A SERVANT WITH A PECULIAR CHARACTER.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 135, 29 September 1871, Page 5

A SERVANT WITH A PECULIAR CHARACTER.

The San Francisco " Era ,l gives a copy of a peculiar certificate of character which one of~ its editors -»ave to Emeline. It read as follows :—r" She has black eyes and black hair. Whenever she comes home from a wake Her eyes are blacker, and she has le*s hair by three or four handfuls. Emeline in engaged, n-od her young man is the most successful assimilator of butter and sugar and milk that ever emigrated from Ireland. He is equal to any demand of this kind upon his stomach. Emeline has been vaccinated, but it did'nt take. This is the only thing about Emeline that we know of ttiat won't take. Spoons take, and hemstitched handkerchiefs take, and she can nail more pillow-cases and forku within a given time than any other girl of the same size and weight in the land of the free. Her Sundays out comee twice a week, and she can wash stockings in the tea-kettle more efficiently than any living woman. Hei way of taking care of a baby is to hold it. upside down by the leg until it bursts a blood-vessel; and if she washes windows she never sluices water down on the pavement unless a man is going by with a new hat on ; then she slings it round by the tin-cup full. Emeline's most unpleasant peculiarity is, that she always blows the gas out when she goes to bed ; but it is better to encourage this practice, in the hope that she will suffocate herself some night She would be much more efficient as a pood, quiet, docile corpse, than a servant girl." Thig was " giving a coaracter " with a vengeance. But the editor reckoned without his host. He confesses that this recommendation must have been shownto Emeline's brother, because the latter has been " sitting on our front door step with a discouraging club for a week past, and we have gone in and out through the alley gate."