The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-01-22

Servants.
Scientists have indulged in learned
talk about the terrible influence tlit
planets arc to have upon this mundane
sphere for the next seven years. Wal
and pestilence are to devastate the
globe; famine to rear its frightful visagt
over the bright snn-kissed sward, and
mark, with clammy hand, the death sign
on the brow Of all; storm clouds t.,
sweep above the blooming earth, and
walls and signing to be heard, where
erst the song and shout reso,nled"
If we turn from this appalling pros
pcct, Mother Shipton wheels into line
with this positive assurance,
The world to an end will come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty-oDe.
Comforting, very! but there is one lit
tie grain Of wheat among the cliatf; we
can lay the tlattering JUNCTION to our
souls, that in the general misery in
which will overwhem us all, servants,
the bane Of woman kind, will surely be
included.
The hired help question has agitated
the feminine mind from the beginning Of
creation, and must have proved fruit
full topic of conversation between Mrs
Noah aud her interesting Happy Family,
during their rather doubtful little trip
around the world for the benefit of their
health, owing to the defective drainage
system which existed in those days.
The only woman who ever lived,
breathed and had her being undomineered
over by a servants tyranny, was Mother
Eve, and she must have felt jolly uncom-
Portable, anyhow, in having the sole
charge of those quarrelsome little young
!sters. How in the world did She ever
manage to get along at night, when Cain
was yelling as loud as he was Abel, and
no ono handy to measure ont the sooth-
ing syrup and paregoric. Adam wasn't
a bit OF help in those days, either; he'd
just roll over and swear Il little under
his breath, whereat Eve would cry and
say he was . mean thing, and she might
have known it, and she'd go home to
but this is DEPRESSING.
There are servants and-seryants but
they most all have the same failinus,
however, and are possessed of !. supreme
Ignorance OF the seventh commandments,
dipping into the cologne, hair Of, and
pomatum, and other toilet appurten-
anccs, with an impartiality which would
be amusing if it were not so expensive.
In having servants one unconsciously
engages also u numerous train of admir-
ers aDd-cats, after which an inuuisitive
housekeeper, upon attempting to solve
the mysterious disappearance of dainty
bits OF steak and sirloin, is inyaribly an
swcred in the language Of Pinaiorc, at
was the cat-again the cat"
One Of these harmless little f,lines has
been known to make away with a pair
OF roast ducks, dozen unopened oysters, |
three china dishes, two pie plates, a lace
tie, and five yards of Hamburg cdying,
ia the course Of one week.
A servants genealogical tree is the
most prolific of all the vegetable king
dom and the innumerable brothers and
cousins who are Struggled into the sacred
precincts of the culinary department
about meal time would form large
company if Incorporated as an organiza-
ton.
Servants take iiendish delight in
hiding the niSht-clothes so that one
:hlvers III abbreviated garments, feeling
around untor the pillows, freezing and
5ruMbling, and ends by swellin. the
wash list, only to have them draw tn.
Missing garment from under the mattrass
lext day with look of unconcealed cx-
'itatlon. They leave curly lair in the
Combs, looking the picture OF injured in
locence when accused, break dainty
pieces of bric-a-brac, gluing them sur
eptltiously, 50 that one comes across hi
OH articles in more or less state of
with long dusty streak of
kidding mucilase to show the ruin that i
as been wrought /
They abstract needles and pins, refrain /
from sweeping under furni- a
IRE, borrow sundry articles of dress i
hen the owner amt around, and finish A
IT the day by going home with that az y
ravating little bundle which never as c
ames such hinge proportions until the d
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Ielt away. y
It's a popular saying that there's a II
IKE i'll Heaven for good servants, but a
10 general belief is that the prize has e1
'ver yet been carved, nor ever will be la
Il the armament is rolled up as a scroll I.
III, IL
The cares that infest the day "
Shall fold their tents like a-scryant- in
And as silently steal away.
PENELOPE. ).
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