Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-13
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MAID
What Happened to Three Men
Who Went on a Trail.

The three suburban men, instigated
10 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 II 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 tradition of the neighbour
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 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
congregate, they sought the proprietor
and put it up to him to furnish maids
for 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
loo viz hn Mo
woman In the next block who had
three daughters who might wish posi-
tons.
The downcast gentlemen went to
see this matron, and was Informed
in words of one syllable that the young
ladies were engaged in 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 now?" asked one man, trans
fixing with his eye the miserable
leader of the expedition.
ITO priest" replied the leader, un-
daunted.
He 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
t. fo
They went in succession after that
to the house Of the Presbyterian min
lister, to that of the Lutheran minister,
and to grocery store. In each Of
these places they told the sad story
OF their mission, and in each they re-
ceiyed the information that Bohemian
servants were as difficult to find as
pigeon-blood rubies. The manager of
the grocery store had heard, but he
didn't know how true 1t 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 out by
a lady on Charles street.
81 will go home with a servant or
not at ALL" cried the leader of the ex-
petition, sternly. Il have been max.
ing game of my wife for months now,
in hand could get her servant with.
out difficulty-and she will guy me I'm.
mercifully If l go home empty handed.
so to speak"
At that moment they met strange,
wild-looking girl in the road, and
stopped to ask her if she knew anyone
who wished the lofty position of maid
in humble family. The Withholding
girl proved to be Lithuanian whe
could not speak word Of English.
She ran hastily for an interpreter,
however, and when the interpreter
came she said that the girl did wish a
position of the sort offered, but that
nothing could induce her to go for less
than eight dollars month. The
leader of the expedition told her he
would give 1t to her, and the second
man in the expedition offered her ten
dollars without winking an eyelash.
This occasioned some argument among
the friends, and the second man finally
and very generously relinquished his
claim on the services of the young
woman, who, through the interpreter.
promised faithfully to show up at her
new home the next day at noon.
Tired, depressed and muddy, the
discouraged trio then crept homeward. |
One OF them was buoyed by the sense
that he at least had justified his boast |
about being able to secure maid. |
The others felt that they were about !
to partake of badly cooked dinners and |
great deal of chaff. And this Is all
of the story, for we have nothing to !
do with what happened to the cru |
saders on their return to their own |
firesides except the sequel. The |
sequel will not be unexpected to !