How a Husband was Won.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 567, 8 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

How a Husband was Won.

Tiieee were eighteen or twenty of us, mostly girla, says a writer in the N»,w Orleans Bulletin. The subject of the conversation was servants. ' Ah, girls,' said the matron, 'you have very little idea of the trouble we have with our servants, particu'arly nowadays, when money is scarce, and you are not always ready to say 'here's your money; you must seek another place.' This was said in a sad voicp, but tho good old d»me brightened up when she added : 'It reminds me of times gone by. u when money was plenty and provisions were cfieap. I had a German cook, a fine, buxom young ;l*Bs, florid as a summer-sunset, and robust as an Amazon. It struck me one day that the side-walk in front of the house needed scrubbing, and, being short of help at the time, I ordered the cook to do tho work She refused peremptorily to comply, cla ; ming that it was beneath her dignity. The kitchen, she said, was her place ; and I replied by handing her her month's wages, remarking cooJiy that I could quickly find somebody that would, bophie had soon changed her mind, and an hour afterwards the sidewalk was as clean as any neat housekeeper could wish. But that is not all. 'ihe next day f was told that I was wanted at the hall-door by a hardworking neighbour, a shop-keeper, and apparently well to do. (ibis was before the war.) In a few words my neighbour had explained, in broad Teutonic accents, that he had seen my servant the day before scrubbing the side-walk, and he added exultingly, 1 fhe worked with such care and vigor that I resolved from that moment that she should beeometny wife.' In Hhort, girla in a few days we had a sensation wedding in the neighbourhood, and I loit one of the best servants in the world.'