The Springdale news., 1889-12-06
WOMEN IN EUROPE.
Observations Made by an American Work
 ing-Woman in the Old World.


 ing-Woman in the Old World.
 When we landed at Liverpool and went to the Adelphi Hotel our un- sophisticated eyes were opened to an unusual extent to find all our wants attended to by women instead of men, as we had been accustomed to have in our own land. The white-capped maid-this term is applied to all ages answered bells, brought up water, hot or cold, lunch, or whatever was required We actually expected to have her bring up our luggage, but male porter, fortunately, did this.
 Our stay in Liverpool being very short, We had not much time for ob- servation, but as We advanced every thing seemed to us very strange. lee water, that American luxury, Is a thing rarely used by the English people, and such thing as a man be- hind bar is unheard of. Maids selected, was informed, for their beauty as much as any other consid- eration - attend the bar of every hotel; and, although We American women look upon this with peculiar feelings, in old England it IS a custom, and the position is regarded as re- spectable as any other q woman may occupy in service. At the hotels there are no housekeeper5 in the sense we use the word. The first hambermaid takes most of the responsibilities of such position, while the actual labor is shared by the under-chamber- maids. The scrubbing, cleaning and dusting is done by housemaid5 Covent Garden market ill London presents q panorama well worth seeing. Vegetables, fruit and flowers in abundance are dis posed of with great deal of noise and elattcr, the vendors being mostly women, who drive a bargain with shrewdness unequaled elsewhere in the busy marts of London. E,s- peeially was this fact shown in their answers to some of the =prying Tan kees, whose inquisitivenes5 broke forth in .sHow much is this?" Where is that raised? Do you sell by the pound or quart?n What do you call this?2
 4 novel sight was about twenty-five women sitting in semi-circle she'll ing peas. Inquiry eicited the fact that they received for this work pen ny quart of shellcd peas, and when peas were plentiful they could make three pence day.
 TraveIing in a railway car over the continent for a month would be a good school for the American who has not yet learned what to do with his legs and spreads them out on two or moro seats in our American ear. The coaches here are divided into compart- ments about five feet wide, with two seats running the width of the car facing each other. Each seat holds five persons. The guard, who crawIs along the outside of the coach while it is bowling along at the rate of a mile a minute, quickly spIes vacancy, so at the next station 1t is filled if there is passenger requiring it. and there you must sit, knee to knee, with your back to the wall. and no chance to stretch out and take things easy Tan kee fashion.
 All along the route we saw evidences of women s rights with q vengeance. Women stood maufully side by side with men in the fields and gardens, binding grain, making hay, digging and picking. Finally We saw them yoked into the small carts that haul the produce about the streets. l am sure that at every stage of the jour- ney the women of the expedition were more and more thankful that they were Americans. Leonora NJ. Barry, in Chicago News.