There's that housekeeper from Camp- meetingville looking agam, and I guess she is laughing now. But, for pity's sake, what made her skip away so quick.? There was no danger. Guess I can hit where I aim, if she can't, and did not aim her way. Boiling water and plenty of it, is a good thing to fight a mutinous boat's crew with. It is an infallible exterminator. This method of hydraulic scrubbiiig is new to her. Wants a hose and tank of boiling water to do it up perfectly. She was look- ing to see where the water goes when it is brushed off the tables and stove and falls from the walls. Where does she think it goes? Where does she think the flies comes from that she spends half her life fighting to death ? They come out of the ground, under damp floors where there are crumbs and sweepings and decaying matter. That is where this scalding lye and soap water is going and it will kill more_ flies in their infancy than her suf- focating insect powder ever will. Insect powder does not kill._ It is necessary to take up the vermin in their apparently dead state and burn them, otherwise, after a few hours they begin to kick, then get up and look around, shake themselves used to scrub these bulkheads as thoroughly as the tables and floors and we found that after scrubbing with brooms dipped in a tub of hot water con- taining some lye or soap, if the water we rinsed off with was likewise boiling hot the boards dried much whiter than if rinsed off with cold water. "Oh! how white your tables are dry- ing? "Yes, of course they're white — did you think I was going to mop them?" "Housekeeper says we can get a tub of boiling suds and do the pantry that way." "Ah, wretched hypocrites, you can get awfully enthusastic over it now the work is done. Get out." It is not so much of a pic-nic for the waiter girls when these summer houses fill up at last. The reason why the girls at that same Bendebeer House al Bingen- on-the-Bayou looked so pale and powd- ered and rouged so ridiculously was not because they were dissipated as some thought and said, but because the ne- cessity of keeping their pink gowns starched out as wide, stiff and sharp al- most as mowing machines robbed them of hours of sleep. I should like to know if anybody thought they could pay for all that laundry work out of their wages —their linen cuffs and little frilled aprons and white neck gear, fresh ever dinner time. They rose at three in the morning taking turns by squads to have the use* of the laundry before the regular laundry 3S COOKING FOR PROFIT. hands came on; in the interval between dinner and supper they had to go and do something else to the duds and at night after the dining room doors were closed and the laundrv hands had vacated the place they took possession of the starchmg and ironing tables for several hours at a spell. Misery loves company and they did not seem to know they were suffering as long as all the other girls had to go through the same ordeal. But it did make them pale and gaunt to a degree that the regu- lar day work alone would not have done. Then they piled on the artificial colors. 569— Trouble witn Steam Chest and Vegetables.

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There's that housekeeper from Campmeetingville looking agam, and I guess she is laughing now. But, for pity's sake, what made her skip away so quick.? There was no danger. Guess I can hit where I aim, if she can't, and did not aim her way. Boiling water and plenty of it, is a good thing to fight a mutinous boat's crew with. It is an infallible exterminator. This method of hydraulic scrubbiiig is new to her. Wants a hose and tank of boiling water to do it up perfectly. She was looking to see where the water goes when it is brushed off the tables and stove and falls from the walls. Where does she think it goes? Where does she think the flies comes from that she spends half her life fighting to death ? They come out of the ground, under damp floors where there are crumbs and sweepings and decaying matter. That is where this scalding lye and soap water is going and it will kill more_ flies in their infancy than her suffocating insect powder ever will. Insect powder does not kill._ It is necessary to take up the vermin in their apparently dead state and burn them, otherwise, after a few hours they begin to kick, then get up and look around, shake themselves used to scrub these bulkheads as thoroughly as the tables and floors and we found that after scrubbing with brooms dipped in a tub of hot water containing some lye or soap, if the water we rinsed off with was likewise boiling hot the boards dried much whiter than if rinsed off with cold water. "Oh! how white your tables are drying? "Yes, of course they're white — did you think I was going to mop them?" "Housekeeper says we can get a tub of boiling suds and do the pantry that way." "Ah, wretched hypocrites, you can get awfully enthusastic over it now the work is done. Get out." It is not so much of a picnic for the waiter girls when these summer houses fill up at last. The reason why the girls at that same Bendebeer House al Bingenon-the-Bayou looked so pale and powdered and rouged so ridiculously was not because they were dissipated as some thought and said, but because the necessity of keeping their pink gowns starched out as wide, stiff and sharp almost as mowing machines robbed them of hours of sleep. I should like to know if anybody thought they could pay for all that laundry work out of their wages —their linen cuffs and little frilled aprons and white neck gear, fresh ever dinner time. They rose at three in the morning taking turns by squads to have the use* of the laundry before the regular laundry hands came on; in the interval between dinner and supper they had to go and do something else to the duds and at night after the dining room doors were closed and the laundrv hands had vacated the place they took possession of the starchmg and ironing tables for several hours at a spell. Misery loves company and they did not seem to know they were suffering as long as all the other girls had to go through the same ordeal. But it did make them pale and gaunt to a degree that the regular day work alone would not have done. Then they piled on the artificial colors. 569— Trouble witn Steam Chest and Vegetables.

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