Monday, June 2, 2008

A Smart Woman

1895

The lady from the back tier of counties was making her first visit in Washington, where all social business is conducted on strict rules, and one day she happened on a card of a Washington woman who lives in one of the largest houses in the town. In one corner of the card was the word "Thursdays," and she didn't quite understand it.

"What is the 'Thursdays' for?" she asked the landlady of her boarding place.

"Oh, that means she is at home only on Thursdays!" explained the landlady.

"My, my," exclaimed the visitor, "she must be a dreadful smart woman to be able to keep that great big house in any kind of decent order and only stay at home one day in the week. I don't go away at all hardly, and mine ain't anything like so big as hers, but it don't give me a minute's rest trying to keep it clean and tidy." — Detroit Free Press.

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