The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-10-09
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cants .r . rnsstsan . n A:1srsst'an
kitchen, the Iee'anslisn das.sei whose
only accom- piisfsnens WIS -.failising
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fainily who lsert n:acIl-sE-,slttss
rho difficulty IS that cmrlorel,s are
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wrong places, and will i.syer quietly
consider their own pecpliarities
shall startle .ys,u by saying that the
best servant IN the abstract IS by no
means always the best for ron. For
. you must consider, not SO rauch what
! she has done IN her last place, as what
/ she will be expected 10 10 in yours.
If your family IS dr.',ed like q rsg5i-
ment. SO that all rise, SO to meals and
retire with exact regularity. the we'll
/ trained English sorvant is the best for
! you. She viii serve you seriously. an
s:vcr your orders with an inyariable
very wei, IN am, have your Sunday
! dinner ready for Yen when you come
! home from church all in q row, lock
/ the front door e:zti1ls-,t;sli the hall lamp
and banisi, TIE faniy.cat at ten pre-
cisely and allow you To have an occa-
sional regular party with ice cream and
salads and the company all in full
dress In fact she will rejoice to serve
so exemplary family. and feel that it
is; lowing to her influence that you keep
so strictly to the right vay.
Il, on the contrary. yo1ls are profes-
sional people, VITA roiidiy Bohemian
| habits and desira 10 have some inno-
cent jollity and s use OF good-fcllow-
ship avoid this D rect servant as you
would u fiery dragon.
Her wrath on learning that the vari-
OTIS members Of the household rise
when they please and sit UP until two
o'clock when they desire to dc SO, that
they have inlpromptu lanquets at ir-
regular hours, that they do as they like
without asking what others do, will be
too great FOR utterancc. Her first dis
covery Of a Flemish jag and mugs to
match in the din;n r-room Of a morning
will crush her. She will sweep the
cigarette boxes away with anguish in
her soul, and will be seized with symp-
toms which force her to pin white
handkerchief about her forehead.
From that moment her shocked ex
preston will be permanent, and you
Will feel as though you had established
somebody elsc's family ghost on the
premises until you part very very
gladly
No, this perfect servant will never do
for you. Get a jolly Irishwonan, or q
com Portable fat, southern black anntT,
who can understand that you keep
house to live and do not live to keep
house.
The matroa whose family love u live
well spends half a day at a bureau to
engage at last a mild, mili1-and-water
sort of female. with a small chin and
10 mouth 10 speak Of who in rely to
every a1Table question uttcrs tie same
I've no choice, ma an.
Why, Heaven knows, forty year CT
experience ought TO have taught her
that a woman Ike that always serves
meats half cooked and barely Warm,
sleeps her coffee, wa.er-soalls her vege-
tables, sends up her buildings in a
liquid condition and flavorless is incap-
able OF getting up good fire or giving
comfortable effect to a room that she
arranges, OF opening door widely TO
admit guest or quite snnt:ing one on
any occasion; that Will" she dominates
the Kitchen the household VIII feel half
starved and wholly u.retched
Meanwhile a sensitive person, with
strong feelings on the subject OF gravics
and original ideas as to salads and
SAUCES, has been engaged by o lady
who keeps her family Gu short rations
principally of bread and smoked beef,
while the timid elderly spinster in
glasses has becn so far LETT to herself
as to take home with her to her little
fiat an immense, red-haired fury, with
blood hot eyes and an evident bottle
IL her 70 KIT, and Mrs sfeGiI!;oeddy
who boasts q quoting connections in
her kitchen w such heroic means as
the throwing of pudding-pans and flat
irons captures a meek, cross-eyed
woman, who mentions Chat she ieft her
last place heca,{se after seeing a ghost
ia the cellar she ::woul Int go down for
coals never no more, nor il it was eyel
so.
But all these women, having eyes
saw not, and !1in.jllv selected n servant
as FROM {: grabbing :, q ar, when the
matter N ght haze 90; one Of sansi-
bic and wallaarisel choice, and the
contracts toleran.y !efnllnent one in
consequence, Mar Kyl, Dallas IN \
Y, World.