The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04

sew Oh the white aprons that make her look
80 slick when she opens TIE door TO the young
lady's callers, while she is forbidden 70 nave
any callers herself
Most of the girls | know feel sorest
over the feeling everybody has that ser
want girl hasn't any business to spend her
money for good clothes. They know that
folks feel differently toward them from
what they do to other people and tney don Z
want to look like servants when they go OUT
doors. That's why some girls spent more
than they would otherwise, for most girls,
ieastways Irish girls, take pr ;ty good care
OF their money, too. There amt one III -FOUR
but has to send money home, for times
IS always bad over there. There's an Old
father or mother to support, or tnereS
| brother or a sister that thinks they might
do better here, and there's the money TO save
for the passage to fetch them over. MoSl
girls save a good deal, considering "naI
they earn. Some spend it on their oacSS,
Of course. They think they've got TO NIX
up, Just as told YOU. SOS not to be looked
down on one day in the week, and they don, {
know how to shop, ard get cheated with
cheap things but they're no worse thai way
| than shop girls or factory hands, ana 1olKs
don't lay it UP against them. It's proper
pride in anybody but a servant girl.
"The very worst kind OF q woman to live
| with is lady who has an idea that she mas a
way with servants, special metno1 OF
managing them and of doing her duty oy
them. lived with lady, and very nice
| lady, too. who wouldn't let mo ENJOY an
evening out because she was nagging me
about it all day. She began as soon as
| breakfast was over:
Now, Mary, you'd better be brisk with
your work this morning sos to get few
minutes to rest this 4fternoon. You know
| can't let you go out very often aud it's a
special favor and you want to be fresh to
enjoy it, or else it would be:
| Now, Mary, be careful when you hang
out the clothes; wrap up and don't take
cold, for / can't let you 20 out very often
and it would be pity to spoil it by getting
| sick
Doesn't sound very terrible, but she kept
it up all day long about her goodness in let
ting me go and how must appreciate it
until didn't care to go at all. The same
lady never let me shut my room door. 1t
was her rule that it must be wide open so
she would see if | kept it clean and got to
feel as if | should forget what privacy was
unless l went away"
A blonde Gretchen, rosy and good
hearted, who came from the Fathe. land
when she was O child, and who has lived for
| seven or eight years in the families OF New
| Workers rich enough to keep two or three
maids i'll addition to her, said very readily,
| u
cheap boarding house between places day
or two ago:
You may say what you like of what
tell you if you do not print my name. do
not like to live out because | cannot have a
room alone. There are always the other
| girls and sometimes all in one bed. Once |
had room to myself, and then l did not
mind, though it was very small and not
| comfortable at all Some girls have very
| nCI Nl,nrvo tknYs Nor han wi Dn
they work in a factory, and maybe cook for
themselves over a gas jet. Most girls get
very good food, but not all. Some families
put all they have on show, and buy fine
clothes and fine furniture, and hardly spend
anything for decent things to eat at all.
| They set the most scrimping tables, and
there isn't ANYTHING left for the help. Some
families are so bad that way that girls know
| them by reputation, and won't hire out to
them, and they have to send to Castle Gar
den every time they want girl.
Girls are very good to one another often.
have known lots of girls to save their
wages to buy bedding and lamps and furni-
| ture and pretty things for nice set out to
some girl they knew was going to get mar
ried But girls dent think so very much
about getting married. They don't have
| much chance taat way. IL they want to
see a man, even their brother they have to
then so many nlen wouldn't marry servant
| girls. A shop girl can get nice man who
| can set up housekeeping in real good style,
but a servant girl can't Ii she malrles as
like as not she mas to geU place again and
| go to work before long. And if it don't
come to that the work is just as hard with
out the money she earned or the conven-
fences she's got used TO. Girls have the
! hardest and easiest time in July and Au-
| ~ txbn bn 90 n
Lots Of people turn away their girls then
| and leave them to find a new place or do
washing or Scrubbing till they get home.
| don't see how such families expect to get
| good servants when they see how thin and
worn out the girls look in the fall. Other
people leave their girls to look after the
houses on half wages, and then there's fine
vacation to be had. Some take their girls
with them aud then maybe the girls get
beaux in the farmers hired men and those
matches don't turn out so bad"
| A Vermont farmers daughter who used
to be a school teacher and lost her health at
it tried to regain her Robustness by taking a
place as nursery maid to three small New
York children. This is how sue succeede
as she detailed the experience to me:
II had heard that the children's maid had
the best OF everything in the
house, comfortable sleeping. rooms.
| ROOu 1tOu dud pioubJ VI cAclNlSc
out of doors. These things were just
what ] needed. WHAT found in reality
was that | couldn't sleep in the fine bod
rooms, bee luse the three babies-the young
est was months and the Oldest years
kept wanting things in the night, and
must be up over them and never by
any chance let them cry. They went to
| bed by o'clock, and had to sit the whole
evening in the adjoining room with the gas
turded down, unable to read or sew, just
holding my hands IN the dark, and so ner-
vous | though l should scream. l ate
at the children table, and got dainty
children's food, but little or no meat,
never heartily dinner such as grown
woman needs l had half day off a fort
night, and Sl5 a month. The strain of day
| and night attendance on children without
proper food wa much harder than teach
ing.n
An older woman than any of the others,
Nova Scotian WHO is perhaps more of
houykeep,r than servant girl, said:
Servants girls are a class by themselves.
They don't associate with any bnt other
girls, and they come to feel themselves SGT
apart from other people The best Of them
in the city are taxing much interest in
learning to do nice cookery whenever they
| get a chance at lessons, oven paying good
prices out of their wages for item. This
makes them able TO command better wages