Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-10-22

81 can I understand 1t, Clara had
sympathetically replied. The idea of
thinking it was lowering to take a po-
sition outside the home was to her real
" funny.
Aunt is so very aristocratic.
:" Yes, but scrubbing and washing
dishes are not. | know, don't l do
both. -
.ssBut unless you fold it, no one would
know. | really believe aunt would lock
the door aud work nights rather than
let anyone know she did anything. Yet
she is so sensible in every other way.
It's the way a good many southern
people feel. They've always had so
many niggers to wait on them, they
have some reason for feeling as they
do, | guess. =
elf she could see the lovely place
you work. l think she would be more
reconciled.''
"I've thought that too. 1t 5 one rea-
son have urged her so hard to come
and visit me- And Mr.. Mandel is so
nice to me- He has raised me twice
since ] have been with him-without
my asking for it, either.'
You are wonderl | tell Kenyon
that I'd give everything if | were on
ly half as clever. l am good for moth
ing but just housekeeper.
But you like it, and | loathe do
ing it. That's the difference. If had
cared for housekeeping | probably new
er should have looked for a position.
Yet in many ways we are better off
because / did. Then too, | can have
Rachel because Of it. Z"
She S dear!"
''Isn't she? love her dearly. and
hope now to keep her always"
Ruth meant it. Now that she had
Rachel with her, it seemed like a bit
of her old plantation life come to er.
Now she was eagerly welcomed when
she arrived home, was petted and made
much of.
'eTs 70 tired, honey9'' would be Ra-
chel's greeting, then she would unfast-
en- Ruth s shoes, and draw her bath
just as she used to do in the time
which had seemed so long ago, but
which now Ruth declared had not been
any time at all.
II just shut my eyes, Nanny, and
it seems that l never have been away
from you. Sometimes think / am a
little girl again, and you are taking
care Of me just as you used to-"
t'Yo amt moth in but chile, 20
ain It, eff yo is mar'd. :,
''.Oh, yes, / ami but like to be a
bahx ~ xnu Rochal
Often after some such conversation
Rachel would grumble to herself:
g Tain no use talkin' Master Brian
don max 'nough of her, he don. | haf
to max up to her, does.
Ruth had told Brian that she was to
receive ten dollars a week more. That
Mr.. Mandel had said she earned it.
III do, too,'' She had added.
ri suppose you think you are work
cd to death, 2 he had said, scowling.
'sIn my work it is the knowing what
must be done that they pay people for
Brian. After I--or someone else--have
figured out just what house or a
room needs, almost anyone can carry
out our orders.
"He'll be making you one of the
firm, next He was beginning to sulk
and to show his jealousy.
~ hope sol! Ruth laughed. Then
she added, "Come on, let's get dress
ed and 60 somewhere. Wen just use
the first ten having good time TO-
gether. Perhaps it will bring us luck
if we do. ~
Gus! / can Il see but you are lucky
enough That is in all but the man you
married"
"That was the very luckiest thing
l ever did, ? she replied, then hurried
him off to dress. Yet, in spite Of her
gay manner. she felt depressed by his
reception of her news.
(Tomorrow - Brian takes Molile to
the matinee. Ruth is there also.)