The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
JUSTICE HTS MR.. PENCIL.
Took n Model Servant Away from n Friend
and Is Properly Punished.


1T isn't like me to glory in the misfortunes
OF a friend" said the Brooklyn man. but lust
at present I am rapturously happy over the bad
luck that has befal!en my very good friend and
neighbor. Jack Pencil. Pencil was married
Just about the same time l was, but he moved
into the Skyscraper flats before l did. When
] took the fourth fiat l found that Pencil and
his wife we're still wrestling with the servant
girl problem. He told mo that he had had
three girls in q week, but that none was worth
keeping. The first brought a doctors GER
tincate with her to show that II was Impossi-
BILE for her to wash. iron or sweep and retain
her health. The second one had to go because
she boiled the radishes under the impression
that they were a vegetable that had to be
cooked before eaten. and the third cam 10
an nntimely end because she served ice cream
in finger bowls to the guests at Mrs. Pencils
Pencil | said, there's just one way to get
= good servant girl. You must advertise.
well. said Pencil YOU 20 ahead. and IL
yo!M are successful m try he same game,
PAPER, telling all applicants 10 call between II
aud 2 the next day, and vent 70 work that
night. When / got home I found nv. wife al
s m9st on the 10 t TergS ID Et tsass; Not a girl . had re- e
t,,. d dHs 50 ,Hsq p peeri,s she her Fai d here we a y Of
Nlbo anu Wv ltltllb uOu I no anything uJ HI.
ye!t. they get a servant right away
What do YOU meanf' ] asked.
Why; tho ienitortells me that the Pencils
~ met Pencil later. in the ewing and asked
him H6 rs1 his , neE fri j.. uor,, o,d MANI.
said to me. She Just walked right in. Heard
wanted a servant from one Of the girls I fired
swell dinner tonight and is evidently n high
s snsh fnnpS ISc ATGi on5 r fSf.y you're having
The next morning / met tho lalitOr an L
was going downstairs,
:. ..Glad y9n got a girl. slr' he said.
" You had enough 70 pick from he said.
NON, What ne devil do you mean by thati..
"'That'f funny said the %ia1itor. I was
and along came four girls, They asked for
yH"u, l was showing them your bell when Mr..
You're here in response to that ADVERTISE
i"dt told then hn5 to step in; They %foIlHwed. him
StTicr ,slrls we're ,%ikins 70 Mr. / Pen Pencil III IL the
had learned that it had been filled, SO. OF
7 never said SiTf a w ord + to f PsneiIa e. 4 sf had; fooled
me neatly. and | didn't propose to give him a
chance hoImH t., to laugh at me, too. But l rackcd my
We'll. my revenge has come. and without
hay SfoFrt sn on my my NaTt That's Why I'm 80
tVpfyt : "HN't iNh9 Iiti "a uNpW llhJ mas IlH'lb
him the most miserable of men. III won't
ID ADDITION to n hundred and one other things
Pencil collects fine china. He raads great.
weird,looklng volumes on ceramics and tells
you al kinds of things about lost arts and an
tlIue potteries, He has a very fair collection
o. piieces and he prizes them very much. par
tlcularly some, vases which he calls Oriental
glaze ana declares were made before Christ,
by processes the secret OF which was lost sew
ernl thousand years ago. | know Pencil has
used up. n large part OF his income getting
these things together.
We'll, yesterday Pencils high class servant
girl. VINO had been The model Of propriety up
"a, that time. got drunk. She drove Mrs. PEN
Gil out OF the Nat and then proceeded 10 amuse
herself she must have had n great time. for
when Pencil got home, he found her asleep in
the middle of tho .parlor floor surrounded hy
the iraGments Of his collection OF china and
potterles; Ihat woman Just wrecked the whole
place she smashed mirrors, lamp globes,
ana an ne table china and glass she could GET
her bands on. But Pencil could have stood i
piece IN II Is smashed into IA thousand pieces,
Pencil came with tears In his eyes to tell mo
about IL. When he WAS nll through ! said:
Pcnoll. I've got a little china and glass my
sell, II you, hadn't stolen that rirl from me
might not have II tonight and YOUR sollec-
non mlsht DO intact. 1t is simple justice On
Then l walked away from him and | haven't
seen MN since. | guess he never had an idea
before that | knew Of the mean trick he plnyei
on me. When do see him I'm going tn tel
MIN In sorry Tor his misfortune, but TN be
q rank lie' Tor I'm not. not a bit OF it,"