The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-11

SHE WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Summer may come and go and winter
may come and go. but the servant ques-
ton, as every woman knows. goes on
forever without change.
And here is a STORY that shows how
two men-detestable phrase that,
mere men"-by diplomacy and with a
little discomfort to themselves succeed
ed in taking an old colored cook. who
makes the best things ever, to their
country home and keeping her there.
When the bachelors explained to the
queen of their kitchen that they had
taken cottage in the MOUNTAINS, and
wanted her to so with them and con-
tinue her corn mullins in their behalf,
she shook her head obviously.
Baltemo, she said, was good enough
for her, and she didn't like 1.-The mount
ings, anyway"
The two men went into the library
hastily and closed the door, leaving the
idea to permeate. The next day the
mountains We're mentioned tentatively
again and the bachelors were informed
| that mounting air was moughty bad
for misery in de back
When the Blue Ridge was next eau
tiously spoken of, Aunt Hulda said,
well, she might have gone. except she
| didn't know how to get her cat there.
The cat is a large tabby animal,
ayerse to eaving its own 1ireside, but
at this indication of yielding on the part
of it's mistress one of the bacheors
spoke up hastily, ''I'll carry the cat IL
you'll co. said he.
Use got q heap of other things Use
gottcr hab." said the cook.
I'll take them,'' said the other bach
elor, family.
I'm think it over" observed Huda,
naughty.
4 lite later she yielded to the per-
| suasions of her employers, remarking
that she didn't like to "trabble," but
that as a great favor, and if she were
sufficiently helped, she would go.
A few days afterward, therefore,
| there was seen a fat colored woman,
attended on the one side by an eminent
| " respectable bachelor carrying a cat,
| and on the other by an eminently re-
spectacle bachelor carrying more than
thousand bndles, journeying to the
| railway station. When the train came
in Hulda was placed in a chair In the
parlor car with her cavaliers on each
side of her. and thus, in state that
| peased her soul, and amazed the trav-
| cling multitude, was she conveyed to
the cottage, where she produced waf-
fles. and fried chicken and other good
| things to make the heart of man ex-
pand.
| It's one thing to get feminine crea-
ture to a place, and another to keep her
| there, however, and the bachelors have
shown as much diplomacy in the one
matter as in the other. Whenever
Hulda seems a bit onely or uneasy, she
| is ,entreated to invite some of her rela-
| tiyes to visit her. Consequently the
heads of the house are having week
|'end parties on their own account. while
/ below stairs they are aware that the
| sisters and cousins and the aunts of
their culinary goddess have come with.
bag and baggage to form a little house
party. And to each one Hulda tells her
story, "Yo think I come up we're ak a
common niggah in a Jim Crow cab!
| No, sub, / comes on a cab with chairs
on it, JUS ak bohn lady. My genel-
mems don let meh sit wild niggahs.'
| And so far the men have been able to
keep their treasure against all COM
ers, but they never know when some
kidnapping woman will come along and
take her from them.
There's another story that has not so
happy an ending, and one which shows
the dreadful frailty of human nature,
This has also to do with cook of an
other family who was taken to the
Blue Ridge also.
She wanted to go to the mountains,
and so the family felt no qualms at al