The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-25
THE unpolNe OF BRIDGET.

People talk OF engaging cooks. My cooks engage me.
seated in the comfortable chairs they
Inquire many family. What wages. many at
ternoons evenings Then they upon seeing
the kitchen laundry. while shrink into corner
ard anxiously await what the verdict will be- If they
happen TO like the looks OF things and looks they
So and pronounce themselves breathe sigh
of relief They always stipulae that they shall be paid
by the week that in, of wishing leave
moments notice they do without serious loss. II
Is best submit their methods Once tried mine.
I asked questions. answered none merely saying.
Come and try it for week. She came-when she got
ready. week after she had agreed TO take the place.
1t did not take her week The light the wash
tubs was bad. and you had to downstairs reach
the cellar Sure" she'd deal rather be idle eight
months than work in it, but she'd accommodate by
getting the dinner that night.
When rich enough to have cook your
bles begin. Once upon time merry little Irish maid
did everything in house from making beds
the morning to unmaking them at night and waited
table dinner party without anybody's suspect
ing that cooked the dinner herself. Then
mestc phase of life smooth that think the
neighbors fairly hated me. Callers would ask me
if a good girl 1 answered with politely yelled
and superiority. II anybody did have
good girl. said to myself. it was her own fault
For years this one faithful spirit served without
patiently allowing ft her for easier
place with higher wages This accomplished 1 found
myself hastily precipitated the ranks of those who
spend hours in the kitchen scodins, arguing. peacena
rg other domestic with the neigh
bcrs and other hours n private where there weep
ing gnashing of teeth. II that moment that
1 should have realized that the day of general house
york girls" was i didn't. l had the
satisfaction of dischargng piece of impudence of
another but knew perfectly well that
they would stay and they knew that would have
down my knees to keep them The incumbents
all and all had virtues One COM
bined . temper with miraculous speed but the
truth in her. and she wpuld not, do the wash
ng cleanliness and willing spirit.
coupled hopeless stupidity and nordinate ten
dency head loss OF speech, and barking
cough. the model of all the virtues.
A. of the first day YOU could see yourself in the
and the sink AID the rest OF the world through
windows that hadn't washed before within memory
The faultless and the dishes all done
you could into the Kitchen tell her The
morning ,here preparations Cor breakfast
The model bed She i'll. Did
think would into anything? administered medi
cine taken under protest and frequent signs of the cross
As Is the model able to she and agreed
in thinking that had incidentally she did
do the washing.
Now these experiences did happen in a day
Months passed. even Life had grown more COM
pcated did make it less The
chiefly babies Plainly we had passed
the hour of simple living when capable woman could
wants We must have cook-to cook
must have q waitress wait on the cook:
work the waitress ner afternoon of
At last-I knew how--the question of and
somehow settled Month after month pass
ed and they remained fixed in their places. figures
appearing in the fleeing but those of cooks
The tales OF the cooks could they all be told would cast
into oblivion the entire history of previous expert
of domestic service Cooks of description there
but suited nor-but that always
secondary-dd any suit Finally, however this prob
lem seemed to be solved. There came to comfort
able soul whose high reputation the intelligence Office
both specific. She honest steadfast
competent.
On the when Bridget was to come the
buzz of the front doorbell gave
fumbled soied gown that has become
babies grew so plentiful But my years
W. ala Ued hI rrSha into 4
in the protecting shades library a short
figure hung about irregulary with shameless newspa-
per parcels. The waitress pursued the arrival
marched firmly through the house into the kitchen The
reminder her when caught sight of a pair
of white stockings encased in black cloth slippers de-
scendng the stairs Bridget had seen the children en-
route. and it not bad beginning. when
the kitchen, to hear her excaim, Them's the finest
chlder see, God love EN-, But Lord
she added that gate the of the stairs
l. enough to make a minister swear Now. Ma am EFF
you'll kindly show where things then
where stand. told Katie here didn't wish to insult
ne body but Id rather get directions from mis-
tress" When these introductions her final
comment made friends for life: Now lady eff
ever there and it's murtherin pity haven't
a handsome house.
She seemed disposed to make the my quarters
however, l about giving orders dinner
The top of the fell in halves when it lifted
with fork because the children had lost the hook
IN the snow-and it evident that ashes had
lated around the These facts did escape
ment The roast happened to be stuffed liver. She
would be best she'd its like obviously
dish familiar the ''fust" families. but she
willing learn ways So she cooked II, and pre-
pared excellent accompaniment of potatoes after
ferred nonne. The other portions of the dinner
alluded the and fact nothing
that Bridget in the whole of her bril-
liant-but, aas brief-career suffered 10 pass
noticed. Could you the pudding" she would ask
modesty her features distorting themselves in
positively maudln delight words Of praise Now
nile"-oeaming upon her finished products"ef
them amt handsome pies! How my French
frys?'
That's the way I make mans pudding. She's
dead and Lord be with her, she that learned
that" Luckily everything delicious and could be
heartily praised difference of opinion altered
friendship
Gradually household began TO settle back into n
state The domestic wheels
forth q squeak. When the doorbel rang. somebody
went; babies cried singly there
patient voice soothe unheard Of all. there
a the kitchen and food-good food-at every
meal. had all about 1t seemed simple
enough Surely people had trouble with their dorles
tic service. their fault IL not many
old superiority Of the days Of the
merry Irish crept upon Nov why coul6n',
K all have gone just so? il couldn't There had
been occasionally. certain dark. mysterious illusions
rot without their pathos-on poor Brdgets
example. when asked how old her children were-she
had she saidshe had replied with fervor: