Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-14 | Page 5 | Oh, Joy! It's the Cook's Day to Go to the Opera

oo OH, JSY! IT'S THE COOK'S DAY TO GO And To-Morrow the Butler and His Family Shall Use the Automobile. . "Let Mary, the rook, have tho limousine." limou-sine." "Glvo Jane, tho chambermaid, the tickets to the oponlng nlcht or tho muclcal comedy." com-edy." "Bridget, the laundress, shall havi tho first reading of the new popular novel " "Tho box at the opera froca to tho butler -jrpce . ,n . ' ?HEX I ' WISH H(o How THE. tiTOCK and his family to-nlBht." "Tho valet wants tho racinc car for tho evenlnft " "Hortcnse. the maid, will entertain In tho parlor and have tho exclusive uso of tho piano until midnight." "The family who Just own tho things may take a walk In tho park or scrub tho kitchen lloor." That will bo tho programme of a day In tho best conducted homes In America whon tho domestic doctrines promulgated by the ltcv. Georgo Grovcr MUIb, of iho Watertown (Mass.) Unitarian Church, havo been put Into Affect Vnrr ho Monotony. The II fo of the averase servant docs not appeal to the Rev. Mr Mills The monotonous, mo-notonous, eternal dteh washing, floor sweeping, dusting and cooking of servants should be varied, In his opinion, by the uao of tho family automobile., opera tickets, piano, yacht, or any other expcr.slvo and diverting toy that may appeal to tho taste of tho benoflclary. Tho scheme has been tested by a fow phllanthroplcully unwise and wealthy women of America, with tho result that they aro now looking for now servants. With a limousine at her command, .Mary r l QUCX had to turn tho cooking ovor to an as-Istant as-Istant while she rollod down town for her nfternoon's shopping tour In the big six cylinder car and, In connequonce, the family fam-ily wero fed on lndlgestlblcs that sent most of them Into dyspepsia ralj AJ1 the Ticket. Jano soon bgan to doto on muolcal comadlen, and, making engagements to take her young mun to the theatro on opening night", refused to give up her right to tho tickets and the rest of the family soon had to limit their theatre-going theatre-going to plcturo shows. Horteuou kept the family awake until morning with the strains of "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." to tho accompaniment of a voluminous male vole, and Bridget curlod up In the best library chair absorbed ab-sorbed tho thrilling episodes of tho "Cost Shf Did Not Have," whllo tho hoad of the house took refuge In the basement It had to atop, and this family lo trvlrur to recover IU right. ' lrylns