Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-02-01
Ihoughtless
Annie

gazed at the girl bride in open adj
miration.
Tain right TO de likes of you to
wait on me-" she protested. Don
you nevah set no table TO- me again.
You say you JUS start in housekeep-
in? My! You do bettah'n mos OF
mah'ied women Take Mis- Adams
down on the second fo' You could
give huh lessons"
do you know her, Annie %. the girl
bride demanded in surprise. She had
been at some trouble to find laun-
dress who should be a stranger to
every one in the building.
"Oh, yas'm, All used to wash TO-
Mis- Adams, but, my, my! All thew
down that place."
The girl bride took note of this re-
mark. She had never lived in fat
before, but she had extremely definite
theories as to how it should be done.
Help yourself to more coffee when
you wish it, ANNIE was what she
said, after pause.
"Yas'm. Thank youm. Now, that's
| JUS sample. All like TO folks to
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give me the most owdacious washin's
like to kill me! All toll huh so to
huh face. Nevah talk bout nobody
benin they back. Aim right out! But
the reason | finally thew down the
place was the petticoat
She waited, and the bride, being
flesh and blood, repeated, 'The petit
coat?"
"Yas'm Lace-trimmed She missed
it, an she guessed All had it, an it
made hahd feelins. Then she foun'
it, right wah she put it huhse'f-
stuffed in pantry draw un'er the
dish towels That's the kin O. house
keepin, she does. Tell you, mis-,
nice, neat housekeepah like you'll hol'
up yo' hans to see how Mis- Adams
runs things. Well, Abs suttinly had
fine lunch, but mex time Aim sho'
goin' to wait on myself"
That evening the girl bride con-
! fided to the young husband that Annie
was a treasure.
OF course | don't attach too much
weight to what she says of this Mrs.
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it's we'll to go slow, and 1 shan'ts be
1 too cordial when she calls. AS for
Annie, she's so willing to wait on her
self | believe I'll join that lunch club,
even If 1t does meet on my washing
day. You know I've always said |
wasn't going to let my housekeeping
rule me the way mamma does"
For several weeks after that things
moved like a story book Annie came
regularly to wash and iron in the
empty fat, while the bride, absent at
her all-day club, RECALLED her friends
with tales of her own good manage
ment.
Then a cloud appeared-no bigger
than visiting card. Five weeks had
passed and nobody in the building had
attempted to call on the bride, either
through the front door or the back.
Not that she cared-if all the people
were like that slovenly Mrs. Adams!
Still it was odd, and that Mrs. Logan
on >the first floor looked so nice!
A step sounded on the porch and
some one knocked. The dreaded
| back-door caller had come at last
and in the form of the despised Mrs.
Adams!
"Ah!" said the girl bride in the icy
manner she had been saving for back
door callers. Walk right through to
the parlor."
But Mrs. Adams seemed reluctant.
'I came,. she said, ito talk to you
about Annie, the laundress. feel sure
you don't know what she's doing on
washing day while you're away"
81 beg your pardon was the indig-
nant response. 81 find everything
done exactly as 1 wish it on my re-
turn"
But do you know where she gets
her lunches?"
Here in my kitchen, with my per-
mission"
"There l told them you didn't
know. She's been going from family
to family in the building, asking for
lunch and telling a pitiful tale of how
you go to your club and leave her
with nothing in the house to eat, and
-
What" The bride was gasping
| with establishment.
I'm the morning she goes to Mary
Cameron, Mr.. Ferris 'housekeeper, for
her cup of coffee, and the way she
talks about your housekeeping is
scandalous. She has told everyone
about that petticoat you missed"
"Petttcoat!"
Eyes, and how you found it in
pantry drawer"
The girl bride dumbly stared. Ther
she giggled. Five minutes later she
and Mrs. Adams were laughing to-
gether like chums.
The next morning Annie was due,
and, to her surprise, her young mis-
tress met her, looking like an aveng-
ing angel.
Annie" she demanded, where
have you been getting your lunches