Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-01-20


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.
| think that men are almost as bad
as women in this matter. A man IL
lust as likely to be interested in our
case Of the servant-boarder az a wo-
man is, and l never go out anywhere
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 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 q furnished house in the noun
tains every summer, but we can't get
servant up there and Nadjezda
(she's a Pole) could not lie 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 capable
cook cooking.
sometimes wish that some Of the
incapable ones could be cooking some
where.
q 4 q
wOU were thinking yesterday, my
y good woman, that you were
little better than the lady who called
on you although she has more money
than you.
But are you really better than 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 your husband
had a college education and her hus-
band was a day laborer.
But why should your husbands ed.
ucation or her husbands wealth have
anything to do do with you or herI
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 sIt
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 well disposed toward you
because she thinks both you and your
husband are clever-and with her
clever has a better meaning than the
commonly accepted one.
No; in spite Of her money and her
position she is more Of a woman than
you are in spite OF your blood and
your husbands education.
= = .
~ o YOU want to know why the
-D maid left after the third hot
night? / may be mistaken, but II you
win take me up to the room she oc'
cupied l may be able to find q clew,
and there is certainly nothing about
me that resembles Sherlock Holmes.
What large closet!
Nor Not a closet! the maids
room?
oh. la. lal Gas they say in
France.)
Do you remember the black hole
Of Calcutta?
Poor maid!
And what an apology for q window.
And how hot the tin roof makes the
room even this cool day.
Wasn't It awful the way some
people treated slavesI
Makes me simply shudder to read
the accounts.
So your maid stayed through the
third hot night?
Courageous girl
! would have left after the FIRST
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