St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04

| full flower between the Republican
| party bosses and the Farmers,f Alliance
OF Indiana.
MIGRATORY SERVANT GIRLS.
They Will Not Stand Monotony-
Interesting Facts.
| Cincinnati Times-Star.
| The servant girl problem is ever per-
picking. How to find good domestic
| and how to keep her even when rela-
tons apparently in every way satisfac-
| tory have been established between her
and her mistress comparatively few
| seem to know.
70 the question as to whether girls
| who do domestic work are prone to
change their positions frequently, the
| city said: Good girls as general
| thing thing stay a long while in
| place, but even they sometimes make
but a short stay. And the fact that a
girl has staid long while in one place
! does not necessarily imply that she will
| stay at the next. [ had lady come
here for girl not long ago and gave
! her what seemed to be a very good girl
who had been three years in her last
| place. The lady was delighted with
the girl-while she was at the Office.
The girl took the place, and in just two
weeks she was back looking for another
| position. She made three or four trials
before she finally found place where
she seemed to fit. And there is great
| deal in that. The girl and the mistress
must De congenial to certain extent,
and the one will get better treatment
and the other better work. But the
trouble is often that the girl is lazy OR
the mistress is trifing and hard to suit.
Then the girl will probably make short
stays. Just now this class of lazy girls
are alleging the heat, and out of their
| places they go. Especially are they
likely to do this if they have homes to
| which they can go. Lit in the country
so much the better, for they are always
glad to welcome an extra pair of hands
in summer in the country.
Zone cause that does great deal to
vacate places in Homework is the inf1u-
ence of the factory girl. AS a general
| thing she considers herself above a
hired GIRL but if she does deign to
stoop so low as to associate with her it
is time to begin looking for another girl.
| The factory girl paints her life in glow
ing colorS as compared with the drudg-
cry of homework, and the first thing
you kffOM GtC llOQoC gill UCCOluCo
| factory girl
''Then, another cause of the girl leav-
| ing places is the fnical manner of
mistresses. You will find some women
| who are so particular that nothing
| girl does is proper. So they are always
| complaining and nagging at the girls.
The result is, before they know, the
| girl puts OH her hat and sails out. Then
the woman complains that she can never
keep her help
''Some women seem to look upon the
girls as persons who are not to receive
even the same food as the family. Any
delieacies are set aside as not for the
girls to eat unless they are stale or in
some other way undesirable. Now this
sort of thing girl will not tolerate, nor
do L blame her. Locking up the sugar,
coffee and so Oh also tends to lessen the
attractions of a place for girl. 1t casts
a reflection Oh them to have things kept
under lock and key. AS general thing
they are honest girls, who do not take
any more of such things than they need.
OF course they know the various jokes
about the girl supplying her relatives
out of the family provisions, but those
are generally imaginative, although, of
course, they have basis in fact. But
girls are only human, and reflection
upon their honesty hurts them as we'll
as any Of the rest of us.
1.-The matrimonial bee gets into the
girls bonnet sometimes. and then, of
course, you lose her. But for that you
don't, or rather you shouldn't, blame
her, if only she marries some decent
fellow, and not some worthless vaga-
bond who will expect her to marry for
love and wash for living. In some
eases they prosper, and in little, while
cofV I'm. or 40 to al iC N mt nd
girl of their own. But it has been re-
| marked as strange thing that those
very women who have been girls them
selves are the ones who are hardest on
the girls and expect the most of them.
They do not seem to have any remen-
branee of the toll and hardships of their
own lives as girls
"Where do most of the girls come
from?'
''Most of the girls employed at house
work are country girls or newly over
seems to breathe in with the city air the
idea that homework is degrading, and
she generally goes to the factory for
employment. The country girl is gem
orally better brought up. and is not so
Extensively independent as her city
sister. Yet they sometimes insist upon
being looked upon as the equals socially
of the family in which they are EN-
ployed. have a case in mind of girl
who wanted to be allowed to eat at
table with the family. She was good
girl, and in order to keep her the
mistress was inclined to yield.
it, however, and he objected
so very decidedly that she was forced
to tell the girl that she could not eat
with the family. WheFeat the girl
picked up her boxes and bags and left.
| There is a man on Mount Auburn who
has none of these seruples. He has his
servant girls sitting out on the front
porch with his family in the evenings,
and treats them in every way as if they
were members of the family. But his
ears must Jingle from the way his neigh
bors talk. But there are not many such
cases. The girl generally understands
that while she may be the equal, or
even the superior. of her mistress NEIL
tally, yet custom compels the o5serv-
ance of certain rules and convention
altieS from which there is seldom any
escape"
An experienced employment agency
manager says that the trial idea is per-
niciOus and ought to be abolished. ''If
lady comes to me and asks to have a
girl on trial. [ refuse her point blank"
uc Odltts UOll ptilcNc III lI IL ID
unfair to both parties.
THAT girl gives satisfaction in one
place is no reason that she will do the
same in another. Often the girl was
obliged to unIearn what was taught her
in former place. When girl comes
to me and speaks Of going somewhere
on trial l lecture her. If she keeps of
the same mind l refuse to recommend
her.
SIT takes fully month for mistress
aud maid to get used to each others
ways. More patience on the part of the
ladies and more application on the part
OF the girls are necessary"
A happy instance Of harmoniouSness
between mistress and servants was that |
afforded by the life of the late Mrs.
Pulte. wife of the famous founder of
the medical college. AT the time of her
death there were three servants in the
household with terms of service ranging