The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-11
The Ns;ahborsi' sssrsts-
Claude callan. In the Fort Worth stes

Telegram.
Oriola doesn't work for us regularly.
but comes occasionally when we have
q party. She helps with the cooking and
waits on the table for 81. We dislike to
brag on ourselves and our folks, but 1t
is q fact that Orioia likes us. II we
happen not to have the 81 right at the
time she doesn't complain. She knows
she swil get her money just as soon
as we get it. n h says h is per-
fectly willing to wait.
She loves to talk, and as our folks
love to talk, we all have o great lime
when she omes. OF course, we wouldn't
talk to her in the front room or on the
front porch, but we enjoy talking to her
in the kitchen or in the back yard. She
here in town, and while in their homes
it was impossible for her to keep from
finding out a great deal about them.
Naturally we would have preferred Ior
her to say nothing about them, but h
is such a great talker that we cant stop
her when she gets started.
She used to work for the Nearpunk-
ms, and she saySEwe don't Tor
what she says-that except when they
had they had barely enough
food to keep them alive. "My husband"
said Oriola, used to quarrel because !
never brought home anything to az,
but I Just told him il he could see IN
thatshouse, il he had any heart ned be
! wanting to carry something to them.
She says that even when they had
| company Mrs. N~earpunkins didn't get
| quite enough stuff for the meal, n
that even If she happened to get a little
| OF the dessert, there would be no cream
! for it. And at ordinary times" she said.
(! they hardly ever left me enough
/ scraps for my meal. l don't mind eating
scraps, but l can't live on just nothing"
Oriola worked for h Soarers, too.
She says they are liberal people, always
in good humor, and always or the go.
eThey didn't care how much l bought to
eat" she told US, but had trouble
buying it.
every time / went after anything the
merchant said things to me that he
wouldn't have dared say to them. and
finally he told me hat l couldn't get
that very afternoon Mrs. Coarer Went
down and got a lot Of stuff and had 1t
charged. When she phoned for things.
they didn't come, but hen she Went
after them h always brought them
! back with her"
She says that when she left the Pun
gent home, Mrs. Pungent made her pay
for everything the children had broken
while she was there. She thought she
had 81 coming to, her, but after Mrs
Pungent deducted for broken and miss
ing things, she found that she was ow-
! lllR tlG Tu1SSAlS ~ nv ~
the good woman, who was Overlooking
with generosity, told her she needn''
pay it. Oriola says the hardest time
she ever had was at Mrs. Frogstoops
The Frogstools awoke one morning te
find themselves rich, and of course II
was necessary to get out n hire some.
body to cook breakfast. Oriola reached
the house at about 10 o'clock in thu
forenoon, and found all the members o.
the family sitting around the house
waiting for someone to come and cool
them a meal. She says they are gooe
people, but that they are afraid to lie
their help sit down and rest occasion
ally-they are afraid that if they don,
keep the help jumping, folks will thinl
it is the first time they have had help
We asked her not to speak of wha
she sees in our home, and she says sh'
won't. 81 don't work for folks" sh'
says, "and then go away and talk abou
them