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Show "DO IN' THEIR OWN STRETCHIN." After being without a' girl for a week, the mistress of a Harlem apartment was showing an applicant over the flat. She had been liberal in her promises of privileges in the way of afternoons and nights off. She had even gone so far as to extend the hour of the girl's return on these nights, and to agree to her using us-ing the sewing machine after her work was done. The new girl seemed pleased, and the mistress was beginning to hope. They walked back into the dining-room and the girl had actually removed one pin from her hat. Then her smile faded, and a question mark appeared. ' "Do you do your own stretchin'?" she demanded. . "Do we do our own what?" apked the puzzled mistress. "Stretchin'," repeated the new girl. "I don't understand." "Stretchin'," repeated the girl a second sec-ond time. "Do you .put all the stuff on the table at mealtime and stretch for it. or do I have to shuffle it around." The family is "stretchin' ' in earnest now, and will until they get a girl who is willing to wait on the table as well as cook the meal. The matron's household house-hold vocabulary contains a new word. |