The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-03-28
w. CT. u. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
Come Back for Life.
BY MARY +. BALcH.
Continued from last week.

Il
Continued from last week.
And after explaining how she
wanted the girl to deport herself
naming the wages, and making heI
acquainted with the kitchen and
dining room, she said, "You are to
rest until tomorrow morning, then
you will begin by getting breakfast
at 7 O'Clock sharp. My son leaves
at Z 80 and does not return until Z
O'Clock in the evening; then we have
dinner. | will call you to dinner,
or bring you some-that will be
best, as il is about dinner time now,
and you look tired. You make me
wish | had a little girl of my very
own. | never had one-only the
one boy, and when he is gone all
day sometimes get very lonely.
AS Mrs. Brown returned to her
parlor her son had just entered.
'Why, Frank, my adv. in the Cou-
rier Journal has brought me help
already-and the remarkable part
of it is her name is Annie smith,
and she is from Chicago"
swell, mother, it does seem a
trifle odd; but Smith is such a com
mon name, and Chicago such q
roomy place."
"To be sure, my boy; but | nat
urally called to mind your fiance,
and could not help but reflect on
the change it will make in our home
"a stranger coming in to be with
JUS. we'll remember the time when
| went out from my happy girlhood
home into that Of mother-in-law.
and my experience ought to DE
worth something to me-and the lit
tie daughter that is to come to me
and | mean it shall be-.
A letter from Annie to Auntie
ran thus wise; 81 need not remind
you to mail Franks letters prompt.
lly. | know you do, for the post
man leaves them regularly, and
LAY them at his plate and he reads
them at his 6 o'clock dinner, and
enjoys them with his mother. And
as | serve l can not help using my
eyes and my wits. My charade is
perfect. Mrs. Brown, the dearest
dearest character of us all; but like
mother, like son. They count me
a jewel and hope they may keep
me for life time; and they may I,
but not on the terms they Offers
lovely room, well lighted, on the
sunny side Of the house, Sunday
and Thursday afternoons and eve
nings off, and 81 week and no
Ilaundry work. | have learned a
double lesson, Auntie; | have made
the acquaintance Of my mother in
law that is to be. have also
Learned to know a true Christian
mistress her treatment OF her hand
maiden | may never forget. l
must come home at once, and again,
IAuntie, you must play your part.
Please go and see poor Margaret
Macy, and tell her Of the chance,
'Iunder some pretext, and manage to
|get Margaret and telegram to me
here at the same time; that as 60
she may come and stay as long as
|she needs home. Frank
should say MI. Browns plannin
Ibis business to be in Chicago soon,
land | must be at home and myself
Iagain when he comes. Dear Auntie
III know can depend on you. With
'.|love, your niece, ANNIE SMITH. =
"Annie, did / tell you that We
-lbave.-no, we did have-a little
Annie Smith at our house in oul
Kitchen for three weeks, and she
was from Chicago, too. Mother
lust took her heart Of hearts, and
considered her perfect; it almost
broke her heart when a telegram
came, it was from home and they
needed her at once; we concluded
! sickness or death or both. Provl-
idertially for us girl was passing
by and looking for work, and moth
Ter took her in a half hour perhaps
before Annie left, and now the
strangest part Of il ali is, il you will
not be offended, my sweetheart An.
ME Smith reminds me OF our kitch-
en maid Annie Smith, or vice versa
Are you cross?"
"No. why should | be9 | hope
that when go into the home youl
mother will not compare me with
her maid to my disadvantage. dc
want your mother to take me into
her .'heart Of hearts, as you sale
she did her little maid. | have
surprise for you, and if you will ex
cuse me for FIVE minutes you shal