Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-24

tlphf queIled Emily, tue only dau9utel
Of tie house, aged Cighteen-and Sd,
laughed.
Your papa found fault with the bee!
last Sunday. Ah-there Is nothing tC
gigglc over, am sure, " said the matron,
dropping into a rocking chair. "A
week qt the intelligence Office for me
while the house goes to wreck and ruin
and your papa loses his temper over the
dinners, for old Mrs. Chump, the only
person l can send for, always ruins every
dish she touches"
And We cannot have Mrs. Chumr
this time, mamma" said Emily. "Sh,
is IN bed with rheumatism. met her
little niece in the drug store buying
medicines and lotions for her, and shC
said she was very bad"
Then the end has comet" sighel
Mrs. Montgomery.
Don't fret, mamma, I'll do tn,
work" said Emily. 81 think it might
De fun for awhile"
"Do you7" Mrs. Montgomery asked,
larcastically. 'Ah!"
Emily laughed again.
ITS the best you can do, >" she said
land I'll give papa high tea with cme
lette and chicken sandwich, and ali tht
little things he likes, and no doubt yor
can find some one to come tomorrow"
"Oh, no doubt" said Mrs. Montgom
cry, in still more sarcastic tones" Iwist
I had your sanguine temperament
Emily"
Goodbye, mum and miss, " said cook
looking in at the door. "Good-bye
aud wish you luck suiting yourself, I'm
sure. No doubt there is them that might
if they had the patience of job, mo-
else"
1000 i-bye, ladies, said the chamber.
maid; "pm sorry to leave you, but
Susan and me goes the two of US to-
Ccther, always, and if she is insulted,
am likewise"
"Good-bye," said Emily, calmly.
Mrs. Montgomery turned her bacS,
and mustered "Ungrateful wretcaes y
Sctween her teeth.
"Aud actually made over my navy
blue Bedford cord dress for that
woman" she said, after the door closed
"and never has had to buy az apron.
There. I'll 90 and begin my martyrdom
and, Emily, If you do go into tie KIT
cnen, put on my rubber gloves and my
mob cap, that 1 wear for dusting my
room-coal ashes are the ruin OF the
hair-and a big apron-your looks are
my pride"
Emily kissed her mother, saw that she
went of comfortably, and then obedient-
Iy douned cap, gloves and apron, and
descended to the kitchen.
Cook, in her wrath, had left the kit
chen in a state of chaos.
Dishes piled high in the sink, towels
on the floor, pots and kettlea IN sore
need of securing, overdowing tubs,
ran of potato peelings, q kettle of ashe'
all bv the way OF revenge for the IN
,uIting criticism of last Sundays inner
tt prospect was alarming, but Miss
Emily went to work with Will, hnolne
it rather more difficult than IN her mex
perience she had supposed, aud WISHING
that her mother had not SO ca:eiuHy
Guarded her delicacy at the expense o.
her usefulness in kitchen affairs.
Just as she took Eer pots and Kettles
in hand. Jack Spinner, the millionaire
son, flying along upon his bicycle canl
very near running into ayoun8 man" ~
sat upon q curbstcne, moaning Pi'eo'S''
and at once alighted. .a,
"Good hcavensl l haven hdtt your
he cried. a
"No. sir" replied the person ad-
dressed who was enveloped in myt
t.rious waterproof costume, and coVereO
from head to foot with ashes. wa,
clane dead when you came up. Ec 90
the choleray or the typhus, l u GInu,
which, and III lose my job, tor ! a.,
able for it no longer, and tnGie -
mercy on you if you neglect a ln,ns'
it is ever so with you-no mercy
That is very cruel, said young opin ~,
uer. who had the tenderest hear' ~ s-
world. "Is it that ash cart you ii
ariving2" no,o
1T is indeed" said the untortahatt n;t
And there is six barls to empty t4'
and me not able for it. couid u'''
TACK, but l couldn't lift the Tar rs or:,
At home they called Jack Don - o.,
&c, for he was always succ9rlns ~
'oclorn being in distress, malu Vi t :,
il made no matter which. NOW ne ~ ~
unity bethought him what 10 oo i''
is poor ash cart driver. 81,
Come along" he said, taxing 'n
N by the arm and leading him ih.V ",o,
-ug store hard by. "I'll tell the oectU' w.
g., see you, and empty the rest Oh ror .nr
,rrels for you-jolly fun for me- sUt sUt
now, and you'll keep your place. AA'
"a that"
The man, petrifed with astonlsnmeno' s,o
,9uld only lift his hands, and IN a ', IL"
lept more a still mere astonished aru9
aIsrlr bsd natient-Yell -naid for II