The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-08


,beIr first out-and-out quarrel the other
Say /, was about the management OF
damcstIc servants. You see, the June
pri5egrooms were married a year ago
last June and have had time n-plentv TO
C,In lots OF experience along this line,
And theg haven't waited any time. ei-
tber. They've had nine cooks and thir-
Teen upstairs girls. Juno Bridegroom
.,ys he never could understand before
,rSy A combination chambermald and
waitress should be called upstairs girl,
So, since he's learned how lofty these
aervants are and how high and mighty
81 heir ways he does now. He thinks,
.Sonrb that the description upstairs Is
,no Iowly a one to be applied TO this
.Teature, and that war-balloon girl
Syonld be far better name.
an each OF the twenty-five occasions
r,Ssn June Bridegroom has hurried
Srom his office to his wife and home TO
So met with the fearful announcement
..Tbe cooks gone" or "The upstairs
.iri,s gone" he has felt like saying
,bIngs, but he has restrained himself.
10 went home last Thursday earlier
tban usual, skipped up the steps three
NJ time, grabbed his wife In his arms,
and announced trIumphantly:
Three OF my old college chums are
coming out with me on Saturday at
noon TO stay until Monday"
Mrs, June Bridegroom pushed him
hack. looked at him In startled way
and burst into tears.
"Why, what on earth is the matter,
dearie?" asked the surprised young
husband. Have you headache2"
Mrs. June Bridegroom shook her head
negatively.
bad news from homer"
Another negative shake.
"DId the dressmuker spoil your new
4 vigorous, protesting sob emphasiz-
ed by a sob.
Have you gone mute?
MOO" came very falntiy, but she's
going" ..
inouired June Bridegroom irnpatiertly.
apo you take me for professional mind
reader?"
why, the c--o-o-kIs going Satur-
day. She's given me notice, and the up
stairs girl says she really likes us very
well and that we are more agreeable
than most folks, but that, II the cook
goss. she'll 30, too. She says it's too
hot to be bothered with getting ac-
ouainted with strange cook and learn
ing her ways" ~
SWell.Tll be hanged" exclaimed juno
Bridegroom, and he ynnked Off his cost
and walstcoat and dung them down on
the floor. g'sSr
You never used such a word before
me before" sobbed the wife. ''It my
mother heard that she'd take me
straight home. You ought to feel sorry
for me instead OF getting angry and
using such dreadful language. II isn't
ny fault II the cook won't stay and the
upstairs girl follows her. I'm sure It's
no picnic hunting for new servants and
breaking them In. / think you are just
TOO mean for anything It's just like
my chum Dorothy Dickens told me.
she said a sweetheart was one thing
and husband another. and no'v rea-
ne that she knew whnt-she was talk
Ing ABOUT She hadn't heen married
five gears for nothing, 1t isn't my fault
II the cook"
The sentence ended in. choking, gut
ter5l soNs that would msRe Buffalo
Bll's Indian squaws ashamed OF their
uttcrance.
IN bet Fob Dickens thinks he hasn't
beenmarried five years for nothing"
answered June Bridegroom. with what
his wife calls his very hatefullest smile.
ITS your fault that the cook Is going,
ard I've known all along that 1t was
your fault that the other nine went, to
say nothing Of the thirteen upstairs
girls who have sneaked of or taken
vioiert leave. II all comes OF your not
knowing how to manage your servants.
Who's fault Is Il, II It Isu't yours?
never Interfere with the servants, and
you needn't tell me that they'd walk
out OF an easy berth, such as they have
here. Of their own accord. OF course
its your fault. II could only get a
couple OF weeks of I'd SHOW you how to
manage servants. Ny mother used to
keep her servants years at a time, and
when a woman doesn't do that 1t shows
that there is something wrong, not
with the maids, but with the mistress.
AL that want to know about awoman
to read her character Is the numbeY OF
times she changes her servants. Talk
abou; reading the lines OF a woman's
hand TO find out what sort of a person
she Is! That's cmld's play compared 10
sizing her up by the way she gets
along with her servants I'D hate to
know what our neighbors think Of you.
I'd"
Don't exhaust yourself my love-" in
terrupted Mrs.. June Bridegroom, in a
voice that would freeze molten lead. III
you are so well versed In the manage
ment Of servants. suppose you give me
a few points I'd be so glad TO proAt by
your superior knowledge. BY the way,
whore did you gain 1t? AT n cooking
school? There's where most women
Learn such things"
II didn't know anything more about
being able to keep two girls than you
do ] wouldn't be sarcastic, Mrs. June
Bridegroom. No. did not learn what
| know about She management OF do
mestics at n cooking school. You see
have modicum Of common sense and
! don't have to do anything but eXer-
else II TO set at the root OF things. the
way you ought TO manage your cook, 20
begin with is er-to-er-er-"
"Er-cr-cr," retorted the wife, grin
ming. And do you manage your up
stairs girls the same way? How easy
and beautiful"
Mt June Bridegroom began to utter
language that would cause this story to
be suppressed we're 1t repeated here, and
he and hts wife we're both getting an
grier at themselves and each other ev-
cry minute. Suddenly he espied Mr.. and
Mrs. Golden Wedding coming mat the
gate
There come the Golden Weddings"
he calculated In tone Of relief. II am
always glad to see them, but to-day
I'm 0verjoyed"
You haven't a corner on that pleas
urc,' said Mrs. Bridegroom. as she has
tened out 10 meet the old couple, and