ANXIOUS TO PLEASE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2285, 19 February 1912, Page 2

ANXIOUS TO PLEASE.

The head of a well-known public school, in his moments of relaxation tells the following story at his own expense. One summer, some years ago, he spent a holiday of several weeks' duration at a farmhouse. The next session he received a letter from the farmer's wife inquiring if he would like to return. In reply he stated that he would be very glad to pass another summer holiday with her, provided some needed changes were made about the place. " First," he wrote, " your maid, Mary, is anything but neat and orderly in her ways, and if she is still with you, I trust you will at least not allow her to wait at table. Secondly, 1 would suggest that the sanitary conditiens of your place would be greatly improved if the pigsty were moved back a few yards further from the house, or done away with altogether. I will wait until I hear from you before deciding about coming." He was reassured by the receipt of the following reply :—"Mary has went. We haven't had no hogs on the place since you was here last summer. Be sure and come."