Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-23
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Beloved Servants-Noto of Today,

From the Gentlemans Magazine.
relations between master and servant or
employer and employed, have undergone the
same kind of change that has come over our
general life. In place Of the welcome of mine
host or mine hostess in the old hotel the resi-
dent in one of the huge caravansaries recently
built finds indifference and apathy. The en-
ployer OF thousands of hands knows perhaps s
per cent OF them by sight, and men with large
establishments may easily be unable to tell the
names of some at least of their servants Every
where the relations become more purely bust
ness-like and financial. Human nature changes
little, however, and human sympathies put for
ward their tentacles now as before. Not wholly
extinct is 1.-THE constant service Of the ANTIQUE
world, though pessimists have, through ali
ages, insisted upon a continuous decline that
would long ago have brought about its de-
struction. In n delightful book called Path
full Servants" Mr.. Arthur J. Munby, NJ. A. F.
5. A, has collected close upon 200 memorial
records by masters to the worth Of their SER
wants.
Many OF these epitaphs are supremely touch
ing, and most of them are honorable to all con-
cerned- Now and then find an attempt to in
culcate the doctrine that the poor are to be
contented with their lot, and initiate the vir-
tues OF a day laborer who, with common wages
and without parochial pay, supported in
cleanliness and credit" q sickly wife and thir-
teen children. Such cases are, however. the
oAcePtion, anO not seldom the expressions IN
dictate that the loss experienced equals that Of
sister. mother or a child. What more than
the following can be said: TO the beloved
memory of Elizabeth Painter. who was for
fifty-fve years afriend and servant in the family
of the Hone and Reyd Gerard Noel?'' To the
blessed memory" Of this same woman her
employer erected q stained-glass window in
Romsey Abbey. In another case a woman is
described as "a most devoted servant and be-
loved friend" One of the oldest monuments
is in the Collegiate Church of St Mary, STRAIT
ford-on-Avon. 1 copy this with its quaint or
biography, indicating by marks the ends of the
lines: Here lyeth inferred We body Of Mrs
Amy Smith who being abovt We age of sixty
yearsand Made departed this life at Nonsvch
IN Surrey We 18th day of Sep. 40 DIN: le26
she attended ypon the Right Hoble joyce,
Ladie Carew Gown tess of Totness as her
waiting gen tlewoman ye space OF 40 years
together being very DESTROYS in her life TYNE
that after her death she might be laid in
this chyrch of Stratford where her LADY, We
! said Covntesse also herselfe intended 10 be
bvried, d accordinglie to fvlill her reqvest &
for her SO long trew and faithful servis We
said Right Hoble Covntesse as an evident
toaken of her affection towards her not onely
cavsed her body to be brought from Nom
svch neither here honrably bvryed bvt also
did cavse this monument and svperscription
to be erected in grateful memorie Of her
whome she had fovn SO good q servant" In
dian servants and negroes are the objects of no
less honorable mention. Mr.. Munby's book
would have delighted Charles Lamb.