Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-17
A Woman Indignant about DOmestics Her
Rtatement 0f Grievauces

Statement of Grievances.
A lady writer in the San Francisco Golden
Age thus pours out the walls of wrath in ref
erence to the great trouble Of procuring
good servants;
If there is any one thing perplexipgly an
noying to house-keepers tits "help." 1fthere
is any one thing almost makes me wish |
was never born woman, and had house TO
keep, tis "help" If there is any one thing
calculated to shorten my existence, and bring
my gray hairs with sorrow to hotel, It's
"help." have tried every nation, kind, and
character-all sorts, ages, sizes and descrip-
tions, but It's Of no use, they are all alike.
Instead of helping you TO do the work, they
help to make work for you TO do; they help
themselves to the best bits In the kitchen,
help their friends to your eggs, coffee, tea, and
small stores, help their company to your
cakes and wine, help themselves from your
wardrobe, and one had short time since,
helped herself literally to my little gold dol
lars. Freddie gives me all the little gold
dollars he receives, for pin money!.
Help us from such "help,p or We shall soon
become helpless, indeed The climax must
soon be reached, and, to be prepared for it, I
made Freddie promise to bring me home o
what he advises. Poor fellow he must have
suffered terribly from ''help" to be forced TO
write a book about it. 1t must be good
book, too, the papers talk so much about it.
Now, there is my Therese. She is in the
main, a good girl, as girls go; but then she is
so abominably careless, you can never trust
her. The spoons, forks and table furniture
are never clean, and the table never half set.
She can cook very nicely if she likes, but her
head appears to me to be eternally running
on the young men. She is fine-looking
| girl, and there is not an evening in the week
that she is not off to some place of amuse-
| ment or that some caller does not waste ouI
gas till midnight. She must have sleep, and
| consequently, | have to get out of bed tC
arouse her in the morning.
| | must give her ample notice, or ten to one
she is off before | can get my things on, ant
| stay at home must, for there is no one will
whom to leave the baby To be sure, Mary
| is an excellent girl, and very attentive, but
she is small aud delicate, and | dare not trusI
her with so much responsibility. First, oui
| Dutch groceryman fell in love with Therese
he promised her brick house to live in
with every imaginable comfort, and gas toe
He was neither very young nor remarkabl,
handsome, but was pretty well off, and sh
was on the point of "deceiving' him whe
along comes the camphene man, muc
younger and better looking, and lager-bee
and cheese had to give place TO one-dollar
and-twenty-cents-a-ga What row tina
kicked upl For weeks lager-beer besieget
our house, vowing revenge and the atmos
phere was weighty with the aroma Of fader
land.
Camphene had it all his own way for som
time, but Therese is now inconsolable, con
sequently more careless, because he can no
wed for two years. In my opinion, he is
mean, contemplate sneak. believe it wa
all business operation on his part, 70
Therese says he talked 'love in a cottage an
camphene burners y till we had the gas pu
on. | really do not know what to do.
she does not do better and keep thing
cleaner, must discharge her, and that woul
grieve me immensely, for might get a wors
one. If Freddie gets elected for the Legisls
ture next year, intend to make him intro
duce a bill creating the Office of "help inspeC
toress," the Governors wife to appoint th
Oldest old maid in the country.