
few months have returned to their
husks, no, their biscuits, we mean tc
say, and the old stagers bring the news
paper and a supply of cotton in theil
ears to every meal. The boarder has
gone back to his hash and his dubious
eggs, and hearts are sad in Evanston
So are pockets. Three months expert
ence ard a thousand dollars on the
wrong side do not balance we'll.
If we might venture on the liberty of
giving our good friends of Evanston a
hint-of course, we know that advice il
cheap-we should suggest that they
Just put on a little too much English
too much side style, if they understand
that better. Every wording il
prompt to recognize the advantage Of
good exterior. His chances of running
up a score at his restaurant are other
wise of the most %precarious nature
But admitting that, was 1T really an
absolutely necessary that the meal
should be SEM out in such elaborat
and artistic delivery wagons, and woul
not a pair of thoughtful mules hav
served to haul each outfit just as well a
blooded stock? And then to import
real, live French chef to enthrone him
self in the cooperative kitchen, par
his nails and direct his subordinates t.
> do the work! That sounds like dread
: full extravaganza. Certainly the peopl
OF Helena know that when foreigl
counts and barons are to be entertained
r some oae must pay the piper. But eve
: with all III typical western hospitalit,
and we have enthused over barons er
T this-we do not allow them to run be
g hind to the tune OF $500 in thrt
weeks. We do get left sometime
there's no denying it, but not to ar
such extent as that. And where VIZ
the spirit of democracy and Bellam.
esque equality, when the banker
n Evanston turned himself loose, becaus
Q his pate de foie gras and his quail upc
toast had found it's way by mistake
h the sky-parlor OF the modest clerk, wi
IS was wrapped in such a brown study tn
IS he consumed the rich repast withor
II ever bestowing a thought upon Il
d tough beefsteak that was cooling III
n eaten at the bankers residence? TT
Is good folks of Evanston had better gi
IS up Bellamy for good. They are n
If built in the Bellamy style, and furth
is persistence will only entail further me
r LITIGATION and failure. Verb. sap.
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