Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-22
Saoies' Department..
MAIDS AND MISTREssES.

M AlDS AND mis- HESSECs
Itshould be plain that examples are
as much to servants as to children: since
in manners and social training servants
are as near as children. The peasant
reared in an Irish cabin or German
cottage can be hardly expected to be
model of politeness or of personal neat
ness. It is quite possible, however, to
teach her by example alone. If the
mistress be courteous to every member
Of her family, and they in turn to her,
the maid soon feels the atmosphere of
good breeding, and unconsciously be-
comes amiable and respectful. But let
the mistress speak sharply to her hus-
band, or scold the children in public, or
let the master constantly find fault in
the presence of the servant, and she will
shortly discover that courtesy is not one
of the essentials of the establishment,
and will, most likely, add black looks
and uncivil words to the general dishar-
mony. Servants being initiative, there
is more reason that the conduct of en-
ployers be worthy of imitation. If the
mistress of house be careful of her dress,
her speech, her daily habits, her hand
maid will, in all probability, grow more
careful of her own. But the woman
who comes to her breakfast table with
disheveled hair and rumpled gown, has
no right to find fault with the maid for
attending the door bell in a dirty cal
leo and slovenly shoes. Like mistress
like maid, as we'll as like master like
man. Unless good example be set,
there is no cause to complain of servants
for following bad one. AS rule,
they are ready to learn, though they
may be dull and slow of comprehension.
They would rather improve their eondi-
tion than degrade it. They would ra-
ther be ladies than servants. Their ignor-
ance makes them mistake the false for the
true, the bad for the good. If every
mistress would take pains to set a fair
example to her maids, and aid them,
now and then, by timely and delicate
hints. she would soon have servants who
would be. in fact, the help they are in
name.-Scrabaer's for Sept.
HINTS FOR YoUNG MOTHERS
The three requisites for babies are
plenty of sleep. plenty of food and
plenty of flannel. The saying that man
is bundle of habits is as true of babies,
as it is of grown children. If an infant
is accustomed from its birth to sleep
from six o'clock at night until daylight,
the habit of early sleep will be formed,
and the mother may have all her even
ings to herself. If the baby sleeps all
night, long morning nap will natural
ly come about dinner time, after which
the child, except when very young,
should be kept awake until six. O'Clock.
Perseverance in this routine will soon
result in securing quiet evenings for
both the child and parent. Some moth
ers have long season every morning
and every night in getting the baby
asleep. They rock them and sing to
them till Morpheus enfolds them. With
most children this is entirely unnecessa-
ry. An infant can be accustomed, by
few days training, to go to sleep itself
fora morning nap as well as for the
longer rest at night.-Erchange.
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REMOVING ACID STAINs.-If you have
been picking or handling any acid fruit
and have stained your hands, wash them
in clear water, wipe them lightly, and
while they are yet moist strike match
and shut your hands around it SO as to
catch the smoke, and the stains will dis
appear. If you have stained your mus
lin or gingham dress, or your white
pants with berries, before wetting with
anything else, pour boiling water through
the stains and they will disappear. Be-
fore fruit juice dries it can often be re-
moved by cold water, using sponge
and towel if necessary. Rubbing the
fingers with the inside of the parings of
apples will remove the most of the stain
caused by pairing. Ink also, if washed
out or sopped up from the carpet with
cold water Immediately when it is spill
ed, can be almost entirely removed.
Ink spots on floors can be extracted by
securing with sand, wetted in oil of Wit
riol and water. When the ink is remov-
ed rinse with strong pearlash water.
e.How Do THE VIENNA LADIES DRESS.
Well, the ladies of Vienna wear no
bustles, and we may as well speaks
} plainly, and add that it is because most
of them need none. In all others re-
spects they follow the same fashions
that the ladies of America adopt. Their
dresses and overskirts have all the folds,
frills, plaits, points, ruf1es, laces and
trimmings that are to be found IN Paris,
and their skirts drag in the dirt of the
pavement just as long, and gather up
as much filth as those of the sisterhood
of the rest of the civilized nations. The
only difference that We have observed
! in this respect is that they wear all their
under.skirts with trails also, and wher