Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-17
WHEEI
THE INTELLIG.ENCER

oencei that ne was non compos. It comprises
the views OF Randolph on the important subject
OF wonderland servants. The verdict of woman:
kind would most probably be that tba sooo of
story: tue upper
~, make 9 no no apology to yourself or Mrs. Nj for
tue frank expression of nv suspicion bacoi,Sa
lF1e@ Is IS, the goddess at whose shrine worshin
anu no nuguenotln France, or Morisco in Spain
y. oug,allzing OhTlstan in in Portugal, ever paid
more dearly for his heretical schism finn Ibo,,o
gone zone Tor leaving the established church of itIae.
|'o0a ana Grtn1ace. i am well aware that ladies
are as deiicat,e e as they are charming creatures
ana an that IN our intercourse Hith them we mnst
straln truth as far as possible. Brought up from
their earliest infancy to disguise their real scti!
llient t tIor a woman would be monster who did
nv thls olsguise) 1T is their privilege to
oe ihslncere, aud we should despise them and
justly too, if they had the manly rranknese
which constitutes the Ornament of our character
as inc very reverse does of theirs We mnst
l! therefore keep this in view in our intercourse
with them, and recollect that as our noint Of
nonor Is courage and fraEkness theirs is chasti-
" and GtsStntWtGtiOn; for as said before n ,Io
man who does not dissem5e her real feel;nos.i ia
= monster OF lmpudence. Now, therefore. it
does SO h1Rpen, (as Mr.. Canning would savSihof
truth.ls very offensive to the ears of n lady
! @hen !lt1 10 those OF a gentleman-her husband for
lnStance-it would be not at alliso.la
Io illustrate, Mrs. R, ofB-, nv. bro
tner ie ~ldow W was beyond all comparison the
incest aud best housewife ever saw Not ono
drop OF otwater was ever suffered to stand upon
ner sideboard, except what was in the pitcher.
the house, from cellar to garrett, and in every
par, as clean as hands could make it, and eve
rythinS as it should be to suit nv Sfastidions
taste. II lived there after my brothers death
IRON, 1I9O to 1910 inclusive, and never did see
small 0OVthinrr In ,oFF,, =
Imagination but once. Except in autumn. I
would defy any one to find a leaf or a feathcrsin
the yard No poultry were permitted to come
lntolt, and re had no dirty children, white or
negro, to make litter or filth. strong enclo.
sure of plank, eight feet high, fenced the
kltcncn, smoke.house, ice.house, meat-house,
wood-hOuse, in which the wood for the pse NJ
Ill 5Me mouse was stackeda away under lock and key.
Tho turkey and hen houses were in the same
enclosure, which had two doors, one next the
dwelling house, for the use of the mistress and
house servants, and one large enough to admita a
wagon on the back or north side, beyond which
was well built quarter, with two brick chin.
neys, and two rooms with fire-places, aud four
rooms without for servants. There was also
what had forgot) spinning and weaving
house.. r- 10 >. 80
at night the door of this Enclosure was locked
up-not servant being allowed to sleep within
1t, although every one ofthcm was within sound
Vi luS ll(y s Oell.
On one unhappy day, in a very hot and damn
spell OF weather, of long continuance, piece of
cold lamb was brought to the table that was
spoled-the first and last instance in nearly fir
teen years. ofthe slightest neglect in household
economy. Iordered the servant to take it away.
it being spoiled. Mrs. R.. resented this and
hatly contradicted me, and although the lamb
asosolntcly stnnk, she ate n part oft to prove
her words true, and was affronted with me al
most past forgiveness dare say ifI had not
nollced the lamb, she might have given hint
to the servant to take it away; but the honest.
naked truth was not to be borne. We had no
company but D. and her younger SON., three
schoolboys and an Englishwoman named
Knowles, who acted as oyerseer or steward and
dined with US until she took to drink. Mrs. r.
Stoutly denied that the lamb could be spoiled.
because it had been boiled only the day before,
and been in the ice house ever since. / admit.
ted her facts and denied her logic which was
trulyG 3oOnadR'S. maintained that the highest
evidence was that of the senses; that we must
reason from facts when we could get at them,
and it was only when we could not that it was
fair to argue from PROBABILITIES, that the lamb
stunk, and therefore was not sound. This she
denied, and to prove her words, actually made
a shit TO swallow half mOuthful, which under
other circumstances, she would not have done
for thousand dollars
So much for the ladies. charming creatures.
tue SAT- OI Tue eaTltlt WnOn ike Uncle Toby and
all other old bachelors, l never could thorough.
ly understand for want of the key ofmatrimony,
which alone can unlock their secrets and make
plain (as many husband can tell) all the ap-
parent contradictions in their character Yes,
so much for the fairer and better part of crea-
tion, Gas from my soul / believe them to BEL
hut who as the Wayerly man says of Kings are
killing cattle to shoe behind. And so it ought
to be, for it is their poor and almost only privi-
lege to Kick, while we roam where we will, and
they must sit still until they are asked. l
therefore am for upholding them in all their
own proper privileges, as long as they don't en-
croach upon those ofmen. A woman who un.
sexes herself deserves to be treated and will be
treated, as aman.
As TO the honesty of servants, I have always
thought mine "indifferent honest" as Hamlet
says, and yet Tshuuid have been very sorry that
the boy that bears this letter should find my
knife either of the two little urchins that you
see here about the yard.
1 E"I didn't take 1t master" (fora negro neper
steals) 81 didn't take it, sir, find Cfound) it,
What virtue in terms Corporal Nym, a high
professor and practitioner in the art of taking
says: "1he wise call it CONVEY" In Shaks-
pearc, never knew but three mulattoes whom
| 6etiered to be honest; and out of near. three
hundred, | have nota dozen slaves that willnot
take or scoarey.'
John is as honest as you and I are. So isold)
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