The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-08-25
HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS.

HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS.
The Galaxy for August contains avery
readable article on the thread bare but
nevertheless always interesting subject of
household servants subject interesting
because so intimately connected with home
comfort happiness and order and one
which effects the peace of the households
of every grade of society. Deserved or
undeseryed, no class of laborers are con-
sidered SO Incompetent, So unskillful and
SO untrained--so unthoughful and so I'M
grateful as the class who perform for us
the needful services of daily life. From
myriads Of households, from the thresholds
of the rich down through every grada-
ton of condition comes the same com.
plant and the same demand Much has
been said and written, many suggestions
made and many plans projected, for the
improvement in their respective callings
of those who make our bread, iron our
clothes, and keep our houses clean or dirty,
as the case may be. But it is u lamenta-
BILE fact, keenly felt by housekeepers, that
little or no good has been effected and
that most Of the efforts put forth in this d.
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results. In every other kind of industry,
whether performed by male or female,
good work may be had for good wages,
but the housekeeper who adva-';a-- -. .
first-class cook at first class wages, not un-
frequently places her digestion and that of
her family in the keeping of a woman who
understands not even the rudiments of the
trade she attempts to practice-whose
light bread is heavy Us lead and whose
pastry might be called pas,y with perfect
proprety Ms to truth. The Galaxy wri-
ter hints at reason for the shortcomings
Of servants ami their lack of Trainings
reason which may have foundation of
truth. Our common school system opens
the fountains of knowledge to all who wish
to drink; but while few drink deep, the
masses imbibe only enough to inspire
them with contempt for labor, especially
for that labor which is, or borders on, the
mental. This may be reason why good
American servants are of late years a ra-
rity and why good foreign ones, who soon
adopt American notions, are
becoming SO. But it is no
suggestion for u remedy, and in the South
and those localities which the results of
the war filed with freed men and wo-
men, no such reason can be urged Why
servants vex the souls Of sekeepers BY
ignorance and incspacty. A knowledge
Of any Of the manifold branches OF the
trade of housekeeping may not come by
nature, but it does come by patient effort
and willingness to learn, and lack of it
IN those who agree to practice it for
price, should be punished as incspscity in
any trade Is punished-s refusal on
on the part Of employees to engage the
ignorant mechanic, The crying evil is
one which will never be altogether sbol-
ishedi but concerted and determined ac.
uon On The par. of housekeepers would
do much toward its abatement. III wives
aud mothers-for it is upon these, almos,
exclusively, that the burden Of the inca.
pable and careless servant fslls--would
submit TO temporary evil for the sake of
permanent good, we would not hear so
much Of the trials of bookkeeping. But
houseSeepers themselves are not guiltless
OF the faults of Incidence and ignorance
OF their duties, aud, until they are, and
prefer their practice to being dependent
on the csPrices OF ineticien, and untsught
help" the cry for good servants will
and will continue to be unssti..
fed.
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DYSPEPSIA DESTROYS THE TrErH-Un-
less It's effects are counteracted by that
pure vegetable tonic and sntiseptic Sozo-
DON'T. No bodily disease can impnir than