Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-13
MONEl-MAKING.

ltit nlgTdllOu OF Young men ana boN-
from she country to the cities is almost &
rush. The desire for the enjoyment Of the
sensuOus delights and the excitement which
are, for the multiude, only TO be found in
. large cities, seems TO amount to q craving
/ almost as imperative az hunger. If il con-
I Times 10 operate for a generation longer
| the fields will be deserted; and yet they
| cry ont for tillers, and good -four Is $40 the
1 barrel of two hundred pounds. But TO
! live a farmers life the SONS Of the farmers
/ who until now have been the strength and
/ riches OF the country scorn, unless II be as
/ the cultIy8tOr5 proxy of a thousand or two
/ acres. The desire OF seven young fellows
/ In Ten seems o. be 10 live by buying some
/ thing cheap and selling it dear, with the
! chance of q fortune by lucky speculation,
and meantime the coarse excitement and
vulgar glitter which city life brings to those
! who are neither Of the cultivated few nor
/ the t0iling MANY This morbid craving
/ infects all conditions Of life The papers
! are filled with advertisements of servants
in want of places Advertise yourself for
one, and they will come down upon you in
sWarms A lady whom / know well, adyer-
tised for cook about fortnight since, and
her house being In confusion, and the ear
pets up. she directed the-appiicaul 10 be
sent into the parlOr, large room, twenty-five
feet deep. They came SO fast Tan hour was
named) the parior was filled, and then the
hall, until she got rather frightened. But
a person living in the couEtry has the ut
most difficulty in getting and still more in
keeping. servants Gt 10 live in a we'll
ordered household. II they announce that
they would be willing to go a short dis
tance into the country that IL the re-
ceived phrase-they yet hold themselves
ready to fee into the city upon the smallest
proyocation OF temptation. \ cook or
nurse will Announce 10 their mistress, or
her lady as the phrase is, that she is
going to-day and there is no remedy.
This is quite common. And ! knew Of a
lady who, driving to the station with her
husband after breakfast, returned to find
her house without servant; something
had dissatisfied them, and they had all
five started without a word for the city
by the next train taking a road to the sta
tion by which they avoided an unpleasant
meeting And do not suppose that the
throng that filled my poor frightened
friends parlor and hall were made up Of
starving women, OF women even eager for
good place at fair wages. Servants here
are always comfortably lodged and are fed
upon the same viands rs their masters and
mistresses, and vet those cooks demanded
from SIC to SIS and $40 u month. They
Cros5-eXamine and make conditions too, if
possible. ! knew Of one case in which
! cook left the house, without 4 word be-
cause, as the other servants revealed,
she found that they were not to have
a special room in which TO receive their
! company A lady told me the other day,
amid much laughter, that she was about
| engaging a new waitress, and that the
negotiations, although somewhat prOtracted
and intricate, had proceeded very smoothly
until she said, 81 give an evening every
week, but ] allow no followers in the
house when the young woman, rising
with dignity, they always sit unasked)
said "That settles the question" and
/ swept ont Of the room. know Of gentle
man who undertook, 10 do a little of the
rough work in the engagement of a cook,
| before he sent her to his wife He under
went his ross-eXamination rs to the style
! of his house, the COnvenicnces i'm the
| kitchen, the hours of the family, and the
/ number of servants with exemplary meek
/ ness, until the woman asked, Glow many
| children have You got| 81 have five"
| he answered; "but IN put two or three of
/ them ont of the way, if you insist upon il, ."
| and turning on his heel, meddled no more
| with women's matters. But servants will
| 60 a short distance into the country in the
1 summer; that is they will then change city
/ life for villa life or watering-place life ;
! but they wont stop over the lst of October
| With them, as with those whom first
mentioned, the object of life seems TO be as
much of luxury and gayety as they cau-get ;
/ dainty eating and drinking, fine clothes,
/ fine houses to live i'm, and fine people for
/ society.
The desire to make money begotten of
! this craving has penetrated to the verv
| lowest stratum of society. People, poor
| people, here no longer seek to make an
/ honest living, or even to earn money they
want TO make money; that is, to get it in
! quantities, by buying something cheap and
/ selling il dear, or by being broker or mid
! dleman Even those who do labor contrive,
! if they can, to trade a little as principal or
! agents, generally as the latter. To return
! 10 the servants for an illustration | heard
/ of "a housemaid who not long since left a
! good place IN the city and went to live at
/ Tarrvt0Wn, thirty-Gye miles up the Hud-
| son, but who soon returned and asked for
/ her old place, alleging, as her reason for
! going and coming, that she was agent for a
/ book, and she thought IIrrytowH would be
/ good place 10 sell it, but il wasn't, and
now she was agent for two books, and she
/ thought she could make them 90 in New
. York or the money-gettiug mania,
the following story, which comes from
/ the lady who appear in IL, Is
an apt illustration. She ls manager of
! The Working Woman'H Protective Union
q Homi-chlritahle institution. She found at
the office one morning very young and
| delicate little girl iu the group that waited
her arrival An older companion, speak
ing in her turn asked for work for them
both Work. aaig the lady, what can
such % child as that do Pantaloon5'
" Impossiblel " Oh vesl" piped the
puppel, canmakc patoloons my father Is
q tailor" Then why, my good child, don't
you work for your father Oh" very
quickly, my father don't pay me any
thing" Whereupon there was grave
counsel as 10 the tilial duty, and with
10 expressions of compassion. All was
thrown away The little creature wanted
not parental love, not the shelter of home
hut 90 begin 10 get her own living in her
own way, and 10 spend in her own way
what She earned herself. ! want tu max,
money" was her final, and. in her iudg.
ueut, all.suficient answer. / may he la
mentally behind the spirit of my age and
of my country but lhat Is one of the sad
de-t stories l ever heard.
-=-=-=---