The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16

Speaking of servant girls and of the diff
ferent sorts which housekeepers have to
put up with a writer in the Chicago Times
Herald says:
Occasionally you can secure a freak. A
hunchbacked girl who deigns to spend
about two and a half days a week with
you and goes home to her mother the rest
of the time because she doesn't feel Ike
WORKING" \ hard-featLr-d woman of so
in a sailor hat applies. She won't wash or
iron or bake bread; she won't keep house
for more than two people, and they must
sign. a contract never to have company
She must have $ a week: each evening off
and ali day Saturdays because she is a
Seventh-day Adventist, and cannot posi-
bly, cook OF sweep on that day, when the
mistress of the house must do her work
from morn tin eve for herself.
Five dollars a week is what all the girls
out West ask for their services-such as
they are. Witness the following verbatim
bit OF collOquy:
Young girl applies
DO you want a girl ma'am?'
Woebegone housewife: Yes, yes; can
you cook?"
Y. G.-Yes. kin cook.
w. H.-Can you bake bread?
Y. G.-No-o. Mother always made the
bread at home.
w. H.-Can you bake cake?
Y G.-N-no. Mother always makes the
cake!
w. H.-Can you wash?
Y. G.-No, I never did; mother always
did that.
w. H.-Can you iron?
Y. G.-No, mother does that
w. II. (ominously)-How much do you
want?
Y. C. (briskly)-Five dollars a week,
w. H. Gin a big volce)-Then for heav-
er!
once upon a time we had a nice girl, a
pretty girl, but she quit The next time
we met her on the street we stopped and
inquired kindly after her welfare. "Oh,
I'm an actress now. | went on the stage
after | left YOU" she announced trium-
phanCy, Il am playing IN Jack, the
Giant Killer.
We wondered We had seen the extrav-
aganza. but had not recognized our Della
in anv OF the artists. We would go and
Gee if again, and feel our bosoms thrill in
a fine sense of kinship with one so ex-
allied but first we must know her role.
ION" she said, modest.y, Il play the tail
Of the dragon when he comes on and
puffs"
"I'Il tell YOU what woman will and will
not do in my line of business said to a
New York Sun writer. the man who was
selling clocks and rugs on the weekly in
stallnent plan. You can always figure
as a starter that she's going to haggle
about the price. II I'd offer one of these
s. clocks for $3.50, the average woman
would want something off. As soon as
the weekly payments began she'll make
a neighborhood hunt for plugged coins
and smooth pieces and work them off on
the collector. Shell also stand him off
for day or two every pay day, and
even when the money is ready she'll hang
to il to the last.
That's what you can figure on nine
teen tines out of twenty, but there's a
big Offset It's rare that women ever skip
out and take your property along. They
could do il In scores of casesl but their
conscience for1ids. It's conscience and NOT
fear of the law. I've had nifty cases
where families moved but after a lite
the wife would send the new address. !
lost "A family once after they had paid 50
certs on an IS clock They shipped their
goods by rail and went off West. / got a
blessing from headquarters because of
their skip, but somehow ] felt that IL
would b. al right in the end. So it
was After seven months had passed we
got a ,etter from North Dakota contain
ing a money order for the balance due.
and the woman explained that she'd have
sent IL sooner, but that her husband had
died and her oldest BOY been sent to jail.
I sold a rug last year to a family that
moved next day and q dozen creditors
tried in VAN TO trace them. After a week
or 80 the wife ran after me on tho street
10 tell. me where to call. ana added 1t
was the old mans doings. lie took skip
10 beat the grocer, butcher baker and
drug store, but IL l didu't pay for that