Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-04

) JObSOD'S Seaside PrOtegG !
"HHRs. JoBsoN." said Mr.. Jobson

porch down at the seaside on the
evening before they returned to
Washington, WI weeks ago, Il wish
you would be good enough to let me
have your views on the subject of
colored servants. based upon the
tumuituous experiences you have had
with the several scores of them that
have been in our employ during mar
Fied life in Washington"
Alarm, of course, was instantly de-
picted in Mrs. Jobson's -countenance-
Why" said she, you know that
we have never had any trouble with
Josephine during the two years that
h has been with US. and 1 am sure
no one could ask for a better girl
than She"
Couldn't they?" cut in Mr.. job
son, as he began to file his nails
and to look omiHoUsly amiable- And
the sugar trust couldn't ask for any
better than hat same Jo-
sephine. could it? And the tea and po-
tatoes and coffee and d~ressed-meat
combinations haven't had a pretty
swell snap of it through the patron
age of the Jobson family. due to the
NNAShA Va tASsN oALA cCSt BAiAAAE-
since she's been with US. nave they?
And I haven't been feeding more than
219 residents of Bloodfields and other
sections OF the capital city given over
to the occupation Of"
Josephine is a good, honest girl"
interrupted Mrs. JobsOn. stanchIy,
land if I have occasionally given her
a few little leftover
This is all completely beside the
mark" said Mr.. Jobson. grandilo-
quently. The real point is tina I
am going to experiment with a white
Eervan and the white servant is
going to be no less a person than the
amiable. if homely. middle-aged Hi
bernian woman Nora. who is the
chief hustler around this hotel.
Il asked Nora this morning if she
could cook and she old me that she
could. I did not suggest the idea
that / intended to offer her employ
ment with us in Washington. but /
shall expect you to put the PROPOSE
ton before her during the evening.
II h accepts, as 1 have no doubt
she viii. she will go back with US
in the morning. 1t may be that we
shall ave TO give her wages a tri1e
higher than we pay to Josephine, but
she has all the earmarks of a high
grade woman-of-all-work, and I'm GO
ing to see if I can't get hold of a
servant who will occasionally pay a
little attention to me when I make
humble requests round the house. in
stead of treating me as if I were a
horsehair sofa of the period of 1854
stored in the attic. as your beloved
Josephine does"
Mrs. Jobson looked the picture of
CONSERVATION during this speech.
But I have been watching Nora"
she finally contrived to say, land I
have noticed that when she sweeps
she bestows all of the sweepings I'M
der the bureau of our DON and"
"Pure imagination" broke in Mr..
Jobson, In his judicial tone. Mora
In q jewel OF tidiness-"
"But, worse of ALL" pursued Mrs.
Jobson, looking more and more
alarmed. ST am sure she drinks. She
happend to come nea me the other
morning making up b room and her
breath smelt SO strongly of liquor
that"
AIRS. Jobson." cut in Mr.. Jobson,
ST fully understand that it is one of
the privileges of your sex of what
ever station. to endeavor to under
mine each other. This same Nora has
commended herself to me, a close OBJ
server, during my stay at this hotel
as a modest, respectable, middle-aged
Irish serving woman, and it is my
desire to engage such a servant in
place of the n~o-account Senegambian
at present in our employ You will
be good enough to make terms with
Nora this evening, and If she Is will
ing TO accompany US to Washington,
Won will find at the end of two weeks
that she will prove herself absolute
ly indispensable to US"
Mrs. Jobson sighed But what Mr..
Jobson said went and half an hour
later Mrs. Jobson found herself be-
ing i~nterrogated by the angular,
somewhat red-nosed Nora as to the
kind of plant the Jobson household in
Washington was; how much washing
there was to be done: the arrange
ments as to the servants day of; the
hours at which the meals were ex-
pected to be ready; h rules and reg
ulations with respect to the serV- !