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A Good Girl Wanted

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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' 'I would like to inserí au ad. in your paper. ' ' There was a look of dcsperation and determinaron on his face as he said it. "Very well, sir, " said the conutry editor, glaucing up frorn the proof of the weekly ncws letter frorn Meadowville signed "Pygmalion" and furnished by Mr. Peter V. Swarthout, the able correspondent atthatpoint. "Have you the copy of the advertisement?" "No, sir, " replied the visitor. "I '11 díctate it to you, and you take it down. Begin like this : " 'Wanted - A good girl for general housework' - Naw, change it. What the plunkety plunk do I care whether she's 'good' or uot? Make it: " 'Wanted - A capable female for general housework. The desire of the advertiser is uot so much to furnish a home for one who has seen better days as to secure more uniforinity in the resiliency of the daily bread and to establish a precedent. While poor health is not a crime, the undersigned does not contémplate coutinuing his domicile longer as a private sanitarium, and kitchen hands "who are not very strong, but will attempt the work if washing is sent out," are respectfully notiíied that two weeks' silence is a polite negative. Girls who are not willing to allow the mistress three evenings a week out and permission to attend at least one service on Sunday need not waste theii postage. The family circle of the undersigued now being completely and happily formeel, notiee is hereby given that girls desiring to be made ' 'one of the family" should seek some other family, as there are, as stated, no vacancies in the family of the subscriber. Cooks who have been taught that broiling tenderlom steak is a crime and that oatmeal is spoiled by cooking over five minutes and that tea should be boiled will be re-educated without deduction in wages, but sweeping the dirt under the rugs will be allowed on Mos days and Thursdays only. Good wages and a lif e tenure of office will be granted to the right party. Apply by mail only to Distress, this office. ' "How inuch will that be, sir?" he asked. The editor rose, vith tears streaming down his face, and graspcd the band of the advertiser eonvnlsively. "Nothing, sir, nothing, " he said. "Not one cent. It is a privilege to publish this daring declaration of iudependence, and all that I ask is, if you get more than one application from help filling these specifications, that I be given the first piek of the surplus. I fear me very niuch, thongh," he continued, picking up the "copy" with trembling fiugers and readiiig it through again thoughtfully, ' 'I fear me very much that you caimot reacli tbe ones you wish to reach through ruy paper. The only way to get this notice to the sort of females you describe would be to have the minister incorpórate it on Sunday into his

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat