The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-02-26
DIFFERENf \ MACHINE.

DIFFERENT MACHINE. r
The One Used ~ the Writer Was Net
the Kind That Did Fine
| stitcAins.
"A Washington man who puts In his
mornings at home, writing things for
the newspapers, and using typewriting
machine for the purpose, had an odd ex-
perience the other morning, relates the
Evening Star.
A couple of days before his wife had
engaged new maid servant, who was al
most as dense as she was black, which Is
saying great deal. In busting around
the writing mans work room the new
maid servant had watched his manipu-
lation of the typewriting machine with
great curiosity, and on the second day
Of her employment she inquired Of her
mistress:
Lady, what IL. yo' husband dun
a-mekkin'?"
The writing mans wife didn't exactly
penetrate the meaning of the question,
and so she returned some evasive reply.
On the following morning, after the
mistress had gone off to do the market
ing, and while the writing man was tear
ing off language on the typewriter for
dear life, there was ring at the front
door. The maid servant answered the
| ring. The writing man paused at his
work to listen to the colloquy at the
door, and he heard mans voice say
something about "a machine" The maid
servant made reply to this by saying:
"Yessuh, dey got machine In dis
house-de gemman O. de house dun uses
it."
THAT SOP" the writing man heard the
male voice down at the front door say in
tone of some surprise. uses the ma
chine himself, Ell? Is he in now"
"Yessuh, he's in," the servant an
swered, and then she clomped up the
stairs to the writing mans den and said
to the busy occupant of It:
"Dey's gemman at de do whut wants
t. see yo' all bout machine, subj"
The writing man hustled down the
stairs and found good looking and de-
cidedly talkative young man standing
in the vestibule. There was a wagon
out in. front of the house.
Good morning, sir" said the young
man in the yestibule. "Your servant
tells me- that you use machine-use it
yourself"
"Sure thing" replied the writing man,
trying to frame up words to dismiss the
visitor on the score Of pressure of work.
yep. use machine, but I'm perfectly
satisfied with the one I've got"
SIS it up to date?" inquired the young
man in the vestibule, with a business
like chirkening up.
"Well, it's as up to date as need"
replied the writing man, in hurried
tone, as he thought of the unfinished
'story" in his den upstairs. "And it's
about as up to date as I'm going to have
for some time to come, considering that
I only got through paying for it the 9TH
er day."
"Bobbinless?" inquired the young man
in the vestibule, disregarding the writing
mans expressed determination to stick
to- the machine" he had.
The writing man look puzzled.
=, "Bobbinless?" he said. ''Well, I don't
know what you mean by that, but it has
most of the new attachments, and I
guess it fits all right with 'bobbinless.'
Got tucking and telling and quilting
attachments to it," pleasantly asked the
young man in the vestibule.
Again the writing man looked both
cred by the technical nature Of the
queries.
"Oh, it's bully manifolder, sure" he
replied, and then the young man in the
vestibule looked a bit surprised. But he
went ahead:
HAS it got the embroidering attach
ment?"
"Oh, for the tabulating stunts-sure,
it has all of those marks" said the writ
ing man. ut does any old thing that I
need to do on it, anyway"
Excuse me for asking the question"
said the young man then, ''but is your
wife fond of your machine?"
ooh, she doesn't use it at ALL" replied
the writing man. I'm the only one in
the house that touches it. She never
learned how to operate it. Wish she
would. It 'ud save me a lot of work."
The young man looked somewhat baf-
ded.
"Well," he said, after a pause, 1--WE
| been selling machines now for nearly ten
years, all over the country, and, dye
know, sir, that you are the first man I
ever met up with that makes his wife's
| clothes?"
The writing man came so close to fall
ing down right there in the hall that
there was no fun in it.
He pulled himself together, however,
with colossal effort, and after about
four>minutes he succeeded in straighten-
| ing the thing out.
The young man engaged in selling
sewing machines had, naturally enough,
taken the black maid servants word for