St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-15
PROBLEM OF THE DAY.


The female population of St. Paul are shaking
the sky at present. Has the earth opened and |
swallowed them up; are they attending the |
world fair; have they gone on the stage to |
lead life of butterfly between and 10 p. |
M, or are they all married and looking for |
servants themselves.
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!, A few weeks since, read very pathetic |
article in morning paper of one of our
large cities. 1t told about the sweat Shops"
the poor wages the girls received, the hard
work. the indignfties they suffer and several
other woes that would draw tears from a
Third street curbstone. Who can sympathize
with the foolish creatuers that prefer
living on 81 a week, when hundreds of
places are standing open to receive them
Wnere they can get good board, lodging and
wages from Sl2 month upwards? | have
heard the plea advanced that they do not
understand houseWOrk. The sooner the girls
are taught homework the better. but mean
while the excuse is all nonsense. Plenty of
places are waiting for them, where q respect
able home and small wages will be given
while they are learning to make beds so Chris
tlans can sleep in them without dreaming
they are being hung or are sweetlv reposing
on rock pile; cook SO the poor victim who
is struggling to fill his stomach can make
oOUlO 4CtNndl OIi LuG StSdh WITHOUT Calling
in the aid of rotary ehisel or so he can tell
the difference between griddle cakes and
roast turkey; and learn to sweep the dirt off
the carpet instead ofsweeping the carpet off
the floor
dislike very much to hear woman re-
mark that she will not employ girl who has
company. W oulu she have her present pleas
ant home if her mother had thought the
same ? her daughters like company and
most women can remember when they ap-
preeiated beau very much. Can girls be
expected to work along like machines, year
III and year out with no social pleasures
whatever do not advise an u proarious
noise in your kitchen every night but give
your girl chance. Let her have her beau
on certain evening in the week, and see
how much longer she will be satisfied TO stay
with you. Girls cannot find more honor
able occupation, and how much better for
girls without relatives in this country to be
protected in a respectable home.
s $ 5
We tried giving our help one night week
out, and it proved a very successful way of
keeping them home. l can recommend this
receipt. We provided them with d toboggan
and away they went, cook chambermaid and
coachman, as anxious for the fray as one of
our aldermen is for street railway argu-
ment. Down the hill they flew and, as the
cook described it, THAT interferin' lamp
post up and hit 'em in the head" They came
home minus seven front teeth and false set;
also mustered sprained ankle and a broken
finger amongst them, and the chambermaid
lost her best hair switch. They were quite
content to remain at home after that and
talked long and loud about that lamp post.
but didn't seem 10 be anxious to repeat the
experiment.
We have had some very peculiar servants
at our house. There was Bridget, whose
room was. just above mine. l could hear her
kneel down and solemnly begin: ''Hail, Mary
do you like me best in pink or blue, MolieY
Then another prayer ana what shall l wear
in my hair the night, Mollie, dear?' and be-
fore she got to Amen her party dress was
nicely planned.
We have just lost a pretty German girl.
She had cheeks like a winter apple, the
flaxen hair that belongs to natives of Der
Vaterland," and snowy teeth not yet spofle
with the American fashion of stufing with
sweets. She was very good willing girl
but alas for US, she soon found better half
'eiio -SiV 10 SIIllcoS. OuG ulu uOL lose any
time about getting settled She met him
ball one evening. decided then and theret
that he was the one for which her soul was
longing.in Amelie Rives' Style No s,and they
became one the next day. The last | heard
of them they were keeping saloon in a vii
lage few miles from here called Smith
burgh. The village consisted of three build
lngs. VIZ, the mayors residence. the jail and
the saloon. Nevertheless they seemed to be 1
doing thriving business.
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Had our maiden Augusta not met her affinity |
In the person of the gentleman who has |
saved the lives of SO many parched and |
dried-up travellers, thirsting for knowledge |
and hot drinks she would doubtless have |
affiliated with the gentleman who supplies |
us with chalk and water so much a supply. |
All of our former girls had shown a strong |
Partially for the milk gentleman, or that |
frigid person. the ice gentleman. The mixer |
seemed to have the preference until the hot |
weather came on; then the Polar star gained |
the ascendency, and the ice gentlemans |
stock rose considerably. Our girls went |
around all summer with frozen throats. The
mixer furnished the cream and the ice |
seller the ice as presents and so the help |
reYeled in ice cream
Augusta knew very little English and what |
she had learned she promptly forgot when
excited, except the word fire" That word |
stuck to her like wood tick to a picnic |
party. The water pipe burst early one win |
ter morning and she electrified us by rush |
ing through the house at a. m shouting |
Flre!' 'Flre!!' A couple of us grabbed !
water pitchers ard accompanied her, leaving |
the female members OF the family to pack |
their belongings and save what was possible. |
After throwing their best dresses pell-mell |
into coal bod, heaping every thing portable |
on top of them and throwing the best mirror |
out of the window 10 save it you can imagine !
their disgust on learning the real cause of |
the excitement.
The next time she yelled fire was when /
she fell head foremost down into the cellar !
with bushel of potatoes. | rushed to the |
head of the stairs. and deluged her with the |
contents of a scrub pail before l found out
my mistake. In a few weeks we got used to !
the fire yell. Consequently when the leg |
slipped from under the range. dumping the !
hot Goals on the kitchen floor, and our Rhine |
stone yelled fire. We gave a snieker-suee |
as we calmly turned over and thought how |
beautifully we would fool her this time We |
went to sleep again, only to awake and find |
the fire engines pouring forty-horse power !
stream all over the best furniture We sub
sequently learned that after our Lorlei found |
it was quite useless to yell fire into the ears /
of such calmly uneoncerned idiots, she took |
matters into her own hands. and proceeded |
to pour the hardest liquid on to the flames. |
The handiest liquid proved to be kerosene |
oil, with the foregoing result
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She did not have particularly appetizing |
way of cooking. 1 have an idea she must al !
ways have been in love. for she would m axe |
cake and forget the flour, and would not hes |
itate to make bread without Yeast. or pies .
without a suspicion of filling. / fear the |
thirst quencher will take to drink and con- !
sumo all of his profits if he has to live upon |
Augustus cooking The only things she |
couldn't spoil were radshes raw onions and |
The lattnr q hnunrnnn thnt n,.or,.