Show to PHASES OF A MYSTERY I 1 glimpses of the ho hired girl baes I 1 tion ion in amity dam maine laim I 1 I 1 I 1 OWARD HOWARD FIELDING SHOWS CITY PEOPLE HOW low little they know about abets one of the tb things whdeh the thy imaging that they understand to admiration the tt servant Bir Tnt girl problem from a new side I 1 copyright Copy richt lw awry dim me ho appl 6 5 1813 1892 we who live la in elites know 80 0 o much more ore lou ban our country cousins cousin about hose noa things which no civilized christian a ver T ought to find out that we w are re prong prone 0 our educational ivan ages tod sod to suppose that john smith if Jones janesville jonesville ville cannot teach us anything ibous life I 1 own to halog biln nourished big hl deltia lon and it was therefore Ihor etore it treat rest surprise to me ine to ret got new light D n a dirk problem down here hare in amity dam ant where I 1 would love have said that bat ila abot van iron it ton ion of 0 coal would woud be so 10 light as a i t sf Is la in sew now york I 1 rotor roter to the sor an dl girl problem pr a thing ranch much more dorthy of a special session of Coo gres lee haach such a mater roa KS as money because lcuio it ate u rests the iho whole people while the onoe belongs bc lont to a faw ir hundred mem mean nea mau who will ill manage it as thy they desire respite ILI nil this congresses la in creation ret lou I 1 used to think that I 1 understood tood the iha arvant girl qu eblon toll this was when I 1 1 I was in searching for a girl 1 who ha would do orr work rizo lio the lh altor and sloop sleep the he sloop sleep of innocence I 1 1 n nd d peace in in a room it little broader and t abor i than a conin collin but not so BO long nor I 1 me 0 well wall Yon ad arta actor I 1 this hit boarch tor for tome some years I 1 considered I 1 I 1 I 1 ir I 1 ea 11 11 1 6 11 I 1 j I 1 11 V I 1 4 1 r I 1 1 it X i I 1 ii i 11 I 1 ai I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 I 1 V i I 1 i I 1 V 1 A 1 i I 1 I I 1 15 I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 i k i I 1 vr IT swe tf in n big H turn I 1 competent to discuss the tha ini mystery why such accomma I 1 1 at 0 th aino month nth live five flights above 1 I 1 A 1 k coil coal bin always locked except when I 1 j ur or neighbors are down cellar and cou coa j t looted with our apartments by a dumb 1 i l welter which talks taki to in its ir sloop nice and it is t always in use except when broken do lot attract the flower or of our oar young girls a 0 so an occupation to so alluring in itself 1 ind so BO much more respectable than any cindy ody will that it it if it 1 but bui we simply imply dont know anything bout the ilia subject up in tho the city it us os able occasionally and nd the ibo IJ irl always but bill do down in amity dm dam well veil you ought to see co all the ibo suffering I 1 hoy hey go through tb there are well to do copla in amur dam who darts dara not BOE dla dis 1 l i buss ua their own dinners la ili their own din dia it alrig ng boonis for lour fear tone some rumor or of un ai 1 avor ablo criticism may roach reach the ibe f It lichen clien I 1 have toon soon a nun man bal balloted ballasted lasted I 1 biscuit which if 1 they ther had shifted I 1 L little to ono one side ilda with him would cori cari i ainaly hata bare capsized him bin rise up from I 1 i 13 Is table nod adil go forth to compliment the I 1 I 1 ook just because it was his hl turn and or nobody had bad to do it every avry day i it Is ie all a question at 0 demand and sup ly of ot course coure ili ID the ibo city tho the supply i nay be shorts but it can not be acau j atey gauged sad and everybody has a right 0 hope but butan in amity dam tho the number 1 it f hired girls Is absolutely known if 1 there are not on enough ugh to so go around anil and than ban a family is omitted la in the distri i I 1 nillon 11 lion the tha lady of the louse can either to lo her bee own cooking or live ilse on cannad tuff and nd il t this state of affairs has ba resulted in v edeny aaby saddening gadde occurrences but the ai 1 not nest pathetic story Is that of mrs mr jerry wake beako I 1 know that it Is 1 true because it I 1 uch facts as did not come under my 1 urn eyes were told me ma by two women of be dam who had bid never agreed upon also in their lives mrs jerry alake IB 0 O Is 1 not la in robust health and aad the ij on sequence Is that she frequently Y ia aai to do her own work people nail with the dam may inay cot at be able 0 