The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-29
BY ANN ApoAMs.
ARTICLE No. 3.

There was a peculiar interest at
tached to being literally cast into the
streets OF a strange city, sick, friend
less and with only s2.36 In my pocket.
by a woman who posed before her
clubs as humanitarian and philan-
thropist with special concern In the
welfare of working girls.
This experience came TO me when
was a housemaid or second girl
in one of the homes located In o fash
ionable and exclusive residence dis
trict. This woman. who keeps up club
appearances by writing papers on the
problems of the day, after she has
had her o'clock breakfast served
in her room, did not carry out In the
management of her household the
same ideas that she expressed to her
lorgnettcd club sisters.
She refused to permit me to wear
a wrap 10 protect myself from the
raw wind while scrubbing porch
floor. To keep up the esthetic reputa-
ton OF her house was more to my
mistress than TO subject her maid TO
pneumonia and perhaps death. She
could get new maids, but the over
stepping OF what she considered a
conventional line might have caused
her to drop a couple of notches in
the standard of propriety which she
and her friends maintained.
So caught cold.
As I was washing dishes In the
china closet, Wednesday, after lunch,
''the missus," as the cook called her,
came in.
You feel rather Ill, don't your" she
questioned.
II was the first personal word she
had given me during my service to
her.
IT do feel SICK" confessed.
Are you going cut this afternoon"
asked my mistress.
NO." said !, II have no friends to
visit"
.s1reifl fna afraid yen are going To
be sick" she said, so you had better
take your Afternoon out and not come
back. You might see doctor"
4 thought OF the 21 cents and the
postage stamp my pocketbook then
contained.
II think owe you SAILS" said my
employer. laying the money among
the dishes had washed.
But, madam" exclaimed, where
shall go? What shall do? know
practically no one in the town, as you
are aware"
sThere are the charity wards at
the hospitals" she said, vaguely,
moving toward the door.
But no charity ward would accept
me. L am not Ill enough"
well, I'm sure I don't know" she
said; there are working girls homes
and things. suppose you could try
the ". w. c. A."
Where is the Y. w. c. Az" !
asked.
"You really should not expect me
to answer your questions. Why don't
you ask your young man who was
sitting out here with you the other
night asked the mistress OF the
kitchen.
Il do not know that young man well
enough to care to tell my troubles to
him." ! answered.
x dare say he would be perfectly
willing to look after you Tor q few
days She threw the Insult at me. as
her silken skirts swished through the
pantry door. -'-
How longed to forget that was
only a servant, and say to her az wo-
man to woman what Thought OF her
writing clnh papers on Universal
Sisterhood," and before the ink was
dry. treating one OF her own house
hold SO uncharitably!
The only caller I had during my
service to Mrs. was a man who
spent an hour with me In the kitchen
one evening after my work was done.
He was the friend OF girl I knew
in. another city and she had asked
him to call. Most Of his visit was
taken-up with my making butter
ballss.
Oh, those butter balls!
They were the bane of my exist
ence, and q disgrace to the household.
The mistress said 80. And they were
not what might be called a bowling
success. sv*
There was war over those butter
balls. My mistress hobby was trim
mings She cared little for funda-
mentals, such . as enough cookine
utensils, but she would have finger
bowls and candelabra every night for
dinner. II was the same way with
the butter balls, and she bewailed my
incapacity IL this respect, while II
never entered her head to find out
whether or not kept my dish mops
and tea towels sweet smelling and
free from germs. ~ww
So I spent all my spare time-eyen
when / was supposed to be entertain
ing callers-seriousIy padding little
squares of creamery butter
I had applied for the situation with
out a reference. Mrs. 49, spent a
half hour trying to impress upon me