The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-04
OLp ANp NEW sERVANTs.


with bitter tears, there are certain agents ap-
sointed to attend on us ia our progress, appa-
rentlv to smooth our path. Happy Eden,
,Vhere our first parents waited on themselves
with the fall came sin, and death-and SER
yants into the world. Happy the Otaheitans
and other savages; they can accomplish their
s;mple round of duties without menial aid.
Fyen their prisoners they do not make slaves,
az we might reasonably suppose; they eat
tbem. If they would, indeed, do that kindly
oface in the instance of 'Jeames" and
"Chawles |"
The thing has been too much overdone'
Inxurv and civilization have taught us to
oonltiplv the necessary aids, which we fool
isbly imagine are indispensable. Napoleon
sums il all up, as he happily summed up
90 MANY things. in almost an epigram. ''Ihe
hereditary Hapsburgs may be shaved by
otbers: one who is the RodOlph of his family
sbaves himself" That is to say, eheminacy
and luxury are weakly dependent on the
services of others, not in shaving merely;
Int vour fresh, independent, healthy hero
serves himself 1t could scarcely be in
sieted on that servants should be wholly
abolisbed. but reform is sadly wanting.
Not beino the scion of a lordly house, nor
;udeed scion that was nursed in what is
called ''the lap of luxury" albeit decent and
even opulent suflicency was never wanting,
fate happily ordained that we should not be
waited
An he all prolonged calves and clouds OF powder.
Tbeir dreadful Offices were never needed. No
ane ,an guess what is in store for us before
,ve die or what dazzling service may entitle US
4o receive a coronet at the hands OF our so7e-
Ioicn Yet as such distinction entails the
dreadful Offices of those attendants, 1t would
seem to embitter that laudabe triumph. Iho5e
long and languid men, Aabby in texture, would
appear to take the function of the slave on the
Al.
euuanimity and mOnotOnous Whlteness appal.
In that remote contingency of the coronet just
alluded TO- lordly state should be keFt alto
qether without their assistance. They would
smbitter the revels, and on any occasions OF
state the aid Of hired professionals would more
than suffice.
Wandering round the more noble squares,
we catch glimpses through hall windows and
open hall doors of these splendid but costly
figures. They seem to us outsiders about as
ornamental as the Dresden on my lady's
chimney-piece. They lean languidly and con-
verse with each other their calves crossed some
thing after the manner of the supporting limbs
of a oamp-stool. Sometimes they may borrow,
unwittingly, from Cruizshanll and ask one
another in easy innocence, "What is taxes,
Thomas 2" Wonderful aristocrats We serve
lhem, not they us. Their manner and air, if
imported into the classes above would be the
perfection of refined hauteur and accomplished
languor. About the door of one of our great
mansions in one Of our grander squares, an
''afternoon tea' or what is called kettle
drum, was lately going on. The carriages
were drawn up in crowds in pleasant yet
harmonious disorder, en- echellon, to use the
military phrase. whole group of the gen.
tlemen, who sat behind were gathered round
the door, talking in an easy way, as if on the
steps of their club. They were rallying,
think a very handsome gentleman, certainly
over six feet high, on the natural penchan
which they insisted was entertained for hin
in a very exalted quarter. These cOmpli
ments he accepted with an air of high-breC
good humor, and without a shade of vexa
zion. l thought l could distinguish in tn
group the regular traces of circles above them
but indeed, these things only repeat them
selves. / thought l saw the heavy politica
man, the old stager, who knows the world
had been ''fast" in his youth, and seen servic
that is, many services; also the young air
gallant fresh upon town and delighted wit
everything, and whose handling of his can
betrayed a little inexperience and the funny
jovial fellow, who had fund of humor.
times loud and hearty burst of laughter q
If in a club window, attested his powers. The
came bit of nature. Up drove a broughau
clearly an hired one, and hired from an obscul
professor. It's footman gotdown, and was lool
ing for house. This ignorance was ra
enough, and, indeed, glimpse at the tenant
showed something in the country cousin way
But the servant-their servant He was
mere country lad, put into livery made by
country town tailor, with country town ha
white cotton gloves, a world too wide and tC
long for his fingers. But apart from these a
cidents, the air of the fellow betrayed him;
scented of the plough. He passed by loolzir
at the numbers wildly, and then went baC
to his employers. They pointed to the groU
of gentlemen who were conversing, and pr
sently, little nervous all the time, he can
up to them and asked for information. ~
laugh was suspended. The seven or eig
gentlemen all looked down at this grotesq1
belonging to their order, for he was very shol
and his coat tails stuck in a really comic wa
One of them answered his question with De
feet politeness, not without sarcasm, th
s'This was the 'ouse Jest bend i'm" But
the provincial novice moved away, elate wi
his information, the seven or eight fac
looked after him in intense enio
ment, the young elegant simpered, the h
morist made a Oke there was a gala,
of smiles, but, mark, nothing to exceed 4
laws of propriety. They could not but emf
it. But a richer treat remained: when t
ancient brougham drew up, and the province
halfpage, halEfootman-for he hoyered on t
boundary between-helped out his ladies te
derly, the gentlemen drew aside with the air
high-br men, yet with look of amused G
riOsity and superciliousness that was char
ing. One assumed sickly smile, and ma
his eye blink, carrying out the fiction of
eye-glass. Yet it must be understood d
tinctly that as the country town ladies pass
in, in their country town tinery of a pa.
,nattaru there was nothing IN treDc, on =