The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-01
THE SERVANT QUESTION.
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at college. He conscientiously performed every
duty before leaving each day and proved an
accomplished waiter. MY greatest trouble has
always been with my coachman. 1t seems to
me from personal experience that as q race
colored coachmen make 1t business of getting
drunk every night; doubtless from the constant
exposure of their life they are more susceptible
to temptation of that kind. Something ought
certainly to be done to reform this habit but
the question Is "WhatW There is fine field
for missionary work in this respect, could an
interest be aroused among charitable people in
our midst Another secret of securing good
service is to be strict in our management and
never to perform duty that has been wilfully
neglected by domestic. One of the very best
housekeepers as we'll as the most respected
mistress ever knew was a Kentucky woman
who told me that the true secret of her success
with good servants was that she never over
looked the smallest neglect of duty, but never
forgot that they were human beings and re-
CURED little tndulgences and some time for
leisure after the regular work of the day was
performed In this way she retained their
ai1ection as well as their respect, and the ma
chinery of the household moved on oiled wheels.
l most sincerely indorse the proposal for the
organization of a training school for Young
colored girls in the District''
HOW MRS. MORTON MANAGES SERVANTS
One OF the most practical managers in our
midst is Mrs. Morton, wife of the Vice Presi-
dent. am told that she employs some eighteen
or twenty servants, including housemaid, ladies'
maid, cooks, laundresses and sub-laundresses,
coachman, footman, and housekeeper. Seven
teen of these, all white, were brought on with
them from the North last winter, and SO syste-
matte is the household that there is never any
clashing OF duties or complaint of each other
Mrs. Morton, Notwithstanding all her social
obligations, regularly oversees the arrangement
for each day, and holds a morning interview
first with the cook and afterward each employe
in turn. In this way there is no hitch, and the
usual conflicting worries of housekeeping are
avoided.
Mrs. Stewart, the wife of the Nevada states
man, who has but recently returned from Ne
vado and leased furnished house on G street,
in the old West End, tells me that her patience
has been exhausted with the continuous discord
among her maid-servants, until at length she
has been compelled to call meeting and settle
d1fferences over work by regular war talk, and
by laying down distinct law for each. So
shiftless was the service that each endeavored to
throw all the work on the other. In this way
nothing was accomplished and the highest wages
were demanded.
Madame Romero employs mixed help and
finds that as general rule the apparently con-
flicting nationalities agree remarkably well.
She has French cook, an Irish maid, and
colored butler and footman. Her greatest
trouble has always been with the scullion, who
philadelphia by birth, the wife of the Mexican
Minister is an excellent manager, and the ex-
tended hospitalities Of the Legation are ranked
among the most elegant entertainments of the
season.
SENATOR sTANFoRDs CHINESE COOKS.
Senator Stanford has a Chinese cook, and
these Chinese make as good cooks as you will
find In the world. The Cinnamon can learn
anything, and after few lessons he will beat
the Frenchman himself at getting up good
dinner. hear stories every day of the wonder
full efficiency of the Chinese cooks connected
with our legations in the far East, and an ex-
Minister to China lately told me his experiences.
Said he: 81 arrived in the country knowing
nothing about the habits of the people or the
language. was worried as to how was going
10 De able to get up my state dinners, and lay
arrived at my post, however, found that the
cook, who my secretary of legation had engaged
for me, was full-blooded Chinaman. I ex-
pected diet of rice and rats, and was surprised
to lind my first meal the best 1 had ever sat
down TO. have never seen a cook who could
beat this Chinaman. Hewould get up dinner
la table d'h6te with no more fuss than meal
for two, and he would have the wine, the courses,
and everything in as nice order as you could get
1t at Delmonico's or the Grand Hotel de Paris"
QUEER JAPANESE MAID.
The Japanese servants are not SO good. They
need watching. heard yesterday Of some
antics performed by newly-imported Japanese
nurse in the employ of Mr.. Austin Herr. Mr..
Herr is millionaire. He went to Japan year
ago, and was so delighted with the people that
when he came back he could do nothing until
he had sent for this nurse. The family were
pleased with her when she came, but it was no
ticed at once that she possessed queer ideas of
baby farming. She had strange fascination
for carrying the baby head downward, with ap-
parent Iti,a anconsciousness of the danger to the
was finally induced to correct the habit, and
taught ia to push the infant out tucked snugly up
in Its pretty silk-lined carriage. All went well
until one day the neighbors noticed a curious
performance that they were not long in com
municating to the parents 1t seems that no
sooner had the child and nurse disappeared
around the corner of the street, out of sight of
the dwelling, than the nurse would carefully
gather the garments about the feet of the baby.
and, quickly dragging it forth, would treat it to
succession OF rapid whirls, and then, seeming
we'll pleased with the exercise, carefully restore
the child to its carriage, and with apparent un-
concern quietly continue her walk.
MISS GRuNnv Tn