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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1921)
0 B THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1921. The Married Life of Helen and Warren An Arrogant Insolent Laundress Forces Helen to a Keckless Defiance. . Twenty minutes of 10 nd no sign of Mrs. McGuire Helen's resent ment at her tardiness gave way to a panicky fear that she might not come at all. TJie two tubs of clothes, put to soak the night before, filled her with a sick dismay. I was too late now to get any one else and the clothes would be ruined if they soaked another night. It was just a week since Cora left a dreary week of fruitless efforts to get another maid. She had been to eight agencies, answered 11 ad vertisementsand they were still maidlcss. In a way Warren enjoyed- the change of going out for dinner. Dut as Helen could not get even a cleaning woman, the work was be coming too hard. And now must she do the wash ing, too? She shuddered at the mass of clothes soaking in the gray suds. A sudden shrill of the kitchen bell brought a joyous reaction. She opened the door to the stout, over dressed nonchalant washerwoman. "Why, it's almost 10," resented Helen, her indignation replacing her anxiety now that Mrs. McGuire lijid arrived.- "I couldn't get liere no earlier," planting her bundle on the kitchen table with a defiant thud. Not deigning to offer any further excuse, she' removed her feather burdened hat and began unlacing her high-heeled, run over, taffy-colored shoes. "You can go into the maids room to undress," adtrionished Helen sharply. ' But ignoring this rebuke, Mrs. McGuire calmly continued to dis robe. Taking , off her diaphanous shirtwaist and the beribboned cam isole beneath, she dropped her short blue skirt 'and stood, a grotesque figure, in ' a rusty petticoat and soiled corset gaping widely at the top. Arrayed in a grimy waist, old black skirt, and hselless slippers from her bundle, she rolled up her sleeves past the bulging biceps of her red freckled arms, and turned to inspect the size of the wash. "Now Mrs. McGuire, these are my good napkins. Do them very carefully and don't starch them too much. And this silk underwear, m the basket don't put it in too hot water just lukewarm." "You don't have to tell me noth in'," bristling. "Guess I knows how to wash silk. The ladies I works tor wears nothin' but silk." "Well, here's the starch and blue ing. Don't make tta clothes so blue this week. And don't blue this linen waist at all it's meant to be cream." But Mrs. McGuire had turned on the hot water full force, insolently drowning further instructions. As Helen ran the sweeper over the library, she thought ot the four dol lars a day she was paying Mrs. Mc Guire for her impudent indolence. She had come at 10, yet she would leave promptly t 6. She never made up for any lost time. Dusting the bedroom, Helen saw the dresser scarf she had intended to have washed. Taking it off, she hurried outo the kitchen. "I forgot to put this in," apolo getically. "It isn't tooo late, is it? "H'ow much d'you think I can wash in one day? Two weeks' wash here now." , , , "It is not a two weeks wash, re torted Helen crisply. "And you could have done it easily it youd come on time." "I ain't no sweatshop worker. Them days is over. Well, give it lerel" Snatching the scarf, she squashed it down in the tub. With an effort Helen kept her temper. 'Then turning to leave, her glance fell on the clothes in the boil tr which Mrs. McGuire was now roughly prodding. . "My pink silk combinations I You're not boiling those?"- . "T won't hurt 'em. Mrs. Martin she wears nothin but silk I always , i ci. clean " OOli ners. cine , "I don't care what you do tor Mrs. Martin or for anybody else! It ruins slik things even to put them in hot water. I just told you that. Now take those right out. Be, care ful, vou'll tear them!" as Mrs. Mc Guire ruthlessly jerked them out on the end of the clothes stick. Rescuing the frail garments from further mistreatment, Helen rinsed them in cold water and hung them on the towel rack. Mrs. McGuire expressed her animosity by rubbing on the board one of the good table cloths with vicious vigor. Fearing to offer further criticism lest she sav too much, Helen dis creetly left the kitchen. This was the last time she would have Mrs. McGuire. Warren want ed her to send the clothes to a aun dry. It would be b-jtter to pay laun dry prices than to put up with tins woman's insolence. It was just 12 when Mrs. -McGuire appeared at the door of Helen's room. . "What do I get for my lunc.i. I ilon't see nothin' in that ice box. "Why therc"s baco-i and eggs and bread and butter. I told you we were ?oing out for our dinner. T like meat for my lunch. ou rotta have somethin' to eat when you do a big wash. I get faint m the middle of the afternoon it I don t get a good meal. . "There's plenty of bacon isn t that meat? And that gluten bread is very nourishing." "I don't eat no brown bread. And I ain't used to washiu' in no place where I don't get a good lunch," re treating with muttering discontent. Apparently she was not taking any risk of being "faint in the mid dle of the afternoon," for when Helen went out to the kitchen, she was breaking three eggs into a skil let of sizzling