The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-11
AS IT LOCKS TO WOMEN.
= How One Woman Settled What
Was a Real Difficulty.
THE SERVANT GIRL QUESTION
IL is Discussed from "A New Standpoint
with Plenty of Other Interesting AN"
Novel Things.

"I have made up my mind TO ask Dora
White to come and be my nurse asserted
Mrs Craddock positively.
Better not" said Mr.. Craddock' warn
ingly, "she wont do it and you'll hurt her
feelings for nothing"
"No, I'll ask her in such way that she
can't be hurt. / know she breads mex
pressibly this going from house TO house
sewing by the day, and rs TO standing In
store the doctor says he would give her
wear TO live. Now with me she would be
Comfortably lodged and fed, treated with
respect her work would he light, her pay
good. Do you think she could be foolish
enough 10 choose a sewing girls ire,
tramping about i'm all weathers, going To
a poor boarding house overworked NJ one
time and out of work at another z
Dora did refuse, but not Indignantly.
s1 am much Obliged to you, Mrs. Grad
dock, for your kind plan; see all the
comforts and advantages of such place
for me, but there is real difficulty IN the
way that makes il impossible"
81 can't see what it is" said tbs lady in
n disappointed tone: A.,
difficulty, ma'am," she said; without
giving you wrong notions OF me; nut TINS
Is the way il looks TO me; i would gain
great many things by taking the place
YOU offer me, but would lose one thlng
care for, and that would never get
back"
"Wbati" asked Mrs. Craddock, rather
sharply. .n,uorsd
Dora simply.
Nonsense" said the lady; "nobody
whose good opinion il is worth your while
to keep, would think any less OF you Tor
earning an honest living"
b Nom" said Dora, "they wouldn't
think less of me; they might praise me Tor
doing il; but never could be exactly one
of them again. Now, Mrs. Craddock, you
know yourself that there is big, VIDE
difference between servants, ana the peo.
pie who amt servants. L know some OF
the dearest, kindest, best people IN the
world are in that place, and maybe II l
was old, and tired of people, / would be
willing TO cut myself off from the friends
have been used to living with; but L
don't feel ready, young as 1 am, TO DO
that"
There was little silence between them
and Dora said timidly: hope you uon
think me proud, ma'am."
mo Dora" said Mrs. Craddock kind
ly, 81 begin to see what you mean and l
believe you are right now l wouldn.t
want you to find your level with the ordl-
nary run of Irish Biddies, and yet, taking
a place that seems TO be alongside OF theirs,
i believe you are right in thinking that
you would be gradually dropped out OF
your old set of friends;
"Yes. Mrs Craddock, ana they would
not do il for meanness, or anything ike
that: they would speak TO me on the
street, and may be invite me TO come and
see them, but there would DE a dliier-
ence"
But Dora's good hard sense, and the
way she looked at things, made Mrs.
Craddock more than ever anxious TO have
her services.
Dora" she said presently, chow would
il do for you 20 come as nursery Cover
nessp IL il high time that Will and
Joseph were learning their letters, and as
nursery governess you could keep your
friends and still do my work"
THAT sounds very deceitful, SAID
isn't a wrong deceit, I'd be delighted to
come and try il, or rather let you try 1t"
Then followed n minute account OF
what would be expected of her; Dora was
really TO do everything that the nurse had
done, and the hours teaching beside; her
wages and privileges would be the same
as the nurses had been. except that she
was TO eat her meals in the dining room,
after the family were done, instead OF III
"You won't find me above my work,
Mrs. Craddock, l can promise you that"
said Dora.
And she was az good as her word af-
ter few months OF this arrangement,
Mrs Craddock declared that she would
never be satisfied till she got somebody
like Dora in the house-girl's place.
"Well, yop can call her seamstress,"
said her husband; "as sure as you are
born, you two women have taken hold of
this question by the right handle. You've
got to make the places of paid service
little moro respectable before you can get
thoroughly respectable people To take
them, and don't know better way than
YOU have hit on for Dora. You've taken
the old place and renovated it with new
name, and now she can keep il renovated.
BY ali means get Carrie Myers as house
maid, and call her your seamstress."