Show irritating sensibilities what are you going to do laughed a young matron when you are born with wit h tastes and sensibilities all out of harmony with your income in our little apartment the thing that furs jars most upon me Is the perpetual presence of 0 the maid even it I 1 do not riot see am her I 1 can always hear bear her for she gets the most atrociously squeaky shoes it lias has ever been my lot to listen to I 1 have spoken about the matter several times and persuaded her to immerse the soles of ono one pair in linseed oil nil all night only to be met with a firm refusal to repeat the operation when a new pair was necessary the he ile mum that wore thlin so quick and nothing I 1 can say will change her opinion 1 I might send her away but I 1 should only get some one to irritate me in some other way aly last maid did not brush her teeth I 1 told her pleasantly that she ought to brush them every day and when she said she had lost her brush 1 I dont suppose she ever had any I 1 bought one with a jar of powder which I 1 presented as delicately as possible her iler teeth were however beyond mere brushing and finally after some hesitation over the expense I 1 decided to send her to a dentist for a thorough cleaning of the teeth after which I 1 hoped brush and powder would keep them presentable kut but I 1 had miscalculated my material she refused absolutely to enter a dentists room much less sit in his chair A cousin of hers had had a tooth drawn by one of them all unbeknownst mum when he said hed held only look at it and my p persuasions clua availed nothing so you see ive given up trying to soften my afflictions and only deplore that I 1 notice them her ifer point of view annew in new york times |