The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-07

Irish Servant GIFTS.
In the present day, when dishonesty Is so
rampant among domestic servants, 1t takes
a small income to supply their needs.
share of bread, butter, tea, sugar, etc, Is
levied weekly, or oftener, to be carried TO
a reliable source that many of the 1rishI
families, living in this city, say to the girls
ut work in families " You bring me bread, |
cake, pies, coffee, sugar, or tea, and when
YOU are out Of a place or sick, you shaii
have home with me. "-SprinGfetd (Mass.)
Republican.
That the above paragraph should have
it's birth and paternity in Massachusetts,,
need surprise no one but that New Or
leans journal should copy it, and give the
slander the benefit of 8. circulation over
double that of any other journal in the
South evokes our special wonder.
A few years ago, the New York Observer
had a series of we'll written, but as truculent
and untruthful as they were pointed in
style, complaining somewhat in the tone OF
the above extract. BY way of variety, an
additional charge was preferred, --that
20 Bridget" when she had accumulated a
little something, choose to marry and set up
for herself. What shocking bad taste
Again,-these poor people, engaged at the
lowest possible prices, and employed solely
because of the low remunerative rates re-
ceived,-were complained of in the whole
Protestant press, because their accomplish
ments in the culinary art did not equal
those of French artists! This crusade
against Irish servant girls seems to be Pc
riodical in it's exhibitions. Like the cholera.
and other malignant diseases, its eccentlici-
ties are not to I've accounted for according
to the laws governing this mundane sphere.
A few years ago, n Rev. Mr.. Greene North,
editing a Know Nothing paper in this city,
wrote from one of the watering places, call
ing ON the proprietors of the hotels to dis
charge their Irish servant girls, as q neces-
sary step to = preserve America for Ameri-
cans.n This same North was volunteer
spectator at Bull Bun, where the fathers,
brothers, and lovers of these very girls con-
tributed their full share to the achievements
of that famous day, while tn Rev. Greene
North slkeddadled as fast as his cowardly
legs would carry him, but yet not fast enough
to escape q visit from that Nemesis who
visited him while a prisoner-not for de-
Tending Dixie-as the reviled Irish had done,
whose most helpless females he endeavored
to starve out of place.
Irish girls With all but the incorrigibly
imendacious, they are the theme of we'll
deserved eulogy. The amount they have
contributed, out OF their hard earnings, to
parents and relatives at home, is a standing
memorial of tilial love, and has contributed
in no small degree to swell the profit ac-
count of dealers i'll exchange and bankers.
Irish servant girls! We well remember q
tribute to their honesty and purity by the
late DIR. Sprague, IL graduate of Harvard
University and IL practising physician of
Boston for many years, whom, we knew in
Little Rock, Ark. Speaking of his residence
in Boston, he said: * Sir, no fact in my
varied career and extensive practice struck
me SO forcibly as the uniform virtue and
purity of the Irish servant girls. Would 1
could say SO of those who moved in the
higher circles. 1 was as much shocked by
7the revelations which my confidential posi-
5tisa made kaewn in the latter, as moved to
.sanairation at the purity of morals devel-
opef by the same relations among Irish
servant girls" .. 3,