The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
George eliot on servants.

Some eighteen years ago we published
in this journal an article by the late
George Eliot on servants logic, which,
if il had appeared under her name,
would have received much more notice
than that which was actually accorded
it. Nor did many people know at the
time that the foremost of female novel;
lists was among the contributors to this
journal. The article, although, perhaps,
not in George Eliots best style, is never
theless sufficiently characteristic to in.
duce us TO reproduce tito our columns
to day. After describing the dismav
with which u hostess discovers that tile
scalloped oysters with which she would
fain load a friends plate have been
served with their boards on and the
troubles ofa d7speptic physiologist with
a weakness for epinach who has yainly
~endeayored to impress on the cock the
Importance OF thoroughly squeezing
green vegetables. the writer proceeds:
Again, you desire soup, but desire it
without fat. You are perhaps a genius;
the world is in need of your new poem:
or you are evolving a momentous the.
DRY, and the evolution OF fatty acids
within you is a serious impeachment.
Your mentsl activity Is reduced to the
consciousness that interesting facts in
animal chemistry are going on within
you; you begin to think you can serve
mankind only by leaving your body for
dissection. at length you ask your wife,
with hardly suppressed peevishness,
and unusual emphasis on my DEAR to
inouire into the making of the SCUM.
! Your wife, who is rather frightened at.
the cook. tells her that Mr.. QnAasv. IN.
spite of his orders, discerned fatty pr
ticies III his soup yesterday. Sits a.
thing impossible there can he fat, mum
-for skimming and observation-disclosures
nothingneglecte III nv power" SHOW
me your cold stock" Exit Sally, re-
turning with Il yessel IN one hand and a
spoon in the oth,t7. There is q white
film of fat over the surface Of the stock.
See, now. sally, there is fat fla,
mum" says Sally, plunging her spoon in
and turning up the iellied soup from be-
meath as 8 gardner turns the soil when
he is diggiag for the roots. the cold fatty
| getting underneath in the process
that's nothing; besides / take my o u
from under and / take the fat off with q
spoon" (rhe spoon itself is
studded plenteousiy With frag-
ments of cold fat "But unless you
wash your spoon each TINA YOU dip it
there will be fat, and however little Mr..
QllRasy suffers from It, Besides'-tMrs.
~. here exerts ell her c~orrage)-it be.
longs to a good cook to send up her sou
free from fat" Sally smiles bitterly.
fla mum, do yon think when [ was VT
Nunehain gate, and there was people OF
all sorts comisig to the house, as / could
have give that satisiaction-and Scotch
people wanting things you might think
no Christian nd touch--and Mr., Tooley,
the gentleman with the wooden leg,
pTaislng my soup, and saying he never
tasted pet.eSf BATTERIES sto 'nacls will
not stand soGc, and that's whore it u.s."
Qlere Sally shakes her heal and signs,
| as is her wont when she is seeing deep
!y into the cause of tllings) "And as
I've sail to Jane many ard nany'S the
time, if gentle folks constitutions are Of
that sort, it's no wonder what Gomez. [
said so only yesterday, when | was
draining the rice. and the cat eating the
white vi all the while. and me net
knowing. It's true what | ~speak-every
word" Here Sally sets down the vessel
Of stock ernphatieally, and tapping the
| outside of it with her finger.ends, looks
hard ont of the window. Mrs. Qaeasy IS
4 llDik-lhlISoeO Ii SilG Oily - hASiOA DuAE va
| give warning; she draws her dress round
| her crinoline, and rustles up stairs
again.
Servants are rich in intuitions. They
have vast numbers of certainties which
are deep by reason of their groundless-
ness. The postman brings a letter for
Maria; she was sure he would, she didn't
know from whom it would come, and If
you were to knock her down she couldn't
tell you why. but this morning when
she got out of bed, and drew up the
blind and saw the wind blowing the
leaves about, she seemed to see the post
man coming with the letter iii his hand,
You make a great mistake IL you suggest
certain conditions which might have
given rise to the expectation. She re-
jects such )oW-min6ed analysis OF her
certainty. No; there al no reason why
abe should expect q letter this morning
more than any other; but so it was
and it was the same once before, when
! the dIsh.cnver fell and COL bruised: she
had said ut breakfast something would
happen that day, she knew. But as to
your certaintie3, for which You aiiege
arguments, the same Maria considers
them Offensive unless they are to be
Overcome BY her assertion. Ii you will
moi believe that q looking,slass is cloudy
and spotty iii spite CT daily, daihiiiigeH:
rubbing, " that tie steel of all your va
riously procured stoves happens To DO d
so peculiar q quality that it will mol
take a polish, she thinks she has a
right to feel offended. III, however, she
happens TO be in a good humor, she
will perhaps observeaproposofth steel,
that at one place where she lived there
was a bright fender with q sharp edge,
and the nurse let the child fall on it and
cut herself; and when she has given you
oil the circumstances attendant on this
event, the nam of the doctor who wa:
called in and what he said, she will feel