Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-02

! The Delegates to the I edng Mems Convention,
which is to assemble in Washington next Mon
day, are beginning already to arrive. We look
for much good in good cause from the meeting
and proceedings Of such a respectable body OF
Young Men as arsexpected to compose the Con-
vention.
Domestic Manners Of the americans. e
extract from Mrs. Trollope's book, already re-
ferred to, several passages which will amuse our
readers. They will be disposed to laugh at the
carricatgSs. drawn Of our domestic manners.
! the leatest difficulty ia organizing fami-
Iy establishment in Ohio is getting servants, as
i: is there called, ''getting help" for 1t is more
than petty treason to the public to call free ci-
/ tizen ssrraW. The whole class of young woe
men, whose bread depends upon their labor. are
taught to believe that the most AFFECT poverty is
preferable to domestic service. Hundreds Of
half-naked girls work in the paper-mlls, or in
any other mandatory, for less than half the wa
ges they would receive in service; but they think
their equality is compromised by the latter, aud
nothing but the wish to obtain particular ar
ticle of fnery will ever induce them to submit to
it. A kind friend, however, exerted herself SO
eectual'y for me, that tall stately lass soon pre-
scented herself, saying, !" I be come to help you.
The intelligence was very eeabe and l wei
coined her in the most gracious manner possible,
and asked what should give her by the year.
'.Oh Gnnni!" exclaimed the damseI. with loud
laugh, "You be downright Enslisher, sure
enough. should like to see young lady en-
gage BY the year in America. hope shall
geta husband before many months. or expect l
chal ha nh M FL ha act
teen already; besides, mayhap want to 20 to
school. You mus. just give dollar and half
q week; and mothers slave, PhilIis, must come
over once a week, expect, from t'other side the
water to help me clean" | agreed to the bar
cain OF course, with all dutiful submission; and
seeing she was preparing to set to work in yell
low dress parseme with red roses gently hinted
that thought it was pity to spoil so fine gown
and that she had better changelt. "Tis just my
best and worst" she answered, ''for I've got no
other" Add in truth found that this young
lady had left the paternal mansion with no more
clothes Of any kind than what she had on. lm-
msdiatey gave her money to purchase What was
necessary for cleanliness and Iecencv, and SET 10
work with my daughters TO make gown She
srinned applause when Out labor was completed,
but never uttered the slightest expression of gra-
titude for that or for ANYTHING else we could do
for her. She was constantly asking US to lend
her different articles Of dress, and when we de-
clined it, she SAID, ''Wel. never seed such
grumpy folks as YOU be; there is several OF my
acquaintance what goes to live out now and
then with the old women about the town,
and they and their gurls always lends them what
they asks for; I guess you lnglish thinks we
should poison your things. just as bad as i! we
was nesurs.' And here | beg to assure the read.
er. that whenever give conversations. they were
not made lOisir. but were written down imme-
diately after they occurred, with all the verbal
fidelity my memory permitted.
This young lady lett me at the end Of two
months, because l refused TO lend her money
enough to buy silk dress to 90 to ball, saying,
:. Then it is not worth my while to stay any lcng
en-" cannot imagine it possible that such
state Of things can be desirable or beneficial to
any of the parties concerned. might occupy
hundred pages on the subject, and yet fail to
give an adequate idea Of the sore. angry, ever
wakefu pride that seemed to torment these poor
wretches. In many Of them tt was so excessive,
that all feeling Of displeasure, or even of ridicue
was lost in pity. One of these was pretty girl,
whose natural disposition must have been gentle
and kind; but her good feelings were soured, and
her rentleness turned into morbid sensitlveness,
by having heard thousand and thousand times
that she was as good as any other lady, that all
men were equal, and women too, and that it was
a sii aud a shame for ee-6orn American to be
t-Shteu like servant. When she found she was
to dine in the kitchen, she turned up her pretty
lip, and said, '' guess that's cause you don't
think I'm good enough to eat with you. You'll
find that won't do here | found afterwards
that she rarely ate any dinner at all, and general
" passed the time IN tears. did every thing
in my power to conciliate and make her happy,
out I am sure she hated me. | gave her very
high wages, and she stayed till she had obtained
several expensive articles of dress. and then, I'm
beau nnatin, she came to me full dressed and
said, al must go'' When shall YOU return,
Charlotte?'' II expect you will see no more OF
me-" And so we parted Her sister was also
living with me. but her wardrobe was not vet
completed, aud she remained some weeks longer
till it was. up. 1917.
Such being the difficulties respecting domes-
tic arrangements adds our author. 1T is obvious,
that the ladies who are brought up among them