The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-30
Revelations
OfU Wife
A Willing Girl Makes a Good Servant
BY ADELE GARRISON.


Willing Girl Makes a Good Servant.
The Ginning of the clock an hour
after Dicky had gone to the studio after
our gay little noon dinner warned me
that I was not dressed and that the
cooks whose advertisements I had an
dressed and arranged my hair. Just as
I put the last hair pin in the bell rang.
Two women. covertly eyeing each
other with suspicion, stood in the hall
way when I opened the dooT. To my
invitation to come in each responded,
THANK you," and the entrance of both
was quiet. When they sat down in the
chairs I drew forward for them men
/ tally appraised them for a moment
One was a middle-aged woman of the
trig, grim, she spelled efficiency in
every line Of her body. The other, a
tall Polish girl. of perhaps %. was also
extremely neat, but her pretty brown
hair was blown around her face and
| her blue eyes were fairly dancing
| with eagerness. in contrast to the
stoIid expression of the other woman.
AS 1 faced them, the older woman COM
pressed her lips in a thin line, while
| the girl smiled at me in friendly
fashion.
"You came in answer to the adver-
tisements?" 1 queried.
The old woman silently held forth
my letter and two or three other
papers pinned together. l saw that
| they were references written in vary
ling feminine chirography. Her silence
! was almost uncanny.
{ "Ohl yes, Missie,'' the Polish girl
exclaimed. Il put my-what do you
call it? My"
Advertisement" 1 suggested, smil-
! ing. Her good nature was infectious.
"Oh, yes, ad-yer- -tise-ment, in the
paper Sunday. Today came your let
| ter, the first letter. I guess hard
| times now. Nobody want maids.
come right queek. 1 can do good work,
very good. 1 have good references. You
got maid YETI"
| Not yet" 1 answered, and turned
| to the other woman.
What wages do you ask?'
"Thirty-five dollars a month, every
other Sunday and every other Thurs
a u
| no children. If there are only two in
the family 1 will do all the cleaning"
Her voice was metallic, her tone mo-
Inotonous, as if she were reciting a
lesson.
You must do first-class work to de-
mand so much money"
That is not much She looked
coldIy at me. Il am first-class cook
and housekeeper. You tell me how
much you wish to spend each week. L
will manage your house on that if it is
! not too small. 1 can cook and serve
; a dinner for guests without any help. L
do not like any one in my kitchen to
HELP, even the madam. You read my
references. They will tell you what
1 can do
do you want, and what can you do?"
| The Polish girl shook her head,
smilingly.
| IF you take her, you no want me.
tell noting while she here. If you
| no take her, then she go, then / tell
you everything"
| According to all my theories and
my training I should have chosen the
older woman. Efficiency always has
been an idol of mine. It was my slo-
gan in my profession. 1t is my hu-
initiation that / seem to have none of
\ it in my housework. The German
woman evidently was capable of adj
ministering my household much bet
ter than could do it. Perhaps itswas
because of this very reason that
found myself repelled by her, and sub
tIy drawn by the younger woman's
smiling enthusiasm.
) Have you much company, and does
your husband bring home friends with
out notice?" The older woman's harsh
tones broke in.
/ The questions turned the scaIe.H'rom
the standpoint of strict justice, the
standard from which always had tried
to reason, she was perfectly justified
in asking the questions before she
| took the place. But institution told me
that our home life would be dreary
1 thing with this martinez in the kitchen.
|. THAT will not trouble YOU" I said,
| for 1 do not believe 1 wish your ser
vices. Here is your car fare, and thank
lyou for coming
L smiled to myself as 1 handed her
the car fare, remembering the tiff
Dicky and had had on that very sub
| ject. Dickys influence certainly was
changing some Of my old rigid ideas
My Puritan training raised its head a
| moment to inquire whether my moral
fibre was not weakening, but I put the
thought from me.
! The woman took the car fare with
the same stolidity she had shown
| through the whole interview. II do
not think 1 would like you for a
madam. either" she said quietly as she
went out.
The Polish girl bounced from her
seat as soon as the door was closed.
4 She no good to talk to you like
! that" she exclaimed. "She old crank,
Ianyway. You not like her. See me-I
tyoung, strong; I cook, wash, iron, clean
l do everything. You do noting cook