The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-06-27
OUR CELESTIAL COOK

eve have certainly solved the prob
lem CT bachelor existence" said Robin
son ever coffee and cigars. "The deep
rooted tradition that women alone arc
qualified to keep house is ridiculous, for
I defy yea to find & more comfortable
establishment Of its size than this one
Of Brown, Jones and myself"
"True, true" said Thompson, who
lives i'll a boarding house and hence is
rather pessi1aistic, ''but you must re-
member that you have had only three
months of it, and'-
"See here, Thompson" I cried,
there is no use il your trying to scare
Us. Everybody told us that for three
bachelors to ven dream of keeping
house was the sheerest madness. I have
tried yopf boasted boarding houses, l
have risked life nightly facing storms in
search Of dinners, and now I for one can
say that for solid comfort I'll take cur
modest apartment and the productions
of our own kitchen. Why
"But you have not come face to face
with the servant problem" interrupted
our cynical guest.
"The servan problem!' exclaimed
Brown. why need we ever face it
while Wing Song lives. Where could
you get better coffee than this?"
"Ah, there is tire guardian angel of
our household, said Robinson. ct was
a red letter day in our lives when we
ran across our almond eyed major domo.
He run the house as he chooses, and be
runs it well. Of course he has his faults,
but on the whole he is the best natured.
the most faithful creature in
but Jones says he reads your let
ters!'
NOW, Thompson, you are converting
mole hills into mountains. What if he
does? He can't understand them,' said
Brown.
"But the very thought Of it would
drive me wild"
"Wing Song can read my letters to
his hearts content" I ventured warm
". land enjoy the little he gets out Of
them as long is he continues setting be-
fore me his excellent cooking and keeps
the apartment in its present spick and
span condition"
But Brown says that he has broken
several handsome pieces Of china that
he prided himself SO on having selected,
at good prices too"
"A small matter, a small NATTER
said Brown. 1--WE can afford to pay the
damage done by such a servant. Just
last night he came''-
Robinson in warning, "Ssh!'
There was a soft patter of sandaled
feet, and a yellow face, above which
arose a dome Of a tightly rolled cue,
appeared at the door.
That door had been closed, a fact not
in itself strange, but yet it always
seemed III q measure to bear on an incl
dent that occurred on the following
day, when. after breakfast, Robinson
and l were sitting over our morning pa
pers.
"Mista Lobinson."
We looked up from our reading and
sav standing before us our Servants"
as we called him, his face fixed in an
lmpenetrable calm that we knew Dor
tended a matter Of import.
We'll, Wing song?" inquired Robin
son. who by virtue of his seniority we
had constituted manager of u house
hold.
The servants" for a moment fingered
IN silence the hem of his long white
coat. Then he spoke: .'Me velly solly,
Mlsta Johnson, but I have tloo much
wolk. | go in laundly an makee tlelve
dolla week. You givee me tlen. l likee
stiay velly mulch-stlay you givee ne
tlelve dolla."
There was a solemn pause. l could
see my friends wrath rising, for he
slowly laid aside his paper and scruti-
nized our Celestial from i to san
dals.
HConfound it, Wing song'" he cried.
When you came, you said you would
DO the laundry; but to give Won less
work we cut that off, and now YOU want
more wages"
You makee tloo mulch larndlv.
Velly solly l no suit. You no likee me.
] glo."
1T seems to me-" Iventured in :