Show cranes new servant girl speaking of servant girls bald crane the actor to a friend who was recently e entertaining n him with an account of his experiences per perien lences ces with the tribe we had one u up pat at Coh imset last summer that simply took the bakery and everything appertaining thereunto she was named maria and she came cam with a letter of becom recommendation from a family of our acquaintance they said that she was honest and faithful but a lit tie tle crude and needed training imagining that the latter fault could soon be remedied we engaged her and appointed her to the then vacant pasi position tion of waitress la in ordinary on the afternoon of her arrival I 1 gare gave a little dinner to a at few of my professional friends and felt particularly anxious to have the affair go off smoothly with this end in view maria was put through a little preliminary drilling beforehand in the course of which she managed to smash the fish platter of a valuable set of china chins and display the fact that she know any more about waiting on a table than she did of writing comic songs in sanskrit Sans crit the guests arrived and in fear and tr trembling emblin g I 1 took my seat we prepared for the preliminary oysters they did not come I 1 thumped the bell without eliciting a response from the maria alaria then I 1 breathed her name softly but in vain I 1 breathed it again same result and finally I 1 reached for upper C and called for Marial ial in tones that rattled the plates A capped and beribboned head thrust itself around the corner comer of the dining room oom r door and in tones of calm iti inquiry the young lady remarked did anybody holler I 1 thought I 1 heard a yell we parted from maria more inore in anger than sorrow that evening II 11 new york commercial advertiser |