The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

never expect 10 III hdIy PA"~S'
sighed Mrs. Schofield, over the maya
zine she was cutting. Here it is the
6fteenth and l haven't had chance
before to glance at the monthly.
There's nothing lost, assure you,
replied her husband from the depths
of his Review. THE New woman
doesn't spoil in half a moon, does
she?"
I'm more anxious to know some
| thing about the new servant. nope
she won't marry and leave Just as
soon as she becomes invaluable.
was boasting SO of Katy only last
week."
"Oh, no; she'll not be the marrying
kind, can assure you"
Indeed Il
"'Pon my word, l believe the most |
h,rd's-nest-like affairs in the world |
are household matters. Same slavisn'
slow methods of work. I'd get you
ANYTHING in the world II you'd only
turn over a new leaf and show some
interest in labor-saving appliances.
don't blame a domestic for marrying
or escaping the serfdom Of the kitchen
in any way possible. It's little better
than a treadmill If had to get along
in the office as you do in the house, my
help would desert me, too How long
would my stenographer submit to 90
all my work with goose-quill pen!
There you go OF on your usual tan
gent again, Reuben" she sighed.
How often have told you that most
of the household machinery advertised
is so disappointing?
Mrs. Schofield shook her head In
credulously. She was used to her hus-
bands vagaries, as she considered
them. Hadn't she tried patent wash
3 ing machine, and didn't it wear out
: her clothes? Hadn't an agent induced
q her to put in q self-turning meat
a broiler, and hadn't it burned up her
husbands breakfast and nearly set
the house on fire? Hadn't she been
swindled again and again by oily
e tongued agents with button-hole ma
s chimes, rug machines, buckingham
e ers, carpet-cleaners, bread-cutters
h porch-scrubbers, silver-burnishers-
: everything which gullible creature
could be blarneyed into buying-ex
y cept a dish-washer? She drew TIN
line at destruction of her precious
IT china Not one piece of it should eve
g. be sacrificed to this Moloch of moderl
le invention.
2. So intent did she become In her RI
20 Elections upon these experiences tina
). she lost consciousness Of her skeptics
!. husbands presence, and, indeed, 9
-, everything except the hired girl que'
III ton which had been uppermost in he
ae mind for fortnight.
Id Suddenly the bell rang. She aros
ed and went to the front hall door. N
one was there. Then muttering In
patiently over the steps her mistak
had cost her, she made her way
- the kitchen door.
u who's there?"
es Good evening, Mrs. Schofel
a Don't you think, ma'am, that an ele
Ily trio bell outfit with an annunciats
,u- would soon pay for itself in the steI
he it saved?
IN. The voice was pleasantly modula
- ed, yet 1t spoke with briskness al
assurance which indicated an aggre
sive owner.
Ia Oh, dear, another canvasser! 81
mt felt sure, instead of an applicant {
DIV Katys vacant place.
nd I've heard the batteries freeze a
its leak and are so much trouble" 81
,se politely answered the caller, as s.
mn seated her, dreading another comb
with an agent.
IF neglected" admitted the 9TH
'but the real trouble is infinitesimal
18th made part of well-regulated 8.
the tenn"
of But servants are so apt to be NJ
the lectful, and one can't think of eve
nit. thing ones SELF"
lea. you speak of the old servant. s
~. was a creature of muscle alone. a
80, unframed for thinking. But now it
different"
Then" went on the caller, u
1'n- electric doors are the thing betwe
a dining room and kitchen. They OF
Gus automatically when you step on
life. mat, and avoid all the rattle and bs
ere of opening with the elbow when a Il
tn. of dishes is in the hand, or kick
on+ with the foot"
How persistent she is?" thoul
Mrs. Schofield. "She really means
fit out the house, / guess"
And the dumb walters are run
H. the same way now" went on the Il
are err as if unconscious of causing {
'nd. annoyance. Really the thing now
raw the disappearing refrigerator. N
late eled after the vanishing gun carris
ives I suppose. No reason that the ap