The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-06

Opera House Restaurant tomorrow CTues-
day. morning, at half-past nine. rartle
soup aud all the other nice luxurles of tho
season will be ON hand.
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PERsoNAL.-Prof Jerome M. Foster, Of
New York, has secured Huston Hall, where
he Is advertised to deliver h lecture upon
the subject "Modern Science and Invention
the true Bond OF Unity with Nations"
This Is an entirely new and original lee
ture, possessing the attraction Of freshness,
as It was mainly written since the snccess-
ful laying Of the Atlantic Cable, llniting
the Old World and the New Doctor Fos-
ter's style ofdeliyery is said to be vigorous,
original and poetie--his sDestiny Of Ma
tions1 bulng eminently so.
tH 81 b0-Duck Linen Suits, Custom
made, can be had vt Che Eagle Clothing
Store, lis Main Street. for 81 50-COat,
Pants and Vest.
ONO STATE BUsINEss DIRECToRY.-Mr.
II. s. Thompson, Of l0l Main street. Cincln-
natl, is now having the State of Ohio can
vassed by competent corps of agents, for
the purpose Of presenting TO the communi-
ty complete record of every merchant,
manufacturer, banker and tradosman, do
ing legitimate business. II promises to
be stupendous undertaking, and we trust
that the merchants of this city will afford
the agents, Msssrs. w. Lewis Gilbert and
Joseph II. Carter, ample facilities 10 their
efforts to succeed In compiling correct
Directory of the business men of this city.
IL also affords an advertising medium OF
rare Significance, 1n6
The OPERA HOusE.--Duprez & Benedict's
Minstrels viii occupy the Opera House this
and tomorrow evenings. We have never
attended their concerts, but understand
they are first class company in their line,
Since our connection with the Dayton
press, for some twenty years past, we be-
lieve this is the only company connected
with concerts, theatres, cireuses orshows OF
any kind, visiting our city, that has not
patronized TO some extent, at least both
the daily papers published here. The man
ayers OF this company, for reasons best
known to themselves, although they have
frequently visited here and been liberally
patronized, have carefully excluded their
advertisements from the EMPIRE. But this
narrow-contracted policy on their part,
shall not deter us from giving our readers
by lwhomali places of famnsemelit are
mainly lpatrohizell-t benefit Of the an
nouncement. We)make it for their benefit
alone, and with the distinct understanding
that it Is entirely gratuitous Oh our part, SO
far ms the s'minstrels" ARE concerned.
gB- We commend the following excellent
article, from the Boston Pilot, to the spe-
cial attention of house keepers IL is sell
dom that we see so large an amount OF
truth and good sense compressed into so
small space. We hope our lady readers
win 'read and inwardly digest the same:
The Question of 'sHelp."
SO long as there are households there
must be servants or to use the more pleas
ing American term for IT. "help." And so
long as there are. silly mothers, who bring
their daughters up TO despise household
work and to look upon IL MS n degradation,
leaying them when they come TO mar
riageable age, are carried Off to new homes.
rs brides, rs helpless to manage affairs i'm
the kitchen rs though they, had been born
in the purple and reared for throne-so
long will it be necessary for others than
themselves to step In and do the needed
work. And we hold 1t to be the hight of
ingratitude on the part of those who are
thus served In their helplessness and need
to indulge IN sneers and In low-bred, vulgar
prcjudices against their "help" r =
1t has come to be the fashion among n
certain class or classes in the community to
make the troubles that are experienced
from "help" standing topic for complaint.
Indeed, so much has this fashion prevailed
we have no doubt married woman would
feel herself unfit to go into company unless
she could join in the everlasting fault
finding and add the quota of troubles
she has experienced to the common stock.
lt Is a fashion that Is more honOred i'm the
breach than the observance. We make bold
to venture the opinion, after an experience
OF thirty years., that three-quartoTs of the
complaints against "help" are either
groundless, or, being otherwise, the mis-
teesses, themselves, have given provocatiOn
by snpereiliOus and overbearing behavior
and treatment.
We hear, frequently. of the sauciness of
"help." These same people who make the
complaints have nothing TO say about their
own saucincss, or the sauciness Of their
boys and girls. Help should have the pa
thence of job and the forgiving disposition
of u cherub, to stand, without retort, much
of the insolences aud outrpges aud tyranny
to which they are subjected by the young
people of the families they live with.
Far be 10 from us to claim that househelp
are not often In the wrong. They are, un-
doubtedly; but they onght not TO bear the
whole load of OblOquy which mistresses
put upon them, which load ought to be
shared by mistresses themselves and their
rude children. Weknow of families of five
years existence, where the changes of help
have been as frequent rs five times In the
year. On the 0bher hand, we know of fam
lilies of twenty-five years duration, where
the changes have been at long intervals,
and then only upon some invincible neues-
sity, where servant and mistress have part
ed with mutual regret. You may say, per-
haps, that the mistress found a good scr
want, and SO kept her; or the servant that
she had good mistress, and depOrted her
self In such a manner to suit. Wen, II II
were so, the very fact dlscloses the prlncl-
pie upon which all mistresses--we speak in
general terms--can secure good servants
In eight cases ont of ten the mistress
forms the help and makes II good or bad. IL
she Is a woman who adds to ignorance of
household matters apetulcnt, fractious, an
noying and battling temper, II can not but
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