The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-09
HOW TO KEEP THE COOK
(New York rimes.)

NASSN AOAN g.
A thrifty German in the Yorkshire
section thinks he has solved the SER
rant girl problem: He makes his
boast after a years experiment, and.
points to a spick-and-span household,
a contented wife, and a still continu-
ing servant in corroboration there
Of.
The husband had long been seeing
servants come and go. and as each
declare that she was the worst Of
many that had gone before; and as
each new pne came he heard his wife
devoutly but obviously express the
hope that "the new broom" would
continue to 'sweep Clean" But the
new broom never did. And so he
finally decided that maybe the fault
! was with the sweeper instead of with
the broom. and that perhaps his wife
act like an automatic and self-wield-
ing vacuum cleaner. : But with a
thrifty Germans aversion to the d.
vorce courts he sedulously forebore
to breathe q word Of his suspicion
to his wife.
Instead, one evening he announced
that he was going to try a new expert
ment. and that thereafter he would
allow her IS a month more. to be CIV
en- to the servant girl Che knew 1t
would be given in h form of bar
from IS to 80 cents) in case h re-
manned six months in her present en-
ployment. More, he added hat he
would. in addition. make herself a
present Of $50 If she could keep the
girl from migrating within that same
period.
Results were apparent almost i'm
mediately. The very next day, when
the servant girl was detected. red
with the elevator man over the tele-
phone. the housewife. who had
threatened her with immediate dis
charge for a crime SO ineffable, swal-
lowed her just resentment. saving II
merely for utterance to her bridge
party next day, and saving also, in
cidentally, her chances for the $50,
In the same way she stilled her wrath
when the horrible handmatden broke
charitably ascribing the disaster to
such accidents as all ervou flesh
is heir to. She learned, toe. that
hardest of all lessons for the house.
wife-to realize that even "back
talk" from servants can be tolerated
II need be.
Presently. however. out Of sheel
desperate defense Of her breaking
chinaware the housewife found her.
self obliged either to risk the losl
OF her chances to the $50-and she
had already planned exactly wha'
purchases she would make with the
money-or to see her servant CIR
spoiled by indulgence and her dishel
smashed wholesale.
A sudden inspiration, suggested b.
her husband. ave the situation; sh'
presently conceived the idea o.
splitting fees" and offered hel
house-wrecking servant an additions
IS (this time It would be a shirtwais
that Cooked like real lace" and cos
so II she could curt herself Of hel
infirmity m permit six months t.
dishes. The, cure worked mirac.
in her handling OF the family disheI
Under the softening influence o.
these twofold subsidies and reward,
Of merits. long before the fateful 81,
months mad winged past. the mistress
contracted for the other an absolut,
human friendliness.
The loss in broken dishes, he fg
ured. would have been fully Al grea'
in the beginning II his wife hat
changed servants every week or two
and, those earlier servants, unlike thil
abiding one. would never have beef
cured of their china-breaking mfr
nifty. Moreover. he had enjoyed FOL
the first time Il real easy-going. un'
troubled home life-a SURPRISING
treasure even for an economical Ger
man.