Show captain had another think coming independent cook had no anten ion of allowing him to get away was the real doss of he ranch florence kelly he secretary of the national Nat fonal consumers league Is inter ested in the servant question she said the other day public interest in this question am proves the quality of our servants raises their wages and makes mis tress and paid alike happier servants keep growing better all the time what once happened in a bew bedford whaling captain s house could not happen there today this captain an old man had re tired from the sea and lived in a big house along with many nautical treas ures curious corals strange shells stuffed fish from the tropics whales vertebrae and so on his cook was a tyrannical old woman indeed she was such a tyrant that she spoiled all the good cap tain pleasure but what was he to doa cooks were rare in those days and she cooked well still he wound have got of her if he could here Is an instance of her staging qualities and of her impe dence the captain entertaining in his dining room one night a half dozen brother skippers told them how in his youth on a wager he bad once drunk a gallon of brandy at a sitting without any effects at the climax of his story the cook entered the room with the hot water and lemons she looked at her master scornfully and said it s a lie ye never done it shiver my timbers if that ain t going too far the captain snorted he rose from his chair we must part at last he said sternly to the cook but she pushed him back into his seat again holt she said where would you be better off than in your own homec |