The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

lhdt HtlOAB 10 utI. Inc rest OF the tlfne 70
has taken her to make your things was
mine, and | let her have f. She has no
right 10 charge for it. I give il to you as
a wedding present She has no reason 20
complain. because If she hadn't been here
where the work is so easy she wouldn't
have been able to sew for YOU and she
wouldn't have known you. She isn't en-
titled 10 sewing woma1s wages because
her whole time isn't devoted 20 sewing
That's the law. ! know. because my
brother Is local surgeon ~ railway
down South. and juat because he doesn't
devote his whole time 70 railway cases
and has outside practice. be- can't get
passes. It's exactly 80 same with my
maid. and you VIII pay heF just half what
she asks
The logic and the s9peal 20 law con-
WINGED everybody bu' TIE maid She IN
sisted that after toe homework was done
her time was her Own. ard she was en-
titled 70 whatever she could earn with g.
] don't know whose her time is now II
isn't the widows. anyway. The widow is
doing her own work and looking for an
other maid, but she insists that she WAS
right in the matter, and perhaps she was.
Not as a matter Of ethics. or even Of
economics. but purely as the ultimate
turning Of the worm. I'd Ike TO know by
what right the laundryman does just ex-
actly as he pleases with our clothes. OF
course. don't refer to the fringing Of
cuffs. or the smashing fat Of embossed
embroidery, or the annihilation Of but
tons. These are inevitable. and serve US
right for wearing clothes. What I do re-
fer 10 is the habit the laundryman has
Of marking things with lndelible ink
wherever and whenever it suits him. Now
and then-say, once IN a blue moon-youT
belongings come back from the laundry
with metal tags for identification pur-
poses, and each tag holds a bit Of linen
with your number stamped on il; but al
the rest OF the times there's the ink
mark and a blot after IL. II you send
your best handmade blouse, you'll find
Blk marked inside the collar when IL
comes back, and you're uncommonly
lucky if it's marked where il doesn't
show through. II makes no difference
how carefully you've sewed your initials
in They convey no meaning % the laun-
dryman. You can have your whole name
on your handkerchief, and he'll mark it
Silk Just the same. Lingerie or starched
linen. its ali one to him. He's naturally
man who's bound 20 make his mark,
and nothing can stop him. I say I'd ike
b know by what right he does Il; but,
Of course. that's a mere figure Of speech.
l know why he does it. It's because he
can. and all the tears one chooses to shed
won't wash the Blk out Of any handker-
chief one possesses.
'I used TO think that some time Id
follow the lead Of a lot Of women I
know" said the Georgetown matr0n, the
other day. "and buy some gowns OF
Nine. Y I don't know Nine ks real
name. and think there are several ot
her She carries ON a business in mis-
fl and slightly used wearing apparel. and
50 far as I know she doesn't advertise
or have a shop window. She's very ex-
elusive. SO the women who patronize
her tell me, l know one woman who had
an evening gown from her last season,
and she told me that il was one Nine.
y. had from Mrs. Vanderbilt, or Mrs.
Astor, or somebody like that. over IN
New York. Lots Of millionairesses.
said. sell their gowns 10 people
after one wearing. and Y se''
you. good as new. for q r
cost in the first place
a pretty good sche~
now. There's
honest quie'
hand tEings
maker cam
brought a lot
just enough OF
suits I select
brown cloth. wit
in II. and the 90
piece was made
don't know who
suit was to come p -=r $
place Of business We a about
half a dozen skirts C. .,ay. There
were no coats taken, 30 whole suits,
but my skirt was among the missing.
The dressmaker tried everywhere 10
match the goods. but there wasn't an
other piece Of it in the country. so I had
to select another pattern and wait an
other iuterminahle while for my winter
street suit. I always said that if 1 ever
met any woman wearing my stolen skirt
I'd grab her and march her of 20 the
iiEfflf f1L A0AiNt EidAltll AVl 0ll AlDll
There couldn't be another skirt of that
goods made as mine was made anywhere
on earth I watched for il al winter
Last week I saw it. It was worn by d
woman I know slightly-oue OF the women
who patronize one Of the ks Did I grab
her? No. didn't say a word. I even let
her tell me that a London tailor made IL
for a very fashionable Philadelphia WON
{ nh -F-- H. L
worn it once She said Nine. y told her
SO. Maybe Nine. Y. did. but if ever 1
| lose another skirt before I've worn it. I'm
going to find out the addresses Of all the
KS for the benefit of the police.
1 never get over being astonished az
the modern child. Little Marian gave me
a positive shock only yesterday. Last
summer she stayed for two months with
"a Christian Science aunt and adopted the
new belief Her family don't take it So
riously, because Marian IS only ten. but
/ l feel sure that Marian is of stuff from
which martyrs are made. She came
marching into her mothers sitting room
/ yesterday with a look Of disapproyal on
her face.
why, I thought you were going TO
spend the afternoon with Polly and Mar
garet. said her mother.
/ Il was Marian made reply, but
| couldn't get them to play right, so I came
/ home. Polly would insist on having the
| dolls sick so Margaret could play doctor.
wanted TO beat en- with science, but
| they said it wasn't any fCn. I'll Just let
/ EN- stick to their old Material Medical,
and their horrid old error
think man I saw getting off a subur-
/ ban car the other day must have been a
/ Christian Scientist or something else that
enabled him to rise superior to all purely
material concerns. His foot slipped as he
stepped down from the car. and he took a
running jump that landed him plump
! against an electric wire pole-himself and
/ a package he was carrying. I thought at
/ first that he was mortslly wounded. but