The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-23
HIRED GIRL QUESTION.
Aunt Trudy Finds a Woman Who
Has Solved It.


Button Rose Cottage, June %, 1900.
Dear State Journal:
I've bin takin' sort of a little outen',
an got some more stuff crowden in that
inl1-hottle. on top of them idees. I
wus sent for over to Anneliza's. my
youngest neec's, becos joey, the baby,
had indigestun. Amelia allus gives
up so when they hev sickness, an
was quite TUX back this time to see
her smilin' an beamin'.
1t was that onusul, an her expressyun
that peecful, sed: You've fooled me
Amelia, you've got up some suppris
party! There's nothin' wrong with
joey
20 yes there is. Aunt Trudy.'' she
anserd absent-minded. An then hurd
a week cry, an saw poor Joey lookin'
purple an white-an' so thin an mis-
arble, an with watery eyes.
Amelia, have you gone clean crazy,
TO be a smilin' like that, an joey that
sick?'
Aunt Trudy," whispered Amelia,
I'm doin' it to pleas the hired girl.
The last plac she staid she left becos
the lady was so kind uh glumy- An
then am happy over one thing: I've
solvd the -girl-question, Aunt
Trudy, solvd it!-that problum what
the klub women can't solv!''
An becos I run an grabbed up that
sick baby without ansur, she follod an
respected: I've found out how TO git
along with-'em now" an 1 couldn't
ratified off her story, an I low she viii
git a patent on her diskivry.
Its all a bein' kind and doin' as I'd
4 like to be dun by. The thOt popped in
to my head the minute I hired her She
said her name wus Maggie, an I sed
You look so much a lady you should
| be calld Margaret. She got digniied
( right off. Then I shoWd her roun, and
| tole her she didn't need to git in the
| fule an kindIings, as Jim could do that
| evenins an Moons An I tole her to
leave the skrubbin of the tseps and
| walks fur Bertha to do after skule, an
1 would allus try an help wipe the dish
| es, as its so tiresome for one, an I'd
| send the irnun over to Widow Eevin's
| while it wus hot, as she wus poor an
needed muny. Then thot I'd be surer
| to keep her if I would take turn about
| waitin' on the table, while the rest ct,
! as she could tell by that I didn't look
| down on hur an then I'd jus as soon,
| fur I am so interrupted with Joey only
it makes Jim sulk, an I'm so afrade that
| will offend Margaret. She is alluS
| sleepy mornin's, like young person is
an as joey sleeps good then, JUS slip
| out an make the fire an kook the oat-
| mel, an egs an coffee; cos / would as
| soon as not Then thot If I Wus
hired girl I would like to go to church
Sundy mornings, an so let her, an
| looked after the dinner myself I tell
you, women would hav more luck keep
in girls, If they loolxt more to their
| kumfort. Margaret has staid by me
now nigh four weeks; but I hev a hard
time keepin Jim down. he'd so used to
the oil way
Goodnusi was mad, Mr. Editor, but
KEEP kule. an sed How much do you
Civ her?"
20 yes. that's an other thing" seq
she I Civ her a dollar more than she
askt, becas I thot that would be en-
couragin'. l Civ her $500 a weak, an,
that seems little when I think of Jim s
gittin over $500 in one day, an no more
| hours n Ia f7kav Al,
he's a man. I hev alluS upheld equal
wages for each seeks
An how much rent do you pay ?'
I'VE Civ $13," DEE she, AN a dollar wa
Gerry bill?' That's most alIus s2O-yyith
the ic bill an milk bill"
Amelia Yokumi" exclaimed
where's your money kummin frum fur
Joey's doctor bill? an fur clos? an fur
Bertha's skulin? an fur Jims tules? an
insurance? an church? an spendin
muney?' Amelia will never let on
when she's konvinced even. and she ius
sed, a little exited: That's my lookout,
Aunt Trudy; I kin economize if I kin
Keep good help. What I sent fur you fur
Is to see what ails this baby"
zen. l SEE, its queer you can't
see tibet. You haven't bin feedin him
right You hewitt Civ him this stuff
heV you That's bred an milk That
KANT hurt i'm" 'Thet's dow an milk .
I SEE. Whats the matter with vour
stow" 'Margereet don't like bread
baked too dun 1t dries out"-'You
kno Amelia the middle of that bred
is dow an there's live east in it If it
wus baked good the east plant would be
killed, but as tbs, it begins to work
right away in Joey's warm stomic, an
makes it all fOme like risin' or like a
swill bari in hot wether, an that will
Keep on an kill that baby, too"
| Amelia was SHARED, and she seq
Why didn't the Doctur tell me that y
If 1t wuz dOctur's business to keer
people from gitten sick, he would" ]
sed- I m not goin' TO sta here an eat
that dow, an I amt goin' to leave
that baby here to eat it an dy; an then
hev to go to his funral." If there's one
thing hate it's goin' to funral of my
folks, Mr.. Editor, an bein expected
by. the Spectators to cry, when I Wuzn't
born q cryin' woman. Cryin' seems
pretty an comfortin': but tho my hari
an beds redy to burst open, I never cry
-(only sometimes when I'm reel happy
I do cry sometimes for joy) An
when I go to funrals an hear then
spectators remarkin' how as they DOM
keer much" an not many teers wus
she'd, an askin' others if the folks
TUX on like they kared, an e sayin' il
It Wus their baby. now, they d-ii! o
you see don't like funrals: an if I evel
hev one fur myself I want to be fixed
sort o. nice. in the front room an
have the folks as cares to see me ded
to know the day before the funral an
sing hymn if they want to, an not he1
them see none of my folks. 1 wan
some lady that's not expected to err
to take charge, an then the next da1
hev the funral alone
Well as I Wus sayin' I brot Joe
home. an bein' kind O. tukered out, II