The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-29
SERVANTS LOGIC.
Exchange.

AtsIt.e Dy bcoISe Eshot, oh oSi Sisdni, Lo.,c." which originally appeared in its columns some eighteen years ago. The 4nleie. though no, in the authors best s.yie, nor altogether calculated for this .astiude. Is so characteristic, and has so Ii Ich sound sense that its reproduction here seems entirely Justlned.
 ieople who pride themselves OR the =5frectness of their reasoning have to sui ier many notifications. They are con- s,lnily finding tha; as q means oi imme- .A,c influence thelr carefully drawn con- s.1s ons arc quite po~erless by the side of d good bold faiiacy. The majority of mnjs are no more 10 be controlled by s-fuas reasons than plum pudding Is 10 1e srasped by sharp plncers. The f.g.ker your thinker sees into the real re- i., on oi things the closer he makes his sequences the farther he will be from ;hc possibility of carrying untraned .a.ads along the path oi his argument. ser conclusions are determined, not at a by close sequences, but by vague. hao.tual impressions and by chance as ,5-i .,ions. If our experience of this fact ....4 reference only to the affairs of man k.,.d al large, it would. perhaps, be easier - ear. We might smile bitterly while 5l .;lutm orators held audiences spell , nd by the triumphant lrrelevance of ;3eir statements, and console ourselves ~.h the reflection that the life of collec- :, mankind Is slowly swayed by the ta. ot truth and not of twaddle: our N:Ss may be hissed to-day, but in the ..e.t cntuIy viii oe held too undeniable :. be applaudel. Unfortunately our zeeaeSt experience of this sort has refer CT C to our own domestic affairs the i-.,ow mortals we most need ,o influence aid whose minds we md ourselves the ast incapable of grasping. are our serv and especially our cooks. We may ia,a to the next century for the triumph T our ideas. but It Is impossible io .k there for our dinners When the : a. 10 be at hieved by argument IS d
 D or dish of vegetables that will not
 .nge you in the horrors of dyspepsia, .ae immedia,eness of the success Is every thing.
 n reasoning with servants we are likely te De thwarted by discovering that our 4Nloms are not theirs. For example, ,heY presuppose that an effect may exist without cause, that like causes will constantly produce unlike effects. that all a.Y mean some, that there Is no difference between ht,le and none. that aay ,@o or more circumstances which can bc mentioned will account for d gwen n :. and that nothing Is impossible, ex- ep: that they can have been m the wong Their standard measures. too. alc of private kind good lump handful. a teaoup, a ltileish basin, as mach as will stick on your knife end. a big spoon and good sup. Again, in er;icising them we are liable to use words which, not belonging to their vo- aoalary, seem to them To be particularly aff-cS::cas, as :: .hc b!acl: T.: a:5Scr:s... MAS supposed to have d preternatutal strength: or we refer to some fact which aappens to have peculiar offensive association for them unknown to us :: and straightway our quiet auemp, to eonvinoe rouses as much feeling as if we had fired of volley of angry rhetoric.
 After describing the dismay with which a Hostess discovers that the scalloped oysters with which she would fain load \ friends plate have been served with their boards on, and the troubles oi a dyspep- ,ie physiologist with a weakness for spin 4ch, who has yainly endeavored to impress on the cook the importance of thoroughly squeezing green vegetables, the writer proceeds
 Again, you desire soup, but desire i, without fat. You are perhaps a genius i; the world is in need of your new poem or you are evolving a momentous theory. and the evolution of fatty acids within you IS serious impeachment. Yoar mental activity is reduced to the con sciousness that interesting facts in ani- mal chemistry are going on within you; you begin to think you can serve mankind only by leaving your body for dissection. Al length you ask your wife, with hardly suppressed peevishness, and unusual emphasis on my dear," to inquire into the making oi the soup. Your wife, who is rather frightened al the cook, tells her that Mi pueasy, in spite of his orders, discerned fatty particles in the soup yesterday [" It's thing impossible there can be fat. mum-for skimming and everything there's nothing neglected in nay power" Show me your cold stock.' Exit Sally, returning with vessel in one hand and spoon in the other. There is white film of fat over the surface of the stock. See now. Sally. there is fat," La, mum" says Sally, plunging her spoon in and turning up the jellled soup from be- heath as gardner turns the soil when he is digging for roots, the cold fat get ting underneath in the process, that's nothing besides, l take my soup from under. and 1 take the fat of with the spoon' tThe spoon itself is studded plenteously with fragments of cold fat. ] But, unless you wash your spoon each time you dip ii. there will be fat, and however litte, Mir. Queasy suffers from it. Besides" (Mrs. c. here exerts all her courage) "it belongs to a good cook to send up her soup free from fat Sally smiles bitterly. ''La, mum, do you think when was at Nunehan Gate, and there was people of all sorts coming to the house, as could have give that satis- iacuon-and Scotch people wanting eksnoc x,a.s rvasnhf fksnI s.,l