Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-06
A NEW THING.
Relief for neutrality-suspicious. Life
in Memphis.
Negro Cooks Played Out---The Cooperative
System.

The recent revolution which swept over
the South found nothing too sacred for its
touch or too firmly fixed in the habits and
p~reiudices of the people to be uprooted.
The slave is everywhere cordially recog-
? nized as a freeman, and in no relation of
life is his perfect selfmastery questioned
or restricted. Not only has the whole
mode of plantation life been transferred,
not only have I" planters I" become " farm
ers " and former slaves tenants" OF
broad acres, but the ancient greasy, gilt
tering queen of the kitchen is no more.
For some inexplicable reason it be-
comes impossible to secure the ser
vices, within doors, of Dilsy
and Dinah and the culinary department
has the fewest possible attractions, save
for holt starved and incapable wanderers
from Mississippi plantations. Each skill
ful cOOk rents a home and boards multi
piled idlers of her own race, who loiter
through the day about the ~sunnyside of
"Rotten Row. and snore by night in
Observation-Disclosures" They are all pow
ertv-stricken, End in this can boast of
neither better nor worse fortune than
numberless Southern whites. The great
mass of white people, however, toll as
never before. There is no siavIsh task
which white women do not cheer
fully discharge, and none which negro
women do not carefully eschew. White
wOmen .eVenthOse whose habits o freIiance
upon Dinah were confirmed by age, have
readily conformed their conduct and daily
modes of life to social changes wrought
by revolution. The white woman has be-
come industrious and tolls a~ssldulOusiy, I
while the negress is idle and averse to any
steady employment. The negress, what
ever many a fair dame may say to the
contrary, is the real sufferer by this
change. The fairest matrons and
most attractive demoiselles in all
this land are taught invaluable lessons
of self-reliance never known before. 1t
was the threat of men, so base in their
dastardly natures that they made war
upon women, that the mothers and
daughters of the South, accustomed to
ease and opulence, should be sent to the
kitchen and wash-tub. Nc true Northern
soldier or gentleman shared in this pur-
pose when battling for the Union, but it
has happened that every mother congrat-
ulates herself that her daughters have
won physical and moral strength and in
dependence as the result of social changes
to which the South has been subjected.
An unexpected system of life has been
begOtten by the impOssibility of securing
or retaining capable servants. In the
North there are cooperative stores and
grOcers' establishments; here we nave
cooperative bOarding-hOuses. In this
city there are great structures, built orig
inally for very different purposes, now
converted into suites of apartments for
families. Here they have their homes,
while a TeStaurateur spreads a table COM
mon to all occupants of the building,
or furnishes meals in the rooms
of each household. The whole
trouble originating in the worthlessness
of cooks and house servants, falls upon
the restaurateur or hoUsekeeper, and, so
few are required to serve so many ten
ants, that the greatest annoyance Incl
dent to Southern housekeeping is Obvi- I
ated. Rooms are rented for four and ten
each, from the proprietor of the
building, and a fixed price, varying in !
different establishments, from three and I
to seven dollars per week, is !
paid to the mistress of the {
table dhOte. Such is the Partisan mode of
soon to be universally adopted in the ,
cities. Stewart, the merchant, =
has proposed to erect a vast structure in :
New York designated for the very pur- :
poses to which large buildings in his CITY
are now appropriated. When changes 7
here contemplated are accomplished and .
results of every character eomprehended, =
We may q fewer reasons to regret the
Generalization of our former -
house servants, and our fair cOuntrywO- =
men NAV escape much OF the household y
irudgery of which they have been accus- q
.omed to complain. 1t is certainly true d
hat those who have resorted to the mode
If life here defined are thus far delighted, .
lot only m the score of comfort, but Y
economy. 1t is needless to say that a =
borough knowledge of the character and .
habits of each applicant for admission to
cooperative boarding establishment is
N essential prerequisite to admission, II
nd IL has resulted that social endowment d,
las been promoted by the system of do .
nestle life now fully inaugurated il this =
ity. u
)RYGOODS MOTIONS ABDUCTION! u
his Monday morning, at 10 O'Clock. a.
By GOTTLIEB Il EZEKIEL, :
A-uctioneers, cor. Second Il Adams SITS. -
LADIES w~alking-suits at a greatssacri- y
.ce. MENKEN BROS. "
A NICE lot Of furs, at less than regular T
rlces, offered at HERZOG'S.
MERIMACK and Sprague prints reduced
l25% cents at j. II. Loewenstiue Il Bros,
81 Main, Clay Building. T.
THE WEEKLY APPEAL is the largest
-ngle sheet published in the South.
BARGAINsl Bargains!l Bargains!M
reat bargains in dry goods at B. Lowen-
Elm & Bros this week.
Go To Locke's, 236K Main street, for the ad
test news.
Il
SMOKY CHIMNEYs.-No cure no pay.
ave your CRATES set and smoky CHM
sys cured, by calling on II. Lemon, IL
street.
q ~ W.
TIE APPEAL is delivered for % cents a
eek. tn
FURS! FURs!! at New York prices, at B..
Rosenstiel q Co.'S, 3l6H Main street.
THE largest and cheapest stock of chill .
ems hosiery, received at
HERZOG & BROS. nh