Resting Up Wit Sleepy Maid Creates Domestic Jibe
A mistress confronts a maid after she finds the new servant dozing in the kitchen three afternoons. The maid replies that she would be tired if she never slept, highlighting comic logic over fatigue.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1942
Page
6
A mistress confronts a maid after she finds the new servant dozing in the kitchen three afternoons. The maid replies that she would be tired if she never slept, highlighting comic logic over fatigue.
Clarence notes effort to progress while Mary responds that such striving is necessary, underscoring shared goal of improvement. The exchange hints at personal or domestic tension and mutual resolve.
A wartime column of social spoof and light satire cites Private Purkey letters to Harriet about WW II policies and plans. It includes jests about Hitler Mussolini Goering and Goebbels, peace plans, mischief about cameras, and a note on taxes and rumors from press clippings.
Frayed wicker chair can be refurbished with time and money. Remove damaged parts, upholster with cotton batting and muslin, cover with satin, and tuft through the cover and wicker. Book 7 of Mrs. Spears series offers more furniture transformation projects and 32 pages of instructions for 10 cents postage.
Practical tips cover fruit preservation with french dressing and refrigeration for browning control, quick serving mix with other ingredients, decorating closets for children, dusting reed furniture with a hose, lawn furniture setup in sun, wallpaper removal with flour paste, and layered gelatin desserts with colored jelly layers for presentation.
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