The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23


of the work assigned. Now we women,
when our babies come and we want all our
time for them and for hOme-making, wlich
isn't always the same thing as housswOrk-
ing, often feel that it's less troab.e to do
the drudgery ourselves than it Is 10 stand
over hired.girl. Now, where's the trouble
that we can't get a thing done without so
| much standingE
I'm afraid" said a sweet, serious-facei
woman. that we are not always quite hon
est about recommendations. and 50 bad
girls can ges places about as easily as good
ones. A lady came to ma once about a
| cook. | said all the good l could OF her.
On, Pm SO glad said the lady, shell be a
ire sure
but, you're not going to take her on
my recommendation
"'Ot course, you're giving her a lovely
character
"'Blt you haven't asked me her faults
"'What faults has shen
"'She drinks
"'Oh, wouldn't have her now for any
thingr
:" But l would. All the rest have told
you is true. and if you are warned about
her failing you may not have any difficulty
''She did take her and got three years
splendid service from her. Then the girl
got intoxicated in the house one day and
had to be removed by policeman"
AoSAlos4tAiSS Juluk IL WOulu D6 Il ROOu
thing" said woman VINO is interested in
working girls clubs, IF servants would Or
game. That tends to self-respect, l am
sure. One winter l was in a little manufact-
urIng town where the working people gave
ball. They invited everybody except the
cooks; but there they drew the line. Domej-
tic service is regarded as degrading"
~, but caste distinctions are too funny"
said a merry voice that presupposed
twinkle in the eye. 81 know a woman in
actual want VINO refused to answer a note
calling for a washerwoman, because she
was not apdres ed as laundress. "rwould
looked 50 putty she said, ON this enve-
LOPEZ"
something is the matter with u.s." said
somebody very clearly and earnestly, ''if
we regard the work Of our families as en-
nobling when we do it ourselves, but mental
when we pay for having it done. | know a
lovely woman who can't understand why
girl whom she had always treated kindly
chose to leave her service and go for smaller
wages into her husbands factory
Would you prefer l once asked her,
your son TO marry a girl from your
kitchen or one from the millP 'Why,
If l had to make such choice, I'd
take the mill hand | know an institution
for the training of girls where the matron
recommends any empl jyment ra5her than
domestic service. 1t has been her expert
ence, she says, that the girls who have gons
out to service have been put TO sleep with
old cooks of doubtful morality, or have been
made 20 feel their fash and blood of such a
different order from their mistress that they
have come back, when out of an engage
ment, with self-respect lowered We've got
to honor the worker il we want her to take
to the work kindly"
Cant we cO-operate!" asked a brown
eyed girl.
$50 hut Wa, no hain, ,,rcad oor-tor4I,- -
maintain individuality in our Dress" an
swered handsome, hisn-bred matron,
why IS it not just as necessary in our
homesl How can all these schemes for CO.
operative housekeeping, with meals pre-
pared at a common center, be carried out
when things that are sent in from the out
side always taste as if they had all been
cooked i'll the same kettle? No; every
womans house is her castle, and she must
have liberty to develop her own id aas."
Yes" SAID quiet little woman who had
not before spoken, but we waste coal
enough, every one of us, to cook meals for
six families. l don't believe if meu were
put in our places they'd do our work in such
medieval WAYS. And it's the servant girl
question that's the matter with marriage A
young man. newly married, came to me to
ask about waitress / recommended her
warmly. Why said he, Il didn't suppose
there were any such good servants nova
days. I'd have married five years ago if |
had supposed could find one'"
''When you find bachelors cooperating"
suggested a girl who has three brothers.
"they don't allow themselves to be fretted
by all our little worries. | know five young
men who have an apartment. At 10 O'clock
in the evening the servants are dismissed to
their own quarters. WHAT they do in freq
time is nobody's business but the servants
own. / don't know whether we shall ever
come TO anything so heroic, but can't we
cooperate SO far as to refuse to pay high
wages for poor workw
II know of a suburb of thirty or forty
families where they do that successfully, :"
came voice from far corner THE
women got together aud combined to fix
the prices they would pay for different
classes of service. They also agreed to take
no servant who had worked IN a neighbor-
ing family and could not bring a certificate
of efficiency"
81 know of an instance of cooperative
housekeeping" came bit OF testimony
with n certain triumphant ring. Its il
Central New York and includes rather
more than a dozsn families. Each family
retains its owa house, but the association
hires man to clean windows and cut grass
and dispose of ashes and woman to take
charge of the laundry work, and a woman.
perhaps two women, to dust and clean. All
the bread is baked outside and good many
special dishes are prepared. though they
have not as yet introduced in any very
thorough going way the common kitchen.
They say 1T works we'll as far as they have
gone and lightens the expense of house
keeping
81 know" Its time to adjourn, la
dies" sal the little silver gavel, ''even if
wehavent settled anything" and the flower
like bonne5s tossed once more, and there
arose buzzing as OF many swarms of
| honey seeking bees.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.