The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-02
The Mans and Woman's Way Of
Choosing Female Servants.

Hor uuSUauu 10 tne servants bureau TO
select chambermaid, and what deli
cious ass he makes of himself, to be
sure Being a man, the first smile or
smirk catches him. He calls it amiabil-
lty-and he doesn't want any cross, vic
ious baggage in his place. Why, the
girl OF II, in the corner there with the
red cheeks, trips him up, so to speak,
LII five minutes, and when he has
chucked her under the chin, and made
his contract and departed, all the old
cooks look at each other, and the gener-
al atmosphere of the place seems to say:
Man, man, thy name is greenness !"
At other times, husband and wife come
here together He thinks the pretty
brunette in the corner is just the thing
in chambermaids. He is q man who
doesn't say much about these things
but then he can tell an honest, intelli
gent woman when he looks into her
face-so he says: "Now, that girl, my
dear, looks to me as if she would be
safe companion and an industrious SER
want, and -" GA brazen, impu-
dent, goodfor-nothing," replied his
wife. Il wouldn't give her house
ROOM" 1t is on such occasions as these
that the man perceives how infinitely
superior are the intuitions of the wo-
man. Finally she selects red-haired,
pock-marked female with squint.
"What has beauty got to do with my
work ?" she asks with much force. If
you observe closely, you will perceive
that on these occasions the unemployed
servants understand the situation per-
fectly. That is to say, one-half of them
heighten their unattractiveness in order
to win the wife the other half employ
all their devices to impress the husband.
Your veteran house-keeper looks
through the illusions of the bureau with
a clear eye. The experience of her life
has taught her that in the matter of
cooks she has only one choice of two
evils The amiable, tractable and
obliging creature, that is a Joy forever,
cannot cook and the obdurate, repell-
ent, tyranical griffin always gets up the
best dinner. 1t is curious fact, fully
corroborated by the keeper of the bu-
reau. that men, who alone pretend to
judge of good dinners, can never select
n good cook, and that women, who are
VIGOROUSLY Indifferent to these thiAgs,
are the only safe judges in supplying
the means.-Nep York World.
DANGERS OF PORTABLE STEAM Boil
ERs.-h'on says: The chief engineer
of the Manchester steam users associa-
ton, Mr.. l.. Il. Fletcher, who has done
yeoman service to the public by his I'M
ceasing efforts to reduce the number OF
deadly accidents from imperfect steam
boilers, at the last meeting of the asso-
citation brought forward the subject of
portable boilers and their special dan
gers. Portable boilers are often placed
under the charge of agricultural labor
ers and other persons who are below
the average in mechanical skill; and it
is important to know that in addition to
this source of peril there is a great neg
lect prevalent among their constructors
with regard to their proper fitting with
safety valves. 1t is obviously essential
that in ignorant hands the safety valve
should be placed beyond the danger of
being tempered with but these valves,
are, Mr.. Fletcher tells us, so arranged
that an extra turn of the thumb-screw
on the spindle of the screw balance
with which it is loaded, frequently SUI
perfectly useless, thus bottling up the
pressure and leading to the bursting of
the boiler. Many cases of fatal acct
dent from the bursting of portable boil
ers are on record. BY seven which
were quoted twenty persons were killed;
in one of them eight persons persisted.
Mr.. Fletcher's conclusion is one in
which most sufficiently informed and
competent judges will agree-namely,
that the safety of the public from the
risk of boiler explosions can only be
secured by Legislative enactment.
SEARCH FOR WIvEs.-Where do men
usually discover the women who after.
ward become their wives is the ques-
ton we have occasionally heard dis
cussed, and the result it invariably
comes to is worth mentioning to our
young lady readers. Chance has much
to do in the affair but then there are
important governing circumstances. 1t
is certain that few men make selection
from ball rooms. or any other place OF
public gayety and nearly as few arc
Influenced by what may be called show
ing off in the streets, or any allurement
of dress. Our conviction is that ninety
nine hundredths of oil the finery with
which women decorate or load their
persons, go for nothing, as far as hus-
band catching is concerned. Where and
how, then, do men find their wives? In
the quiet homes of their parents or
guardians at the fireside where the
domestic graces and feelings are alone
demonstrated. These are charms which
most surely. attract the high as well as