Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16
A DIFFERENT MACHINE

A Washington man who puts IN nus
mornings at home, writing things for the
newspapers, and using a typewrHfng ma
chine for the purpose. had an ooo OK
perience the other. morning.
A couple of days before his wife hao
engaged a 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 -maio
servant had watched his manipulation OF
the typewriting machine with great Curl
osity. and on the second day of her en-
pIoyment she inquired of her mistress:
Lady, what is yo' husband dun
a-melzin'Y p
The writing mans wife didn't exactly
penetrate the meaning of the question, ana
SO she returned some evaSive reply.
On the following morning, after the mis-
tress had gone off to do the marketing,
and while the writing man was tearing OH
language on the typewriter for dear life.
there was a ring at the front door. The
maid servant answered the ring. The
writing man paused at bis work to listen
to the colloquy at the door, and he heard
mans voice say something about "a
to this by saying: 'Yessuh. dey got a ma
chine in dis house-de gemman O de house
dun uses 1t"
THAT so?" the writing man heard the
D1dlc FOlCc QOWu dL LIE ITOHt uOOT say al q
tone Of some surprise. uses the machine
himself. Ell? Is he In now?"
''Yessuh, he's in," the servant answered.
and then she clomped up the stairs to the
writing mans den and said to the busy
occupant of It:
"Dey's a gemman at de do whut wants
t see yo' all bout a machine. subj"
The writing man hustled down the stairs
and found good looking and decidedly
| laxative young man standing in the vesti-
bule. There was a wagon out in front OF
the house.
Good morning. sir" said the young man
that you use a machine-use 1t 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 a machine. but I'm perfectly
satisfied 18th the one I've got"
1t up 10 dateT' inquired the young
man in the vestibule, with a business-like
chjrkening up.
Piled the writing man. In hurried tone as
no thought Of the unfinished STORY in his
den upstairs. And it's about up to date
as I'm going to have for some time to come.
considering that only got through paying
for 1t the other day."
"Bobbinless?" inquired the young man in
the vestibule. disregarding the writing
mans expressed determination to stick 10
the machine" he had.
The writing man looked puzzled.
"Bobbinless?' he said We'll, I don't
know what you mean by that, but it has
most of the new attachments. and l guess
it fits all right with 'bobbinless.'
Got tucking and telling and quilting at
tachments to it?'' pleasantly asked the
young man in the vestibule.
Again the writing man looked bothered by
the technical nature of the queries
"Oh, it's a bully nanifOlder, sure" he re-
piled. and then the young man In the vesti-
bule looked bit surprised. But he went
ahead:
Has it got the embroiderins attach
"Oh, for the tabulating stunts-sure. it
has all OF those marks said the writing
man. 1T does any old thing that 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?'
"Oh, she doesn't use it at ALL" replied the
writing man. I'm the only one In the
house that touches 1t. She never learned
save me a lot of work.
The young man looked somewhat bafiled.
We'll" he said, after 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 / ever met up
with that makes his wife's clothes?'
The writing man came so close to falling
down right there In the hall that there was
no fun in 1t.
He pulled himself together, however, with
colossal effort, and after about four min
utes he succeeded in Strengthening the thing
out.
The young man engaged in selling sewing
machines had. naturally enough, taken the
black maid servants word for It, and the
black maid servant. to whom the type
writing machine was something entirely
new, had told him that de gemman O.
de house spen' nearly all he alfs time sew
ing on a machine"
Gosh! I'm glad I tagged thatr- ex-
claimed the writing man to himself after
the departure OF the sewing machine agent.
IF 1 hadn't 1t 'ud have been all over town
In no time that my wife bulldozed me into
making her clothes!"