bacon. v "Don't see no cream for my tea. "There's plenty of milk." Helen forced herself to say it quietly. "I don't drink milk m my tea rather do without." Turning 'out the bacon and eggs on a large platter, she sliced five thick slabs of bread, cut off a large hunk of butter, and drew up a chair before this amble repast. Half an hour later, Mrs. McGuire had disposed of the e.igs and bacon. But with maddening deliberation she was still sipping her tea and munch ing bread, and, Lylter, afie ycrused By Mabel Herbert Urner the comic Sunday supplement prop ped up before her. Helen's own meager luncheon, a glass of milk and bread and butter, hastily dispatched, she bustled about trying by her brisk example to in duce Mrs. McGuire back to her work. But that leisurely lady refused to budge until she had her full lunch hour. The very air was charged with their mutual hostility. Even in her own room Helen felt it. Like some poisonous vapor it filled the whole apartment and gave her a throbbing headache. "Did I forget to feed you?" as Pussy Purr-Mew set up a plaintive mew for her luncheon. "Come on then, I'll give you something right now." Again in the kitchen, as Helen poured some -milk into the saucer under the table, she gave a gasp of horror. "The dish pan was filled with stockings to soak in the dish pan?" "What if I did? Ain't gonna hurt it. It can be washed cant it?" "That's a filthy thing to do! Take them right out and scald that pan thoroughly. Here's 1 an old starch pan put them in -this." As Mrs. McGuire with venomous muttering dumped out the socks and stockings, something light gleamed among the black. "My gray silk stockings! You put them to soak wjth all those black? They're ruined!" snatching the clouded hosiery from the inky water. "Here, I can't do my work with you buttin' in every minute." con fronting Helen, her face darkly red. If you're so mighty perticuler you can finish the wash yourslf." "Very well, I will," flamingly "reck less, "I'd rather do the work my self than put up with your inso lence." "That suits me," wiping her hands on her skirt. "I'm used to washin' for ladies, I am not for the likes of you. Give me my money and I'll go." , i - "How much do I owe you?" "Half a day." She was already lacing up the taffy colored shoes. Trembling with indignation, Helen went in for her purse. Half a day! It was only half past one and she had taken a full hour for lunch. She had worked exactly two hours and a half. v But unequal to any verbal com bat with Mrs. McGuire, Helen took out a two-dollar bill. Anything to get rid of her quickly! "Here is your money," stiffly, plac ing it on the kitchen table. A safety pin in her mouth, Mrs. McGuire did not deign to reply. With brazen deliberation, she tied the ribbons of her violet pink cam isole, donned her diaphanous waist and adjusted her jaunty silk skirt. Them humming an exasperating tune, she pinned on her be-plumed hat and flounced haughtily out. When the door slammed after her, Helen dropped quiveringly into a chair, and surveyed the dishearten ing scene. A tub full of half-washed clothes and a boiler full besides! Reaching over, she turned out the gas under the steaming boiler drop ped her head on the kitchen table, and gave way to angry, helpless tears. Then ashamed of her weakness, she started up. It was now six minutes of 2. She had just three hours to finish this washing and clear the kitchen if she wanted to be bathed and dressed when Warren came home. With a grim determination she flew into her room, took off her rings, got into her oldest kimona, a;id was back at the tubs before the clock struck 2. Recoiling from the task before her, Helen pinned up her flowing sleeves, and with shuddery aversion, plunged into the lukewarm,1 murky suds. She would finish this wahsing though it left her with an aching back and blistered hands.. Her very resoluteness gave her a sense of power. Hereafter she would send the clothes to a laundry as Warren had long advocated. It might be more expensive, but it would free her Selicow & Ackerman Ladies Tailors Extend io the women, of Omaha and vicinity a most cordial welcome to view our collection of ' models and fabrics for the coming Fall Season 1921. We specialize in the making of jfiding habits, so the eques trienne will find our models to her heart's delight their youthful and snappy lines, their fit and Workmanship are a real revelation of the tailoring art. SELICOW & ACKERMAN LADIES TAILOR 3259 Farnam Street Phone HArney 1606 trom Mrs. McGuire and from a!! her swaggering and insolent tribe. She was through paying for ar rogant incompetence. Guiding War ren's undershirt through the wring er, her spirits rose with an exultant glow of re-established independence. Next Week Helen Tries a New Beautifying Treatment. Frozen Fruit Pudding. Try this frozen fruit pudding on a warm night. ' One cup fruit pulp and .juice (strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, peach). One cup cream. One cup milk. One cup sugar1. A little salt. A few drops lemon juice. Heat the milk, add the sugar, and when it is dissolved and the mixture cooled add the other in gredients. Freeze and serve. Argentina women ate prohibited from wearing check suits. Y. W. C. A. 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