Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — The Kind Housemaid. [ARTICLE]

The Kind Housemaid.

A quiet young man occupied the rear hall bedroom on the third floor of a Forty-first street boarding-house. He was a pleasant, ingenuous youth, and he evidently had not been long in New York, for he had a numlier of knickknacks with him, and tried to make his room look attractive. On his bureau was the photograph of a very prettygirl, tastefully framed, which he seemed to regard with considerable affection. Returning from business one evening he noticed, with much surprise, that the photograph was gone, and immediatelyproceeded in search of the chambermaid for an explanation. “Mary,” he said, when the genius of towels and bed quilts appeared, “what have you done with the picture that always stood on my bureau?” “Sure, and I put it in yer trunk. Ye’ll find it in the second tray below thim fancy weskits.”

“What did you do that for?” inquired the boarder angrily. “Oh, ye needn’t git mad,” she answered, placidly; “in the last letter ye got yersilf and the gal had a scrap, and I tliort if I put her pictur’ away I’d be doin’ the both av yez a delicate "favor.” —New York Sitn.