The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-01

happen in at neighbours to see aick
baby when steam threasher was in
full blast on the farm. The DIR. called
at the same time and finding the little
sufferer worse gave positive orders that
the mother should not leave it for
several hours. It was then nine o'clock
and the ouly Kitchen clerk" was a half
grown girl. There was nothing for us
to do but to stay and get dinner for six
teen hungry men. The number Of
questions we were obliged to ask on
that memorable morning taught as a
valuable lesson of forebearance with
beginners in our culinary department
We know now that there is no intuitiye
sense that will guide strange cook,
however willing to the salt, the soda,
the sugar. the -four, the meal, the
utensils. the milk and the dishes re-
quired. The time when one woman
cooked, washed, ironed, MIXED and
churned has passed by forever and some
Of US who vaguely remember it should
remind ourselves that the farmer OF to-
day handles 500 where his grandsire
did $40, and consequently it is reason
able that household expenditures
should have increased proportionab:y.
We believe that system Of written
characters for our domestics would be
an advantage to all concerned, those
who are worth anything will not object
and those who have been incompetent,
abusive or dishonest will feel the dis
credit of such conduct only when it
effects the pocket nerve. There is pro.
badly less difference between the
remuneration demanded by skilled
domestic labor and that Of the unskilled
than in any other industrial branch.
Had We not better give ten dollars q
month to the cleanly economical help
that can bake and boil and stew SO
scientifically as to make an unpalatable
dish the rare exception rather than five
dollars month to the girl whose bread
is sour or burnt, whose biscuits are q
nightmare Of indigestion, whose roasts
are always either under or over done,
whose coffee is never free from the
grounds of complaint whose dish
cloths contain the germs of typhoid
fever and whose whole ministrations
conduce to the comfort not of the PEG.
pie, but Of the swine since the slop
barrel overaows with the vast quantity
of food that such incapables waste and
destroy. The time honored custom Of
every other Sunday off duty prevails
throughout this settlement, but do we
make little extra effort on that morn,
4
ing to have an earlier breakfast? Il will
= ~ appieu'a'su, anu il'enu'y
.n'sfes' ~ o'sly meetings % sne ex-
'sns ~ making ~ pOss.Dle lor sne woman
u ~ "o.s % a'Iend tnem Is smother
smai' sacrlnce On sne pafI OF sne mistress
.ua' win pear lfuis one nundreo io'd'
We nave RnoWna nousekeeper VINO re-
'a'neo saiue0 COOK Ior some nIteen
years Dy giving ner . lorsnignss nolioay
every summer Win Iuii pay while
ABSENT
upon extra occasions harvest thrash
ing ana po'a.o oigging we ma that
'ns purCnaSe q some DaSer 2 bread once
OF twice week 10 the greatest possible
assistance, We KNOW one excellent
manager VINO Always Duys twenty-five
ioaves the day the steam engine arrives
ana sne considers that dollar we'll ex.
Penoed.
WIN all the concessions ana acts OF
kindness compatible with justice to
ones sell there are gross natures and
thicked skulled specimens upon whom
We apparently fail to make any rood