follow this ahl reasoning they should i that only Is strong healthy moman cn can successfully stir clr up a boar reel ol 01 between her bar nel neighbor 13 abor and aad the i neighbor servant ter tint and os then that got bel way away r raith vita the servant and a whole skill chore chero la is no ila other way to do it in amity v i iam ain and mrs mra L like Is dot rugged I 1 11 dough to mika mak the exertion f twice beir in tho the and fall all there Is 1 quarrel all around which r results in n a shorn positions n except except tor for these at a goniu without a servant would bo hopeless hoi eleo tile the experiment of getting a girl train boston bus been tried but ties has awas bulled ya no girt fin would comedown b asri rn lykou Uli a return sac ticket kelt and those 20 ulio arut rut the ll 11 tickets invariably used anilia dam dislike 1 iulio heaven hoakon in tho the matter of 0 marriages and Is therefore unpopular with young wom women no reflecting upon the tb trott great airs blake struck in an idea ll it might bo be pos abl to induce an n elderly nod tavis widow to lu search of a quiet homo home to amity dam I 1 all poor widows widow have children was mr air blakes lil comment commell upon this plan 1 I think wo we might stand ono child replied mrs mra blako ill see what I 1 can do up in boston next week she applied tl at some como of the boston agencies for a net nest willing willbon widow who did not wish to rot got married but would like a quiet homo being where she ho could saw tod and split wood and do other it light g h t work woric at st 51 week weak any objection to cliff broo droo asked tho the agency people and mrs mr blake said bald that thai one cherub who never Dever cried baday by day or would lie be tolerated abis finally compromised by accepting the relict of barney mcgow 1 I 1 1 I 1 J L IF 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 9 I 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 aa I 1 I 1 11 4 i i I 1 I 1 II 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 a I 1 I 1 the maie kin gin with two children wh who a never stopped crying either day or night iolah t indeed mrs ira Mc mccoggin Mcf loggin Goggin herself 6 shod bad tears koars on lint first behold lna amity dim dam tor for elio said it ro minded her bar of tho the her bar mother used to toll tell about tho the isoac the old country coultry cou atry amity dam Is at tho the mouth of ft a river which flows flow lato into a large bay people escape from it in two directions southward by steamer across the bay and northward toward a picturesque hill on the borders of the town the firs rou bouto to loais to boston lio sion and aad the other la in most cases ts rl wo we trust to a place said to bo be horynic very vory nIc nice though traditionally loss less attractive to the average now new englander these two paths path to a bettor better land immo disteli absorbed mrs Mc Goggins attention being of an exceptionally mournful disposition she would bare bar wept daily among tho e white ite S t a e 0 on tho the hill bill but the w weather ios t h e r we was 3 too inclement whoa when she first arrived she bhe was able however to rot got to the wharf on the days v hen tho the little steamer simmer departed and sho she never failed bulled to manifest ma alfast deep grief this practice was ws Datu naturally rally very annoying to mrs blake tor for it reflected gravely upon the reputation of 0 the household as a comfortable place of 0 abode and after it had bad boon been going on lor for ft a few weeks week mrs blake was reasonably certain that she could never navor got cot another servant la in case mrs mr should leave in view slow of this peril the she treated mrs MC mccoggin Goggin with the utmost consideration and deference with vilu tho the natural result that tho she wat was obliged to treat her better belter very every day mrs nic mc goggins gomsi Goy si heart could be reached ibrous her ter children anti and therefore mr blake was required to kiss one of thew every morning after breakfast tho the orders at first wore were to do it before breakfast a season when mrs mr Mc Goggins temper tamper was accustomed to stand most in need of soothing but this course of treatment was found to interfere so 0 o seriously with mr blakes app otiLo that ho he was permitted to take it after in tho the beginning bo be was allowed to choose the tb cherub whose countenance count nanca preserved pro sorTed the higher average of cleanliness but it 11 was