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Updated: June 21, 2025
Meanwhile the happy and unhappy households of the fair town buzzed in comment and grew green with envy. In social circles and church circles and club circles, as also in domestic circles, it was noised abroad that Mrs. Edgar Porne had "solved the servant question."
"Oh, I'll feel differently in time, perhaps!" said her visitor. "Maybe if you took hold of the house if you ran things yourself," ventured Mrs. Porne. Mrs. Weatherstone laughed. "And turn out the old lady? You don't know her.
"It's going to be one of the finest businesses in the world!" she said, "And one of the largest and best paying. Now I'll have a surprise ready for that girl in the spring, and another next year, if I'm not mistaken!" There were long and vivid discussions of the matter between her and her friends the Pornes, and Mrs. Porne spent more hours in her "drawing room" than she had for years.
"Why I have no control over Miss Bell's movements, outside of working hours," answered Mrs. Porne. "And I don't see that it would make any difference to our relations. She is a very self-poised young woman, but extremely easy to get along with. And I'm sure she could write a splendid paper. You'd better ask her, I think." "Would you call her in?" asked Mrs.
Then she opened the door. A nice looking young woman stood before her, in a plain travelling suit, holding a cheap dress-suit case in one hand and a denim "roll-bag" in the other, who met her with a cheerful inquiring smile. "Are you Mrs. Edgar Porne?" she asked.
But during the summer her whole energies went to perfecting the menus and the service of her food delivery. Mrs. Porne was the very first to order. She had been waiting impatiently for a chance to try the plan, and, with her husband, had the firmest faith in Diantha's capacity to carry it through. "We don't save much in money," she explained to the eager Mrs.
Just read about her work, and you'll feel as if we ought to pay her all your salary." Mr. Porne read: "Labor performed, average ten hours a day, as follows: Preparation of food materials, care of fires, cooking, table service, and cleaning of dishes, utensils, towels, stove, etc., per meal breakfast two hours, dinner three hours, supper or lunch one hour six hours per day for food service.
Ellen A. Dankshire, President of the Orchardina Home and Culture Club, took up the matter seriously. "Now Mrs. Porne," said she, settling herself vigorously into a comfortable chair, "I just want to talk the matter over with you, with a view to the club. We do not know how long this will last " "Don't speak of it!" said Mrs. Porne. " and it behooves us to study the facts while we have them."
Porne, with forced patience. "It isn't time yet," she announced wearily. "He has to have his bath first." "Well," with a patience evidently forced farther, "isn't it time to feed me?" "I'm very sorry," she said. "The oatmeal is burned again. You'll have to eat cornflakes.
Weatherstone, "but can't we look over those plans again; there's something I wanted to suggest." And they went up to the big room on the third floor. In her shop and at her work Isabel Porne was a different woman. She was eager and yet calm; full of ideas and ideals, yet with a practical knowledge of details that made her houses dear to the souls of women.
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