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

4 knowledge % Hebrew, Latin. OF GfeeA.
Useless IS German, too useless Italian
Pronounce French, and wholly let out you viii
feel
Nobodys in it who can't. without tripping,
Tar golii and talk bridge, ard tab 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
20 give It up. Day before yesterday, as I
came along the street 10 take a car,
met one OF my neighbors, and seeing my
satcheI in my hand, she asked me where
I was going ! told her I was going to
Baltimore for the day. There was a man
just behind mel didn't see where he
came from-and as I stopped to wait for
the car he stepped Up and asked me If I'd
kindly mail a letter for him In Baltimore.
He said It was rather an important letter.
and It had TO be mailed in Baltimore. I
was too much hurried 80 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. ] was fear
fully busy all day, and-wen. I 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 a special delivery stamp, and
mailed the thing at once. I didn't sup
pose I'd ever see the strange man again.
but as I went up my street, there he was
coming down it again
Thank you for mailing that letter he
said
e I'm awfuIly 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 a funny greenish color and said a
curse word, and hurried away. l never
saw so impOlite a man. What earthly
difference could a post-mark make? I
wish now I'd noticed the address on the
letter. but I was too polite 10 look All
] saw was the word Baltimore on It,
I'd just give anything TO know why he
said that curse word"
Speaking about letters. There are two
kinds that the average American will
write without the slightest appreciation
Of their importance. one is a letter Of in
PRODUCTION, and the other is a servants
reference. 4 woman with d perfectly
plaid past had a dinner given in her honor
here last winter on the strength of a
letter of Introduction from a kind-hearted
woman, who had happened to travel from
Ogden 10 Chicago in the same car with
her, and all the intrOducer said In excuse
when the giveT of the dinner reproached
her, was that the introduced seemed 60
her a mighty nice woman. with all her
toilette belongings solid silver one OF
my acquaintance has recently had her
gray hairs multiplied because OF a house
maid who came TO her with reference
from very Well-knOWu woman. The ref
erence, declared the maid TO be honest,
obiiging, and capable and 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 gray too soon, and she went 10 tell
the woman who signed the reference what
she thought Of her
Didn't you know she had fits?'' she
demanded.
The signer OF the reference was not az
2h faxed by being addressed in this
way
That's neither here nor there" she
said haughtily. i am not q doctor. I
WASH [ N all sure they we're real fits, and
l never put things in reference that
m not sure of Besides" she added. as
an afterthOught. she was always per-
lectly willing 10 pay for anything she
broke.
My mother-in-law says that the way
TO solve the servant problem is to treat
your servants as if they were human be
ings, says young matron. Make them
feel she says, that you are their
friend. that your house is their home.
and all that sort OF thing Il sounds
lovely, and I don't doubt it's the right
idea. Anyway. it made such an impress
sion on me that when We took a fla;
took particular pains to FIX I'D the kitch-
en- with screens and things, the way the
women's magazines recommend. so that
my maid could receive her friends there
occasionally and feel happy and at home.
Ny mOther-in-law was ever so pleased
when she came on from Chicago and saw
II. Size mas a real sitting room for her
maids, but then she lives in house and
has plenty of room, and, OF course, you
can have everything in a fat She
talked about how nicely we were going
TO get on, for two whole days Then
one evening the door bell rang. NV maid
didn't answer it at once, and my mother
in-laW. who took a great interest In her
said she was probably changing her
frock, so she'd answer the bell / was
near enough to see it all She opened the
door and there stood man in a high
nat and light overcoat. He was as Gle
CANT as could be. and Just about as
black.
Is Miss Lucy Johnson at homer he
asked, very politely.
couldn't hear what my mother-in-
laH said, but 1 heard his next speech.
VIII you please take my card TO
her.
II had ., ca 5,,, -
stay there with the door shut for five
minutes 10 get my face straight. When I
saw my mother-in-law again, she was the
color OF a ripe tomato. She hasn't said
one word since about making ones maids
feel at home, bit she's trying to per
suade Us 10 move into d house No right
minded person, She says, can live with
ont a basement door"
They are repeating a saying of Mrs.
Blank, who Is locally renowned for say
ing things. and il a woman who has as
much money as she has isn't entitled TO
use what language she pIeases, I don't
know what unchecked socialism is bring
ing this country 10, anyway.
Mrs. Y is mad about motoring Mr..
said in her presence. She has an entire
~ new nomenclature since / saw her
last"
Has she?" asked Mrs. Blank. ''why,
she told me they were going to get Pan
hard"
l don't know the make OF the automO-
bile ] saw one day last week, but I pre-
sent my respects to the man who ran it,
He was all alone In the car. and he
came whizzing along S street, to the cor
ner OF SIX tenth \ carriage was pass
ing up Sixteenth street. and the motor
car man honked his horn inpatiently. to
scare IL out Of the way. Then he saw
what followed the carriage and put ON
the brakes suddenly. The automobile ran
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