Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-20

lngs on the mistress not taken into ac-
count, high class wages going on all the
time, when perhaps after all these ef-
forts las many housewives can testify
the girl is not found to be worth the
high price she receives, but will accept
no less. Another takes her place, asks
the same. the usual routine and teaching
gone over again, with perhaps some
better results, perhaps worse.
wish were Lady Bountiful with
unlimited wealth to use for few
charitable purposes One of the most
important would be the founding OF an
institution for the thorough education
of girls for every branch of housework,
an institution for teaching healthful,
palatable and scientific cooking; for
teaching housework with all its various
branches, and for teaching how to
thoroughly and beautifully wash and
iron. Were the domestic educated for
her vocation, as tho bookkeeper, stem
ographer and others are for theirs, the
many trials existing would be abolished.
The educated girl would receive the
high class wages to which she is en-
titled, and the less competent according.
To adhere to this now would benefit
both mistress and domestic, stimulus
for the latter to reach the top notch sal
ary and happiness for the former.
What an opportunity for some philan-
thropist. All the nations would rise
and bless that heart.
In this feeble plea for the women of
our land who keep help have shown in
a measure why they should be exonerated
from all the blame that is so frequently
hurled at them as the main cause for
this domestic trouble, when the fact is
they are heroes in the strife.
Mrs. b. A. p.
A bottle Of perfume is to the fingers Of
a chambermaid what magnet is to iron
filings. She is irresistibly drawn to-
ward it and cannot keep her hands off of
it. If she chances to have her con-
science with her the sweet odors OF the
cologne bottles act as narcotic on this
moral regulator and benumb it's prick
ing powers and she helps herself to the
perfumed liquid with the same unscru-
pulous audacity that cat steals cream
or an energetic baby snatches handful
of whiskers from its fond uncle's Van
Dyke beard.
The chambermaid uses various kinds
of perfumery as indiscriminatingly as
freely. Anyone with delicately sensi-
tive olfactory nerve can readily detect
the presence of half dozen Partisan
perfumes when o chambermaid appears.
This fatal proclivity of the chamber
maid to use all the perfumes she CHANGED
to find convinced a young wag staying at
one of the Fifth avenue hotels who it
was stole his perfumery. 1t was evident
when the chambermald entered his
apartment she had appreciated the
patchouli in the room of guest 301, had
appropriated the remaining drops OF the
lily of the valley on the chiifonier of
guest 326, had helped herself literally to
the Florida water which guest No. 325
kept on his washstand, had carefully
moistened the rims of her ears with the
jasmine which was the favorite perfume
of the lady in 337, and if 339 had hap
pened to be out when she came to ar
range his room, this guileless Gretchen
would have dampened her neckband
with his Jockey Club.
Somebody has used up all my Jockey
Club, Linda. Do you know anything
about it?" innocently asked No. 339.
81 knows nottings about it," answered
the guileless Linda. Il dds not know
you had scents"
No. 339 bought big bottle OF perfume.
| 1t was labelled Hair Restorer" and ex
hailed the odors of Araby the Blest.
| Linda approved of it and proceeded to
use it freely on her blonde locks. The
mixture was furniture varnish diluted
with Florida water and German cologne
and the cork was soaked in Jockey club.
The next time Linda appeared in No.
| 339's room her blonde locks were cut
| short. He remarked the fact.
81 cuts my hair off cause de weather.
was too hot" explained Linda.
Her short hair gave her conscience an
opportunity to work. For one whole
week Linda religiously abstained from
touching bottle of perfume. But the
exquisite delicacy and penetrating
sweetness of altar of roses the lady in
337 had forgotten to put under lock and
! key proved too strong an attraction for
Linda to resist. 1t was an intoXicant
that banished past regrets and future
fears and all feeling of moral obliga-
tions. She now INDUCES freely in what
ever perfumery she finds and grows
sweeter day by day. She discounts the
odorifer Gus atmosphere of fashionable
| drugster. If the righteous do not wish
to put temptation in weak sisters way
they should lock up their perfumery
bottles, for the odor of sanctity ss the
only odor that a chambermaid will not
appropriate.
~.
Spiritualism is the latest fad in Paris.
Lady Caithness is the leader of the
| movement, and every Saturday after
| noon her mouse Is nlled Win women OIL
rank and fashion, who come regularly
to discuss their experiences in the world
of spirits. 1t is said that Lady Cath
ness, thirty years ago, was great ad-
mirer of Mary, Queen of Scots, and
made pilgrimage to Holyrood. While
there the unfortunate queen is said to
have appeared to her in dream, hoated
around the palace chapel, and was
otherwise distinctly sociable. Not only
that, but she promised Lady Caithness
to visit her as often as the latter should
call her, with the sole condition that q
temple worthy of her beauty and mis-,
fortunes should be provided.
Lady Caithness was highly sensible OF
this mark of favor, and said she would
be delighted to comply with the condi
tions. Lady Caithness planned house
which, though modern, is still modified
to meet the tastes of the one-time mis-
tress of Holyrood. 1t has narrow stair
cases, low rooms, mysterious recesses
and an oratory. The last is the temple
of the royal spirit. 1t has no ornaments
and is in semi-darkness, but at the end
in u sort of niche, the queen herself
dressed in white and glittering with
diamonds, stands out in dazzling relie
against dark velvet background.
For years Queen Mary rewarded this
devotion by dropping in frequently for {