The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-28


Pronounce French. and wholly left out you vii
feel
Nobody's in it who can't. without tripping
Iaik golf, and talk bridge, and talk automobile.
You don't get much gratitude when
you try to do things for people" says the
little woman in green. I'm about ready
to give it up. Day before yesterday. as
came along the street 10 take a car, I
met one Of my nelghbors, and seeing my
satchel in my hand, she asked me where
was going. ] told her I was going to
Baltimore for the day. There was man
just behind mel didn't see where he
came from-and as I stopped % wait for
tho car he stepped up and asked me If I'd
kindly mail a letter for him in Baltimore.
lie said it was rather an important letter.
and II had 10 be mailed IN Baltimore. /
was too much hurried to wonder what
reason he could have for wanting a Bal
timore post-mark on the letter, and took
It and tucked it into my bag. I was fear
fully busy all day, and-WeH. ! never
thought about that letter again till I got
of the cars at the station here in the
evening Then I hurried into drug store
and bought special delivery stamp, and
mailed the thing at once. I didn't sup
pose I'd ever see the strange man again.
but as went UP my street, there he was
coming down it again.
Thank you Cor mailing that letter. he
} said.
m awfully sOrry,' began, and then !
told him how I'd forgotten it till just a
few minutes before. He didn't thank me
at all for the ten cents spent He just
turned funny greenish color and said a
curse word, and hurried away. ] never
saw so impolite a man. What earthly
diHeTence could post-mark make? I
wish now I'd noticed the address on the
letter, but / was too polite TO look. All
saw was the word Baltimore on IL.
Ia Just give anything to know why he
said that curse word
Speaking about letters. There are two
kinds that the average American viii
write without the slightest appreciation
of their importance. One is a letter Of In
PRODUCTION, and the other is servants
reference. A woman with a perfectly
plaid past had a dinner given in her honor
here last winter on the strength of
letter Of introduction from kind hearted
woman, who had happened TO travel from
Ogden to Chicago In the same car with
her. and ali the intrOducer said In excuse
when the gtver OF the dinner reproached
her, was that the introduced seemed TO
heT a mighty nice woman. with all her
toilette belongings solid silver One Of
my acquaintance has recently had her
gray hairs multiplied because Of house
maid who came 70 her with a reference
a rrarz oil
eTence' declared the maid, TO be honest.
obliging. and capable. ard she was. Also.
she had fits. but the reference didn't
mention that at all. The matter rather
annoyed the lady who doesn't care to
GroW Sray too soon. and she went TO tell
the woman who signed the reference what
she thought Of her.
Didn't you know she had fts?" she
demanded
The signer of the reference was not at
All faxed by being addressed in this
way.
That's neither here nor there" she
said haughtily. 4 am not a doctor 7 |
WASH I al all sure they were real fits. and /
/ never put things in a reference that
/ m not sure Of. Besides, she added as
an afterthought, she was always per
iecty willing TO pay for anything she
broke"
My mother-in-law says that the way
10 solve the servant problem is to treat
your servants as if they were human be-
ings." says young matr0n. Make them
feel she says. that you are their
friend, that your house is their home.
and all that sort OF thing. II sounds
lovely, and l don't doubt it's the right
Idea. Anyway, it made such an impress
sion on me that when we took 2 fiat I
took particular pains 10 fix up the kitch- !
en- with screens and things, the way the
women > ma gaines recommend, SO that
my maid could receive her friends there
occasionally and feel happy and at home
Ny mOtheT-in-law was ever so pleased /
when she came on from Chicago and saw /
u. Ste has a real sitting room for her
maids, but then she lives in a house and
mas plenty Of room, and, of course, YOU /
can't have everything in a fat She
talked about how nicely we were going
10 get on. for two whole DAYS Then
one evening the door bell rang. Nv maid !
didn' Z answer IL at once, and my mother /
in-law, who took a great interest IN her. /
said she was probably changing her
trock, so she'd answer the bell / was 4
near enough TO see it all. She opened the
door and there stood u man tn a high /
hat and a Eight overcoat. He was as ele-
gant as could be, and Just about as 4
black.
o., Is Miss Lucy johnson at homer he /
asked, very politely
l couldn't hear what my mother-in-
law said. but I heard his next speech
VIII you please take my card to
i had TO go into my own room and
stay there with the door shut for I'VE
minutes 70 get my face straight. When I
saw my mother-ln-law again, she was the
color OF a ripe tomato. She hasn't said
one word since about making ones maids
feel at home, bat she's trying to per
suade US TO move into a house. No right.
minded person, she says. can live with
out a basement door"
They are repeating a saying Of Mrs.
Blank, who is locally renowned for saw
ing things, and if Il woman who has as
much money as she has isn't entitled 10
use what language she pleases, I don't
know what unchecked socialism IS bring
ing this country 10. anyway.
Mrs. Y is mad about motoring" Dir. Y
said IN her presence, She has an entire.
" new nomenclature since / saw her
last"
Has she?" asked Mrs Blank. ..wbv.
she told me they were going TO get a Pan
hard"
/ don't know the make OF the automo-
bile I saw one day last week but I pre-
sent my respects TO the man who ran il
He was all alone In the car. and he
came whizzing along S street. to the cor
ner Of Sixteenth. A carriage was pass
ing up Sixteenth street. and the motor
car man honked his horn impatiently. 10
scare Il out Of the way. Then he saw
what followed the carriage, and nut on
the brakes suddenly. The autornobile RAJ,