Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
The servant Question in Germany.

4, Some time ago business called me to
the Eastern Prpvincess and, on nv ar
rival. found Che little town, the place
Of my destination, in irregular turmoil
IOf excitement, because a newlv-ap-
pointed minister had dared to preach
open rebellion of servants against their
masters. Upon inquiry, it turned out
that all this reverend gentleman had
advocated was kind treatment, eneuph
to eat, and warm bed to sleep in, Tor
| which unreasonable demands he was
hauled over the Goals and torn to pieces
by the evil tongues of all the old women.
\ of both sexes the little town could boast.
Of Their number was not small by anv
means, can assure you. One gentle-
man especially. a. high Government
official, in receipt of a comfortable saI.
airy of four thousand thalers a, year, was
loud, above all others, in his denuncia-
tons of the unlucky pastor who. in his
zeal to do right, had made such an nm.
-propitious entry in the zeal for popular
why" cried this worthy function
ary.. lit is simply absurd; servants have
sbettered themselves fully sixty per cent.
since was boy, and it seems there is
nc. end, to their pretensions. Formerly
a cook used to get twenty-fout tllalers
a year, now it is thirty-siX.
Let me see; how much is that in
American moneygN s4rr ~
81 don't know -
he WAS quite right Fashionable So
ciety here is profoundly ignorant on
American subjects. They know that
the United States is a good place to
send their bad boys to; but beyond this
all is darkness and hiissful ignorance.
Having gone through severe process
OF mental arithmetic by computing
every one of those precious thalers into
groschen pfennin g, and theseagain into
| Uncle Sans money, / came to the con
clusion that tho wages of q German cook
were $25.7 1-2 u year.
''Of course,s continued my authori-
! ty, .these are, cooks who know their
business as well as our lasts. House
maids get less, and nurses, who take
care of our children, least.
MAY ask, please, what you pay
such a ntlrsep''
''About eighteen thalers a years
That means little over three cents
/ a day?s
+. Il am ignorant of the value of Amer
lean money.
I'm Helena, Montana, in Portland,
Oregon, and, in fact, throughout the
entire golden Northwest, they. pay an
ordihary servant-gi thirty Idollais a
month, besides board and lodging
/ slow much is that in our money?a
Zone hundred and twenty-five marks
q month ~ s.~ -.,.-s-,.-.~-,-.z
''Ifushr' E5E :
a -neatly-dressed servant GIRL ap-
eproached us, all smiles, with a tray, on
which she carried some cups of tea, a
-thsugar-bowl, several tlagons OF cut glass
containing choice brandics to fl;vot the
tea with, and an assortment of cakes
When we had helped ourselves the girl
T proceeded to-the'next group, for it is
i the custom at all evening parties in
4 Germany that tea prece,les supper,
which is partaken of by the gentlemen
hat in hand and standing. We re-
sumed oar conversation. sas
You don't say so!' -.ssTs
Il can assure YOU 49, -
Thirty dollars a month"; That is
I fearfulr' 81
| Those are only ordinary wages; a
cook gets fifty
! s Fifty II !.tr.
! ''Yes; and SO doesa cow-bov and a
laundress; or. what is pretty much the
same, "a Chnaman.o -
II am perfectly amazed"
well you may be.
He stood silent for a moment. then
said in whisper: 80 ~
"My dear, sir, will you do me a very
great favor?"
with all my heart
.You-@in not be offended by my re-
quest?'
tEBy' no means - ar
"Well, then, don't tell us ANYTHING
more about America
Here is the whole emigration cues
ton in a nutshell, The German s.uDper
tent want to keep their cheap labor
moreover, they want to keep their labor
cheap, and for this reason they are deaf
to all reasonable demands, and do not
want to know anything about the home
OF the brave and the land of the free.
where labor finds its true reward. and
honest laborers are respected by every
body.
A family in tolerably easy circ,lm-
stances in New York will get along
with one girl, and pay her decent
wages. A family, surely not better off,
! IN this country want six, and pay them
what Americans would call nothing at
all; but they are. bound to have them
all the samoa cook, a nurse, maid, a
washcr-woman, an irOner, a coachman.
perhaps.
will not SANDER the noble German
Nation, whose many beautiful traits of
eharacter5 l full appreciate; :but no
Where, except in Gern1ans hayeSI
found 50 many gentleman too proud
even to take brush in their hands, but I:
not too proud TO pay next to nothing
Tor services rendered them. Such a
German paterfamilias, especially whenGl
he belongs to the class of hereditary
oflice-holders, IS Che Incarnation or |
selfishness. He II go, all sleek and trim.
toshis club In the afternoon, to play q
rubber of whist.gto enjoy q game Of
riine-pirls, and to eat a partridge. a
quail, ora fried steak-in fact. some
thing he<does not provided for hisfani- |
"; and when he peruses his so-caled
newspaper inthe morning, he does not
Want to read anything unpleasant TO
himself. If he does he will threaten to
stop his subscription at once. This the !
editors know and act upon.-Bcr{tn |
Cor. ~. Y. Post.
Louisiana Fossil Horses.
The remains of fossil Eorses are found
in almost all portions of the world. to
such an extent that the geographical
distribution of these animals must have /
been almost universal at certain geo !
graphical epochs. The history Of the
tsomestications of the horse is now