The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-12
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Il have, at last. a servant girl that
suits" remarked matron who had
long undergone the usual urban trials
with help. ''She is Deat-handed, swift,
and intelligent. She has no followers or
alleged relatives TO crowd my kitchen nc
night and hold mixed-ale parties. She
goes to church I'm the evening instead Of
at dawn. She 10 respectful an obsdient.
a d has quiet diRnity that demands re-
spect In return. In ad ition she is young,
pretty, and ambitious"
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A street car driver makes these obser-
vations: "lvhen people tell you that car
horses are not well fed. tell 'em they
don't know. Them horse, has an easy
time damsite easier nor US. Four
hours day Is all they get,
and generally three. There amt no call
to stuff n horse with oats on that. He'd
get too hesvy for his business. Street
car horses make the best family horses.
They're not afraid Of everything and
they're steady pullers. You buy one up
to the stable for $50 aud have him shod.
and turn him out to grass for a week and
see what you GET"
When WAS Q boy can remember that
the ladies' were not much in favor OF their
husbands, brothers. fathers or
sweet hearts becoming members OF
lodges, or what is now called
secret soc eties. but now I find that
things have changed, and that woman
herself Is becoming member of secret
societies. have In my mind lady who
is member Of the Pythian
Sisterhood, the Daughters of Rebeksh.
the Odd Ladies, the Daughters
OF Liberty, the Knights aud Ladies OF
Honor, and was member OF several of
the short termed orders. Now she 10 out
every evening In the week. and is a worker
for all OF the orders Of which
she is a member. Her husband, by the
way, is a "jiaer" too, as he is a meml er
OF nearly every thing that has a goat"
Well they enjov It. They can affo I'd IL and
| it is, suppose, an excellent wayto spend
money But this is of course an ex-
treme and Unusual case and one which l
hope few will follow. for home life ought
never to be given up for lodge life. But
what do they get ia return? The hus-
band. should he be taken sick.
would have an income OF $50
per week. and the lady while
she would receive no financial ben
efts, should she need assistance IL
would be rendered just as promptly and
| just as generously. This city Is
the banner city In the United States
for secret s,cieties. aud they are doing an
| immense amount OF good, and what harm
Is done is not by the orders but by few
| Of the black sheep that find their way into
every fold. Many woman in this city
blpsses the day that her husband became
a member Of secret society.
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"What delicious bread you have here in
New England" was the repark made to
me The other night by IN Engl shwoman
now travelling in this country. IA
England today it Is astonishing how
| comparatively few p ofessional cooks will
undertake dome, tic baking. I was
staying last summer with SO
| friends In furnished h Duse at an out
ot-the-way place. where the village
bread was 80 sour and bad as to De
pronounce uneatable, and they were
oblige to b I've supply sent twice a
| we k bv train from a town forty miles
way, their coachman having to go seven
| miles to the station to fetch it, and
this because their London cook-an ex-
| pensive and otherwise effic cent specimen
| of her class-did not understand the
| mystery of setting the dough to RISE"
| Yet we are slowly drifting into the same
| condition. Few OF the girls" Of today
| kLow or care about bread making. Their
| mistresses take the tr uble TO ell them
| once CT twice and then dlsgusted they
| give It up aud buy bakers bread. At the
| present rate of decreass in good Drea T.
| makers we shall BE- reduced to the Eng
| lisa level inside If the next decade.
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| A well-dressed woman, evidently OF for
| eign birth, espied baskeJ two-thirds
lull of half-decayed peaches at a dowa-
town grocery recently. and was told she
could have them for 20 cents. Upon
the assurance that this price included
| the basket, she said she would take
them and would he around with her
team ia few moments after them. Then
she turned to "a lady standing by aud re-
marked that her children mad all been
sick with cholera morbus, and she thought
some ripe fruit would benefit them, and
that was why she bought them.
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"Say, your working over time" Is what
| a slick looking derby hat in one OF
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