Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — Servant Problem Solved. [ARTICLE]

Servant Problem Solved.

Just to show how lucky are those parts of France which the Germans have overrun with fire and sword, an ingenious German press agent has invented the following story, the scene of which is laid in what is left of a once smiling village in the north of France. A worthy dame whose house has survived the gunnery practice of the kaiser’s artillerymen—possibly because of its remoteness from the quaint old village church, now a heap of ruins—is talking to another of her species, presumably equally fortunate in having a roof over her graying head.

“You’ve no notion,” says the first dame, “how clean and in what perfect order everything is in our house. I never in all my born days saw the place so spic and span.” The second dame nods to show her natural and proper interest in this bit of housewifely gossip. “I’m so glad, my dear?’ says she, “that at last you’ve got a really good servant” “Servant!" exclaims the first dame with Gallic vivacity. “Who said servant? It’s the dear German soldiers that’s billeted in the house. They done the cleaning!”—New York Eve, ning Post