The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-07

ocean voyage on O long-trip vesse. brings
about the necessary change of diet. of air,
OF associations, and breaks connection with
business or other worries. In many cases
the ocean trip is the only effe ctive and GER
tain remedy. i often prescribe it. though"
the doctor added laughingy, 1T is gener-
ally throwing away paying cases. There
are many people who have ample means
who are beginning to find the efficiency of
the ocean remedy. 1t Is cheaper than
doctors bill, and by far cheaper than
funeral -
The example Of the late steward of the
Marlborough Hotel. who began as dish
carrier at Delmonico's and ended As one OF
the most expert and popular buyers and
private-dinner managers in the city, Is
lesson worthy of the study of every young
man who finds himself cast in the role of a
servItor. The lesson is, there are servants
and servants. There are humble carriers
of hotel dishes at four or five dollars o
week, and head-wairers who manage hun
dreds of men, aud stewards VINO handle
hundreds of thousands of dollars at from
two to five thousand dollars year. There
are cooks ovefDaid at Sl2 q month and
cooks who earn $1,000 year. There are
lackeys at SO week and lackeys at 500
week. There are maids extravagantiy
remunerated 81 50 a week and maids
who are treasured a: SOS. There
are personal clerks at SIS per week
and private secretaries at $4,000 q year.
The lowest fades by degrees into the high
est. 1t is all service. They are all serv
ants. The difference is of grade, OF brains,
of faithfulness and ambition. OF lntelll-
gent application and continuous bard
work. 1t is customary In this country to
regard all personal service as degrading
and air servants as menIals beneath re-
spectacle consideration. Just why the
man who brings yOur food and arranges
your table is any more a servant than the
man who measures out your tea and sugar
or cuts your silk or calico is too nice O
point for argument. The pay is mostly
about the same and both are equally sub
ject to the wilkins and insolence of Gus
toners and employers. Nevertheless there
is distinction in the public mind and this
distinction has always existed.
The rewards of personal service are not
to be despised. Thousands of men In New
York who are personal servants make
more money than the average tradesman,
and tens of thousands who wear white
aprons ana caps are doing better finan-
cially than the average farmers and land
owners of the country. There are hun
dreds of merely upper servants. such as
housekeepers buffers head walters. stew
ards. Wallets, private secretaries. etc.. who
are better paid than the majority of bank
tellers, cashiers, etc., and actually make
more money Per annurn than the average
country banker. The average personal
servant of a rich man, whether that servant
be valet, courier, steward or private secre-
tary, is usually q man of brains education,
personal probity, varied experience, sound
Judgment and devoted heart aud soul TO
his employer. There are ample evidences
these qualities make valuable servants.
and are as necessary to those who would
reach the highest rewards IN that line as
they are to successful independence. Abont
all personal service IN the metropolis is In
the hands of foreigners. And We. we'll.
They also serve VINO only stand and wait"
-
An Englishman with a sandy beard-a
big-boned. brawny looking fellow-created
q diversion on Broadway one saltry day
last week by appearing in a slouehed hat
with a white towel around il. the red
striped ends of the towel floating behind
over his neck. That is to say. it looked
like towel. but il was the right sort of
thing, don't you know. On broadway it
created more excitement than any article
of male attire has for many years. Even
the passe and blase Broadway car horses
stopped TO look at it with establishment.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.