Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-10
OUR IMPoRTKD SERVANTS.

The Cooks, Chambermaids and Gov.
 ernesses We Have Are Foreigners.
 E'Gath'' in the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
 heard a lady reply to this remark by say ing:
 ssWhat in the world are we going to do after while for cooks, chanbermsids and reliable house seryantss All we get are for eigners, and they raise upon us according to our necessity, so that thousands of women are driven out of their homes to board in about their servants."
 Here is question of greater and greater magnitude from year to year, and it seems to challenge the good sense of the American basis of government The aspiration of ev- erybody being to be everybody's equal, and the laborsr, feeling that he is not the equal of his employer. the thirst for equality ex- tinguishes the servant class. Nobody indeed would allow himself to be called servant here. though the New Testament contains that word more times than the word master.
 l go to the house of my friend, the very rich man, es the supposition is, and I look around to see what he has employed. His children are led in to their meals by an Eng- fish governess, whose theory of how to bring up children is unhesitatingly adopted by the 0D. ness says that the young misses must not be introduced to grown persons, but must take their seats at the table and eat their aeals in silence, and must not be asked what they will be helped to nor what part of the fowl. She says that they will make better sons and daughters if they are disciplined through these youthful years. l suppose this is true. and yet 1t looks strange that we must send to England for 8 person to guide mothers and fathers about the tute- lsge of their children. It is not, after all, proof that we have left the training part of American life go all to piecesi The father has gone to work to make fortune, and, having got it and established himself in noble home, he looks around his native coun- try and finds nobody trained to bring up his children. His wife confesses that she does not know how. She wants to be too indul- gent because she is now rich, and this tndul- gence is going to sroi1 the children. They must either choose between French gover- ness, a German govelus or an English gov erness. The American governess is not here; she has her own notions of life and drops in- to marriage early or gets up as . proprietor in g dressmaking establishment, G. become1 the head of department in the bazaar shop. She is going to marry if she can. If she does not marry she is going to be rich if she oan- But t0 settle down and be @ governess for the space of her natural days is not her intention. She would rather go out to India and be 6 missionary and introduce the sew ing machine to the nseives there.
 turn to my friends stable, and find that all his stablemsn are either English or North Irish or Scotch. I see in the vicinity of his home Q surplus of unemployed Ameri can labor. They are of no good to him be- cause none of these common, ignorant native men have had any training in any special de- pertinent. They might feed the horses and put the harness on them, but about strict ] and exact methods of attending to the horse \ in the stable they have no knowledge. They Il are about half indifferent whether they are ! employed or not. They are apt to be look \ ing for some imputation upon their equality \ as American citizens. If anybody should \ name them O servant of the man who ena- ploys them, which is just what they are, having entered his employment, they resent \ the idea. "He hires me-" they reply, "but am not his servant" So these English
 servants are in the American house, and they aspirste or do not aspirats, juss as in Eng land, all their days. But the master of the house does discern this fact, that they are more reliable in their subordinate station ! and know more about their duties than any \ American he can get hold of. The American civilization has destroyed that subordinstion and content which make the perfect servant.
 In England they have given as much attsn- tion to making perfect servant aa to u1ak- ing a rich man. If you go to the hospital in | the city of Winchester, England, you will see Q sign of great antiquity representing the perfect servant; he is . medley of arms, legs, &c., each of these riddle features suggesting
 some quality of the good servant. You can
 have an American hired man, bat not ser.
 vant This hired man would rather live in
 an unpainted house down in Q hamlet or ! quarter, the center of which is Q pair oi grogshops, than grow up in a permanently l wealthy family and have his children secured
 for life in their native neiRhborhood as at- -G LA AI>
 finding that he cannot make himself happy \ as householder, with the crude labor around him, sends abroad and finds a servant willing
 to be 8 servant for all his life, the polisical
 question is brought up, and we have law
 the gospel zndar . contract. So the rniseriea of being a rich man are manifest that a large part of our population enigrates, and
 is from one-half to three-fourths of the time spending money in Europe, Asia, Canada, &c. I turn to my rich friends garden and l find his gardeners Scotch or German. he says to me that he laments the fact that he must send abroad. but that the United States does not raise a gardener; that the
 American gardener is nothing more than . farm hand; that the Irish are better than the Americans, the Germans and the Scotch bet ter than the Irish. His hot-houHs IS to be
 kept up, and the flowers transplanted in tha
 spring and taken in in the autumn, and that kind of work requires methodical attention and the supervision of man who IS not go- ing to throw up his situation without days notice.
 | turn to the kitchen and laundry of my
 friend, and there too I find foreigners. No
 American knows how to cook. The Ameri- can cook gets married and cooks for her hus-
 band and brood, and never goes out to ser vice any mere. This is one cause of the
 large immigration to the United States. Our raw people do not educate themselves ct all in those specialties which make the wealth of other persons tributary to their comfort.
 There are plenty of American mechanics. plenty of American laberers in the iron
 mil plenty of American cowboys, but the
 servant, who is necessity to artistic houses keeping, is not discoverable among the
 American race Somewhere our system of government has made mistake.
 wber. me eot His Slang.