The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-27


we started Ia 6fs rate. he went
on, running his eye down the Heln
Wanted Female. column Of the pa.
per from force 90 habit. MY mother
willed me her old faithfu servant
been with her ever since I was q child
the real old-fashioned kind, She was,
Well, Minnie inst stayed long enough
70 Justify my pre-nuphal eulogies of
her cooking, whom one evening my
wife came in ana remarked on an agl.
tated whisper:
There's a Mr. Minnicl
impossible | began, when she cut
me short
Yes, and he's come back He was
serving a term In states prison; but
it's been shortened for good behavior
We'll, we had nothing against Mr.
Minnie, but we couldn't help wishing
when we saw our cook depart, bag and
baggage, that his had been a life sen,
tence.
we next tried a working house
keeper She was looking for a place
primarily, to store her vast belongings
incidentally as a cook. We slowed our
selves compaotly into the front of the
apartment and left Mrs Adams and
her goods and chattels the rear. Her
regime lasted two days, On the third,
having done some washing for herself
lshe refused to wash for us) she
stepped On the window sill on her re.
turn from the FIRE escape, where she
had hung out her wash, and the win
dow sill gave way under her $50
pounds We found her straddling the
wreck lamenting that she was injured
for life and breathing forth dire
threats Of damage suits.
''Dur next was Olga, who claimed
70 have worked for the royal family Of
Sweden She had an ineumbrance IN
the shape Of four-yearold child but
we were desperate. so agreed to the
child. Various adventures marked the
reign Of Olga. One night after hard
day at the office I came home to find
a crowd about our door and Olga
standing on the step wringing her
hands and moaning that her child was
lost. | offered to try and find the child
II Olga would cease her waillng and
get dinner ready-and was called
heartless brute for thinking Of dinner
under the circumstances.
I notified the police and then after
joining In the search for several hours,
was told by my wife over the telephone
that the child had been found playing
in the back yard Several incidents Of
this kind reconciled me to the ineyi.
table departure Of Olga. who also had
sort Of husband who made periodical
1eappearances in the bosom OF his
family
Next came Old Virginia, a regular
southern NANNY, who looked to be 80
years old at least She was respect
ful old darky and her soft yassam
70 my wifes directions made a pleas
ant contrast to the abrupt manners Of
the more modern girls. Every girl has
her day, and this girl Of 80 began to
get downcast toward the end Of the
month Her mother was sick down
south somewhere, and she was afraid |
it was very serious If you could have
seen Virginia, with the weight Of al |
most century bending down her
shoulders, you would have realized
that any sickness her mother might
have would be almost hopeless at thol
advanced age she must have been.
Worse news on the very last day o.
The month made it compulsory for her
TO leave az once for the sunny south.
Mary The hungarian, who never
would wear shoes. and went around
in her stocking feet ali day, was the
next visitor 70 our kitchen Mary did
not look like a belle, but her suitors
were many and at last she suceumbed
to one persistent swain. She could not
tell which TO choose, as she liked the
man from Hoboken but did not like
the place and did not like the man
from the East Side, but did like New
York She finally chose New York.
Nora was the last She also had
heart strings that We're being pulled
from Ireland A youth who loved her
kept writing her to return to the old
sod and her old father also joined his
appeals in vain. Nora liked America
and il they could not find courage to
follow her she was not going to give
up the land Of wine and honey for
while yet When she got enough mon
ey she would return She made yer
bal contract to stay with us for three
years. We settled back with a sigh OF
relief Two weeks later we went to
the country, in the mountains of Penn
sylvania The banshee followed us.
for there we're no other white servants
there and as there had been an add.
kion to our family recently it was nee
essary TO have Nora along. Nora
would not eat with the colored ser.
SAINTS and the house would not provide
separate arrangements for her. Nora
left In high dudgeon and wild tele-
grams to my wife's mother brought
her up to help US with the baby till
we could get back TO civilization.
Once more the hunt is on and we
are wildly advertising and running