The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-09
q. .'childe Harold" by Alfred TennysOn, in

In answer to Miss Contingene Will
iams Of East St Louis, who inquiries
! about the aspect of the servant question,
/ may be allowed here perhaps 70 quote
from myself: ''There are many marked
differences in east, west, north and
south. These lines are written IN North
! Carolina, where the servant wants
separate cabin and then becomes your
ward and helps you if well and expects
you TO take care of him if he is i'll You
must keep drug store, among other
things, and get up III the night TO adj
minister brandy TO the colOred laundresS
or paregoric to her little ones.
1.-The white servant looks out for him
self, and when worst comes to worst goes
to the hospital, but the colored servant
Is your child till he is so years old, and
the employer still accepts the moral and
physical responsibility of his colored
servant very much as he did IN slavery
days.
II haven't as large corps Of serv-
ants, of course as Neighbor Vanderbilt
down the river, but l tell you, gentle
reader, that what with the grownup
and the rising generation, each with
collie in its midst, AM generally at the
end of the watermelon season mere
wreck of my former self.
In the far west, owing TO the scarcity
of pay gravel, our work was done by
scrub lady, who came each year on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November for one day only, while Hong
Lee did up my collars and cuffs. and
I wore false bosom, though my heart
was true.
AS Roger Thomas, the artist, once
said when his trousers got so ragged
and thin that whenever he sat down he
noticed more and more how cold the
world seemed toward him-he was one
day hauled up and criticised by the
court for vagrancy, and the court spoke
severely of his appearance, dwelling
with great bitterness on Rogers ragged
pantaloons:
"'You cannot always judge man
by his clothes, said Roger. Your honor
must not be too severe on poor man or
his rags, for ragged as them trowzis is
Lney cover warm nearU.
"My false bosom had gold studs
painted on it, like the jewelry in a tin
type of volunteer IN the infantry 30
years ago This bosom was called a
dickey and could be removed, without
pain by untying the guy ropes at the
back
Servants then in the territories
were the equals of any other class and
superior to members of the legislature
and Indians not taxed. Wages were
from $50 to SO per month, and ante
lope steak three times per day.
GAS times got better we secured
servant for ourselves exclusively. She
had to be very versatile and a fluent
extemporaneous woodchopper. She was
cheerful, however, and never seemed to
murmur or repine. She is married now
and keeping house in Pennsylvania, and
we have some new sheets and pillow
cases to take the places of those size
started her housekeeping with in Penn
sylvania.
''In New York we did not keep ssrv
ants. We had SCI at different times,
but we did not keep them. The trouble
with western grass fed man whose
feet easily get tender on the stone side
walks of New York is that he doesn't
know the New York servant code.
Il was perfectly willing to do what
was right always by my New York serv-
ants, but was not familiar with their
etiquette. would lift my hat to the