Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — Just as Well. [ARTICLE]

Just as Well.

“My dear,” said Mrs. Gensing, addressing her husband at the breakfast table, “I am going to discharge the hired girl, for she does not do to please me.” “Well, I hope yon won’t discharge her until we get another girl to take her place. ” “Yes, I will, and you’ll see that we get along just as well. lam going to do her work myself. Now, don’t you say a word, for I’m going to do it. ” Mr. Gensing said nothing, for, to tell the truth, the economical idea pleased him, but the next morning he could not see his wife get up and make fires, so he made them. Then he brought water and milked the cow—in fact, discharged nearly all the duties of the hired girl. “My dear, ” G ensing’s wife said a few days later, “I told you that we could get along ijust as well without a hired girl. What’s the use of wast'ng money? Now we are getting along just as well as can be, without a word of complaint. You have never given me credit for what I can do. Say, George, before you go down town I wish you would bring in some wood and a couple of buckets of water, and if you are not in too much of a hurry you may wipe the dishes for me.” —Arkonsaw Traveler.