Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-14
WOMEN IN EUROPE.
Observations Made by an American Work.
ing-Woman I'm the Old World

ing-Woman I'm the Old World.
When we landed at Liverpool and
went to the Adelphi Hotel our I'M
sophisticated eyes were opened to an
unusual extent to find all our wants
attended to by women instead of men,
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 OBJ
servation, but as we advanced every
thing seemed to us very strange. Ice
water, that American luxury, is a
thing rarely used by the English
people, and such a thing as q man be-
hind bar is unheard OF. Maids
selected, / was informed, for their
beauty as much as any other consid-
GRAFTON attend the bar of every
hotel; and, although we American
women look upon this with peculiar
feelings, in old England it is custom,
and the position is regarded as re-
spectacle as any other woman may
occupy in service. At the hotels there
are no housekeepers in the sense we
use the word The first chambermaid
takes most of the responsibilities OF
such position, while the actual labor
is shared by the UNDERSTANDINGS
maids. The scrubbing, cleaning and
busting is done by housemaids.
Covent Garden market in London
presents a panorama well worth
seeing. Vegetables, fruit and
flowers in abundance are dis
posed of with great deal Of
noise and clatter, the vendors being
mostly women, who drive bargain
with a shrewdness unequaled elsewhere
in the busy marts of London. Es-
pecially was this fact shown in their
answers to some of the plying Yam
KEGS, whose inquisitiveness broke
forth in ''How much is this?" "Where
is that raisedp' "Do you sell by the
pound or quartz" ''What do you call
this?"
A novel sight was about twenty-five
women sitting in semi-circle she'll.
ing peas. Inquiry elected the fact
that they received for this work PEN
ny quart of shelled peas, and when
peas were plentiful they could make
three pence day.
Travelling in 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 car 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 crawls
along the outside of the coach while it
is bowling along at the rate of mile
a minute, quickly spies vacancy, SO
at the next station it 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 Yam
kee fashion.
All along the route We saw evidences
of women's rights with a vengeance.
Women stood manfully 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. am
sure that at every stage of the jour
ney the women of the expedition were
more and more thankful that they were
Americans. Mrs. Leonora M. Barry
in Chicago News.