The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-12-10
SCENE IN HOUSE OF 1000 CAN DLEs OPERA THURS
DAY, DECE MBER,

gie's daughter, with the children,
lived with her, and when the disease
broke cut the house was quarantlned
and my fine two weeks wash was
fumigated, of course. and ruined in
the process, and We wouldn't have
taken it back anyway; and it was a
dreadful calamity, too, for it just
happened that I'd put lot Of my
trousseau things that I'd kept packed
away-saving them for years
the wash that week; and there was
the whole wash complete loss!
"Really, it makes me shudder even
Ito think Of the way my husband car
ried on when he heard about it. Mag
gle told me about it over the tele-
phone and I could hear her crying
as she old me.
"My husband was perfectly un-
reasonable. He roared at me for
not knowing that Maggie's grand
children were going to have scarlet
fever, roared at me for not having
fired Maggie years and years ago on
general principles, despite her ex-
cellence as a laundress; shouted at me
for having put my trousseau things
in the wash instead of sending them
to the laundry and just went on
something frightful.
II told him that it was a thing
that couldn't be helped, and that
really I hated to lose Maggie as a
washerwoman after having had her
so long.
" Look a-here, d'ye mean to stand !
and tell me that you'd have that
that robberess again to do your
clothes my clothes, too? Never
forget that I've got to wear some Of
the washing! Dye mean to tell me
that you'd have her back again af-
ter the deal she's handed out to US?
II told him as soothingly as I
could that really Maggie hadn't been :
to blame; that on the contrary, she
had been the victim Of exceedingly
bad luck He only emitted ~hoarse
noises in his throat when I tried to
put the matter in that light and
rushed out to his lodge meeting. !:
"About six weeks later Maggie
called on me one afternoon. The
ooor old thing looked very disheart- :
sned and miserable. She didn't ask
o be given our washing again; she
,nly came to see me and to explain
;hings. But I gave her the washing
I'll the same. =
II told my husband when he got
lome that evening that Maggie had
'een to see me, but I didn't mention
anything about having given her the
again. I told MIN how bad
y she looked and all that.
" DIE give her the washing? he =
ssked me. j.
"'After what you said about
;hat?' l replied non-committally.
well, I'm ashamed Of you,
hats what I am,' he said to me in /
hat more in sorrow than in anger !
one that men know how to use. Il
1idn't think it Of you; on the level
didn't. A poor old granny Of a ,
that's been working for you ..
:or a hundred years or so and with .
hull flock Of grandchildren, and =
lust because the kids happen to get
l little something the matter with ,
EN-, why, you-oh, shucks, I didn't =
hink it Of you, honest +
"What do You suppose happened
hen? Why, I told him that I had
;iven Maggie the washing after all, 5
nd didn't he jaw and fuss at me
or having done it without asking /:
i'm first Yes, he did, but he didn't
mean it, of course. It was only his
mans way-of trying to
quare himself for having done
nice. Now, aren't men the
:inky ones?''
It was unanimously agreed that
1en were and that seemed to settle;