Epistolary fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Japanese -- United States -- Fiction
3--You will hear a sound. It will resemble moan of puppy cats
aggravated by Winter blowing cyclones among ghosts. I cannot hear that
Vacuum noise without feeling of lonesome poetry.
4--Hon. Vacuum begin to act disturbed. That are sign he want to eat
dust.
5--Find some dust. Lead Hon. Vacuum to this and say, “Sick him!”
Snorts! Hon. Dust will jump to nowhere while Hon. Vacuum howell for
more food.
What are this Hon. Vacuum, anyhows? Hon. Dictionary Book say “Vacuum
are Nothing.” How could Mr. Danl Webster speak such untruth by his
Dictionary? Vacuum cannot be Nothing and yet make so much noises.
This intellectual Vacuum machinery resemble ostriches in what they eat.
He delight to sip up tacks, needles, buttons and other hard groceries.
He appreciate small wad of paper occasionally, but when I attempt feed
him entire newspaper he hold it firmly against his nose, but refuse to
go furthermore. I should like a photo of his digestion.
Mrs. Bellus, who are a wonderfully housekept lady, admire this Vacuum
more than any of her relatives.
“I hate Dust,” she proclaim to me.
“Why should it?” I require. “Nearly all Earth are composed of this
delicious powder. Mexico, Sahara Desert & Jersey City is built on dust
and enjoys it continuously. Entire Italian army fight to get Tripoli,
which are nothing but dust inhabited by Mohammed.”
“They are welcome to get it,” she snib. “With a regiment of Vacuum
Cleaners led by Gen. Housekeeping I could wipe both armies off from
Morocco and make it fit to sleep in.”
I am shocked by her cleanliness. Yet I ask to know one question.
“Mrs. Madam,” I reproach, “tell me this reply. When Hon. Vacuum supp up
dust from this carpet, to where do it go to?”
She indicate Heaven with her thumb.
“Up there is grand blow-away hole which shoo it off,” she answer it.
So I continue on absorbing hairpins, string and other germs through
that succulent machinery.
No lady I work for are equally balanced in their manias. Some are
crazed about houseflies; cookery seem to make others continuously
het-up; others seem to reverberate with pain when mentioning
clothes-starch. This Mrs. Hirem B. Bellus was especially hobbed on that
Vacuum Cleanliness. She could forgive all other crimes, no matter if I
brought in beefstake too much charcoaled around edges. It no matter if
I too sluggish with my feet to answer door when it bells. It no matter
if I make outrageous beds or knock gentle glasswear in hard sink. She
forgive. But she was deliciously disgusted if Hon. Vacuum was not
mourning & howelling all day long while Togo poke its nose around among
rugs & other brick-brack.
Her husband disagree from this.
“Togo’s biscuits fill my teeth with hatred while his coffee show
contemptible weakness,” Hon. Bellus dib for breakfast.
“Perhapsly,” refute Hon. Mrs., “yet he are one of the best Vacuum
Engineers I ever hired.”
“I cannot eat a Vacuum,” reject that Husband-man, with hat-in-the-ring
expression.
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