The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-10
PLEA FOR SERVANTS
Consideration for Them Too Rare
q Thing-Two Sides 10
the Case.

the Case.
There is many a house where all sum
mer long gaycty goes on, company ar
rives, excursions are planned and carried
out. merrymakings are held. and every
one is tired out with pleasure, and it
crosses no ones mind that there Is some
one else who is tired out, and tn ct not
with pleasure, but with work; not with
excitement and variety, but with the
perpetual nervous strain Of routine and
monotony. This person has mad zone OF
the comfort or delight OF fresh compan :
ionship that arriving guests a v gwen
to the rest of the household. none OF the
pay lightheartedness which comes Wit
ompnn for whom work aud cares are
put aside for the time being, she has
Joined zone of the excursions OF course;
She has had none of the merriment OF the
merrymakings; her Only share OF the fes-
tivity has been in tue preparation OF lss
yiands and the clearing up OF It's debris.
The others may have cSke; she has
crumbs. The bubble OF the foam has all
fallen before the draught OF pleasure
reaches her lips; in fact IL never reaches
ner lips ut all. She Is not thought OF
Ia relation to it. All that she has TO DO
WIln IL Is 70 ItttANC II . Fbf ~ 80
that makes il possible-she, the dea ex
machina.
With all this no one dreams that this
Instrument of the hou -ehOld pleasure.
this kitchen girl, is being treated unklnd.
" or harshly, or is being overourdened
with labor. She is well housed, Wen led,
gently addressed, regularly paid, some
what considered; what more could be
expected? We-nous autres-must have
our garden parties, our sailing parties,
our picnics; she must make ready Tor
tnem-that is her part Of 1t all. For
else do we pay her? She Is moi hired 70
20 pleasuring with us; she does not wish
10 do so. Our pleasure would very likely
be dull business for her. aud indeed II
she went we should have 10 stay at home.
Perhaps Nora never complains OF any
of this to herself or TO another, but taxes
It for granted, and submits TO IL as the
galley slave to mis- ball aud chain, as
something inevitable, belonging TO the
condition OF things and wasting TO tue
vital economy to Kick ag inst. But, all
the same, 1t can but wear upon her. It
sufficiently tasks her capacity to work
for the daily family needs the year round;
this extra wear and tear, the desire to
please, the fear of falling short, The b
OF finer or more cooking. of more dish
washing, laundrylng, all together, bring
a new strain that calls up all her reserve
OF phi ysical strength, II unless she is or
a very contented n unresisting nature.
all her nervous strength as well; aud II Is
safe to say that If she is of the uDTesist-
ing sort She has not the vioor or energy
to be valuable inner place
Ii we gave this patient Nora q commits
Grating or an encouraging word now and
then-if we said, not in 50 many words
perhaps, that she mad all the fuss and we
had all the fun. intimat1ng at any rate an
appreciation of that fact, would the tam
lily therefore go to pieces, as Mr.. Bagnet
used 10 fear # a fiattering truth were
owned? Would it really destroy discip-
line? Would Nora at once become so top
ping thai nothing could be done with herr
Or would she feel her heart warm with
the sense of appreciation, the touch OF
sympathy, sleep sweeter, wake stronger,
work beIters 1t seems as If every Que III
the house should find this an experiment
worth trying.
Undoubtedly this kind word is fire.
quently spoken in many households, and
the maid is cheered and the work taken
up by her more lightly in consequence.
But does the duty end there? Should all
the p%leasuring be with the superiorss
Should not the maid have opportunities
provided beyond that OF her Sunday
morning mass, aud of her weekly even
ing in ali the long sunshiny days-the
days of railway excursions into woods
and hills, of steamboat voyages down the
rivers and along the shores? Should It
not be seen TO that on different days OF
the summer she has a whole days out
ing, gets up without n weight OF duties
pressing oa her and to be remembered.
hours to be kept, tasks to be done; lays
down her load for a whole t~wenty-four
hours at a time, rests at home without
lifting "A finger. or goes OIL aud takes her
pleasure in her own way, allowed TO
think of nothing in the way of work from
rising until bedtimef 1t will have It's In
convenience for US.
If we are of narrow means We nus
economic somewhere, and hire another
person to run in and do the work for the
day, or else we must do il ourselves. But
even in the latter contingency we shall be
exerling ourselves no more than we
usually do when on our outdoor excur-
sions we make a toll of pleasure. Indeed,
we can make a pleasure OF toll here.
Those of the family who are at all able
bodied can divide the house keeping du-
ties SO that they shall weigh unduiy upon
none-can make a sort of picnic of the
whole days work, a kitchen "bee," aud
if they find it not altogether TO their
mind they will at bedtime see Nora re-
turn with a warmth of welcome that
cheers her as welfa a themselves.
And having tried this suggestion once
they will wonder at her patience n at
their W previous want of thought, and
Will resolve that NoraS outings ana holl-
days shall be as much a matter of consid-
Grafton in the future as their W Aud
on her side the Nora thus entreated Will
be sure to leave the laIder so richly
stocked with well prepared provisions
that the Giving" will be a little daintier
than if she had stayed at home.-HaT-
per's Bdzdr.
Food Preparations for Infants.
At a meeting of the American A ssocia
ton for the Advancement Of Science. DR..
Frederick Hoffman spoke about the food
preparations now SO largely used for in
fants and children as substitutes for
mothers milk and other food. According
to reliable estimates the quantity Of such
artificial food annually consumed in the
United States amount IN moneyvalue from
about IS, 000,0 600 tn SlU,0 600, 900. The prob
lem Of artificial food for the rising gener-
alton, and particularly during the first
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