Epistolary fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Japanese -- United States -- Fiction
“Because,” she snagger, “Wednesday are Irish stew night, and we are
scarce on this economical vegetable. Sifficient for three are less
than enough.”
“Oh, then!” he report. “Charlie and me shall dine together at the
Runabout Club where hasty food can be obtained abundantly day and
night.”
“Don’t!” besearch Mrs. Fillups. Too late for reply.
That evening by late P. M. that dinner plate for Mr. Fillups set
lonesome. Mrs. Fillups remain by table weeping into bill-of-fare.
“Why do you weep?” I require at lengthly.
“He will not return home for meals when I do everything for his
comfort!” she sub.
“Mrs. Madam, excuse my chivalry, but I must speak a lecture,” I say
forth. “If you would be less careful of his comfort, maybe he would be
more comfortable. Many husbands quit home because it is too beautiful.
I realise that they do not know what is best for them. They are
cross-eyed in their intelligence. Yet are it not better to permit them
to be miserable in their own way, if this makes them happy? You must
remember: Husbands should not be furniture for the home--Home should be
furniture for the Husband. I speak this because I saw it.”
“Elsewhere is best place for such a wise servant!” snib Mrs. Fillups
leaping to her feets. So I project myself away feeling quite absorbed
like a sponge.
Hoping you are the same,
Yours truly,
_Hashimura Togo_.
V HOW SHOULD I DO PAPER-BAG COOKING?
_To Editor Woman’s Page, which makes photographs of food and other
amusements._
Dear Sir:
I am a Japanese Schoolboy employed as a servant girl, but I am not
doing so this week, thank you. I am such a continual office-seeker
around Employment Bureaus that Hon. Boss say, “Back again!” whenever he
sees me arriving.
I shall tell you what happened last.
Mrs. S. W. Swingle, gentlemanly lady of red-haired beauty, say
tackfully, “I will employ you at great risk. Please arrive to my home
to-night.”
There I went. This S. W. Swingle lady reside with her husband and
children respectively at Railroad View, N. J. Her Mr. Swingle, to which
she is married, is a timetable as well as a husband. His soul is full
of trains. He arrive home at 6.43 and require dinner at 6.59. He go to
bed at 11.04 and demand breakfast at 7.22 so he can catch 8.12 train.
When I got on this job I dishcovered that my tranquillity was going
to be very scarce. I must greet milkman at dawn-light and continue my
domestic science all day until exhausted.
Mrs. S. W. Swingle, with sweethearted expression, say that busy folks
is most happy. If this is truthful I should prefer to be slightly
miserable on Sunday and Thursday afternoons.
Yet I remain stationary in employment until Monday when sorrow arrive
wrapped up in a Paper Bag. I shall tell you how was.
At hour of 2.44 Mrs. S. W. Swingle arrive to kitchen with cutting
expression peculiar to scissors.
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