Daily camera., 1901-09-26

A lot Of my things didn't turn mp ~
Ill. and all the hooks had been ripped
on one of my waists, in an excess OF
zeal. for fear they would rust. The
agent was very sympathetic. de-
scribed the things was shy on. II
did seem funny. but he never cracked
. smile; he just jotted down de-
scriptions OF the missing things In
his little memorandum book and
promised to look them up.
"You see he went everywhere and
I met him at every tack and turn. ]
ignored his laundry career at dances
and clambakes and such places, but ]
am told there we've girls who tackled
him boldly during the pauses OF the
Boston dip. or when they were tipped
up on the edge of catboat with
him. or anywhere. about things
trimmed with Hamburg and others
runled and edged with torchon.
II used to assail him on the wharf
when the express boat came in. He
WAS really such very nice boy and
took no end of pains. One by one
my things trickled back. He would
come up to mo on the wharf. bare
headed. his eyes beaming and his
teeth cleaning.
"'Good morning, there's petit
coat just in, looks like yours he
would say: or I've had letter about
that stock. it's been found. II will
~ a. l. A.
"Once he came up very confidently
TO know II had pink ribbon run in
Anything. az there was q corset cover
seeking an owner and he thought I
might be she, although he remem-
bered never sent things without
taking the ribbons out! Nice a. he
was. though. couldn't patronlss his
old laundry. so tried various other
evils.
speaking OF the polite little laun-
dry agent makes me think Of the lot
Of people down in Maine who work
at anything during the summer to 90
to college during the other nine
months. The man who ran the trunk
delivery business was senior at
some university. terror In Latin
and Greek. I suppose. and he certain
ly was . wizard with the trunks. He
didn't look at the checks until he got
to your house. and then he general
ly would find Ae had mixed things.
used to moralize to myself sometimes
~ to whether educated service IL as
good A. the plain straight kind.
For instance. the housemaid at
the cottage where l stayed knew
lot you didn't expect her to know.
but from one to two things my
hostess let drop fancy Ida fell
short in the things she was expected
TO know. One day at dinner one of
the children asked her father the
French for crumb. He couldn't tell
her. although he was educated
abroad. We all tried but none OF us
could rccollect the word. After din
ner Alice, the little girl, came out and
asked her father II miette was not
the French for crumb.
That's the word was trying to
think Of he said. Who told your
ut seems il was Ida who knew.
She got hold OF Alice after dinner
and said: i wanted to tell you at the
table. Miss Alice. but. of course. I
couldn't speak then Ida had studied
French for four years and German
for three in some New England high
school and had aspirations to teach
modern languages.
THE cook. We discovered. went in
for pure English. We overheard Ida
one day describing mans sppaar-
ance to the cook.
Hes q short. fat man. sunburned.
and generally he wears . cap and
white pants. he said.
"'Trouxers.' the cook said. In .
really Mortified tone. and Ida learned
ssraightway that pants 10 . vulgar
contraction. and one which the cook
hated TO hear anyone use.
But culture and pure English
didn't hurt the cooks art, wish you
could have tssted her lobster Neu-
burg. or her blueberry cake or her
other things" said the girl. rising
and resuming her unpaeking with .
smile Of pleasing recollection.