The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-01-14

paid board and we handed her money
over as wages to her successors.
Servants are queer any way you
look at them; but this everlasting
talking about them, when we. are sur
rounded by art and literature and the
good deeds of philanthropists, makes
me wonder what we are coming to.
l think that men are almost as bad
as in this matter. A man is
just as likely to be interested in our
case of the servant-boarder as a wo-
where there are some strangers pres
ent but l am asked to tell about her,
and that always starts the servant
question; and l am generally asked
to take the floor, because we have had
such queer experiences.
/ have time for only one more anec.
dote, but l must tell that. Summer be-
fore last mother got a treasure of a
cook. She could cook, she was re-
spectful and respectable, she didn't
break and she was honest, but
Well, her "but" was that she would
not go to the mountains. Now we
take a furnished house in the noun
tains every summer, but we can't get
a servant up there and Nadjezda
(she's a Pole) could not be induced
to go. So we went without her, and
she lived in our city house on half
wages all summer long and cooked
for herself, while mother went to the
mountains and cooked for herself.
Still, it was a sort Of comfort to think
that somewhere we had a capable
cook cooking.
| sometimes wish that some of the
incapable ones could be cooking some
where.
WOU were thinking yesterday, my
j good woman, that you were a
little better than the lady who called
on you although she has more money
than you.
But are you really better han she?
Your husband is a salaried man and
her husband is an oil magnate.
OF course that does not necessarily
make her any better than you, be-
cause we all know that you husband
had a college education and her hus-
band was a day laborer.
But why should you husbands ed
ucation or her husbands wealth have
anything to do do with you or her?
Let us cut the husbands out of the
question.
Well, then, she has more money
than you.
Does that make you any better than
she? Is the lack Of money an un.
mixed blessing carrying with it So
cial superiority?
She with a certain touch of vul
garity, owing to her ancestors, which
you have not, thanks to your ances
tors) has a much kinder heart than
you have.
She honestly tries to be herself in
spite of the money she has, while you
have social ambitions, that cause you
to be snobbish.
You think you are better than she
She never thinks about social sta.
tus.
You feel bitter toward her because
her husband is immensely wealthy.
She feels we'll disposed toward you
because she thinks both you and you
husband are clever-and with hel
clever has a better meaning than the
commonly accepted one.
No; in spite of her money and hel
position she is more of a oma thar
, you are in spite of your blood ane
t your husbands education.
. B.
- q NOI1 want TO know WhV fht
, IO maid left after the third no
| night? may be mistaken, but if yol
r will take me up to the room she oc
cupied l may be able to find a clew
and there is certainly nothing abou
me that resembles Sherlock Holmes
What a large closet!
No? Not a closet? the maid
room?
. Oh, la, la! CAS- they say il
France.)
|. Do you remember the black hol
of Calcutta?
; Poor maid!
r And what an apology for a window
And how hot the tin roof makes tn
s room even this cool day.
e Wasn't it awful the way som
t people treated slaves?
r Makes me simply shudder to rea
e the accounts.
d So your maid stayed through tn
r third hot night?
n Courageous girl!
e l would have left after the frs
nights experience.
1t was hot on your W floor wit