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Show WHY "VICTORY" WAS DUSTY Housemaid Feared Further Damage to Statuette Already Subjected to Hard Usage. A New York woman engaged a new housemaid the other day, and was Immediately delighted nt the exhibition exhibi-tion of the new servant's efficiency. Nonih waited on the table with perfect per-fect iniiKtery; she answered the front d'xirbell with matchless grace; li never once grumbled when told that she n.jst wear a cap; her dusting was a marvel of orderliness. Hut the mit.tres of the apartment was astonished, when the new maid had been In the house about a weelc, to find that Jier cherished "Victory of Samothrace" was covered with dust. The bemitli'ul headless body stood trray and unlovely on Its pedestal, and the "Victory's" owner ifl'H Norah to He what the matter tnlht be. "I can't understand this. Norah." he said. "Everything else Is kept so sxt!e9. How have you happened 'o neglect the little statue. Have you Justed It at all?" Norah admitted that she had not, and said no more. "Hut why?" the t.:iitreps persisted. "Why?" And then, irlserably. the maid oivtied tip. "I'm a bit awkward -' me flnpers. i-nuru." blip murmured Sj "And I saw how bud It was Vtim. and I was afraid o" drorm Mf. makln 't worse." |
