The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-15

need not be astonished if some fine morn.
ing she rises and finds them gone of tc
parts unknown.
The Swedes are more reliable, up to a
certain point. They are never stupid, they
are rather fantastic and full of eccentric
ways full of sublime lodgings. The Swed-
ish language is made up of eloquence
and poetry as soft as Italian; It has
also something of the flow and the
magnilicence of the Spanish. It is
rich in picturesque and brilliant metaphor
and richer in its expressions of gentleness,
pollteness n courtesy. They have q great
talent for arguing with gentleness and
courtesy and of protesting with politeness.
and they learn our language with singular
case. once had a Swedish maid argue me
out of my desire to have the dining-rooln
swept in better language than 1 could use
myself.
One must, in hiring servants, take into
account all these national characteristics.
The Swedes are full of talent. they can
do your work if they wish to, but ten
chances to one they do not wish to.
Gusthvus A%dolphus and Charles XII.
were the two types of Swedish character.
ton, they love brilliant display, they have
auaacious and adventurous spirits, one can
imagine them marching to victory, but all
this makes them in this country "too
smart to be servants.
They are excellent cooks. A Swedish
woman used to come to my house to cook
for dinner parties, and she was equal to any
French chef. Her price was five dollars,
and she would do all my marketing for me,
and serve the dinner most perfectly, that
is, render it up to the men walters.
l rarely had any fault to find. If l had,
it was l who was in the wrong. She came
often to instruct my Irish cook, and made
n frnn1 nnnE of hnr hrf hpl I otayS,rtaI
any further intercourse l feel that it would
be l who should leave the house, and not
my excellent cook.
They have every qualification for service
excepting this, they will not obey; they are
captains.
Tho Norwegians are very different. We
must again remember that they are at
home 80 poor, so frugal, so religious, so
capable of all sacrifice they will work pa
tientiy for seven years in order to go home
to Norway again, to that poetical land,
whose beauty is 30 u~nspeakable.
b hheso ggha hox who ns come ~ from the
on the plains in a small hut and alone,
making butter and cheese, and strong,
handsome, fresh creatures, their voices as
sweet rs lutes and so obedient and good,
thinking of father and mother and home.
Would there were more of them! If they
were Il l!ttlo less awkward in an American
u btSy houAt NJ EuAL0SNs
AS for tho men. they are the best farm
laborers in the world. They AVE n high,
noble. patient courage--a very slow man,
fond of argument. fhe Norwegian Is
the Scotchtnan of Scandinavia as the Swedo
il the lrishmun. There ia no better adopted
citizen than the Norwegian. out he lives
here only to 90 back to Norway when he
has nude enough. Deeply religious, they
are neither narrow or ignoble. They would
be perfect servants If well trained.
The Danes are not 80 simple, they are q
mercantile people and are desperately fond
of bargaining, They are also. however,
most interesting. Their taste for art is
vastly more developed than either tho
Swedes or the N~orwegians. A Danish par
Tor mud will arrange the brie-a-brac and
stand and look at 1t. 10 go up higher in
their home history, they are making great
painters.
As servants they are hardly known enough
amongst US to be criticised. Those have
seen have been nent, faithful, and far moro
obedient than their clever Swedish ~sisters.
about n country house they should bs Nor
wegiNns. In q city house. French people.
In Chicago the ladies speak highly of the
German servants, III they do not happen to
BIO Nihilists. which Is n dreadful possibility.
At the south they have tho negro, most ex-
ccllent when good, most objectionable when
bad. Certainly freedom has nos improved
them rs to manners, and Il colored coach
MAN in Washington onn be far more disa-
sseeablo than an lrishman or II French
cabby during tho exposition, which IL say
ing u Rtent deal.
The excellence. the superiority, the beau
tiful manner OF English servants at home
has induced ~'-aisa to bring over par