The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-28
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George EIlot on Servants.

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George Eliot on servants logic, which.
if it had appeared under her name.
would have received much more notice
than that which was actually accorded
1t. 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 Eliot's best style, is never
theless sufficiently characteristic to in
duce us to reproduce it in our columns
to day; After describing the dismay
with which a hostess discovers that the
scalloped oysters with which she would
fain load q friends plate haye been
served with their boards on and the
troubles off %dyspeptic Psychologist with
a weakness for spinach who has vainly
~endeavored to impress on the cook the
Importance of thoroughly squeezing
green vegetables. the writer proceeds:
Again, you desire soup, but desire it
without fat. You are perhaps a yenius:
the world is in need of your new poem:
or o are evolving a momentous the.
DRY, and the evolution of fatty acids
within you is a serious impeachment.
your mental 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
inquire into the making of the SOUP.
Your wife, who is rather frightened at
the cook. tells her that Mr.. Queasy. in
spite Of his orders, discerned fatty DR.
tlcles in his soup yesterday. cts n
thing impossible there can be fat, mum
for Swimming and everything-there's
nothing neglected in my power" SHOW
me your cold stock" Exit Sally, re-
turning with a vessel in one hand and n
spoon in the other. There's is a white
film OF fat over the surface of the stock.
"See, now, Sally, there is fat" Ga
num-" says Sally, plunging her spoon in
and turning up the jeliied soup from be-
meath ss q gardner turns the soil when
he is digging for the roots, the cold fatty
getting underneath in the process
that's nothing; besides 1 take my soup
from under and I take the fat off with q
spoon" (The spoon itself is
studded plenteousiy with frap.
ments of cold fat) but unless Won
wash your. spoon each time you dip it
there will be fat, and however little Mr..
Queasy sutfersfrom 1t. Besides'-tMrs.
Q. here exerts all her c%ourage)-it be-
longs to a good cook to send up her SOM
free from fit" Sally smiles bitterly
"La num-, do you think when I was ot
Nuneham gate, and there was people of
all sorts coming to the house, as | could
have give that satistactlon-and Scotch
people wanting things you might think
no Christian nd touch-and Mr.. Tooley.
the gentleman with the wooden leg,
pralsing my soup, and saying he never
tasted better? Butthere's stomachs will
not stand soup, and that's where it is"
(Here Sally shakes her head and signs,
as is her wont when she is seeing deep.
y into he cause Of things.) "And as
I've SAID to Jane many and many's the
time, if gentle folks constitutions are oil
that sort, it's no wonder what comes.
SAID so only yesterday, when l was
draining the rice. and the cat eating the
white sauce all the while. and me not
knowing. It's true what 1 speak-every
word" Here Sally sets down the vessel
of stock emphatically, and tapping the
outside of it with her tinger-eDds, looks
hard out Of the window. Mrs. Queasy is
non-plussed. Ii she says more Sally will
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 g%roundless-
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 herdown 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
leavesabout, she seemedto see the post
man coming with the letter in his hand,
You makea great mistake if you suggest
certain conditions which might have
given rise to the expectation. She re-
jects such low.minded ANALYSIS of her
certainty. No; there was no reason why
she should expect a letter this morning
more than any other; but so it was
and it was the same once before, when
the d%lsh-cover fell and got bruised ;she
had said at breakfast something would
your certainties, for which you ailege
arguments, the same Maria considers
them offensive unless they are to be
overcome by her assertion. If you will
not believe that a looking-giass is cloudy
and spotty in spite o. daily, dilligent
rubbing, or that IL steel of allyour va
riously procured stoves happens to be OF
so peculiar a quality that it will not
take" a polish, she thinks she has Il
right to feel offended. If, however, she
happens to be in a good humor, she
will perhaps observe apropos ofthe steel,
that at one place where she lived there
was q bright fender with q sharp edge,
and the nurse let the child fall on it and
cut herself; and when she has given you
all the circumstances attendant on this
event, the name of the doctor who was
called in and what he said, she will feel
that she has readjuste1 her position as a
polisher Of stoves.
On the whole, servants are little dis
posed to think that the opinions of gen
tieiolks can have any practical value for
them. Our remedies, our methods, our
explanations, are like the drapery and
tailoring we pay so much for, they cor
come; but servants, for their part, get
their stuffs and their views from other
quarters. The cure for a gentleman's
toothache is not likely to suit,Sally's mo.
lar so we'll as the cure recommended by
the grocer's boy on the authority of his
first cousin, who wentabout with a blue
handkerchief round his head for weeks
and weeks. And for the probabilities
concerning the dryness of the coming
summer, or the guilt of the man lasi
taken for murder, the person to be con.
suited with the most Difference is the
iaundress who serves very good fami.
les, and whose husband is in the car.
rying line.
The moral of all this is that wise mas.
tiers and mistresses will not argue with
their servants, will not give them rea.
sons, VIII not consult them. A mild yet
firm authority which vigorously demands
that certain things be done without urg.