"Ask 'em to look me over and see if there is anybody here I might suit."
THE NEW MAID—"In my last place I always took things fairly easy."
COOK—"Well, it's different here. They keep everything locked up."
Mrs. X. had lost her cook and had telephoned in vain for another. Dinner guests were expected and she was desperate. Finally, putting on her things, she went out, and she hadn't gone far when she met a neat-looking colored woman. She explained her dilemma and the colored woman listened in silence, then she said: "Where do yo' live, missus?"
Seeing a ray of hope joyfully, Mrs. X. gave her address, to be met with this reply:
"Well, yo 'jess go home an' look in yo' glass an' yo'll see yo' cook."
MISTRESS—"I want a maid who will be faithful and not a time-waster. Can you promise that?"