The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-11-09


zine she was cutting Here It is the
fifteenth 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 moon, does
she?"
I'm more anxious TO know some
thing about the new servant. hope
she won't marry and leave just as
soon as she becomes invaluable J
was boasting SO Of Katy only last
week"
"Oh, no; she'll not be the marrying
kind can assure you"
"Indeedr
"'Pon my word. believe the most
birds-nest-like affairs In the world
are household matters. Same slavish,
slow methods of work I'd get you
anything in the world If you'd only
turn over a new leaf and show some
interest in labor-saving appliances. /
don't blame a domestic for marrying
OF 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 do
all my work with goose-quill pen?"
There you go off 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. Schofeld shook her head in
credulously She was used TO her hus.
bands vagaries, as she considered
them. Hadn't she tried patent wash
ing machine. and didn't 1t wear out
her clothes? Hadn't an agent induced
her to put in self-turning meat
broiler, and hadn't 1t burned up her
husbands breakfast and nearly set
the house on fire? Hadn't she been
swindled again and again by oily
t0ngued agents with button-hole ma
chimes. rug machines, stocking-darn-
ers, carpet-cleaners. bread-cutters.
porch-scrubbers. silver-burnishers-
everything which gullible creature
could be blarneyed into buying-ex
cept a dish-washer? She drew the
line at destruction of her precious
china. Not one piece of 1t should ever
be sacrificed to this Moloch of modern
invention
So intent did she become in her re-
flections upon these experiences that
she lost consciousness Of her skeptical
husbands presence. and, indeed Of
everything except the hired girl ques-
tion which had been uppermost in her
mind for a fortnight
Suddenly the bell rang. She arose
and went to the front hall door No
one was there Then muttering i'm
patiently over the steps her mistake
had cost her, she made her way to
the kitchen door
who's there?"
Good evening. Mrs. Schoheld.
Don't you think. ma am. that an cleo
trio bell outfit with an annunciator
would soon pay for itself in the steps
1t saved?'
The voice was pleasantly modulat-
ed. yet it spoke with a briskness and
assurance which indicated an aggres-
sive owner
Oh. dear, another canvasserl she
felt sure, instead Of an applicant for
Katy's vacant place
tive heard the batteries freeze and
leak and are SO mitch trouble, she
politely answered the caller, as she
seated her dreading another combat
with an agent
III neglected admitted the other.
"hut the real trouble is infnitesimal II
made part Of well-regulated sys-
tenn"
But servants are so apt to be neg
lectful and one can't think Of every
thing ones self"
You speak Of the old servant. She
was a creature OF muscle alone. and
unframed for thinking, But now it is
different"
Then went on the caller. "the
electric doors are the thing between
dining room and kitchen. They open
automatically when you step on the
mat and avoid an the rattle and bang
of opening with the elbow when tray
of dishes is in the hand or kicking
with the foot
How persistent she is?' thought
Mrs Scholeld she really means to
ft out the house. ] guess
And the dumb walters are run ia
the same way now, went on the talk
er. as if unconscious of causing aay
annoyance Really the thing now is
the disapp refrigerator Mod
eled after the vanishing gun carrage.
I SUPPOSE. No reason that the appli.
ances of war should surpass those of
peace and domestic happiness. 1t
saves both space and labor. You press
the button and electricity does the
rest Intelngence supplants brute
force"
She paused an instant for breath
and Mrs. Schofeld shook her head