Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — The Modern Hired Girl. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Modern Hired Girl.

“Why did you leave your last place?” "Why did I leaver “Yes.” “And why wouldn’t I leave? The missus simply Insisted that I should serve the center bit av the pourterhouse steak in the dining room an’ me needing that for meself.” His Preference. “Some people know an awful lot!” “Yes. Bnt I don’t care much for them.” “Don’t you?’ “No.” “What sort do you like?’ “Those that don’t tell an awful lot.” Hie Bank Account. “He has had a frightful quarrel with his wife.” "Indeed! You surprise me.” “It Is a fact.” "What about?’ “Nothing.”

Some men who have married for jnoney have concluded that they could make more on a ten dollar a week Job. The truth of the matter is that income and outgo have more to do with marriage being a failure than anything else. We all know that we are not hard to please, and anybody can do it who will have the sense to set about it in the right way. The truth that looks a good deal like s lie is apt soon to find itself in the company of choice inventions. Irresponsibility seems a very charming quality until you have to put up for it and with it when it somehow seems to go stale. The man who can cheerfully forget his debts and blow what money he has on a theater party has what may be termed an optimistic spirit The blessings of adversity are vaunted only for the purpose of giving somebody an excuse for Inflicting them upon sotne one else.

Beautiful. “She has a good figure.” “Generous or slight?’ “About a million.”