The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-07

inefficient and demoralIzing agencies which
war against the best interests OF both employ
ers and employees. Many intelligence offices"
have the effect, IL is thought, Of encouraging a
class Of servants to seek rates OF wages
to do work for which they are partially or
totally disqualified. In many chses tho
housekeeper lnds that she has been deliberate
ly deceived by false pretenslons. and that she
must either discharge the presumptious i'm
poster after On annoying and teazlng trial,
or set about the dieagreeable duty OF drilling a
| stupid servant. In the meantime paying the
highest compensation for mpetent help. The
| servant IL usually discharged. and at once re-
turns to the intelligence office to repeat the I'm
position apon some other party and add to the
further profits of the agent. There ls no surer
. roc ees than his Of encouraging class which
| under judicious system Of training, might be
| made sprviceable and deserving domestics. to
persist IN - course of conduct that tends toward
the prison and the poor. house. When one
comes to fully consider the scheme of the ladies
| g nReged In this matter. b, wever, 1t does not
seem very likely to result In the important
benefits suggested. 1t Is possible, as claimed.
improve upon the plan at rresent adopted
by the various Intelligence Offices by more
rigid and satisfactory invee teatlon OF the wants
Of The .mployer and the capacity of the employe /:
but we have serious approximations as TO the
ad visibility Of establishing training schools
or servants, or homes" for superannuated
OF slingers. In the first place, Bridget or
b ertha would not be likely to submit TO nstruc-
tion In an art with which they claim to be fami-
liar FRI m their youth up. while In the second
place Martba's Rest" would offer too great a
tie mptaticn for servants to retire from active
seIvice. This last feature would prove most
popular one among our epored servants In the
South. but there would be strong demand for
an enlargement Of its provisions 30 az to admit
males as we'll as females. This might be done,
however. by slight change Of title so that
while the female deps. tment was known as
Martha's Rest the male department could
be designated az "Sambo's Roost' This would
bring IL euuarely within the provisions of the
amendments"
FRENCH FLATS IN NEW YORK,
The construction of buildings In New York
on the French system appears to have given
Rr eat satisfaction to owners as we'll IA tenants:
The former class finding them among the most
profitable Investments In the city. while the
lat ter cass seem disposed to pay more for q
fiat than for whole house. Many new apart
ment houses have been built In he upper part
of the city. and many old dwellings
have been converted into these flats.
Not only are those houses already finished
constantly full. but many of those
the foundations Of which have only just been
laid. have already every floor rented. From a
statement published In New York paper It
would eeem that In the handsome fiat. houses
around Central Park the rent Ia very high In
comparison with that Of whole house all ae-
concentrations taken into consideration. But
persons who live in fats have this advantage
ov those who live In houses: The halls are all
more or less handsomely furnished. h. ated and
lighted. and to many householder these are no
email considerations. There is also saving
In the matter of hired help: one servant In n
fiat will do the work Of two In house, and
thus people who have been In the
habit of employing four or more ser
wants can, In French Fat, live just
as nicely with two. In other ways there ls q
saving In the expense. and. therefore. persons
with email salaries. who wish to live In tiesir-
able ighborh ood. find that they can furnish q
fat for much less than they can an entire
house, and, II necessary. can live easily with
out any servant at all. as In all first class fats
there is janitor who attends to all the heavy
W ,rk. thus making 1t no drudgery for n lady to
do her own homework. II any one Ia deeirous
to learn in what esteem these modern DWELLING
out In search of fiat with the expectation of
getting one for email rent He will, 1t is
said, Ind that $1,000 $1,000 end $500 are not con-
sidered high prices at all for unfurn ished
apartments. and when he comes to furnished
l.ts he will discover that the rents range far
above these figures. A very cosey little house
may be hired for any one OF these sums, but
they do not seem to be In demand. In fact the
rage just now in New York seems to be for
snytbilg that Ia foreign. no matter whether 1t
Ia an Improvement on home habits or instltu-
tons or the reverse. It Is said that the cheaper
fat houses Of New York are always over |
crowded. and are situated In undesirable neigh |
borhoods on the extreme west or east sides of
the city or along the lines Of the elevated rail-
ways. There are very few fiat houses down
town, MS that part of the city was already built
up before the French style of living had become
the fashion.
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
Like the perpetual motion" men, the advo- |
Gates Of aerial navigation cling tenaciously to
their pct theory and adopting the motto q
Perry. declare their intention not to give I'D |
The ship" The New York Graphic OF q recent |
late had what purported to be report of an In |
terview with the renowned Edison. wherein he |
was represented as having found out the Sc
3Tet vi ht.uk Vh 'ue WIbs hs Weii ds vi eAJThob-
Ing gold from miners "tailings." And now
,omes Prof. Rttchell. Of Bridgeport. Conn. |
The patentee of one hundred and thirty-flve in |
ventions In this country WHO says |
be thinks bis flying machine will prove the |
means by which the North Pole will be reached. |
His flying machine, 1t 10 said. looks like bal
loon having q q AS bag and a car. but 1t is not |
balloon because 1t does not lift Itself The car. |
A strong light Ingenious contrtyauce has two
fans that look like propeller screws. One is on |
The end of the car and steers It: the other Ia |
vertical fan OF he same shape. placed under the
seat, and raises and lowers the whole machine |
The gas bag lifts but 80 per cent of the weight |
The operator. by means of the ruder fan. |
must lift the remaining 1 per cent. Both |
fans are operated by hand crank oppo-
site the seat. Prof Ritchell says that a |