ep11 44 Year Old Quarrel

Two women patch up a 44-year-old quarrel. The mystery of the death of Chun-Ling-Soo has never been solved. Looking glasses are placed on the back of the seats in Westminster Abbey. Can you imagine that? Once more, my friends, this is Lindsay McCarry speaking to you.

Out of the welter of amazing facts, we're about to present to you. We'll return with the first one in a moment or two, and we hope you'll be with us. Yep, it's the first one of our presentations of Can You Imagine That Items for this session.

It's the story of a quarrel. a quarrel which lasted for forty-four years, a quarrel which separated two old friends, but it was a quarrel which neither changed the map of the world nor lifted the crown from the head of a monarch nor sent nations into armed conflict. It was as quarrels go of little consequence, but it is a

good yarn and I think you'll enjoy it. In the year 1864, Little Bertha Senn, age 13, came to work for the Klotz family of Brooklyn. About the same time, twenty-year-old Kristina Diehl also came to work for the Cloth's household. Six years later they came to a difference of opinion and Christina quit her job. Well, not much of a story so far, is it? Well, time went on and Bertha-Sann

remained as made to Mrs. Samuel Cloth's, and right there I might remark that the servant problem in the Cloth's home ceased to exist, for Bertha-Sann remained as made to Mrs. Cloth's for fifty years. Yep, it's true. And on the 1st of May 1914, the Cloth's family gave a party to Bertha upon the occasion of her 63rd birthday, a party attended by eight grown