Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . ause she didit for love of her family. As for doing itfor love of any other family, it was sim-ply unthinkable; there was not moneyenough in the appropriations of a nationwhich spends in billions to hire such ser-vice of her. She wondered, she simplywondered, that any such thing as ageneral-housework girl existed, and shedid not wonder that her existence was souniversally denied. She—? There! her husband broke in uponher, at the sound of a railroad my train, and he burst fromthe breakfast-table in their happy sub-u
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . ause she didit for love of her family. As for doing itfor love of any other family, it was sim-ply unthinkable; there was not moneyenough in the appropriations of a nationwhich spends in billions to hire such ser-vice of her. She wondered, she simplywondered, that any such thing as ageneral-housework girl existed, and shedid not wonder that her existence was souniversally denied. She—? There! her husband broke in uponher, at the sound of a railroad my train, and he burst fromthe breakfast-table in their happy sub-urban home, and had just time to smokehalf a cigar in the station before he gotinto his club-car. Of course this was amere ruse on his part, the ruse of a hus-band who had always left the houseworkto his wife, and now helped the otherchildren help her do it. If the domesticservant ever returns to her rescue, it willbe no thanks to him either from thecook, waitress, or laundress or general-housework girl whose hateful toil hiswife had singly or jointly Lovers Leap BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER THIS was back in the years when I wasgoing about the country getting up Beautifu]s.,, That was what wecalled them. They were really local write-ups with about six half-tone engravings ofMain Street and bits of local scenery thatwe got nothing for, and half a hundred ormore portraits of prominent citizens, picturesof oatmeal-mills, banks, and so on, that costus five dollars and for which we collectedtwenty-five dollars apiece, sometimes more. There were twenty or so of us in the busi-ness, working on salary, and sent out by theCities Beautiful Company, of Lima, went into a town, made a contract withsome local newspaper, and set to there were ten pages of local historyand general write-up stuff, followed by allthe way from forty to one hundred pages ofpaid advertising, either display or in theform of write-ups. We stuck pretty close to sample in allcases. Every book was
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