The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-23
FROM THE BACKWOODS.

NUN FfE DRCN WUCDC.
Washington Star: An elderly Washing
tonian who recently moved over to New
York with his family and Installed his
transferred lares and penates in the in
evitable fiat. was detailed and delegated
by his wife to fare forth and obtain the
services of a maid servant.
He didn't manifest any very alarming
enthusiasm over his deputizatton, but he
IS a man OF peace. and his wife had
spoken.
So he started off to a downtown en-
ployment agency to look the ground over
Ito be looked over himself, that is to say.
with discerning and disappearing criti-
cism by fifteen or twenty hard-yisaged
domestics of all nations, who were lined
around the employment agency on chairs
and benches. waiting for chances to tiout
and squeich i~nconsequential male persons
seeking household help.
The elderly Washingtonian was back
here on a flying business trip yesterday,
and he was telling how he made out at
the New York employment agency.
After he had been simply nodded to the
away back by two Scandinavian young
persons who addressed themselves partic-
ularly to an inspection of his shoes-which
caused the ex-Washingtonian to look ap-
prehensiyely at his pedals to see If any
tn. ng was the matter with them since he
had seen them last-he bucked I'D. sot his
nerve together. and braced a broad-faced
Hibernian lady who had been closely
scrutinizing his every movement from his
arrival at the employment agency.
u a~m-er-seeking for a girl, you know -
said the ex-Washingtonfan to the Milesian
lady, in an anoloretic tone monninr h;s
forehead. and sneakily wondering whv Mr.
Pleasant, Washington. d.. G.. badn,. re-
NAMED good enough for him ana his s.Ara
-uh-you looking for employment NAV T
Inquire"
law, it's Swades youse is lookin, r,r,,
replied the lady from Hihernia gl.,cine
contemptuously over at the pa:r of Scan
dinavtan young women who had declined
to vouchsafe the so
much as a word. IVY don't yeez take
tn Swades, thin?"
Il am not really particular about tho
nationality, so long as the girl 10 other
wise suitable" replied the ex-vVasbine
ltoniar. iii II low, persuasive tone. Nor do
I believe that my wife considers the mat
ter OF nationality as OF vital imnorta nra
we have a fiat up in Harlem1we are new.
corners in the city, you understand and,
"Sthrangers, is it?. interrupted the H;-
bernian lady. San pwhere is yeez fromar
We'll, we-er came to New York from
Washington, replied the man VIII, had
left behind his happy Mt. Pleasant home
but previous to that we had resided in,
..Washingtono An, nwhara a. trntoo
broke in the lady from the emerald isle
with the Puckandjudke countenance.
Why, replied the former Washington
ian. "Washington is a place some liftla
distance from New York city-in a south
erly direction-and it is"
An is it annywheres near Philadel-
phy?' the lady with the upturned nose
interrupted to inquire.
Well, humbly replied the one-time
Washingtonian, st isn't exactly near
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. four hours ride on
the steam cars-but n 10 nnita a oit,.
Washington is, and"
30 niver heard av tn place" inter
rupted the lady from tho aped sod . a.,
dim not a-wur-r-kin, f,r no nayn,a 4hat