Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-17
A Phase Of the servant Question.

brown. Eat cold with light cakes.
! A Phase OF the Servant Question.
CHRISTINE TRRHUNE HERRIcK.
She had always been a favorite with
mothers servants. They would run
| their feet off to do her service, and her
visits to the kitchen for the concoction of
cake, Jelly or other dainty messes had
! been cordially welcomed by the cook. The
members of the household staff were col
ored and possessed TO the full that sense
Of proprietorship in the family and pride
] "a thell appearance and social standing
that was in old times one of the
most marked and pleasing charac-
teristics of the race. So that when
the young lady OF the house married
| Mr. Green, adjudged by the colored ca
bal to be "a pullick gentleman" and de-
parted to her new abode In another city,
she took with her the good wishes of the
kitchen cabinet, with never ranking
doubt in her own mind that her path as
mistress could not be as free from thorns
as IL had been hitherto. Our bride was,
after the manner OF the young, disposed
to be intolerant and was wont TO declaim
vehenently against housewives who had
trouble with servants and by their plants,
Ia season and out of season, made them
selves the objects of public pity and
amusement.
\ az should be ashamed TO have trouble
with my servants in the nrst place." she
declared, "and doubly and trebly ashamed
to proclaim 1t II had"
As the home domestics had beer of"the
colored persuasion," she resolved to EN-
ploy none other She was so fortunate
as to engage an old servant who had
I formerly lived in the Southern branch of
the Green connection and had at one time
worked for her mother-in-law.
Molly professed to be enraptured at the
thought of "wukkin' for Mars Jeemes'
wife" and for a while everything went
smoothly in the little home. 1t was a
pleasant house. The rooms were con-
venlently arranged, with one exception
basement kitchen, reached by flight OF
dark, winding stairs. The young mistress
had had the benefit Of careful home train
ing, and reveled in taking care of pretty
new furniture, silver, glass and china. No
one but herself might dust the choice or
naments and bric-a-brac that filled
her parlor. Nor would she
trust to any hands save
her own the washing OF the more fragile
pieces of tableware Neither she nor hei
husband cared for elaborate cookery, and
visitors were few. The washing was done
by a laundress hired by the day, and Mrs
Green, in the complacence OF ignorance
believed the place to be an easy one.
Infinite, therefore, was her consterna
ton when Molly began to let fall signi1
cant remarks TO the effect that "house
work didn't pear to gree wild her des'
. DAYS, nohow," that EDEN p'isonous stair
would be de death o. any woman," anc
indulge in the grooming CALCULATIONS upol
,, s'de mizzery in her po' back" which are
part of the stock in trade OF every Negro
/, woman, young or old, strong OF
! inarm. Prepared by these com
! plaints, Mrs. Green was not ST
!. much surprised as cast down one day a
J the announcement, "I'm mighty sorry fu
to inconvenience you, Miss Jenny, bu
= Ise feelin' powerful poly lately, and Pv'
I, done made up my mine dat pse obleege
!, fur to take res fur awhile. I'll sta.
y wild YOU fur week mo- an you ken cas-.
II lin somebody else by dat time"
u True to her traditions, Mrs. Gree
p began the search for another colore
: woman. They are not plentiful II
y Northern cities and the quest was dis
y couraging. A succession of dusky hand
IL maidens presented themselves, but non
Y were altogether satisfactory. One wa
utterly without experience in cooking
y another demanded eXorbitant wages, an
third informed her would-be employe
y that "while the situation was quite agree
al able 20 her in certain particulars, ne
IN lungs were so delicate that she was II
~ capacitated from sweeping on account
o. the irritating properties OF the dust.
The week of grace wore on, and nea
the close the poor young housekeeper o.
came desperate. houseful OF coilPhi
i was expected on the very day liked Tor VI
fitting of the recalcitrant incumbent
NO the mistaken idea thatsomething is oett'
10 than nothing, one OF the rejected cauu
W dates who had seemed "A little less und
&c sirable than her fellows was engaged. 81
Nv was a thrice widowed, tall, strappinI
grapadier of a woman, OF Cimmeria
-, blackness. and darkcned the small kitch(
IN IN ominously as she took possession. WI
VI her advent began reign OF terror Tor u
y. haDless EMPLOYERS. She was toieraD
W cook neat about her work,a proclalm'
a. n her honesty so unseasonably and vociie
nv ously as TO cast suspicion on II at the GU
set. But her overbearing temper, n
TX, doaned faith in her own inialllDlllly, "
er resentment OF the mildest form OF co
ut rection. her coarse familiarity and ms
ng lent reception Of orders and suggestion
NJ together with her loud voice and ince
'er sont flow of talk whenever she mad an
Gu portunity to vent her yolubility, az col
ais hined TO make despGt under whose
ed lentless sway the nominal master al
ste mistress bowed tremblingly.
ne For two months the refuge OF oisililss
nd nd not occur 10 the affrighted MOVIE
a Remembrance OF the difficulties that :
or trndad the llrst 'chanseh deferred Il
ter from a second campaign The very-mu,c,
'ed widowed grenadier had seen ot leas, ~
100 summers Of existence, but she based
AT Demand for two afternoons "ont
week upon the assertion that a.
ian other niils had those privileges. a NY
his inoniry as 10 The manner OF the uisePpel
ied onee OF seven pounds Of sugar N ~
1g- days was answered w toirept OF agu,
ed, In statute and muscle she was lna,en
ops two burglars OF ordinary size, yet sile y
ltil foo timid to stay alone "a Tue noufe
18th hslf an bnpr after sunset. The power
an, plscl Maria was sill Ia the ascenu'
ley when Mrs. Green paid VISIT 70 ~
yer holno. There the story Of the lhlsiiu
the m which She had been living falseu =
wo Il storIn OF Indignation that she wIose
fall her husband by the next mail 10 ous'
. to demon In possession, ard 20 lor1lSe
per himseIf among restaurants until her
cen turn. naxt
Ia The intelligence once Nas uie 80
Oft, sort, aud trig lrlsh-American Va
BILE lec.ed--a quick, pleasnntiacea siis
ned gave thorough satisfaction sAVepAs ,er