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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
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Ackerman
Ladies Tailors
Extend io the women, of
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coming
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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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203 So. IS Stmt
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our styles attractive, and
the prices at which we
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Mrs. Phebe E. Fullaway has re
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soula, Mont. While in the west Mrs.
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large cafeterias, bringing back many
new ideas for the cafeteria service,
which w ill he adopted in the associa
tion cafeterias as soon as possible.
The Young Women's Christian as
sociation desires to thank its many
friend for their continued loyalty to
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I regrading the streets, and to assure
them that with the alterations to the
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m 4-Burner Gas Range
A four-burner gas range with enam
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guaranteed thoroughly
efficient in cooking
and baking, at our
special sale prico of
only
$125 Kroehler 3-Piece Duofold Suite
A product of the well-known Kroehler factory. This suite
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ixl2-ft. Seamless Wool Brussels
itugs. fast colors, very a""1
designs, at SlS.Wo
9xi:-ft. Seamless Velvet Rugs,
several handsome deBigns, all col
ors. Very special 829.75
flx.i:-ft. Ilish-Grade Axminster
Huffs, lonp silky pile.' Splendid sc
lctiona of new patterns. Special
ly priced, at H34.75
Bed, Springs and Mattress
At Our Special Sale Price
4-Poster
Bed, Comes
In Walnut
or Mahogany
j
We hav but a limited quantity
to be oirercd and urge you
come early to avoid possible dis
appointment. This bed, sprliij
and mattress complQte tor.
Cotton
Mattress
Resilient
Spring
$CQ75
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Canvas Couch Hammock i
12
Comes In brown or grsy can-
j g vas. A couch nanir.ioi'tt that
10 Is recommended for comfort
and rest; comes complete
with hanging, chains and
cellli.gr hooks.
Englander Double
This Ia-Ped Is of
fered complete with
pad. with cretonne
or denim upholstery.
at
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85
ROTO
Da-Bed
srnile by the fsmnus
"Knglsmler" factoiy
and made to sell
regularly at 142.6.
While they last
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9xl2-ft. Seamless Wiiton Rugs,
finished with linen fringe, made of
all worsted yarns. One of tha
most sewieeable rugs made. Spe
cial in this sale, at ST9.S0
Serviceable Has; Rugs. These ruts
are washable and especially rec
ommended for the bedroom or
bathroom.
Size 27x54 inches, special.. SI. 15
Size 30x00 Inches, special. .81.35
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Rronu Fiber Tlocker
Very comfortable and
serviceable as well. A
special, at $9.45
Sixteenth Between Harney and Howard
(Kmmona rib Neat. Ivor
finished wooden crib; has
safety sliding; side. A spe
cial, at 911.50