The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-13

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SERVANTS MANNERS ARE PECULIAR.
able but involuntary abstinence from
food and the sudden hospitality Of his
i'll advised hosts, wrote what he evil
IDENTIFY deemed scathing criticism Of
certain social aspects Of American life,
drew his pay for it and disappeared.
His name was Hamilton Aide.
He says among other things that the
'love of privacy, 30 prominent feature
in the English character, is unknown
here, the privilege Of exclusion SO rigid
~ enforced in the walls and fences Of
our gardens, the closed doors Of our
Withdrawing rooms, on the first floor, Ii
rarely enforced here" But il is going
to be, Mr.. Aide. We are going to be
more particular In the future. We are
getting acquainted with your methods,
and we shall be more careful in the years
to come.
Il your nobility cannot play fair
game Of cards Of an evening or over
come the pernicious correspondent COM
plant, what may we expect Of one who
is not noble at all, and who visits in our
country only what is free, and who then
imagines he is familiar with American
society?
lido not know Mr.. Aide very well, but
it has been my misfortune to cross his
nil az <~n t~~vs In.
gnaw at the closely cropped heritage
among the hills where yet still fingered
the echo Of his bray.
Judging by the sentiment expressed
by the low, coarse innkeepers along the
chicken feather trimmed orbit through
which he passed, it will be money in his
pocket il he will not come that way any
more. If he should, there are intima-
tions that . good recipe for removing
egg stains from wearing apparel will be
agreat convenience to him on his steamer
ride home.
Mr.. Aide, whose signature shows that
he neglected to put up his fly screens
until too late in the season, says that
manners among servants Of both sexes
are peculiar, as indeed they are in all
the lower orders IF one may be allowed
such an expression about Americans("
Judging from Mr.. Aides familiarity
with American society, the article he
has written should have been entitled,
"Some Aspects Of Life Among Ameri-
can Servants" Then this gentle criti-
cism Of mine would have been unneces-
sary and unwritten.
Dinners" he says, "as . rule, in pri-
vate houses, are less good and less well
served than / expected to find them"
You will notice great falling of even
from this, Hamilton, il You will come
back here next season. There will be .
very noticeable flavor Of pounded glass
in your pie, and every bed quilt in our
broad and beautiful land will contain .
little checkered sample Of your loud and
vociferous panties pried from the IN
willing jaws of the household dog.
"Some Of the dishes are excellent,
but, !" he adds. as he dips his trenchant
pen in the bluing bottle at his cory little
hall bedroom in Whitechapel street.
"the prevalent taste for uncooking . can
vasback duck generally renders that
admirable bird . forbidden fruit to me"
But that is not what renders It 50 for
hidden fruit" to him at home.
The reason he does not keep his dabby
being continually upholstered with can
vasback duck at home is probably the
same one that prompted him to have his
wine and the blacking Of his boots
charged to Mrs. Stanley at San Jose,
CAL, in the spring Of the present year Of
our Lord and Of the freedom Of the
United States from the rule of Great
Britain the one hundred and fifteenth.
Mr.. Aide accompanied Mrs. Stanley,
Mrs. Tenant and Captain Jephson to
San Jose, where he registered as Mrs.
Stanley and party" They stopped at the
Vendome, first class, tip top hotel,
which had preserved blameless reputa-
ton up to that time. Mr.. Aide, the new
Rudyard Kipling, who win doubtless
lecture here by and by, was asked to
register for the party, which he would
have done if he had ever travelled before.
he few into beastly passion and re-
fused to register or give names OF any OF
the party, insisting that it was piece Of
American impertnence on the part OF
the hotel that he never saw equaled.
He finally told how many rooms they
wanted, to which he added q private
dining room.
Everything was ordered sent to tho
dining rooms-wines, canvasback duck,
etc. In the morning the two gentlemen
left early. They paid their o,rn bills
The clerk took their word for what was
theirs and what was not.
When Mrs. Stanley came to leave she
found Of course wine she did not order,
and had to pay for blacking the boots
Of this keen critic of American manners
and cookery, this able savant Of British
cold yictuals, this bright young hybrid
whose surprised and delighted third
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