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Show V) EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. This 8ervant Girl Was Evidently a Person of Resource. Aa a Bourco of humor tho Irish servant ser-vant girl has long Since fallen from her high estate, a result probably duo to tho better class ot young women from tho Emerald Islo who como horo annually to holp confuso tho eternal "servant girl question." Hut now and again one ot tho old, naively ignorant sort turns up In a New York household, house-hold, aa was demonstrated tho other day to a caller at a house on the West Stdo. Tho girl who responded to tho bell wan asked It her mistress was at homo. To this Inquiry sho surprised tho caller by putting her arms behind her back and replying In a rich brogue, as sho thrust her face toward tho caller: "Put th' tickets In mo mouth, ma'am, an' I'll go an' see. Mo hands Is wet" N. Y. Press. |