New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-02
LETTER FROM CLAIRE.

! Dear CreScent-Being, as the mother of o large
| family should be- disposed to get bargains-which,
tits said most ladies are fond Oft is naturally to be
supposed seek cheap store-that delight Of man
aging woman's heart. Now, Dickens has celebrated
q London Curiosity.shop why should not give my
| ,oeighty pen to a New Orleans one. Although ours
of the Crescent City has no famed Mr.. Or Mrs Qupto
ighten from or to decorate it, still it will almost fur
nish little Nell y in prettiness.
! Not thousand miles from Rampant street, nor
many more from Customhouse street, is little French
double cottage, in which, would wager something
pretty, there could be found anything from futing
iron to q steam press-from needle to a crowbar.
China, old and new; pictures fine and poor engrav-
ings, dark and coored bonnes, Shoes ribbons, trees
beads, and what not cannot tell. Do you feel in.
cned for schnapps or cordal-ts there in dusty bot
ties; think sardines, pickles, or anchovies, would
relish-they can be found in all their beauties; a
brandy fruit for ladytke stimulant, orr preserved
fruit for tart-all and each greet your view, with
another such conglomerated mass as could be no
where else found Young couples, setting out cheapy
had better call; they can be suited, from cooking
! stove to cradle, I'm sure. I'm not paid for puff.
ing.)
Pray, Crescent, do you keep house? If so, do you
hire help?" For there are no more white servants
all are helps" Young Ladies advertise for stu
atoms as chamber maids ladies' maids, cook maids
and scullions. We find very few women, nowadays
all ladies, from the parlor to the kitchen. Oh for
graphic pen that could paint, in all their beau
ties, servant-huntng, and managing when found OF
late years. it is mstresses who are expected to pro
duce certificates of good character honesty, sobrety
temper etc; no longer the maid, who is furnished
with credentials that she is all she ought to be-a
pearl of price.
One month. you have the reading lady in the ktch.
who burns her SOUP half cooks her vegetables and
roasts her meat to chip, while running over the
morning paper, which she has privately puroined
Anon, you have the sulky in the Kitchen who will
not permit you to say your kitchen is your own, with
out scowl that far outscows Miss Hepzibah, Of
Pynchon memory. You have the coolly mpudent
who saunters about and quietly tells you what she
intends to do without one reference to your desires
upon the subject-who brings her company into the
kitchen and regales them upon cake, tea and loaf
sugar, out of your pantry, and walks off in the eve
ming without so much as saying, "by your leave"
Then, again, there is the highly respectable young
lady, to whom character is all in all. She inquiries as
to the responsibility of your locality-whether you
own your own property-cbjects to certain streets
not of sufficient purity for her mmaculatepess and is
very anxious to know whether you are widow, wife,
or maiden lady.
We have milkand-water helps who, one would
think, could not speak above their breaths yet if
trusts them in the street with young hopeful,
will cuff his ears pull his hair, and fairly dsjont his
limbs unless hemoves by rule to suit their motions.
But nuisances too mutitudnous for specification, are
the genus servants and as I have to drop my pen
and HE to the kitchen to cook dinner for my husband
and children, I had better give over the attempt.
But, just let me give you slight sketch Of the
troubles of house-keeper and the mother of prom
Using family: Twont rain-hydrant water SO high no
one in their sober senses, who can help it, will have
their pumps open-cistern almost dry-day hot and
children cross-baby crying-edest daughter who
has been raised tasonaby in the sulks because her
mliner has three times disappointed her about her
new bonnet--Jonny stumpt his toe-Neddy got his
eye BACKED at school-scrvant walked off with her
beau-dinner to cook-husband in hurry and fidg-
if any one can go through this and their
eyes not run over without the aid Of onions, then
only say Job in the midst of his caamities might
take a lesson in patience from them.
Yours in great hurry, as dinner may burn,
n,