The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01


a few years, you shall visit the north
or the springs every summer II you de-
sire it,
Lord, if I do all these things you
mention l shall have no time for read
ing, music, or painting,"
Yes you will. My mother"
"Oh, for the Lords sake, Mr.. Baldwin,
hush talking about your mother! I'm sick
and tired of hearing you talk of my
mother this, and my mother that, and
when l went to your house l didn't see
that she got along a bit better than my
mother, except In her cooking; and that
was only because your mother cooked
the meats and your sisters made the
pastry. 1 don't see the use of having
servants if one must do everything her.
SELF
MY sisters make the pastry to be
sure; because mother desires that they
should learn how to do these things, that
they may better superintend the doing
| of them when they get married, and be-
cause she thinks such things should not
pass through the hands of servants when
| it can be avoided; but my mother never
cooks"
She does. for I saw her lifting off
pot myself"
She does not"
Here the entry of the cook stopped a
controversy that was becoming rather
warm for the first evening at home.
| Il want the keys, Miss wilma, to get
out supper" said the cook.
There they are, Aunt Clary," said
Evelina; TRY and have everything very
NICE
| My dear, | wouldn't send her to the
provisions unattended; everything depends
upon your commencing right
"Hush!'' said Evelina, with some aglta-
| ton; II wouldn't have her hear YOU for
the world She'd be very angry If she
thought we suspected her honesty. Ma all
ways gave her up the keys, and she
says she never detected her in theft
in all her life."
| Very WELL" said George well see'
| After long waiting the supper made
tits appearance. 1t consisted of smoked
| tea, half-baked biscuits butter and sliced
venison.
Why said Evelina, as she slipped her
| first cup of tea, this tea seems to me to
be smoked. Here, Flora, throw it out
and make some more. Oh, me! the bis
cults amt done. Aunt Clarys made quite
an unfortunate beginning. But l didn't
want any supper-do your"
Il can do without it, said George,
coluiy, IL you call
WELL let's not eat any. and that will
be the very way to mortify Aunt Clary
without making her mad. Tomorrow I'll
laugh at her for cheating us out of our
supper, and she won't do SO any more.
The old creature has very tender feel
ings"
I'll starve for week to save Clary's
feelings" said George, 'if you will only
quit aunting her. How can you expect
her to treat you or your orders with re-
spect when you treat her as your supe-
riorT'
well, really, i can't see any great
harm in treating aged people with re-
spect, even if their skins are black"
Il wish you had thought of that when
you were talking to old Mr. Dawson.
l. should think he was entitled to as
much respect as an Internal black
wench!'
This was the harshest expression that
had ever escaped Georges lips. Evelina
could not stand It. She left the room,
threw herself on bed and burst into
tears.
In the course of the night the matter
was adjusted
The next morning George rose with the
sun, and he tried to prevail upon his
wife to do the same, but "she could not
see what was the use of her getting UP
so soon, just to set about doing nothing;
and, to silence all further opportunities
then and after upon that score, she told
him fatty she never would consent to
rise at that hour. ~
At half after eight she made her APP
pearance and breakfast came in. 1t con-
sisted of muddy coffee, hard-boiled eggs,
and hard-burnt biscuit.
why, what has got into Aunt Clary"
too hat CHI nnn re M hod Ixy9s
why, we mortified her so much, my
dear. by eating no supper said George,
that we have driven her to the opposite
extreme. Let US now throw the break
fast upon her hands. except the coffee,
and perhaps she'll be mortified back to
medium"
That's very witty, indeed" said Eve
Ilina; you must have learned 1t from the
amiable and accomplished Miss Nancy
Dawson"
This was an allusion which George
could not Withstand and he Redeemed to
scarlet.
.'Evelna," said he, you are certainly
the strangest being that ever met with;
YOU are more respectful to negroes than
to whites, and to everybody else than
your husband"
Because" returned she. negroes treat
me with more respect than some whites.
and everybody else with more respect
than my husband"
George was reluctant to commence
Tightening the reins of discipline with his
servants for the first few weeks of his
lnMstersihp; and therefore he bore in 81
lence, but in anger their idleness, their
insolence and their disgusting familiari-
ties with his wife. He often visited the
kitchen, unobserved. of nights. and al
most always found 1t thronged with gay
company. revealing in all the daintiest of
his closet, snoke-house, sideboard and
pantry. He communicated his discover
les to his wife but she found no difficulty
in accounting satisfactorily for all that
he had seen. 'Clary's husband had al
ways suppliedaher with everything she