The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-12
A New Phase Of the
Servant Question
BY LOUISE b. CUMMINGS

; Two convicts sat together in II prison
= yard summing themselves aud smoking
their pipes. Other prisoners were either
louuging about or taking exercise walk
ing to aud fro. while the guards kept
nm eye out for all to make sure that
they were not getting together in one
or more groups The two men smoking
together. though they had no acuuaiut-
ance. opened conversation in the usual
way.
What are YOU here for;" asked one
The servant question
What's the servant question got TO
do with yer bcin' within walls
"oh. it's a long STORY: hut. seem
we've uolhing better to do. dou't
mind tclin' il to YOU
Go ON
I've always made il rule to work
through servants. can get more ad-
vantageS lay lakin' EN- in To- deal
| than IN any other WAY They make
! II dead easy for Teller THE easiest
job ever got was this way. Was
walkin along n street in - suburban
town, where the houses wasn't too
near together, loohiu' for job. when
| come 10 decent lookiu' houSc-not
too fine. for in the finest they have
safes; nor too poor looki. for i'm them
kind they don't have uothin To PUT i'm
safes; but the middle kind. where they
have good things. but not 50 valuable
that they keep cm out ~ the way-aS
! was sayin. | come 10 n house of the
middle kind and goiu around To the
back door knocked aud asked the
maid IL there WAS any old clothes in
the house they didn't want. | was out
Of a job and would be glad of any
thing could get
she looked at me. aud SAYS she:
You don want any old clothes You're I
looSin' for n Job but not the ordn I
kind of II iob-oue with more profit in 1
II than dom odd jobs ut 20 cents an /
hour
she looked nj me kind Of KNOWN 1
and twggcd right Off I wouldn't .
mind pard,' says. aud she asked
me what | meant aud SAYS halves
That's fair she says When do You
want to begin work. I always work
mt night. ! says. when other people Is
sleepin
We'll, ! made deal with her right
or. and was Ia 1o the job the next
night The maid was goin' 10 have
friends 10 dinner then. and she was
always expected TO put away the sill
YER. the best bcn' brought on ON swell
occasions ! took 10 that idee and
pulled ont = flyer ia bind the bargain.
Altcr takin' my Instructions how To cit
n ana what Ia do next I goes away.
The next night about II o'clock I
went 20 the house. aud hey was list
putin out the lights \ cop went by
'lingin' his night stick. 80 waited till
led put block or two between mo
md him: theu ! went Into the back
iard and sat down in u dark place for
lalf an hour. givin' 'em time To got to
'lecp. The maid had left II stcplad,Ier
outside. cause II WAS II basement
lonse. and ! was To- git in mt back
,itchcn winder on the main floor
u put off the job tin felt that all
nat was goin' To sleep had gone there:
hen puts the Stcpladder agn the
vail ana goes up tO the windcr II
vent up rs slick MS Il IL had heen
'reased. and. fcelin'. ! found the maid
'ad Soapcd IT, This made mo feel sure
he wasn't trickin' me and was dom
vcrything to help mo on | got down
" the floor inside aud follered the III.
cction she'd given me. pasSin' from
he dinip' room into the pantry. where
he maid said she was goin' TO leave
he silver. tcllin' her mistress the next
nornin' she'd forgot to take II to her
oon whore she kept il nights. so she
couldn't have Ia waken any one by
ittin' II in the mornin'
got Into the pantry all right aud
vas feclin' for the swag when an
lectric went up. and there stood cop
each OF the pantry doors They had
le cooped up. aud ! was covered bv
oth or EN- at the same time
1T was all NJ with me. of course. l
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