The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-27

is being prepared, and you notice the women
buttering the bread so as to save their lords aud
masters the slightest unnecessary eXertlon An
American husband might eat dry bread forever
II he were unwilling to butter it himself Then
YOU catch sight of a woman on her knees laclug
or unlacing mans boots. SO nenial service
would scandalize the best American wives. III
an Enslisbman want pipe, it is the woman
who fills it and hands MIN the light; II his pot
need replenishing, it 10 the woman who pro-
cures and pours out tho ale; IL there be an
erraud to be done, 1t Is the woman who trots off
while the man loafs or rests at home. In short,
English women belonging TO what are called the
lower classes are evidently the servants of tue
men, while in America the men are as evidently
the servants OF the women, only that this latter
service being that OF the stronger to tue weaker,
never seems like serVitude, even in the hum 6lest
families, but takes the robler forms of polite
ness, solieitude, and duty.
But this sketch has darker tints. These lower
class women not ouly perform menia' services,
but they are treated far worse than any other
servants in the world. Many of them are married
only in name. From various causes, but mainly
from lack of education, the marriage rites are
lightly esteemed by these poor wOmen-or
rather not by the wo men, who would give
almost their lives ior honest marriage lines, but
by their fathers and The fathers OF their children.
As among the negroes of the South before
emancipation, man and woman agree to live
together; their relatives friends, and neighbors
acknowledge the implied relationship by tlling
the woman Mrs. and the upper classes
care nothing about it, since it does not
Immediately concern them, aud is pretty
sure TO provide another generation OF
laborers tor the work OF the future. In the
! South emancipation had to be attended by the
! solemnlzation of thousands OF marriages, which
! might have been made in heaven years before.
! but had not been legally ratified on earth; and
so in England any genuine reform among the
lower orders will have to be commenced by
Joint crusade OF clergymen and teachers-the
former TOR the parents, the latter for the chill
dren. AT present, all concerned accept the
situation; the unmarried couples congratulate
themselves upon having saved the parsons
fees and spend more than the fees in drink to
celebrate their economy; and the women,
having lost their virtue, often find themselves
linked with brutes who had no virtue OF their
own to lose, and who soon deprive them OF
every comfort in life.
A reformed Planchetteist' makes some
"Confessiops' tending to convict that little
instrument Of humbuggery. The story Of "The
New Timothy" is continued. The other arti-
cles are "Eustscie's Story" "The Man whom
Everybody Snubbed;" the whole of Lord Lyt-
toms new drama of THE RighttiI Heir; "The
Editors Easy Chair" "The Editors Drawer"
and "The Editors Book Table," Received
from 7. B. Peterson & Brothers.
The Riverside Magazine for December con-
cludes the second volume. The contents are
as follows:-"The Vision of John the Watch
man." "Two Lives in One," concluded, by
Vieux Moustache, with an illustration by A.
P. Close; GLOW Mouse Kept Christmas"
''My Debut as Sportsman" by F. J. Mills.
with two illustrations by the author; ga Year
Among the Indians" concluded, by Martha
M Thomas; "The First Snow" by Abby Sage,
with an illustration by Courtland Hoppin;
"Doings of the Bodley Family" "Nathan's
Pig" by Horace E. scudder; "Hunter
and Tom," concluded, by Jacob Abbott, with
an illustration by CORTLAND Hoppin; "The
New Store," by H. E. G. p, with three illus
trations; ga Midnight Visit to Clio," by Mr..
E. Dodge; "Fax," by the author of "Ting-a-
Ling" with two illustrations by H. L. Ste
vens; ''The Little Broken Reed" by II. II.
W.; "Bennie's Walk" with an illustration
by NJ. L. Stone; "Our Chimney" by Francis
Lee; "The Home on the Rock" by E. G. c.;
patchwork, "by the editor and his friends. The
first number of the new volume of the River
side will contain new story by Hans Chris
tian Andersen, entitled "Court Cards." also
a sketch Of this great story-writer, by per-
sonal friend, and a portrait. A number of
other attractive novelties are promised.