The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-21
Hired Helm.

Editor Chicago Tribaas
HIoHwoou, ILL, November 7.-blrS.
Bollan has, in n kindly manner, said Just
what expected she, as the Representa-
tive Of her clasS, would say. There are
50 many women who live and labor
among the ideals, never having occasion
to descend to the terrible practicaliis. oil
life! Such women always meet the ills
OF life very much as / meet these stormy
blows up here on the lake bluff, clad
comnletely in rubber aud carrying q wa
ter.proof umbrella. The fret OF the
stinging rain drops and the biting wind
Ia Of little account when so protected.
But il you can't afford the suit and the
Lord grants you no umbrella In the
drirzle Of these work-day experiences Of
ours, warrant your phrases will DO less
neatly turned, your heart q little less
warm towards all human kind. Surely
nobody could commence life With nobler
ideals than I did seven years ago. l
should have no trouble with help, Tor / !,
should always act by the "Golden Rule"
| never reproved a girl in the presence.
Of third party. never lost control OF
tongue (it I did OF temper), Twas al;
ways on hand with announcement and
CHEEKY word, but what did all this amount
to when ideals were replaced BY homely
facts. The first girl / ever undertook to
"admonish in secret called mo bad
rorev for NV tromble. And, with lew
exceptions, I have found that constant
praise will render the best girl careless to
do her best.
I always look for the best girl 10 be
secured for the price within my means TO
give. ! am now paying 81 for girl
highly recommended as treasure. But,
cleaning house under my supervision, she
was lost in contemptous amaze that o
lady should wash her beds and put her
bedding out in the sunshine, and told
me, "Indade, she had lived Eve years
with the clanest lady In America, and
she never did such foolishness."
I 70 out in the kitchen daily TO see how
the machinery works, "a every woman
should, and no matter how pleasant my
manner I am met with cross looks and
the grumbling remark, "Sure, you're NOT
needed here at all" The chaos Of my
closets, the dingiuess Of the dish linen
and the terrible Generalization Of thu
cellar, at last broke down all bonds, and
as Mrs. Bollam suggested, l center the
kitchen" and dead OF in person." u
gods! what a sweet time follows. Ny treas
ure will leave. She has never yet beer
subject to such treatment. The doors arr
slammed from their hinges and pande
monium reigus.
II she rids me Of her presence wher'
shall | turn for . better? :.
Experience has taught me to preiel
Irish help, for, bad as they may BE- II
many instances, there Is generally
heart underneath all, and never tounC
much warmth from that portion OF thu
German or Swedish anatomy. i am Ger
tain nobody desires to be- more consider
ate, kind. or more upwright mistress thai
your correspondent. l am certain tina
II had two cuts OF steak before me, AM
my girl and / to eat II, she should hay,
the best, because she works the hardest
il I had two beds, good and poor, sh
should have the good one for the sam
reason; but have yet TO find the girl up
on whom all these sweet ideals witt
which I set ont in life are not as tn
pearls cast before swine. The presen
generation Of help are the natural deyel
opment Of the age. There never was
time when children OF all classes were 81
ungoyerned and rude Of speech. Yot
cannot pass through the streets to.da!
without some little street.gamin, eithe!
male or female, filings saucy word attel
you, and from such children spring tn
hired help Of the country.
suggest that we found schools oil edu
cation in the art Of perfect service, ant
award our diplomas to the good seryan
as faithfully and enthusiastically as Il
the girl graduate. We cannot gathe
strawberries from brambles, and we cal
no more expect TO secure good, tidy, re
spectacle and honest service from th'
growth that makes up the bulk OF on
foreign population to-day.
Brain ia fully as essential TO kitchen
work as to the study, and l hold that tn
more culture and reinement-a woman
possesses, If it is not superficial, the bet
ter dinner she can cook. An artist mus
have something OF the artistic in home
liest Of work. So why is not my sugges
ton Of education good one?
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