Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Girl Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Girl Wanted.

Yes, I want another— ** a tidy girl to do homework in a email femfly—good wages and a good home.” That’s the way my advertuement always reads, and as soon as the paper is out the girls commenoe <vM»ing Tidy girls from ten to sixty-five yean old come pulling the bell, whan told that they won’t suit they put on such a look of contempt for the door, the door-plate, the front gate and the entire institution that the world seems three degrees hotter than before. X always engage the girl. This is because of an idea of mine that I can read human nature and because I do not fear to tell them in plain English what is ex pected of them. After the door-bell has been pulled about five times the rightlookiigeort of a girl makes her appearanoe. She says she saw. the advertise ment, and is invitedln. She says she can do any kind of cooking, loves to wash, is fond of children, can never sleep after five o’clock in the morning, never goes out evenings, does not know a young man in Detroit, and she’d *be willing to work for low wages for the sake of getting a good home. tine is told to drop her bundle, lay off her things and go to work, and a great burden rolls off my mind as I congratulate myself that the prize-medal girl has arrived at last. She’s all right up to about seven in the evening, when she is suddenly missed and returns about ten o’clock to say that she “just dropped out” to get a postage stamp. The next day she begins to scatter the tea-spoons in 'the back yard, stops her ironing to read a dime novel, and at supper time wants to know if 1 can’t send the children off to live with their grandfather, get a cook stove with silver-plated knobs and have an addition built on to the kitchen. That eve ning a big red-headed butcher walks in, crosses his legs over the kitchen table and proceeds to court Sarah. She doesn’t last but a day or two longer and then we secure another. This one is right from New Hampshire and doesn’t know a soul in Michigan, and yet she hasn’t finished the dinner dishes before a cross-eyed young man rings the bell and says he’d like to see Hannah for a moment. After seeing him Hannah concludes not to stay, as we are so far from St. John’s Church and as we don’t appear to be religious people. The next one especially recommends herself, being “just like their own mother” to the children, and isn’t in the house half a day before she draws Small Pica over her knee and gives him a regular old Canadian waltz. The next one has five recommendations as a neat and tidy girl, and yet it isn’t three days before she bakes the shoebrush with the beef, washes her hands in a soup tureen, or drops hairpins into the pudding. I growl about these things after Awhile, but 1 am met with the statement that they had worked five years for Governor this, or Lord that, and that in all this time no one had so much as looked cross-eyed at them. I am called mean, ill-tempered, particular, fault-finding and all that, and the girl goes away wonderinc why the Lord has spared me as long He has. We've been wanting “ a good, tidy girl” for these last twelve years, and I suppose that we may. go another dozen and still be wanting.—Jf. Quad', in Our Fireside Friend.