New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-27
For rAe rnss,s.
Wait on Yourself.

Amid the incessant complaints of the
difficulty of procuring good servants. allow me
to say few words to those who are afflicted in
this way
First, then Did you ever try 20 help yourselfi
II so, | am sure you never found yourself 50
cheeriully waited on, nor ever had your work 50
faithfully done by any one who served you foI
wages.
hold It for a good rule, If not carried 70 ex.
tremes, that no man or woman should call upon
another TO DO that which he or she can lust a,
well do, and has Just as much time to do, as any
other person. What an endless source Of frettins
and seolding, Of cross looks and cross words, OF
squabbles in the kitchen, and Of faulthndng a,
the dinner table. of domestic strife IN every de-
yartment OF many household, would the adop-
ton of this simple rule remove
II you, my worthy Sir, had started for your
counting room a few minutes sooner the other
morning, instead Of stretching yourself before
the FIRE, with your newspaper and cigar, until
the last minute, you would have had time 10 80
round n few sqnares and choose Tor yourself
tender turkey, instead OF the old patriarch of the
flock which your servant bought fer YOU that
day. You would not then have had such q
tedious time OF carving, wearing out your pa.
farmer, market-man, servant, cook, and house
keeper, and that before your young children be-
sides splashlng the gravy on everything around.
And you, my good lady, when YOU had those
grand folks at elmer the last week, and had
been telling the ladies what beautiful new.
fashioned pudding the cook had promised them.
would not have been obliged 10 blush like q
basketball of beets when you found out too
| late, (t0r II had been sent 10 every one at the
| table that the sauce had been sweetened with
salt, IN place of loaf sugar You need not have
blushed So say, if you had spent an hour in the
kitchen In place OF yawnlng over stupid novel
the whole forenoon, complaining of eanui, and
half tired OF your lie for the want OF something
20 DO.
But what have | to do with going to mar
ket ?" "And what have | to DO with cooking
dinners ~ YOU answer both in breath. IL Is
plain, from the little domestic incidents Iust
alluded 20, that YOU have a great deal to do with
such matters. But see where the trouble is.
You are little above giving your personal at
tention TO such small matters. But, look you.
friend, that is simply ridiculous. Above attend
ing 10 your own interest, your own health, com
folt and happiness Away with such absurdityl
Grant that these are small matters. Yet they
make up human life. As the ocean Is formed OF
drops, and as the mountains are but grams OF
sand piled up IN masses, so DO these small anu
every day matters make up the sum total Of our
existence. Grant. too, that you have plenty OF
money TO hire others to do them; yet who will
do another's work as well as his own Few OF
none at least, not for hire.
How many a pale check would glow with
health, how many constitution, enervated II
not ruined by idlencss and dissipation, would be
renvigorated, could these chains of ignobe
soth and of contemplate, despicable pride DO
broken from the limbs of the children of wealth
ard ease Then, too might the oppressed and
oyerworked sons and daughters of toll find
little respite from their incessant labors little
time for social enjoyment and for selfimprovo-
ment; and thus becoming conscious of the rights
and the dignity of human nature. be the better
qualified and fitted to act well their part in what
ever station they are placed.
The subject affords materials for an ample
essay, instead of few brief paragraphs. may
resume 1t at another time for the present, end
here MERin