The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-03

/ DIlO VI UIlCSS lIlOSDiDllllIN III WIN
hig hest feminine intellect is the sue
ce>sful management OF its own ser,
want girl. We had supposed and
hoped that this was conceded as an
impossibility, but the highest femin-
inc intellect is once more making a
dead set at it in the magazines and
newspapers.
Now it is perfectly clear to any
man who gets at the realities OF
things that it is impossible iol one
woman to manage another woman.
She can manage a man without any
trouble at all. Whether he's her hus-
band or the hired man, she knows
how to bring him into subsection and
keep him there. But in the parlor or
the kitchen every woman is rDue to
believe that her way is bet er than
amy other wOman's way. If one
woman submits to another and yields
her way, it is only temporarily and
with mental, sometimes with an eX-
pressed. reservation, which covers the
whole ct~e. She will not 90 it one
moment longer than she can help it.
1t is 4 curious and interesting fact
that uian who has tried to manage
one woman and has failed hopelgssy:
who is managed 10y his wife because
| he is philosophical enough 10 see that
| it is really the best way out of it. can
go from his home to his factory and
,unuage hundred men and several
| hundred girls, SO that ever thing
will seem to run Ike clockWoik,
while his wife at home, the very
woman who has him completely Gun
! der her thumb" can t manage her
cook and huuSe-giri to save her life.
Ii she insists ON carrying the hopeless
attempt too far, the cook and house
girl leave the house and hire Out at
the factory, where they are managed
without The least trouble, WhercupOn
the highest feminine intelects con-
clude that the presence OF factories in
This country is largely responsible for
what they call the "servant-girl prob
lemn
There is no problem about it-none
whatever. Women do not object to
being managed by any man they do
not expect To marry or have not mar
ried already, but they do always, and
they always will. object to being man.
aged by another woman, and when
they do submit to it, it is only until
they can escape from it. If they have
nowhere else to go, of course they can
not go anywhere else, but if they
have-they will. Next to starvation
itself, the greatest evil for a woman is
being managed by another woman.
The highpSr feminine intellecls may
90 on evolving hundreds of columns
of what they suppose to be reas onin@
on II "prohIem,n without changing
this in the least. 1t was and is and j.
to be-
This, of course, settles it. There is
no problem at all. But in very truth,
the problem would be solved much
more easily il the St. Louis dies and
ladies everywhere else, would aiopt
one of the suggestions made hy mat
servant girl. Gave the dnughierS Il
training, a. well as the servants. Turn
out generation of young girls who
know how to care for Il house, from
parlOr to kitchen: helpful, in epcn-
dent girls, who, when your cook gets
"hulfyn az q walks uh after SUPP nr,
, can 20 into the kitchen and keep the
machinery moving, Just the same.
Who knows! they may marry poor
men, some day; and even love in
cottage likes GOOD coffee and well
made rolls. They may marry mil
liouaircs, whom another lurn OF The
wheel will SEMI barl; to begin lie over
again; and how much easier to begin
it by the side Of a brave little wife
who knows how to bear her larl ct
the burden. But if poverty never
brings these accomplishments into
requiSition, wealth may. The mistress
who linON S just how her work should
be done is queen Of her own house
hold; but if she is ignorant she is the
slave Of her servants.