Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 95, 8 March 1916 — Page 9

THE RICHSlSm) PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA1L WEDNESDAY, MAR. 8. 1916.

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Helen and Warren Series; Story of Their Married Life

Mr Dear Mrs. Curtis: Will you j kindly arrange to hare your washing done some other day except ; Tuesday? I think it very unwise for our maids to wash on the same , day. Last Tuesday I was down In ; the laundry and found them laugh- ; Ing and carrying on Instead of : doing their work. Lately ray ; clothes have been wretchedly washed, and I know it Is because your maid spends most of her time talking to Jane. I have spoken to Mr. Thompson, the superintendent, and he says that you can wash on Wednesday, as only two apartments wash on that day. Very truly yourB, BLANCHE M. GORDON. The insolence! The cool presump

tion of such a note! Helen's eyes

fairly blazed as she read it for the third time. Why should she change her washday?- Why should not Mrs. Gordon change hers? , , They had been in the house longer , than the Gordons, and they had always washed on Tuesday. The sheer ' impertinence of this woman! Aqulver with Indignation. Helen i ran out to the kitchen. Anna was on i her knees cleaning the lower part of the ice box. "Anna, when you first came, I told you to have nothing to do with Gordon's maid! The girl we had before was always running In there and making trouble. I warned you never to go into her kitchen, not even " "Why, yea ma'am, but I ain't never been " "You've been carrying on with her , in the laundry. Here's a note from ! Mrs. Gordon complaining about it." "Me?" slamming the door of the ice

box. "It's that boy on the elevator that's who she's always carryln' on with!" "Well, hereafter, you take your tubs In another part of the laundry,' where you can't talk back and forth. Now,

remember what I've told you. ' ! When Helen left the kitchen, with : grim determination she went In to her ' desk and took out the best note paper i for the curt, sarcastic answer her 1 Blind was already forming. My Dear Mrs. Gordon: I have received your note and am surprised at your request. Since. 1 have always washed on Tuesday, and have my work arranged for that day. I am afraid I cannot comply with your request No, she had used . "request" twice. Wlnh? Comply with your wish No, that wasn't strong 'enough. Crumpling the corner of the blotter, she strove vainly for another word. Then, Impulsively throwing down her pen, she reached for the phone. Her impatience demanded the quickest way. "Hello! Give me Mrs. Gordon's apartment." "Line's busy," came the answer. The impulse, to phone passed as quickly as it had come, and Helen hung back the receiver with a throb of relief that the line had been busy. After all she had better write. Over the phone she was always confused and nervous. She could never say what she wanted. Taking a fresh sheet, she began another note a more scathing one. My Dear Mrs. Gordon: I fail to see why I should change'my wash day, since we have been in this house longer than you,' and have always washed on Tuesday. Since you object to your maid washing on the same day with mine, you had better arrange to have YOUR washing done on Wednesday. Yours very truly, HELEN L. CURTIS. There were two "sinces" one of them should have been "as," but she was too nervous to rewrite It. "Anna," she swung through the pantry door, "take this note over to Mrs. Gordon. Just hand it in. Now don't say a word to the maid." With grim exultancy, Helen pictured Mrs. Gordon reading the note. Yet, she felt the incident was not

closed. Mrs. Gordon's arrogance and obstinacy would drive her to any extreme to gain her point. What would be her next move? Vaguely troubled and apprehensive, Helen started to put up the new mull curtains in the bedroom. She was running the last curtain on its slender brass rod when Anna announced that the superintendent wanted to see her. "Mr. Thompson? Oh, bring him right In here." Instantly Helen knew why he had come, but she kept on with her work, trying to seem unconcerned. 'Mr. Thompson, plainly embarrassed, stood by the door, awkwardly fingering his watch chain. "H-hura, Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. Gordon just spoke to me about your washday. When the maids' get down there together it seems they do more talking than work, and Mrs. Gordon thinks you'd better not wash on the same day. Now if Wednesday would suit you as well " "I'm afraid it wouldn't, Mr. Thompson.I believe we've been here longer than the Gordons perhaps Mrs. Gordon would like to change her day." "Yes, I that's what I suggested, but she says, her work's so arranged that her maid couldn't wash on Wednesday." Helen's fingers trembled as she pushed along the gathers to even the curtain on the rod, but her voice was frigid. "That's unfortunate, for Wednesday would be quite . as inconvenient for me." "I well, it's Just this way," nervously twisting his watch chain. "Mrs. Gordon is a well, somewhat peculiar tenant.. She's made more complaints to the agents about the heat and house, and I I thought if you could arrange " "Mr. Thompson, I don't want to

make things difficult for you, but hap-.

