Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-03

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ments." This, meseems, could not have
been excelled by the most hardened
prohigate on the stage.
Ny aunt left very slowly and deliber
ately, mourning for the loss Of her tea
/ escorted her and Uncle John down Il
the first floor. How could ! tell that hel
housewifely zeal for her nephew could
have led her to bestow upon the house
maid, who was Fan Of the Teeth, few
hints on the best management of fire
and the proper care Of the room, which
the fellow servantl was even then sup
posed to be cleaning?
"You see, 1t all means more work fol
you in the end, said my aunt.
] dashed into the sitting room to find
helpless with suppressed laughter, tn
maiden with the black velvet hat. Iva
coatless, as has been recounted-peopl
never stay long with man who lacks
coat-my hair was on end, and l wa
flushed. But there was no resisting tina
infection of mirth. laughed aloud. Tn
air was dense with dust, and all the fur
niture was out of place. "That fool o
. housemaid" had lived up to her repu
tation.
Haven't done the room beautiful
ly?" she said, with o wicked Gggle
"Thank. you-thank you, oh, so mucl
for helping meF
Mot in the least, said /. ''Pve got
sister Of my own. But hadn't you bet
ter"
''rm gone" she said, and vanished a
the word to hunt for her brothers cham
bers.
Entered, her cap over one eye, Fan o
the Teeth, boiling with rage. She wa
an austere woman of S5, not to be trifet
with,
"And I'm sure me and Lucy, too, W,
takes all the trouble that we cal
with II sets of chambers to be gon
through, and the bells ringing on ever,
landing all day long. 'Tisn't as if wa
afraid of my work, for ave KEEP my
self ever since was a httlc girl Of thir
teen, nor Lucy neither. But when tina
lady on the staircase spoke to me an toll
me that was inattentive an Lucy, too
an smuts all about your room, sayil
that was to take extra care of you, sir,
was put out.
"Do as you would be done by, thinks
an show no favor to any chambers NOR
than another, for some one must lose b,
it, and If it isn't you it will be some 9th
er gentleman. An there aren't no smut
in your room not to be seen, an Lucy,
know she 'as been on the fourth foo
since I come down with the slops, but
didn't say nothink to that lady whel
she said what she said-an Lor, sir, wha
ave you been doin to the furnichewre-
all pulled across the room? An you 'avil
to see your friends in your bedroom-a
if it was our faultr'
Fanny" said I, ''if there has beel
any fault, that fault is mine. Take, oh
take those lips away, and--here's hal
sovereign"
It was damning confession of guilt
received as such. Fan removed hersel
with an unholy light in her eye.
1hated Fan, and this still further shool
my nerves. Worn with a thousand con
flicting emotions, I fled to the sideboar,
and pulled myself together with the nee
essary liquids. Men never seem to d
that on the stage after any unusual or;
sis. They do in the prosaic world of rea
life.
Re-entered Fan, the half sovereign il
her hand, and placed it on my table.
"Pve took them in their teas" sh
said oracularly, "an she was tellin in
all about it. She is real nice httl
lady, she is, an-an / don't want no ar
suffering for that"
No comedy that I could think of hat
any mention of the soubrette-to b.
sure, Fan was rather too angular for tn
soubrette-refusing tip.
"And you're a lady, too, Fam" said
keep it. Few people return money
Still fewer dismiss preconceived suspi
cions."
She withdrew slightly alarmed.
I stepped into the hallway to set dow,
the empty soda water siphon in tn,
place appointed. The door leading t.
the landing was half open. I heart
voices descending the stairs.
"He was really very nice, Joe, abou
it. Said he had sister of his own ant
laughed"
"Hmph. Then I'm sorry for his sis
ter, that's all. He drinks like q fish
Why, only last night I found him on hi
hands and knees on the second foo
and had to help him to bed"
The next chambersl AS hope to cleal
my character before all judges, it wa
the man in the next chambersl I haG
heard the Internal din of that episode a
Q o'clock in the morning, and few O.
Joe's comments as he left the drunkard
How should the maiden know exactly
into whose rooms she had penetrated
and here was Joe saddling me with my
neighbor's booted slumbers.
l Igripped the siphon head in an agony
of wrath. The steps were almost oppo
site my landing. There was more soda
water than thought for in the tube, and
the internal concoction exhausted itsel1
with fizzle, spit and grunt. 1t seemed
to roar through the house.
"ThereP said Joe. "You hear, Millyi
That's a soda water siphon. He's at il
again-so early"
"But he didn't look as if he took
The sweet voice died away, and I was
alone with my sorrow and my siphon.
Today know something of plot and
construction, and, as I say, under.
stand the verisimilitude of the modern
French farce. Yet would sell all my
insight for the single privilege of ex-
planning to Milly (my Milly-she has
busted my room) that I am not-indeed
I am not-the villain that Joe painted
me. st. James Gazette.
Etiquette of Letters Of Introduction.
In the giving of letters of introduction
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