The Forrest City times., 1905-03-03
HOW ANTON SOLVED THE SERVANT
 GIRL PROBLEM

N iON ftENIENMl | l-l4Sb Sdt III H1S "A office, and the smile that began to lgnt his gray German eyes spread out like the rising sun over the broad eX- panse of his red cheeks until it 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 Mag haitian. |. $. A. to appreciate the value of ide;.s. Ibis idea was great. Easily a spectator must have discovered that, If, unseen, he could have watched the vast and appreciative smile illumne 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 al intervals to rest the burden of her domestic cares upon his broad and generous shoulders mot 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. It 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 effusive 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 tly did the same, a little trick he had brought from his neighbors in Alsaee- Lorraine. in the Fatherland
 Sara was a most excellent girl" he said, convincingly, as if to amend mat ters
 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- fited 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 r years he had conducted al employment agency i'll the fashion able residence district of upper New York, and scarcely a house between For tieth street and Lexington avenue anC Eighteenth street and Central Park Wes not to include some cross-streets oi eminent probability which har- bored a maid Of his selection The num- Der reached far into the three figures Shrewd he was, and he knew the valuC of a 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 hat no more business to GO.
 Tn the main they were eontentod Largely they looked upon him as grea and true friend Therefore, Anton fel that they would have no objection tC hardening to his counsel; il would dC them no harm. and as for him-well perhaps Anton's smile grew even broad CT and more expansive as the idea til- tered it's way again through his fertile mind
 And that day Anton Hegenmuller' lit ue stenographer-one who had eradu ated from the ranks of the domestic got busy. The result of her labors ap peared in small, characteristic missiye reading like this:
 Dear Miss Brown: l have found you q very. very much nicer place. I have beer watchi-.4, your work closely and the tepu- fation i -ieh you have made in your pres. ent positiSss has earned this for you. l am very, very ad io tel you about f. and know that you wiB like t and the lads which you are going with Nil like you You are to quit your present employ men, & week from next Thursday, giving one weeks notice, and come to me. Yours truly,