The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07

1 give party and any girl invite doesn't
come or send regrets, I'm going to tell her
very fraknly what 1 think of her It's get
ting 10 be entirely too common thing, this
sighting of invitations to teas and recep-
tons. and something ought to be done
Mary" came the maternal voice down
the stairs at that moment, Aren't you 60
ing TO Sue Smiths tea this afternoon
The hostess turned her head over her
shoulder to answer, as she snuggled farther
down in the depths of her coy chair. mo,
it's too horrd out"
But you didn't send regrets, did your"
mo, but I'll tell her next time l see her
she'll understand about it,
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She is sweet, she is pretty, she is lovable;
her husband and friends adore her. but she
can't keep a cook. Why, she doesn't know;
but whatever the reason, her kitchen sees
long train of cook ladies of varying age,
color, and previous condition of servitude
These naughty personages seem to like
their mistress to some degree, but stay they
will not. After two or three weeks of serv-
ing her they pack their boxes, put on their
automobile coats and boas, bid her good
bye, and go.
J Appeals to their sympathy avail not One
of the recent rank and file was a middle
aged Irish lady who seemed to have some
thing of a heart beneath the folds of her
Bingham apron. When Bridget announced
her intention of leaving. Mrs. Northside
threw herself upon that heart, figuratively
speaking
81 don't see how can manage, Bridget"
she said plaintively ''The nurse is gone
you know, and how can L take care of the
two babies and COOKE" Bridget was I'M
moved. and the Bingham apron showed no
signs OF Softening. You might cook the
babies, num-" she answered. with a CLINT
of, "a smile
The leaving of her cooks has been so
steady and consistent during the winter
that IL has become a thorn in Mrs. North
sides flesh, not only for its inconvenience,
but from its modification. For time she
comforted herself with the thought that
other women's cooks left, too, but she has
had TO admit to herself that nobOdy's cooks
leave with the frequency that hers show.
In the bosom of her family she demands to
know what is radically wrong with her that
she cannot hold the affections of any cook
lady for at least as long time do her
neighborS, but to the outside world she has
turned a gay front and assumed that her
lot was merely the common lot of woman
kind.
But one day the next-door cook came In.
The next-door cook might almost be said to
have grown up with the next-door family,
for she had been with them for eighteen
months. The neXt-door cook has q large
heart, and she has frequently helped Mrs.
Northside out in her kitchen troubles She
came into the kitchen where little Mrs.
Northsides was struggling despondently
with a heap of untidy breakfast dishes
Now. I'm going to tell you something.
Mrs. Northsides," said the next-door cook,
with a sympathetic air. II don't want you
TO be thinking it's me that's after meddling
with your affairs, for it's for your own good
that I'm tellin' you: Now, you're sweet.
good Teddy, Mrs Northsides, but We can't
keep a gurrul / got Mary for you, you
know right well, but you couldn't keep her.
Didn't she up and leave, and she not here
three weeks"
Mrs. Northsides struggled between a de-
sire to laugh. a desire to cry, and tempta-
ton to box the cocklady's ears. She has
a sense of humor. however so she decided
on the first. Then she said:
but look here, Nora, why don't my girls
stay? Don't they think I'm good to them
don't they like me?'
Now, don't be thinking that, Mrs.
Northsides; sure they like you; they all
like you real we'll. But you can't keep none
OF them, an it's not me that can tell you
why. There amt never any telling why
girls leave. But this is what want you TO
be after knowing, Mrs. NOrthsides, and it's
it. You're gettin' an awful bad reppy-
tashun. I'll tell you IL, because | like you
Mrs. Northsdes, and / want you to be care
full mum; you're having your advertise
ment I'm the paper most all the time and
you're getting an awful bad reppytashun,
num-
But even that did not solve Mrs. North
sides problem, and the cookladies are still
coming and going.
After-theater parties and suppers are af-
fairs of long standing, but after-party sup
pers are rather recent fad. They are none
the less popular, however because of their
novelty, and the members of the younger
set are getting a good deal of fun out of
these small and very informal functions
The scene of the after-party festivities is in
some one of the dairy lunchrooms down
town. and as the hour chosen is we'll along
in the wee sma' ones, the young people
have the places very much to themselves.
Everybody knows that one is never hun
grier that after a dance no matter how
elaborate supper may have been served
in connection with the festivity. When. as
is the usual plan, the refreshments con-
sist of punch and perhaps ices and cakes
the dancers are apt to be fairly ravenous,
and the plan OF driving down town for a bit
of something to eat before going home has
been adopted enthusiastically by the mem
bers OF certain coteries among the younger
people.
The dairy lunchrooms keep open al night
although. of course, after y or l o'clock
their patronage is very limited. Conse-
quently the girls and men in their dainty
evening frOcks and suits. the latter still by
no means general wear in indianapolis
are in no danger OF making themselves con-
spicuous when they flock into one OF the
clean light rooms down town. Pie, baked
beans, and all kinds OF toOthsome and in
party meal. and the incongruous variety OF
the lunch makes IL much more enjoyable
than a trim little supper served In ones
home would be.