Show THE STORY OF A why a batner wants a servant friio does not wear one talk about the father of a family suddenly arousing himself from deep meditation and slapping a reporter on the knee they had been speaking of nothing for the past twenty minutes and tho last thing mentioned before that was something about a grinding heres ava advertisement I 1 bad prepared A servant girl without a bustle or other artificial enlargement of the anatomy no objection to carrying cold victuals home in a basket no bustle need apply sly wife wanted to know if I 1 was dropping back into barbarism and declared that the tyranny of man would stop at nothing why should I 1 attempt to abridge the civil rights of servant girls by depriving them of their constitutional privilege to wear bustled bustles bust les her comans womans sense of justice was shocked and she declared that I 1 would not dare suggest such a thing if women had votes and when I 1 suggested the election 1 frauds that might bo practiced by women with bustled bustles full of ballots she began to cry and said my cruelty was inspire dby envy because she had just that day bought i a now extra dixe bustle that made her dross stand out just lovely I 1 might have it it I 1 wanted and she would continue wearing the old one that was twisted all one side and mado her look like a chicken going across the wind she enlarged upon the subject by declaring that I 1 sought to deprive poor servants of their principal source of comfort the rudder lapi them upon their course I 1 surely would not deprive a poor girl of her bustle and 1 listened fo all this and more then I 1 led her gently into alio kitchen and unhooked the burtlo honesty had left hanging behind the door honesty is the name of our servant girl that was there was something prophetic in the choice on her christening day I 1 quietly unhooked Hone bustle from the door and emptied from it a half pound of tea six of babas most useful articles of clothing one towel two pounds of sugar three silver spoons a bottle of pickles a beefsteak a box of tinted cosmetic and a pair of stockings my wife fainted dead away after she had secured the rogue and hid it from my sight in the back folds of her own dress now she weeps when I 1 come home ba dinner and declares that well nev ar got a servant who is willing to dis with a buetle for the consid of 15 per month unless mr goodmaker the missionary can got us one way os there whore they eat folks ind donic wear any clothes at all then sho covers her face with her hands and says it would never do for a servant to answer the door bell dressed that way meanwhile by a laborious mathematical process I 1 have been calculating the capacity of Hone bustle and find it to hold just half pecks and a pint which is ample room if used only for transportation and not per manent storage for half my regular family supply of groceries and provisions not to mention dry goods and notions |