The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-24
KITCHEN WASTEFULNESS
Servants Who Have No Thought for
Their Employers Pocketbooks.

Their Employers PocketbOoks.
Servants are forever spending not
their own but that which is the prop
erty of others, whether we take that
property as soap and soda, candles
and comestibles, or what not. Human
beings are not given to look upon
other peoples property in the same
light as they look upon their own. A
professional man travelling at his own
expense travels cheaply, but at the
expense of another generally the re-
verse of economically. So with do
nestle servants. They spend, but do
not buy. Everything is ready to their
hands. and nothing to pay for, and
this of itself is not only apt to beget a
certain indifference for the property
of others, but is also demoralizing in
that it blunts the perceptions regard
ing waste.
The waste in large households is al
ways considerable, often terrible; the
land of plenty is not the land of
economy, but the atmosphere of the
former is that surrounding servants.
There is consequently a growing
AGll00IOf W AAGIOEAlo Gto Nh1 q AL
the waste does not react upon them
selves, and is consequently imper-
ceptible; it is constantly going ON at
their masters tables and at their own,
and their ayes become blinded to it,
not because they cannot realize that
to waste is to sin, but because they
become Injured to it by custom.
Another indication of the effectthat
surroundings have upon servants is
supplied by the fact of their being
generally improvident. They have
but a meagre idea of the value of the
things they use or consume, because
they never have to pay for them, but
when the time comes that they have
to provide for themselves, a lamenta-
BILE exhibition of their want of ex-
p~erience is too often the result. We
know how often it is that servants
who have contrived to save a little
lose their all on setting up for them
selves. Want of business ability may
account for a part of the want Of sue
cess that terminated in their ruin, but
their previous training and the easy
condition of their lives as servants
rendered them unable to count the
cost before setting out.-Ndtd0nGI
Re0ie10.
Saved by a Woman.
In an account which he gives of a
visit to Count Ito, n of the most
famous of modern Japanese states
men, Sir Edwin Arnold relates the
following incident in the history OF
the Count:-At the time of the fierce
strife which arose between the parti-
sans of the Shotgun and the Loyalists,
who were for re-establishing the
ancient regime, Count Ito was pay
ing his addresses to the lady who is
now his wife, and while he was a fugi-
tive from his enemies there came a
time when they had traced him to her
house, and had chosen a band of
soshis to assassinate him. The noise
of their dogs and the rattling of their
scabbards were heard, and the Count.
trapped like the royal stag in his
mountain ~pleasaunce, drew his Bizen
blade and prepared to die as a Japan
ese lord should, amid a circle of dead
foes.
But while he murmured "Sayo-
nara!n and knitted his fingers round
the shark-skin hilt Of his sword, the
brave lady whispered, do not die;
there is a hope STILL" upon which she
removed the hibatch, or firebox, over
which they were sitting, and lifting
up the mating and the planks be-
meath, induced her lover to conceal
himself in the hollow space which
exists under the floor OF all Japan
ese houses. The murderers broke into
the ~ferocious band-just as
the fire-box had been replaced and
the countess had assumed a position
of nonchalance. They demanded their
victim, and when she protested against
their intrusion and babe them
search il they wanted Ito, the
wretches dragged her about the apart
ment by her long, beautiful black hair
now touched with silver-and griev-
iously maltreated her, but could not
shake her absolute fidelity.
Thanks to this, Count Ito, the hero
of many another strange adventure,
escaped from the chief peril OF his
career, and has lived to give his coun-
try a new constitution and to be one
OF the foremost and best reputad
statesmen of modern Japan.
For Housewives to Try.