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[BY A HOUSEWIFE AT HOME.
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"Can spink to the dudy of the house, please?
How many times a day, I wonder, is the that familiar formula heard on doorsteps of Great Britain! To judge by my own ense, the total figures for the I am country must run into bilions. the lady of the house it a suburban, villa.
We have one maid when we can get one or keep one. the past fortnight I have had to be my own maid. And while so employed 1 have been brought to realise one trentends Das drawback to domestic service-name- iy, the doorbell,
For
The door-bell, it is to exaggeration to say, is the curse of domestic service.
Just when you're busy ironing, or mak- ing a padding, or cleaning the silver, br whatever it is, you have to leave off in the middle to go to that blessed door.
"List, is have tried, and I know, Here with items,
of a single morning's tintin- Babulatory si
te visitors which compiled the other day just as a matter of curiosity. All the strugers among them" took me for the maid, in my print overalls, and wanted to know if they could speak to the lady of the house, please,
9.43 a.m.-Ex-service man selling ten.
Had to give} [Turned out undrinkable. it to our charlady-]
9.53 a.m.-Gipsy woman, hawking arti- ficial flowers.
[G. W. begin with celestial benedic tions on my head, but, when she found there was nothing doing, departed in a Blood of blood-curdling profanity.
10.3 a.m. Insinuating gentleman tout IAS for new Insurance Company. After saying No, thank you," 13 times without the slightest effect on his copious- eloquence. 1 lost patience and shut the door in his face.)
10.30 am. Seedy-looking individual, who smelt strongly of whisky. sellingi tickets for somebody's benefit concert. Wouldn't go ill I hunde believe to call my husband, when he streaked for thy!! gate double-quick
10.30 --Woman in aurse's uniform, collecting for an orphanage in the Isle of Man. Talked. with tears in ber eyes, about the cry of the little ones. Told her 1 dn't see what the of
ery the little ones in the fale of Man had to do with we She departed with fearful threats of what would happen when the little ones of the Isle of Man rose up ia julgment against me at the Last Dag.]
11 am.The baker.
f...--The postmann.
11.3 alm. Carter Paterson with parcel (Had come to wrong house.]
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11.90a.m.-Man who wanted to know!
if I'd like the windows cleaned.
11. a.m-Another man to know if} I'd like the chimneys swept.
[TRO .m.-The Justmer. (Said it worn c zonu of their business to carb away they dead chrysanthemum plants that I'd piled on the top of the bin. Knew this was equivalent to a demand For d., which I gave them for the sake of a quiet life.)
11.40 a.m.-The butcher.
11.42 -The Ashmonger. 11.45 ..The milkmati. 11.30a.m.-Small boy and girl for a drink of water.
Foolishly gave them 2d, to buy sweets- with the following resulta.]
11.35 a.m.-Second party of sinall boys and girls for drinks of water.
19 noon. Third party of small boys] and girls for drinks of water.
1 p.m. Fourth party of small boys and girls for drinks of water. Told ther the next party would all have their heads put under scullery tap for time. Had desired tive minutes at a effect.j.
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12.10 p.m. The greengrocer. .12.15
-Elishmonger back to my he' mislaid my order, and was it. cod
or
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130 p.in.-District visitor with tickets for the
Christmas draw on behalf of Parish Church Sunday Schools. (Said (quite otruly) that I was a conscientions, ob jector to
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only Bd. town. Vicar. She cousigned both me and the Vienr in particularly sulphurous langu- age," to the Bottomless
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19.55 p.m.-Conservative Canvasser anxious to enrol me (subscription, 25.1 td.) a member of the loent "Conservative Association.
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DEAN INGE..
said that for about two hours after it was born a baby could be swung from pencil, to which it would cling quite naturally. It lost that power, however, after the first two hours.
The pronunciation of Dran, Inge's gorillas gradually began to evolve and Thousands of years ago, in India, has been made the subject of develop bone came down to the ground
hamze
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vi. It is as follows:-
If you his temper would unhinge And his most sacred rights infringe, Or, excommunicated, sings Where fiends for ever writhe and cringe Imploring that, a drop of ginge- Bale way on their tongues impinge
Address him then as Doctor Inje: But if you prize the proper thing Be sure you call him Doctor Ing." --(Unless, your ignorance to screen, You temporine with Mister Dean). But be advised by me, and cling To the exniaple of the King
And fearlessly pronounce him Ing. Then rush to hear him have his fling Id Paul's, and places where they sing,
Our children loved to climb, and one never
knew a child fall from a tree.
race now if
"There would be no had fallen from the original monkeys had 1
the present human race was not de scended from monkeys, but from the same stock,
being cousing of monkeys about alty times removed. We were the same form, but had cast off the undersizable habits of a monkeys relative.
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