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Show HEP LAST HOUR OF SERVICE This Newark Domestic Made a Cleanly Clean-ly Exit, Aid'?d by the Services of Her Employer. j Maiiar was going. For a week the housework had stood still, "because" as Mrs. Woodside said, "you can't ask a mat I to do anything when she's leaving." leav-ing." Foi a week the kitchen range had been cold, likewise the water tank beside be-side It; and, there being no gas heater,-in heater,-in the Woodside home, the grownupB' had contented themselves with cold baths and the children with such purification puri-fication as could be accomplished with occasional bedtime teakettles of hot;, water. "I ought to have Mariar start the fire," said the mistress, "but it. means bringing up coal from the cellar, cel-lar, and I'm afraid to ask her." T?he hour of Mariar's departure had,. arrived. She lazied through the break-, fast dishwashing, then disappeared up stairs to pack. Mrs. Woodside went into the deserted kitchen and said,' "Now I'll have a fire and boilerful of hot water - at last.'' She' brought, kindling and coal from the lower regions, re-gions, she built the fire and stoked, it for an hour, until the water tank' gave out a grateful heat. Then she. went to look for Mariar. The outgoing maid was not in her-room. her-room. Mrs. Woodside came down from1 the third floor perplexed. Could Mariar Ma-riar have gone without saying good by? Then from behind the closed door-of door-of the bathroom came the joyous -sound of one luxuriating in a porcelain porce-lain tub filled with glorious hot water. wa-ter. Mariar was taking a bath. Newark New-ark News. |