wai soon evident that the effect upon mrs wai wag not what it should have boon close observation thou then disclosed ala closed the fee fact that t she bo had bad a distinct preference tor for the ibo child alth the constitutionally dirty face and that any attention to the other aroused ona ma forest jealousy mr mado made some else feeble when this state elate of affairs was explained to hlo him but he be was a good husband and eventual eventually lylo learned arnod to take his aln medicine cina with resignation the steamboat going touched at amity dam wednesdays and saturdays it come came to pass after a while that mrs mccoggin Mc GogIn Goggin resigned her bor position rega jary barly on tuesdays and dd fridays Frida in the morning she spent those da days ya in packing up her bar worldly possessions possession aana and mrs blake did the work on wednesday ly and saturday forenoons fore mrs magog kin gin said her bee farewells about dinner time the jattro faulty of blake prostrated themselves at her bar toot foot and by the time the dishes had been washed mrs Mc mccoggin GoggIn bad agreed to remain she spout spoilt the afternoons in unpacking hr hor goods andon and on thursdays and sundays she ehe went about explaining to the neighbors neighbor why it was that thai she had oot loot gone rono away mrs blake was long suffering bufter nr and nd slow to mi lul ir r nit in 1 ural did lil not regard i man in ii loit N 1 i a tr t is 11 UK it tar lor a chango change it 11 io 10 clr ir goggil ic diio ila aged iy ay i it t another widow with iwo children tan V it I 1 w was is lo 10 bt be sent ion down front donilon boiton a certain day aa she st arrived nod ail in as in the ali town for mrs blake was ut a tion llon an and d to homr Mr crockery rockery when lian she ho herself was to be the mark mrs krs resigned as at OTI tuesday morning and packed her roods goods mrs imri blake coni calli ap I 1 ai 1 r J 1 4 it I 1 V N fi 4 41 oti I 1 I 1 C I 1 I 1 I 1 k I 1 I 1 Z arrs rr departs to have an n fix pressman tako take thorn them to the wharf on oa wednesday when tho the hour bour for the usual prost prostration raLlon of the ibo blako blake family camo came no such coro mony occurred mrs Mc Goggin was dazed sho she could not dot understand it she did no col believe that it was ornit ted sho she skip posed that it was postponed sho she took every stop toward hor bar departure with a feeling that the ibo next minute she would bo be urged to remain ro and la in that way the ho and tho the children at ladt got bot aboard tho the little steamer and were carried away weep I 1 ng mrs blako blake breathed again she installed tho the now queen of tho the kitchen with br two offs offspring ping who were even moro more given to lamentation than trl mrs had been and to lo at 9 la in tho the evening mrs mra mcgougin McGoy gin and the two cherubim returned tho this little clon steamer had broken down lu ili the ibo bay air it was said that the cook lad had t 1 ken the lh lollar boiler to make tea la in however e ver ilow that may bo be tho the boat lay idle for or a hours and was vr at t last lail towed 1 la by a schooner the rago rage of mrs mr mccoggin on oa beholding her successor cannot bo be described bed it was equalled Kul equal kullen leJ led only by oy the with which that thai successor responded to signal for combat they wro wara in ila some way and remained romalo oj tint that la in mrs blakes bouse in the ni morning orning neither of thorn them w would either work or RO go away enry pro served an armed but idle adlo neutrality and mrs biagro cooked tor for two woman and od tour four children who were not nol of her household but nho iho considered consid arod themselves in ili her pay that Is 1 the tha situation allu atlon in the tha house at pret ent tent thoro there Is no DO forra form of legal authority dhority hero and how bow tho the two wornon women can bo be pot got out I 1 do not know there ar are that they intend to remain la in which case casa mr blake will no go into bankruptcy and others othen siy say that they will both leave at once in ID which case ac cording to amity dam author authorities mrs valid blake will do her own work as long as the she lives in tact fact the she must do it la in any case for neither of the women will lilt lift her hand blind tor for jealousy Joa lonsy of at the other let us meditate on these theao things tied and try to forgot that w we ever considered ourselves wall posted on the servant question hosband |