Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-09

10. ''Thanatopsis," by Robert Browning,
about the year 1900.
20 Last Days of Pompeii, by Oliver
| Goldsmith, in 1850.
81. "Childe Harold" by Alfred Tenny-
son, 1920.
In answer to Miss Contigene Will
liams, Of East ST. Louis, who inquiries
tioD, may be allowed here perhaps TO
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
| q separate cabin and then becomes your
ward aud helps you il we'll and expects
you to take care of him IL be is Ill. You
must keep 3 drug store among other
! things, and get up in the night to sd-
minister brady TO the colored laun-
dress or paregoric to her little ones.
THE white servant looks out for
himself, and when worst comes to worst
goes TO the hospital, but the colOred
servant is your child till he is so years
old, aud the employer still accepts the
moral and physical responsibility OF his
colered servant very much as he did In
slavery days.
II haven't as large s crops OF SER
watts, Of course, as Neighbor Wander
bilt down the river. but l tell you, gen.
tie reader, that what with the growRup
and the rising generation, each with
collie in its midst, | am generally AZ the
end OF the watermelon season q mare
wreck OF nv former self.
"In the far West, owing to the scare
ity OF pay gravel, our work was done
by 3 scrub lady, who came each year on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November for one day only, while
Yong Lee did up my collars and cuffs,
and / 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 scanned toward him-he was one
day hauled up and criticised by the
court for vagrsncy, and the court spoke
severely OF his appearance, dwelling
with great bitterness on Rogers ragged
pantsoons:
you cannot always judge a 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 they cover warm heart.
my false bosom had gold studs
painted on it, like the jewelry in a tin
type Of a volunteer IN the infantry
thirty years ago. This bosom was
called a dickey and could be removed
without pain by untyiRg the guy ropes
at the back.
Servants then In the territories were
the equals OF any other class and supo-
rior TO members OF the Legislature and
Indians not taIel. Wages were from
S25 to SIS per month, and antelope steak
three times per day.
"As times got better we secured a
servant for ourselves exclusively. She
had TO DO very versatile and a ilu-
ent eItemporaneous woodchopper. Soc
was cheerful, however, and never
seemed TO murmur or repine. she Is
married now and keeping house In Penn
sylvania, and we have sSme new sheets
and pillow cases 10 take the places OF
those she started her housekeeping
with in Pennsylvania.
'In New York we did not keep sorv-
ants. We had SCI at different times,
but we did not keep them. The trouble
with a western grass fed man whose
feet easily get tender on the stone side
walks OF New York is tina. he doesnt
know the New York servant code.
81 was perfectly willing to do what
was right always by my New York serV-
ants, but l was not familiar with their
etiquette | would lift my hat TO the
nurse girl, who was really more dlgnited
and beautiful than l was, and yet did
not know any better than TO ask the
gardener to shake the rugs or the butler
10 set hen with duck eggs.
"Once / asked the footman to oil the
axletrees of the baby carriage, and 1t
cost me $40 TO hush 1t up and 81 for a
beefsteak TO put on his eye.
II recommended 4 coachman OF mine
TO neighbor on Two Hundred aud
Eightieth street, but afterward | was
bitterly reproached for it by my friend
because the cOachmen wanted his en-
ployer to come out and play old sledge
with him at the barn, as | had done on
rainy days.
81 was always spelling my servants.
l spoiled a good gardener by overn-
diligence and good coachman by crush
ing his nose with a carriage wrench In
a burst OF my fiendish and ungoyerna-
hia