Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-03-24
FROM THE BACKWOODS.

Washington star: An elderly Washing
tonian who recently moved over 10 New
York with his family and Installed his
transferred lares and penates in the In
evitable nae, 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 dcputization. blu he
n 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 Us to say,
with discerning and disappearing criti-
cisrn by fifteen or twenty hard-visaged
domestics of ell nations, h were lined
around the employment agency on chairs
and benches. waiting for chances to fout
and squeleh inc~onsequential male persons
seeking household help.
The elderly W-ashingtonlan was back
here on a flying business trip yesterday.
and he was telling how he made OF 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 tolook APP
~prehensively at his pedals 10 see IL any
tl+IlB WAS the mdIIef With them SINCE ne
had seen them last~-he bucked up, got his
nerve together, and braced a broad-faced
Hlbernian lady who had been closely
scrutinizing his every movement from his
arrival at the employment agency.
II amer seeking for a girl, you know"
said the ex-Washingtonian to the Milesian
lady. In an apologize tone. mopping his
forehead, and sneakily wondering why Mt.
Pleasant, Washington, ID. c., hadni, re-
manned good enough for him and his. sAre
--uh-you looking for employment, may l
inquire 2"
law, it's Swades youse IN ookin Err
replied the lady from Hibernia. glancing
aontemptuously over at the par of Scan
1inavian young women who had declined
10 vouchsafe the cx-Washingtonian so
much as d word. WY don't yeez take
tn Swades, thin?"
II am not really particular about the
nationality, SO long as the girl Is other
wise suitable replied the ex-Washing-
tontan, In a low, persuasive tone. Nor do
! believe hat my wife considers the mat
ter OF nationality as of vital Importance.
We have a fiat up in Harlem-we are new
tomers In the city, you understand, and
"Sthrangers, is Its" interrupted the HI
herman lady. AN pwhere is yeez from2$
"Well. we-er came TO New York from
Washington Z replied the man who had
left behind his happy Mt. Pleasant home.
b previous to that we had resided in-'
Washington? An pwhere Is thot?"
broke In the lady from the emerald isle
with the Puckandjudke countenance.
Why. replied the former Washington-
Jan. Washington Is a place some little
distance from New York city-in a south
crly direction-arid it is--"
An Is it a~nnywheres near Phiiadel-
ply 7" the lady with the npturned hose
interrupted to inquire,
Wei, humbly replied the one-time
WashIngtonian, 1T isn't exactly near
philadelphia-ahout four hours ride on
the steam cars-hut II Is quite a city.
washington II, and
"Oi niver heard ay tn place. iate--
rupted the lady from the aged sod. AN
Orm not a-wur-r-kin' FIR no payple that
Rooms from beyant In tn b~ackwoods-
that don't kno how to thratc a gayril
~indade Ohm not-not fr love nor mon
ey-~net II Oh
But hastily put IN the former Wash
ingtonian, washington lis the capital
city Of the Whole United States, you know,
II ~ really q large city, not at all the
backwoods-a city Of large size-a genuine
city. like Dublin. and
.Isoike Dooblin, is itgt shifted the Hi
herman lady, looming over him alarming
Nv. do yeez name & till me thot there's
amy place this side o. tn big wather
thot's lolke Dooblin, whin all thot Oh kin
see is--"
II think l shall Just 20 away from here.
before l get my self disllked." said the
Washington man TO himself. and then ne
went back to the Nat and told his wife
that he didn't believe he'd make good as
i servant hunter; that he was naturally
too ~impudent, arrogant and domineering
and that he had found that none OF the
out-of-work maids would stand for his
them. and that. therefore, she'd better
run down herself and see how she'd make
out. etc. etc.
And yet this same former Washington.
Ian fought for hat bauble, reputation, a,
the capnon's mouth all through the war
etweeu the states.