St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14
THEIR SUNDAY OUT.
Eva Gay Diseourses Of the
One Holiday Of Work.
ing Girls.
DomestieS Who Take Sunday,
and Others Who Are
Bluffed.
Working Girls Who Club To-
gether and Spend the
Day.
Experience Of a Squad Of
Girls in a Fashionable
Church.

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anything they please. That is, factory
girls and clerks are free on Sunday.
Servants and dOmestics are not. Sun
day is their busy day. People must be
fed and waited upon dnring the Lords
day just the same as upon week days.
Indeed, when l tried homework the
conviction forced itself upon me that
people, after listening to good SER
mon, are unusually hungry and pro ne
to find fault. L have talked with a num-
Der of ladies on the subject of Sunday
work for servants and will quote few
opinions:
EITHER the girl or the mistress must
work on Sunday, and prefer to have
the girl do it. 1t is not right to make
girls work all day Sunday. always let
my girl have two hours to herself SUM-
day afternoon, but she must be home in
time to prepare supper" Quite mag
unanimous, isn't she?
''lt spoils girl to give her Sunday for
herself. 1t gives her false notions of
independence. She is liable to forget
that she belongs to class entirely dis
tinct from her mistress"
might remark that the above opinion
came from Il Id ny WHO was SeINduJ
herself before she
MARRIED A RICH MAN.
She seems to know just how it is.
Servants ought not go out on Sun
day. l always let them take some
piOus tracts, which are good for them to
read after work is done. 1t makes them
appreciate the advantages of living
with a Christian lady" That lady
meant well, but surely she would be
grieVed if she heard the sarcastic COM
ments of the girls, and saw them use
the tracts for curl papers. Such, | am
sorry to say, is the ingratitude of serV-
ants.
81 like Catholic girls. They get up
at half past five Sunday morning and
go to mass. They are home by seven,
and get their extra Sunday work under
way in good time. Girls who belong to
other denominations want to go to
church at the same time L do, and of
course they can't" l wondered if the
girls liked the arrangement outlined
above, but didn't ask any of them, as l
wasn't interviewing girls this time.
eyes, by all means let the girls go to
church on Sunday. My girl has Joined
my church. and she teaches my Sunday
school class. let her do my missionary
visiting whenever she has an afternoon
out" | wondered how much real leis-
ure the girl got out of the above arrange
ment. ''If my girl doesn't have Sunday
for herself she sulks all week and
threatens to leave" sighed meek little
hOuSekeeper, who was ruled by the in
independent girl as with a rod of iron.
'If you give girl Sunday she never
does any more work on the Monday fol-
lowing. so | don't let my girl go out on
Sunday at all,' said pretty lady who
had becorue somewhat of cynic on the
Servant-girl question. The girls Opin-
ions, briefly, are something like this. If
a girl be thoroughly competent and re-
liable she says, Il want Sunday for my
SELF" and she gets it, because the COM
petent girl is rare jewel not lightly to
to be cast away.
If she be foreigner. have no special
quality to commend her, she approaches
her mistress every seventh day and
meekly says: IL tank should go and
see my cousin for little while. She has
yust come over" ETC., etc. She gets
promptly refused, but never fails to re-
peat the request. Some Sunday her
mistress will get tired of refusing and
let her go. That settles the matter.
That girl
TAKES HER SUNDAYS
off after that without asking for them.
OF course there is every grade of ser
want and mistress, and when one wants
to show which is to blame, it depends,
as Carlyle says, ION the mistress and
the servant whom you select as an eX-
ample"
Briefly it may be said that all house
servants are allowed Sunday evenings
and many part of the afternoon as
well. In only few cases is domestic
allowed the whole day, because. if the
mistress be quite liberal in her views, it
is difficult to arrange the work so as to
let a girl away a whole day.
| didn't intend to speak at any
length concerning dOmestics because
their position in regard to Sunday work
is well known. But | have spent sew
eral Sundays with girls, to whom it is
the only day on which their time is
their own.
One Sunday staid with clerk who
earned So a week, hired a furnished
room and cooked her own meals. 1t
was 1870 Saturday night when we got
home, and pretty near the same hour
Sunday forenoon when we arose. We
made one meal do for dinner and
breakfast. cleared up the room of the
odds and ends which had accumulated
during the week.
Mamie?" l asked.
Il guess not" said Mamie 81 used
to go to church when l lived at home i'll
the country, but Pm so tired now after
working late Saturday night that just
fix up my room, do my mending or any
thing else for which | can't find time
week evenings"
She carried out the indicated pro-
gramme; several fellow clerks dropped
in during the afternoon and evening.
They wern't at all surprised at NAMES
employment, and seemed accustomed
to spending the Sabbath III similar
way.
GIRLS WHO LIVE AT HOME
and only work to provide spending
money for themselves, usually go to
church and regard the Sabbath as day
of rest. OF course they have not to
worry as to how food, raiment and shell
ter shall be provided, and perhaps that
gives them more inclination and time
for proper observance of the Lords
day.
also spent Sunday with some factory
girls who earned IS week. Four hired
an unfinished room in filthy tene-
ment block at $3.50 per month. They
slept, cooked, washed, ate and sewed in
that room. They had bought only what
furniture was absolutely necessary.
They were foreigners of various nation
alties, but could speak good English.
Sunday was their day ''at home" They
slept much later than on working days,
but otherwise one wouldn't have known
by their conduct that it was Sunday.
One did the weekly washing for the
crowd. Another cooked supply of
provisions for the coming week. An
other mended their working dresses for
street wear. The fourth was ill. So |
was invited to take her place, scrub off
the floor. wash dishes and make the
beds. We worked all day. In the even
ing the girls dressed in their best and