The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-07
NO CLOCKS TICKING IN CHADWICK
MANSION; MAID WAITS FOR MADAME
They Alone Bother.
They call us up all night"

They Alone Bother.
They call us up all night
isn't it a shame?' I dared to say.
Wees, madame And all night /
| think / hear someone's; oh. all night,
| no sleep"
Hear someone?"
"Oh, yees, madame, at the window
| come to take things. And I get no
| rest, no sleep. l look out all night"
'Oh, burglars" 1 exclaimed with
| my eye on a handsome painting rep
resenting the Roman forum.
| "Yees, madame. But we have po-
! licemen here, all time, madame. All
the time policemen. But all the time
I look for the madame home. Every
| carriage I think 1t is madame come
| home And she drew back the cur
| tain and looked out as a carriage
rolled past.
| not what, poor soul!
what a beautiful chair" I said
pointing to the shell affair
"And thees?" motioning to a
| handsome, gold mounted hand-carved,
hand-painted mahogany cabinet that
| stood between the two front windows.
l crossed the room to look at 1t
| and right there on the top shelf Of
that elegant cabinet was
A Great French Doll
as big as a baby. The eyes were
closed, the kissable little mouth half
| smiled, the short lace sleeve was
slipped off the shoulder and lay soft
ly over the little bare arm. The doll
was laid out on pink satin cushions.
I shivered a little. What an odd
fancy!
The rest of the cabinet, and 1t was
| as tall as l, was simply crowded
with little things; little bits of things,
hundreds of them, no larger than my
| finger. 1t looked as though 1t might
have been the dolls play house.
| There was a mite of a monkey, a
| fairy in a seashell, and a pair of
| tiny indian shoes They might have
| cost 10 cents each. They might have
cost small fortune.
Across the room was another hand
| some cabinet. Upon it was an 1tal-
ian marble statue of a woman most
exquisitely carved. Inside the cabi-
net were lot of little marble statues
about eight inches high. They were
so nearly alike and there were so
many after them that they might
have been bought by the hundred.
"The paintings, madame"
Sure enough l had forgotten about
the paintings The walls were COW
cred with them. Here was Ben Hur's
Chariot Race. There hung great
canvas covered with playing kittens.
In a corner was a gem of a painting
on ivory. Right beside it was some
thing that might be trees and water.
1t looked like a daub. I believe
It Was a Daub.
This junk shop mixing of things
Jared my nerves.
An ordinary oak table in the center
of the room held most extraordin-
airy clock 1t consisted of agreat
many chains, buckets and balls and
rested on an onyx base three feet
long. The whole thing, base and all,
was covered with great glass globe.
The clock was not running. Since
the madame is not at home" eX-
planned the maid.
"The organ?" asked the maid, open
ing another door I followed to find
myself in the music room. The organ
half filled it. At one side stood an
upright piano.
"The bird sing bee-u-tee-ful," said
the maid I looked to see what she
meant. Between her good French
ways sure of what she was talking
about. But sure enough there was
a golden bird in a golden cage, and
all that was necessary to make 1T
sing was to press golden spring.
Over in the corner was musical
chair which needed only to be sat
upon to be tuned up. And on an
other ordinary table was another
wonderful clock. This one was an
engine with bells, wheels and whistle.
1t, too, was not running.
"See?" said my friend the maid.
over the piano was
Large Oil Painting,
the largest in the house The picture
was so large and the room so small
that I couldn't get far enough from
it to see exactly what it represented,
but there was a lot of men in it.
And close to this on one side was
a mite of a painting representing
the finding of Moses in the bull
rushes. On the opposite side of the
big picture, strange enough, was
bull fight carved in ivory. There
was the wounded bull, the frenzied
horses, the cheering crowd. all in
ivory. Even the drops of blood
showed, and hundreds and hundreds
Of faces faded away in the distance.
The whole was not more than two
feet long by sixteen inches high. 1t
was framed without a glass.
Il think madame must come home
at any minute" said the maid turn
ing again to the window.
ut must be hard to keep Clean"
said I, speaking of the bull fight.
And so ii was all over the house
the most artistieally wrought bull
fights and golden canaries mixed up
with cheap paintings in curiosity
Did you buy your hair