The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-25
MASTER AND Man.
Relations Of the Two in EngIand-A
Demonstratiye Butler.

Gen. Badeau, writing on the relation
of master and man in England, says
Il was staying once with young noble
man who had a crowd of peers for
guests. We had been dining some
miles away and drove back late at
night in what is called an omnibus. The
valet of one of the visitors, a lad of 80
or 90, stood on the steps outside By a
jolt of the carriage this youth was
thrown off into the road while we were
still some distance from the house, and
the whole party alighted to look after
him. He was unable 10 walk or to en-
dure the motion of the carriage.
and a couple of viscounts, an officer
of the army and q baronet carried
the valet quarter of mile up a steep
mill, then bore him into the room or the
master of the house, and one tore open
his shirt to look for the wound. Til ere
was no surgeon, so they bathe'i his
breast and mis- forehead themselves,
and the youth lay on the nobleInan's
bed till it was certain he was nos seri-
ously injured. Not till then dld the
gay young rollickers assemble below for
their late carouSe.
Il know of another no5leman those
eldest son was standing for Parliament.
The contest was Keen, anu 'he ex-
element in the family extended
to the servants. Finally. the heir
was elected, and the news was brought
to The Earl and the. Countess as
they stood on the steps OF tine HJuse in
crowd OF friends aud followers. The
butler. very respectable man Of fifty
or more, who had been in the family all
hfg lira lNIa tn To- hfs Il
light. He rushed up 20 his mistress
threw his arms around her and kissed
her. and the salute was forgiven by the
Lady as well as by the Lord. ! did not
witness this demonstration of fidelity
but l was told by an Englishman who
was present and pronounced it unusual
but not inexcusable.
THE Queen, it is we'll known. sets the
pattern in this consideration for per
Sonal retainers. She not only visits her
giliies in the highlands, but the servants
on all her estates she attends their balls
and their christenings and funerals; She
invites them a times to entertainments
at which she is present in person; an
honor she never pays the nobility; and
her affection for her devoted John
Brown she has been anxious to make
known to the world.
Twice l was present at country
houses where the servants joined in a
dance with the family. Once il was
after a servants wedding, which was,
of course, an event. On the other occa-
sion, at a well-knOwn lodge in The
Grampians, a Highland reel was pro-
posed, but there were not ladies enough
TO go round, so the best looking of the
house-maids were brought in and
placed in the line with Warehouses;
and the daughters OF Earls. One was
by far the prettiest of her sex in the
room, and the heir of the house didn't
like it at all if any of his guests danced
too often with his maid. But none
of these young spinsters presumed on
the favor that was shown them; the
distance in rank was too great to be
bridged by any transient familiarity. IL
was the very consciousness of the "ulG
that made the condescension possible.
AT the house OF q nobleman who
had crowd of sons. and the Sc always
a crowd of bOyish visitors, the whole
frolIcsome party was sent oil nightly.
after the ladies had retired, 10 a
distant tower of the castle, where they
might make as much noise as they
pleased. They drank and they smoked,
and they played cards, and had two or
three OF the footmen told off to them
who stayed up half the night with their
young masters. to wait on them and to
amuse them. The young men were all
of the same age, and the gentlemen Of
ten invited the servants to a cigar or a
glass and not unseldom to turn at the
gloves, for most young Irish
men box. They played fair: the
lords and the laekeys wrest-
ling together on an equality. The
servant might get his master down if
he could, and if he valet struck out
from his shoulder the gentleman took
his punishment like a man. Only when
he1ords went to bed the lackeys had
still an hour In the brushing goom.
whitening the hunting breeches OF their
masters for next days field"