pen to know that Mrs. Gordon has said some very unkind things about me. She told a number of people in the house that I Oh, well, there's no use going Into that now, but after the Insolent note she sent me this morning, I don't think I care to change my day." Mr. Thompson did not press the matter further, but when he had gone Helen felt almost guilty. She knew his position was most difficult, yet why should she upset the whole schedule of her housework Just to humor an unreasonable tenant and one who had been insolent to her? With all her ability to worry, Helen worried over this. It would have been more tactful to have obliged the superintendent, for in so many ways he could contribute to their comfort. Yet the thought of letting Mrs. Gordon dictate the day on which she should wash was intolerable. That evening Warren came hpme tired and preoccupied, and Helen decided not to speak of Mrs. Gordon's note. This was something that she must "fight out alone. . But at dinner Warren startled her by announcing casually: "Oh, by the way, met the superintendent in the hall as I came in. He said that Gordon woman's kicking like a steer because we've the same washday. What's the matter," scowiing at the empty bread plate, "short on bread?"

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Helen rang for more bread and waited tensely for him to go on. "Jove, she must be a holy terror! He said Gordon was a very decent chap, but that she'd been raising Cain ever since they'd been in the house." "What what did he say about the washing?" Helen was recklessly piercing the .tablecloth with a fork. "Oh, he just wanted us to change to Wednesday," indifferently. "He seemed mightly relieved when I aaid any day would suit us." 'But Warren, it WON'T! That shows how underhanded he is! He came up to see me, and I told hint we wouldn't change." "Why not?" What in thunder's the difference whether you wash Tuesday or Wednesday?" "She cleans the silver on Wednes day that's one reason." "What's the matter with cleaning the silver on Tuesday "But If she washes on Wednesday that brings the ironing on Thursday her afternoon off." "Then let her iron on Friday." "The clothes can't stay sprinkled so long. Besides that brings the ironing too late in the week. Wait!" Helen flew into the library and came back with Mrs. Gordon's note. "Just read that!" throwing it down by his plate. "Now do you want to let her lord it over us?" Warren glanced at the note and pushed it away with a derisive shrug. "I'll wager she's a rip-snorter. Jove I'd hate to have the superintendent's job in this house. It's for him you're changing your washday not for her; Can't you see that?" "But, Warren, I'm not going to change! I'll not let Mrs. Gordon manage my affairs. I'll send the clothes out first." "All right, send 'em out. Cut off your nose to spite your face, for all I care." "No," passionately, "I won't send them out! We'll not pay $2 a week more just to humor 'that woman. We're going to wash on Tuesday. Warren, you MUST let me run the housework. I don't interfere with your office, and you've no right to dictate about the house." "I havn't, eh? Who pays the bills?" Helen's "OH!" was hardly more than a whisper, but it was more expressive than a volume of words. Warren reddened slightty. "Well, you'd egg a man " on to say anything. It's not the bills. That was pretty raw I'll take that back. But the rest stands. That Gordon woman's a fine example of what you would be if you weren't held down

with a' firm hand. Now, well have none of that here! r- No woman on God's earth will ever dictate to me just remember that. From now on youll wash on Wednesday, or youll send the clothes out. All right, leave the table! Go throw yourself on the bed and have hysterics. I don't care a whoop WHAT you do!"

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WAGES PAID HIGH

LONDON. March 8. One of the zen-

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make luxuries cheap and necessaries dear in England. Some luxuries, oysters for example, and pineapples;' have

dropped down and down and down. It

is the same with raiment and fine linen. The dearer raiment is cheapen

the cheaper raiment is dearer. It is

because the richer people have become poorer, the poorer people richer. Money tends so far to become more

evenly distributed. Income tax demand notes olav

useful part in repressing the natural inclination towards luxuries. One of

the leadine furriers in London say

that be was doing a roaring trade till

the people got their current income tax demands. Then suddenly his trade dropped away to nothing. The ereatest luxury of all today in

London suburban households is be

coming a domestic servant. A certain contractor Is reDuted to have grown

enormously rich out of the War Office

contracts. At a certain depot where

they are training women to become

munition workers he was Invited to subscribe to the fund for maintaining the establishment.. He declined. "Rut." said he oathetically to the

women, "if some of you will learn the

domestic arts I will give you every

thine vou ask. I will."

In spite of all the money he was

amassing when he went home there was no one to cook him a dinner or

make his bed.

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