The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-04-12
CHAPTER xxxvI1.

Jonathar's servants all appear to me to be
reduced duchesses and noblemen in livery.
When you speak to man servant, before
answering you he scans you from head to
foot and seems to say: who may you bea
Be careful how you talk to me. We are a
free nation, sir: allequals here, and am as
good as YOU
And you feel inclined to say to him:
81 congratulate you, young man, upon liv-
ing in a free country; but since we are all
equals here, and am civil to you, why on
earth cannot you be civil to meq'
The fellow is lacking in logic.
The manner of the maid servant is differ
emit; she wears a look of contempt and pro
found disgust; she seems to say with sigh.
How can men be such brutes as to allow
women to worka What despicahle creatures
they are, to be surer'
To get an idea of the prodigious labor I'M
dertaken by an American servant girl, one
has but to see her at work doing room,
feather broom in hand.
A day or two after this remarkable man.
ner of busting had attracted my attention,
came across the following in Puck:
Sarah is doing the drawing room Enters
the mistress Of the house, evidently fearing
to be choked BY the cloud Of dust that fills
the room.
Sarah, what are you doingan
"I'm dustin the room.
Il see When you've finished, please to
undust it. /"
Ssayvants, vrae,ee roroa f.or,- eono 4, esnn =
year. mean, Of course in good ordinary
houses, and not in millionaire's mansions
Mr. c. Vanderbilt pays his chief cook ten
thousand dollars ! write the sum in letters
that the reader may not exclaim: Surely
there is a misprint here; the printer has put
one nought too many"
In spite Of the enormously high wages they
pay, the Americans have so much trouble in
getting good servants, that numbers of them
are, SO to speak, driven from their homes and
Obliged to take refuge in hotels and apart
ment houses.
Negro ones are the only ones at all deferen-
tial in manner. or who have smile on their
faces from time to time, but many people
have an objection to them. and charge them
which are not lost. and breaking the monot-
ony Of life by dressing up in their employers
raiment when occasion offers
An American of my acquaintance, upon
going to his room one evening to dress for a
dinner party. found his dress coat and waist
coat missing from the wardrobe Guessing
their whereabouts, he went upstairs, and
there, in his negro buffers room, were the
missing garments.
He rang for the culprit.
''sPompey.r he said, 81 have found my
dress clothes in your room What is the
meaning of its''
II forgot to put dem back, sah."
"You have had them on, you rascal"
''Yes. sah-n
How dare you wear my clothesr
"Please massa, Igot married yesterday"
and the broad black face Of Pompey was lit
up with rather sheepish looat grin.
All the caricatures Of the coniidpapers are
outdone by realities in America
know lady who, losing her patience
with her housemaid one day, said to her:
81 expect my servants to do so and so.n
.Your whats" cried the indignant damsel.
"I'll just tell you what | think of you.
You amt no Lady, that's certain
Here are two advertisements which ex-
tract from an Indianapolis paper:
.Situation as dish washer required by
lady Apply Sentinel Office"
"A lady white, undertakes washing at
home" address follows,
Democracy can no further 60
~ take care never to part on bad terms
with my servants when they leave me- This
was said to me one day by clever Boston
lady. who, to my thinking, lacks sufficient
admiration for the democratic institutions Of
America
guessed that she intended covert satire
on the greatest republic in the world
Why's" demanded
because, when one Of those girls leaves me,
it is quite within the range Of possibility that
sho will marry some western ranchman. and
,ne day. when her husband becomes sena-
tor, she may be useful to me at Washington"
(1;o he continually