The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-30

Appleton's JOurnal4t ~ p ~ 20 'i'
But there is such a calamity as too much
Of a good thing. The English have too
many servants. The labor is divided into
yery small portions, and there must be Q
man or maid for each portion. Butler
housckcoper, cook, house-maid, Parlor'
maid, nurse, ,nurse-maid, laundry.maid
lady's.maid, footman, valet, scullery-inaid
and page or buttons" they muster in
diversified but formidable array, and each
one is pledged by some secret bond of the
fraternity never to do anything that is
assigned by custom to the departments OF
his co.adiutors. At least three or four SCR
wants must be attached 70 q moderate
household in London. In the country
have known. fifteen servants engaged 70
wait upon q family Of four persons. l do
not speak Of noblemen's families, for these
IDaintain m immense retinue Of depend
ents and underllngs, but OF quiet coun-
try house, with no game preserves TO look
after and no stud OF hunters to require ex'
IN stablcmen. English ladies are, as a
rnle. better housewives than American
women. and they have need to
he so' To manage so many EN-,
Moves satisfactorily demands talent and
exnerience e1ough to ct o man for the
rank Of drill sergeant, oreyen that OF Cen
eral In many iInglish houses the ser
wants form q household within q house
hold. They must have d separate table,
not furnished forth with the funeral
hotod meats from their masters feast, but
with everything cooked especially: Even
in the plainest houses there Is q liked ex-
TN allowance for the servants beer. In
great houses the upper servants nave q
third table in tho. housekeepers room;
Ailthis draws heavily upon the income OF
the head OF the family. Wages are not
very dear, but not much cheaper than In
America, Peruuisites are about the same
IN both countries. Walls or gifts from visi.
tors are not thought OF here, but In many
parts OF England the custom Is conuhuea
in all its ancient force. some Neats ago W.
there was determined attack upon Eii.
the newspapers. but very llltie en n.c
was produced. Gentlemen turnisnea SUI
tistics 10 show that it would nave
cost them less TO buy their own
shooting.groupds than 70 accept invlla-
lions from friends and pay pounds 70 me
game.keepers. Other gentlemen, clphered
nm the amount Of money OF which they
Ind been mulcted by tho understrapper1s
at houses which they had honored with
visits. The journals, in long, logical and
learned leaders, protested against such i'm
positions on guests. Bnt whom the ser.
wants, aggravated beyond endurance, at
last rushed into print, and, with homely
pathos, but bad grammar, recorded how
much extra work the visitors made for
them, almost everybody felt that tho scr.
wants had the best OF tho discussion. AZ
any rate, 10 tip English servants Is the
custom, and Americans should n9tventure
upon an exception. 1t is impossible, TO
offend any Englishman Of what arc called
the dover orders" by offering him a
shilling, From the policeman who points
out your way 70 the page who uShers you
into a drawing-room they all have itching
palms. In any othor country you can ask
4 question Of 4 street loafer without being
solicited intf the price oi Q pint OF beer,
hut not In this. Nowhere else is poverty
no yery hard and so utterly shameless,
Even in Spain and Italy the beggars are
too proud 10 ask for aims II You address
them politely. r ~ 58FEH ff