The Washington herald., 1907-04-21

Il may have been record break
! Ing spring for al ] know,
There may have been no other year
/ When We 80 late had snow
/ But was there ever yet a spring
/ OF am just beuighted
To think there never set vas one
When peach crops we're not bghtedg
/
/ IF I wanted 10 set up craven image
to emhody what the average man really
Worships. I'd make 81 very large. indeed,
and I'd label it Creature Comfort. " says
a young matron. Il suppose it's because a
man never fails IN his devotion 20 the
goddess that his wants are attended TO-
( Women don't burn incense, and in time
OF real need their wants just go on being
wants If you'd pat my husband down
I in the Desert Of Sahara. he'd have mint
! julep and a verandah before I'd got the
sand out Of my eyes. We came back from
California just in time 10 strike the re-
cent food in Pittsburg. where We were
obliged TO stay two days, The water
was up as high rs the desk in the hotel
Office, so we didn't bother to register;
and that's all the water there was in the
hotel We were rowed 10 the staircase.
and then we walked. or course. there
want a bath 70 be had When I got up
next morning I made my toilette as best
I could, but you can't get your face
really clean in Pittsburg with rice powder
and cologne. I was still working hope
lessly at at my hands when my husband
came in, looking as spruce as could be.
He'd been shaved and his hands were inn
maculately clean.
How in the world did you get water
for your face and hands?" I asked. Il
couldn't get a bit"
He just grinned in superior sort OF
way.
why" he said, Il ordered half
dozen bottles of ap0llinaris. It beats
plain water any day. Didn't you think
of that?"
OF course I didn't and if I had thought
of it. It would have seemed an extrava-
CANT thing TO do. But. of course, no man
ever lets a thing Ike that stop him
when his comfort is in question. He'd
have ordered a quart Of altar of roses if
there hadn't been any bottled water on
hand.
Mrs. Tom KEENAN,. who has recently
returned from a winter in the South. has
several words to say on the servant ques-
ton.
You Washington women think you
have troubles with your servants" she
says, but you're on downy beds Of ease
compared TO the deluded Northerners who
undertake to keep house in the far
South. We bought a place about two
miles from a good-sized town. and set UP
our household goods. There was a com
Portable cabin for a man ana his wife.
but we couldn't induce any couple TO stay.
Every servant in that part Of the South
goes nome before in the ext ning. and
we were too far out to make walking
possible. For while my hus-
band gut up at in the morn
ing to drive in for the cook. and
took her home every evening before dark,
while / did up the supper dishes. These
arrangements held TIL some people who
promised TO send for her and take her
home in an automobile took her away
from us. After many tribulations we did
succeed in getting a negro and his wife
20 stay on the place. They stayed a
month. The morning after the month /
was up 1 went over to the cabin to see
why jimmy hadn't come in to get break !
fast jimmy was packing up.
" 'Yas'nl, she said, Use leavin' Nom. |
y'alIs good to me, I kin sure say that. I
but Use been here a month";
" But what difference does that maker |
asked. I want you to stay several
months
She drew herself up proudly.
" I Amt never worked out no place
longer than a month"; she said, AN / sure 4
amt goin' 10 begin now
\ surgeoG who lives in Massachusetts I
avenue tells Of a case TO which he was 4
called while he was visiting down in +
Georgia a few months ago. The patient
wasJa child, and the father had his own
idea as to what the trouble was.