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# "The Maid and the Whoozis" by Warren Woodruff Lewis This is a humorous short story about a domestic servant problem, not political satire. The narrative describes hiring a vacuum cleaner demonstrator after the author's maid proves unsatisfactory at household tasks. The top illustration shows a delivery scene where a large vacuum cleaner ("the trunk that was lost on their honeymoon") arrives at a family home. The lower cartoon, captioned "Vaudvillany," depicts the vacuum cleaner in action—humorously personified as performing like a stage act, suggesting the machine's chaotic, unpredictable behavior in the household. The satire targets early vacuum cleaner technology and advertising claims of the era, presenting the device as both miracle solution and comedic menace to domestic life.
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at Last—Tur Detiverep The Maid and the Whoozi By Warren Wooprurr Lewis NE thing I will not tolerate is an insolent We had only one, but the girl gave She floors, servant us more trouble than she was worth grumbled when she scrubbed the growled when she washed dishes, complained silver polish ruined her hands, remonstrated g windows made her dizzy, objected to beat- » the laundry, and finally came hts a month that the that wa ing the rugs, refused to to downright mutiny by d 1 ad manding two ni Under the circumstances me for discharging her. My ge, but she said she didn’t ¢ able to take care of the apartment without assist- I said there would be no difficulty about that intended her A will do the work of ten maids. No home is complete with An advertisement I wa inst you could hardly blame wife praised me for my now how she would ance. because | to get a vacuum cleaner vacuum cleaner te nut one reading the other day said the most faithful servants in Moreover, they are the very essence of honesty. Nc ever | of a vacuun cleaner stealing anythir they are perfect demons for worl An average vacuum cleaner, if it is well treated, will tackle the biggest in the house single- handed, and in two minutes it will either have swallowed the rug whole, or there will be a hole that vacuum cleaners are the worlc body heard in the rug My wife wanted to start c that afternoon to look at cleaners, but I told her that the best way to get a vacuum cleaner, and get 8 by Dox Hexotn Not ¢ Mr. Gram touch of inte Trunk Tuat VAUDEVILLANY the bill s Was | on Their Honeymoon a good one, was to have an agent bring one to the house and give an actual demonstration. When they demonstrate vacuum cleaners in stores they have imi- tation piles of dirt that are trained to disappear at the snap of a switch. I wanted some real action. The advertisement that I read was about the Whoozis, so I called up the Whoozis agency and asked them to us a demonstrator The next day was Saturday and I set the appoint- ment for that afternoon. The Whoozis man was on time to the minute, but he had scarcely unlimbered for action when three other agents flocked in. My wife d the mobilization by saying that she had the Wizard, the Dustless and the Spotless he was afraid the Whoozis man might forget send up expla ‘pl because s to come With four demonstrators in the house at once, | > would be a difficult situation if I tried I decided, however, to keep three chines working in other rooms while I locked in the parlor with the Whoozis. The Whoozis man was glad to have me give him the first chance. He said it amounted to a sale, because he was convinced that after using the Whoozis I would never have any use for another machine. — In a way he was right. ‘The Whoozis intended for the annual clean ing in storage warchouses. It hummed and tugged at its leash like a huge airship, and the min- ute released it’ rushed around the room and came back with two rugs in its mouth. G imagined the to make a selection. of the myself was it was comicbooks.com