The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02

r nav 10 spend all her money 20
keep herself. and when she is old or sick
be forced to depend on charity.
An English maid does her duty for a
Whlie and is tolerably well-behaved. bu,
aL.sI she has been six months in this
eunshtened country, she becomes decfd-
GUY lnsolent and as she aids you 10 dress.
refers 10 the duchesses and countesses
Win whom she has condescended TO live
DeIore she came to you. a mere COM
HloueF- she reads your letters and knows
exactly now much money you have II
you should happen to have a slight mis-
understanding with her and request her
70 retire, take my advice and have her
trunk searched before she leaves. and
IKE a good girl. tell your husband every
tnlng she knows about you. else she will
start little game of blackmail after her
departure.
The French maid stays Just long enough
to get acquainted with American habits,
ana then she marries the cook and opens
small restaurant, or else she goes in the
halr-dressing business and solicits your
custom. / used to have great belief in the
irish, but an experience with a maid OF
that nationality has shattered my faith
After her departure, she wrote a letter 10
every person who had ever visited at the
house, and told private matters that had
been discussed when merely the family
were lunching together. There are a num-
Der of women in New York who are sc
entirely In tie power OF their maids that
they dare not discharge tkem.
A woman whose name is known all
over the country got her maid to pawn
her diamonds; she hasn't been able to
get them out yet, and the maid has to
go down and pay the interest on them,
and now the maid is in reality mistress,
and the poor lady lives in deadly fear of
her secret being told. Foolish woman
How much wiser and happier she would
be if she would tell the whole story to
her husband. of course he would blame
her, for the money gotten for the gems
was for a prOdigal brother. but she had
better stand one good scolding than live
in continual terror. When one thinks what
an easy life a good maid has, it seems
strange that more women do not apply
for such positions. Her price is far be-
yOnd rubies, and rather than stand behind
counter all day, get small wages, poor
food to eat, no time to call my own ex>
cept when l was too tired to enjoy it,
l would go in for studying how to dress
women, how to arrange their locks, how
to save them steps. how to keep their
wardrobes in order; in short. / would
become perfect treasure of a maid.
Have pleasant room to myself get
$50 a month, know what it was to have a
lot of time, and to be appreciated and to
be fortunate in regard to presents. But
no, these women who have got to earn
their own bread and butter, say they
won't live out.
The wretched girl who stands behind a
counter is the slave of those who are over
her, never has a chance to sit down, has
something deducted from her money if
she is sick, and really represents the white
slave of the century. She knows her
independence by being impudent to the
people who buy of her, and they pity her
so much they don't report her. 1t is what
they ought to do But l have talked and
talked and written and written, and stin
those foolish girls have no lives that they
can call their own, are half starved and
make wretched lives for men.
How can they help It? They don't know
how to make homes. They only know
how to sell ribbon, and their idea of get
ting married is to live in a boarding
house and do nothing. You can't make
homes in boarding houses. You have got
to set up an altar to the goddess of home
love if You wish to create a happy rest
ing place for yourself and your husband,
and this altar is really a kitchen stove.
And you must learn to pour out libations
in honor of the God of Home, and these
libations must be things that are good to
eat. Good eating means an awful lot
in this world, and a good dinner is cal
culated to bring about more happiness
than all the sermons that ever were
preached.
Can you expect a man to love you If
his potatoes have bones in them?
Can you expect a man to love you If
the chicken that he carves is pink?
Can you expect a man 10 love you if the
wild duck that is served is done brown?
Can you expect man to love you if
everything tastes as if it had been cooked
in the same pot?
Can you expect a man to love you if the
bread is soggy?
Can you expect a man to love you if
your table isn't inviting looking and your
dishes palatable?
The dinner hour is the restful one of the
day, when two or three are met together
in happy converse over good food 1t is
the hour of civilization, and it IS the time
when woman is queen. 1t is very well
worth your while to know how TO order
and cook good dinner Il is better than
knowing how to paint on velvet or make
paper flowers. Take my advice and learn.
Learn the art of dinner-getting, for that
means the art of making friends. You
like a good dinner yourself, don't you?
Surely you DO if you are anything of a
woman, and if you care to make the men
Of your household happy, you will give it
to them You think / only preach? You
are mistaken. l don't know a thing about
fancy work. There would never be pa
per flower in the world if they waited for
me to make them. / don't know how to
handle a paint brush or a pencil, but
when it comes to ordering a good dinner,
and to seeing that it is properly served,
the household knows that it can rely upon
Bah.