Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-13

| to hush your foollshness." she said severely
Think I'm going to have the Baltimore
folks running back to the asylum with n
tale that I accepted board money from
you and treated you like a servantg''
| seryantg said both the little girls
together in voices OF surprise which made
Mrs. Burdefte vince. Then the little girl
boarder stamped as well as walled In q
very agony of bitter grief.
That night the troublesome little boarder
sobbed TO herself in the cot beside Mrs.
burdette The mistress, too, was troubled
The little girl help seemed willing enough.
but evidently the asylum people had taught
her nothing at all in the way of honsewors
she asked so many questions.
They're both of them babies that )
what they are" said the mistress. "Oh,
dear, m afraid I'm too fond of money. I
better have hired Henry Prater, if she is
black. and paid her wages
She had considerably left the door open
between her bed room and the loft over
the kitchen wherein lay the little girl help,
heart-broken at that slip of her tongue
which had called her a servant. They were
both awake. she knew. by the sobs and the
UNI atural stiffness, disturbed. strange lit
| tie human beings in a strange world.
BY and by the child beside her fell asleep,
| but In her sleep she tossed restlessly then,
after another spell of waiting, Rosys reg
ular breathing came to her.
| In years to come / may be very glad
that | did it, said the mistress trying to
console herself and ten dollars sure and
certain every month even for little while
| Is worth some trouble.
On the mantel of the large room there
| was alarm clock. set to go off at
| clock in the morning. for Mrs. Burdette
| had been used to early rising all her life
! and found that 1t paid.
I .'Whurrrrri'' went the clock, but, wonder
| full to relate, it awoke only the mistress
/ Il was expecting the two of them to be
| Jumping up asking what was that, said
! the mistress to herself, for 1t seemed to
her that everything in ordinary life was
| new to asylum children. She got up. slowly
| and surely, she had been getting up for
| a number of years. ever since she had
| grown fat Suddenly a perplexed express
! sion came to her face. 1t was when she
| was about to call the little girl help. so MS
/ to get her into good habits from the be-
/ ginning, and was stepping softly past the
| cot in her room, in order not to arouse the
troublesome boarder
! For,>casting a glance at the cot, she saw
| that it was empty.
/ Crossing the room hastily Mrs Burdette
| opened wide the door that led into the loft
] and behcld two children locked in each
| others arms in the cot that wasn't by any
| manner of means too large for Rosy.
/ Children were queer things to Mrs. Bur
dette. She did not understand them at
all.
I ..W-ben each could have a bed" she said
''to do a thing like that! I reckon Rosy
didn't want her but she Just come any
way. I'm afraid it's going to be as hard
to teach the one how to be boarder as 70
/ tedch the other how to help around the
| house, Then she gave sigh OF refef
/ and added: 81 reckon the summer boarders
| will get hold of her and give her plenty OF
| lessons. Sit in the swing for hours play
| tennis In the broiling sum-. never wear
| nothing on your head and gaiiivant about
| the country with your sleeves rolled up
| like you was crazy. L shouldn't wonder II
! she wouldn't learn such things right on
| once she gets started and then who's go
| ing to take her off the asylum's hands! No
| body in these parts WI be able 10 DO II
excepting old Mr.. Lawrence.
| Returning to the present she called,
Rosy! Rosy It's time to get up!
| Rosy opened her eyes in wonderment, not
knowing where she was. Then realfza ton
| came to her. and, very softly, even though
Maud was a great little sleeper. she freed
herself from that affectonate embrace.
| "I thought it was a dream, she said,
| and then Jumped out of bed to learn to be
| that useful something, little girl help.
81 don't want you ever to think that L
| look upon you as a servant" said Mrs Bur-
dette, 'for | don't.
Rosy's face flushed; she had forgotten.
From the start you must try to please
me and don't ask too many questions.
| Rosy said Yes" and No., confusediy.
"She's going to try all right, Thought
| the mistress II reckon 1t won't be her
| fault if she doesn't succeed. 1 just ought
! to pitch in and teach her hard and quit
| thinking everastingly of Kenny Prater.
(Fo be continued next Saturday,