Sharp County record., 1908-03-13
HUN TIN G a
MAHD
What Happened to Three Mon
Who Went on a Trail.

The three suburban men, instigated
to the act by their wives, left their
happy homes Sunday and rode down
to Curtis Bay a-loOking for Bohemian
servants. Some years before, one of
the wives told them, a cousin OF a
friend of her mother had secured a
splendid Bohemian servant at Curtis
Bay She was a tractable woman, the
servant, bidable and amiable, and so
the incident Of her engagement still
remained a tradition of the neighbor.
hood. They were to find some emil
grants exactly like her to act as do
mestics.
The three men arrived at their des.
tination and alighted in a sea of mud,
through which they made their way
with as little injury to their costumes
as possible. Arrived at the lodging
house where newly-arrived Bohemians
Icongregate, they sought the proprietor
and put it up to him to furnish maids
Tor the three families. The proprietor
was pleasant, if little difficult to
understand, owing to the brokenness
of his English. They made out finally,
however, that there was no one in the
place who wished to go out to service,
never had been anyone in the place
and that any report to the contrary
was libelous and scandalous-or words
to that effect. The proprietor added,
as the three downcast gentlemen were
leaving the place, that there was a
woman in the next block who had
three daughters who might wish posi-.
tlons
The downcast gentlemen went to
see this matron, and was informed
in words Of one syllable that the young
ladies were engaged in a factory and
did not care to change their method Of
making living,
Her language sounded so violent
though very probably it was really
harmless enough-that the visitors
backed out Of her presence and into
another sea Of mud.
where uow?" asked one man, trans.
fixing with his eye the miserable
leader Of the expedition,
ITO a priest" replied the leader, un'
daunted.
"tIe will turn us out neck and
heels" cried the other two, But the
priest did not. He received them
kindly, and broke to them so gently
the fact that there wasn't single
woman in his congregation who wished
place as maid in a family.
They went in succession after that
TO the house Of the Presbyterian min.
ster, to that Of the Lutheran minister,
md to a grocery store. In each OF
these places they told the sad story
Of their mission, and in each they re-
ceived the information that Bohemian
servants we're as difficult to find as
pIgeonblood rubles. The manager OF
the grocery store had heard, but he
didn't know how true It was, that
there was one young girl In a house
some half mile away who wished to go
out to service.
The men, now foot.weary and dis
consulate, set out at once for this
place, Quarreling en- route as to who
should have the treasure once she
was found They were still arguing
the knotty question when they reached
their objective point and found their
prey gone, The woman here said that
there had been 10 applicants for her
hand and heart before she had finally
yielded to the high salary held ont by
u lady on Charles street,
81 will 20 home with u servant or
not at ALL" cried the leader Of the eX'
peditIon, sternly 81 have been maxi
ing game of my wife for months now,
telling her that II | ever took the case
In hand | could get her servant With
out dnlculty--and she will guy me IN.
merclruly II go home empty handed,
80 to speak
At that moment they met n strange,
wIldloodng girl IN the road, and
stopped to ask her if she knew anyone
who wished the lofty position Of maid
IN d humble family, The wild.looking
girl proved to be Lithuanian who
could not speak word OF English,
She ran hastily for an interpreter
however and when che interpreter
came she said that the girl did wish a
position Of the sort offered, but that
nothing could induce her TO 10 for loaa
than eight dollars month The
loador Of the expedition told her ho
would give It to her and the second
man IN the expedition offered her ten
dollars without wnking IN eye0sh,
This occasIonCd some argument among
tho friends, and the second man finally
and very generously relinQuiahed hlo
claim ON the BeIyi 1ea Of tho young
woman, who, through the ihterpreier
promised faithfully to show up at her
now homo the next day 0t noon,
4, Tired, depressed and muddy tNo
discouraged trio then qropt homcw0rd,
one OF them was huoyed by the sonae
/ thnt IA M Inuat had ugtilnd hia bHn8t