The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

been DELAYED. and found a neat, clean
kitchen, with no sign of a cook or cooking,
she was about convinced that the maiden
had returned to the heaven where she be-
longed That household never saw the
young woman again. but the other day the
mystery of the peculiar disappearance was
cleared UP, for letter explaining all was
received by the school teacher. 1t came
from the Insane Hospital and was written
by the girl herself. She said in il that she
had escaped from the asylum the day that
she answered the advertisement; that she
had never worked out" before. but had
taken the situation rather than return to
her home in the country. where everybody
believed her incurably insane. II know as
well as anybody else" she wrote, that my
mind is at times unbalanced. but when /
ran away from the asylum I was almost
sure that had recovered from my mental
trouble. But ] wanted to make certain be-
fore going home, and so l took service in
your house. and 1 want to thank you for
the kindness which you always showed me.
I never left your house for fear of being
discovered and taken back to the Insane
Hospital On the morning that l disap-
peared 1 felt that the old symptoms were
returning, and, having been told that dur
ing such spells 1 became quite violent. l
hurried away as fast as i could go and
voluntarily returned TO the hospital, where
I am staying now
UNDER A DELUSION.
A housekeeper in the northeast portion of
the city recently employed a colored cook
who was under the delusion that she was
absolutely perfect in the culinary art. She
came TO Indianapolis from Kentucky a
few months ago and loved TO refer to a
certain cooking school in the South, where
SIZE had studied" At first the family
believed every word she said about this
remarkable cooking school, but the fact
gradually became painfully apparent that
the graduate as she called herself, had
not entirely completed her education. as
poorer cooking was never known outside
OF a fsherman's camp on White river. She
dearly loved scientific terms and applied
them on all occasions. getting sadly tangled
up in them The funniest mistake she
made was concerning the heat of the oven.
Evidently having heard that there were
certain degrees of heat to be obtained for
the successful cooking of certain things,
she never failed to mention the temperature
OF her oven when discussing the prepare
ton of a meal. Now. when L bakes bread
she would say, II must has oven at for
ty-five degrees. an when L bakes short
cake / wants a thirty-one oven-" AS an
oven under these circumstances would be
better fitted for cold storage, this may ac-
count in a measure for the usual COM
plete failure of both bread and short-cake.
Good servants have for the last three
or four years been very scarce In Indian
apolis and the housekeepers say that they
are harder TO obtain just now than ever
before. 1t is almost impossible at the pres
ent time to secure efficient white or col
ored help for the household. So far as
the colored servants are concerned, their
scarcity was explained the other DAY by
an old colored philosopher. who said: I'm
summer time de women folks don't has
to work kaze de husbans is workin', but
when de cold and de snow comes, dey
haint no collud man Twin OATS gwine
to work eff he hep hissef, but he's
gwi'ne to hug de stove-so it's den dat de
women folks has to git out and suppot
EN-"