The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-04-07
Cans EMIL

There Is no doubt that there is a regu-
lar saturnalia going on throughout the
country, of one thing and another, and
among the rest is the startling amount
of drunkenness recently discovered
among the servant girls Of New York.
The girls have certainly kept the matter
sly, and il was only recently, when q
number Of New York gentlemen got to
talking about their servant girls, that it
was discovered five out Of six Of them
were addicted to putting an enemy into
their mouths to steal away their brains.
There Is q preference always for "old
girls" on account Of their experience,
aud the family who can secure an old
girl considers itself in luck. But it was
among these that the fatal weakness for
mince pie ingredients was discovered,
and an investigation has taken place. It
appears that it has been considered the
proper caper among high-toned families
Of late to have a wine cellar In the house,
with an English butler, one OF those
chaps who says the 'orn of the 'unter is
card ON the Ill, and an English servant
girl with the same himpediment of
speech, and the loose manner in which
the wine has been guarded, in trying to
ape the English aristocracy, has led the
girls into temptation. Recently there
! have been some high old times In the
back kitchens of the first families, and
where two or three servant girls were
gathered together of an evening there
would be a feast of reason and q flow Of
fluids. The wine and other liquors left
| over from the meals of the family and
their guests would be put awayfor fu-
ture reference, and when enough had ac-
cumulated to make it an object, invita-
tions wouldbe sent out by the servant of
one house to her acquaintance, and
they-would meet. In the course of an
evening they would probably imbibe half
a dozen different kinds of liquor, and the
result would be paralysis. At first, when
the girls failed to get up in the morning
on time, and they were found spread
around on the floor, with their heads in
q coal scuttle and their feet on top of
each other, with bottles to right, and left
of them, that had volleyed and thun-
dered, they were supposed to be the VIC
Tins of some designing person, who had
induced them to drink Irish whisky I'M
der the impression that it was spring
water. But when the thing had hap
pened thirty or forty times, and the peo-
pie of the house had been obliged to
send out to some restaurant for their
breakfasts, the naked truth began to
dawn on them and the girls were rea-
soned with, or fred out, according to
the kind of a boss they had. Some of
these orgies have been watched through
the kitchen windows, and the entertain
ment is said to possess o rare interest
that Is alone worth the price of admis-
sion. Of course, the aristocratic famil-
les where these blows-out have occurred,
are greatly shocked, and have taken
measures to prevent any recurrence Of
them. The idea that a common servant
should presume to get aristocratically
drunk, on tirst-class liquor, and fall un-
der the table, just like their superiors, is
CALLING as the old Harry, and strict or.
ders r now given that it must moi
occur again. And that Is right, too.
Incompetence is q sad, an unfortunate
condition, especially among those of the
weaker sex.-Peck's Sun.