The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-14
ONE WOMANS POINT OF VIEW
The Helps Side of the Servant CUES
ton Briefly and Pointedly
Discussed.
How the Refined and Gentle Mind
MAY Appreciate the Scenery
HerealIOuts.

"Servant-Girl Question:" with capitals.
1t is the problem of the day with women
for most of us are destined to be either
mistress or maid. The relation is one
that admits of great mutual affection
and respect as well as happiness. AS it
exists we seldom find any of these quail
ties. but rather jealousy and envy on one
side and seltishness on both. Each
gives as little and takes az much as she
can. Neither has any confidence in the
higher the attainments or the social po-
sition the greater the responsibility.
Therefore we must have good mistresses
before we have good maids. II is use
less for a woman to expect TO find her
ease increased with the number of her
servants. Each one is an added care,
and this must ever he so. Someone
must do the hard work, and while un-
doubtedly well-trained servants relieve
tho hands of the employer the proper
supervision of them increases the burden
of responsibility. For not only is it
obligatory upon the mistress 10 see that
a maid does her work right, but she is
held accountable, or should be, for the
girls well being. \ house servant has
no home but her employers. 1t is right,
therefore. that she should have II com
Portable room and time to enjoy it alone.
If she has not the pleasures of home she
is bound to seek those Of society. Make
a girl happy in the house and she will
care less to 90 out. But everyone is
better to get away from the scene of la
Dor, and man has been called ii social
animal.
therefore it is wise to encourage a
girl to go out at proper times and with
proper companions. 1t is difficult to
regulate this matter for girls are very
sensitive and resent what they call in
reference. Still they usually take
kindly to questions showing a genuine
interest in their life and they are CRATE
full for little favors.
Certain hours of entire liberty should
be theirs. When these are once settled.
the mistress should feel that they are
not hers. and if it becomes necessary to
ask that they be changed or given up
for the time she should remember that
she is asking a favor. No one ever heard
of a girl who refused to grant it, and one
often offers to give up her leisure. 1t is
my belief that a diligent and persistent
practice of the golden rule on the part
~ tha ,,tctracpno ,rnttlI in finnn npnlyn
quite a different class of servants. The
work is to be done; let us see to it that
it is done with the least possible friction.
Nothing tries a girls temper like the
children. They try the mother, who mas
authority over them; how much more
the maid who must endure silently. But
the children can Oe trained to keep out
of the girls room, aud as much rs pos
sible out of the kitchen. They can be
taught not to bring mud into the house,
not to leave the doors open and not to
help themselves in the pantry. When a
girl sees that the mother tries not to let
the children interfere with her, she is
much more patient herself. All this
looks to the amelioration of the condi
ton of servant girls, but there is another
side to the question, which | reserve for
another time.
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have heard people SAY that the seen
cry hereabouts is monotonous. and even
that there is 40 scenery. Such persons
class among those having ewes which
see not. There is no prettiness here. no
lively pastoral landscape. Groves and
orchards, ripulinp brooks and shady
woodIand roads are all lacking. TO the
eye that is accustomed TO these sights
these vide. wipd.swppt prairies seem
hare. even bleak. But by and by the
seeker after beauty finds a subtler charm
in the unduIatinu lines and soft ljohts
and shades of the buttps. no such an
one there is AN ever. increasing ioy in
traversinp the broad unlands ali about
ne All around in the far distance strntch
the everlasting hills, unchangino. vet
neyar twice the same, The beatty Of The
snana is tn.t NJ the preat ocean As the
sailor is never at resi- on shore. but LONGS
forever for the infinite variety of the sea.