Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — Lost Time on Short Days. [ARTICLE]

Lost Time on Short Days.

She was a humble waiting-maid in Oakland. Oakland is the Athens of California, ,and the ah, there! of San Francisco. She waited upon an Athenian table and cooked Athenian steaks for Athenian appetites. She was not all lost She had relatives in San Francisco, and she visited them on her off-day. ' It is one long off-day in Oakland. It had been her custom of a forenoon for many months to niake,<this little pilgrimage, and winter approached and the sun rose later and set earlier in accordance with the rules of the celestial trade union. One day a couple of weeks ago she went to her mistress. “Please, ma’am, you’ll have to let me go an hour earlier, now. ” ;n!>i > “Why?” “Because, ma’am. I’ve got to go over to the city, and, you know, ma’am, the days are so short now that I lose more than an hour.”