The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18
HOW ANTON SOLVED
THE SERVANT
GIRL PROBLEM

A NTON HEGENMULLER sat in his
~ Office, and theAsmile that began to
light his gray German eyes spread out
like the rising sun over the broad ex-
panse of his red cheeks until 1t drew
the corners Of his mouth wide apart
and he laughed. He had an idea. A
shrewd admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm was
Anton Hegenmuller, but he had lived
long enough in the Borough Of Man
haitian, u. S. A., to appreciate the value
of ideas. This idea was great. Easily
a spectator must have discovered that,
il, unseen, he could have watched the
vast and appreciative smile illumine the
countenance Of Anton Hegenmuller.
Anton believed he had solved the
servant girl problem. Not, however,
from the standpoint of the troubled and
energetic lady who came at intervals
to rest the burden of her domestic cares
upon his broad and generous shoulders
not that His idea was purely phil
anthropic. But 1t did not include the
universe. Anton was to be the center
of 1.-THE circumference. Anton laughed
again. There was to be limit to that.
1t might include the oppressed and
down-trodden servant girl, but the
weary, If energetic, ladies who had been
Anton's patrons in the wide, cool spaces
of Murray Hill? Wait, let us see!
A soft gurgle of rubber tires on
the asphalt pavement. the frou-frou OF
silken skirts outside the Office, and An
tons smile of personal joy relaxed into
a temperate and mildly ELUSIVE well
come as a lady appeared in the door
way.
Sara says she's going!" exclaimed
the visitor, by way OF an Introductory
remark.
Anton was not staggered; neither was
he perturbed. His shoulders came up
and in about an inch; his eyebrows gen.
thy did the same, little trick he had
brought from his neighbors in Alsace-
Lorraine, in the Fatherland.
Sara was a most excellent girl" he
said, convincingly, as II to amend mat
tiers.
"But she's going!" repeated the lady,
insistently.
Anton had had much experience with
"Saras" of various nationalities and Of
many names, and he did not share his
visitors alarm. He was not discom-
flied. The incident merely strengthened
his original philanthropic plan.
Presently the guest departed, COM
forted with the assurance that Anton
himself would see the divine Sara and
compel her to relinquish the idea of for
saking SO kind and charming mistress.
Oh, Anton was tactful!
Then he resumed his broad and happy
smile and the consideration of the phil
anthropic idea. He reasoned thus:
For II years he had conducted an
employment agency In the fashion
able residence district of upper New
York, and scarcely house between For
tieth street and Lexington avenue and
Eighteenth street and Central Park West
not to include some cross-streets of
eminent respectability-but which har-
bored a maid of his selection. The num-
Der reached far into the three figures.
Shrewd he was, and he knew the value
of good servant girl. True, his recon-
mendation was not given gratis, but An
tons patrons had the greatest reliance
and faith In him. His girls were FIX
lures, like the brass faucets on the kitch-
en- sink; they seldom refused to work.
and they hardly ever wore out So good,
indeed. were Anton's girls that he had
no more business to do.
In the main they were contented.
Largely they looked upon him as great
and true friend. Therefore, Anton felt
that they would have no objection to
hardening to his counsel; 1t would do
them no harm, and as for him-well.
perhaps Anton's smile grew even broad
er and more expansive as the idea fl
tered its way again through his fertile
mind
And that day Anton Hegenmuller's lit
tie stenographer-one who had gradu-
ated from the ranks OF the domestic
got busy. The result OF her labors ap-
peared In small, characteristic missive
reading like this:
Dear Miss Brown: have found you a
very. very much nicer place. I have been
watching your work closely. and the repu-
tation which you have made in your pres
ent position has earned this for you. l am
very, very glad to tell you about II, and
know that you will like II and the lady
which you are going with will like you.
q week from next Thursday. giving one
weeks notice. and come to me. Yours
Siiy.