The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-08

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Cats army was successful. There werc ab.nt
TOO men on the battlefield.
IL. Ono Of Longfcllow's works Is "Eyange.
line"
10. Ono work of Walter SCOTS is "Ivanhoe."
II. One work of Dickens is "Enoch Arden.''
10. Ono OF Shakospearc's works is "As You
Like IT.
IL. One of Millions works is paradise Lost"
II. Thackcray wrote VANITY Fair" about
tho year 1870.
1s Chauccr wrote tho Canterbury Tales
about the year 1000.
10. "Thanatopsis." by Robert Browning.
about the year 1900.
20 last Days of Ponpcii," by Oliver Gold
smith, in 1850.
81. "Childe Harold" by Alfred Tennyson, in
1920.
In answer to Miss Contingent Will
liams of East st. Louis, who inquiries
about the aspect of tho servant question:
l may be allowed here perhaps to quote
from myself: There arc many marked
differences in east, west, north and
south. These lines are written in North
Carolina, where the servant wants u
separate cabin and then becomes your
ward and helps you if we'll and expects
you to take care of him if he is ill. You
must keep drug store, among other
things, and get up i'll tho night to adj
minister brandy to the colored laundress
or paregoric to her little ones.
The white servant looks out for him.
self, and when worst comes to worst goes
to the hospital. but the colorcd servant
is your child till he is so years old, and
the employer still accepts tho moral and
physical responsibility of his colored
servant very much as he did i'll slavery
days.
Il haven't as largo n corps of serv-
ants, of course, us Neighbor Vanderbilt
down the river, but tell you, gentle
reader. that what with the grownup
and the rising generation, each with
collie i'll its midst, am generally ut tho
end of the watermelon season n nero
wreck of my former self.
In the far west, owing to tho scarcity
of pay gravel, our work was donc by a
scrub lady, who came each year OH the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November for ono day only, whilo Hong
Lee did up my collars and cuffs, and
l wore false bosom, though my heart
was true.
AS Roger Thomas, tho 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-ho was one
day hauled up and criticised by the
court for vagrancy and the court spoke
severely of his appearance, dwelling
with great bitterness Oh Rogers ragged
pantaloons:
You cannot always judge u man
ltI = n ntln. = s.ai1 L..
must not he too severe OH Il poor man or
his rags for ragged as them trowzis is
they cover a warm heart.
my false bosom had gold studs
painted or it, like tho jewelry in tim
type of II volunteer III the infantry 30
years ago. This bosom was called "a
dic';cy and could be removed without
pain b. untying the guy ropes at the
back
Servants then i'll the territories
were the equals of any other class and
superior to members of the legislature
and Indians not taxed. Wages were
from SEQ to $50 per month, and ante
lope steak three times per day.
AS times got better we secured a
servant for ourselves exclusively. She
had to be very versatile and fluent
extemporaneous woodchopper. She was
cheerful, however. and never seemed to
murmur or repine. She is married now
and keeping house in Pennsylvania, and
NC have somo now sheets and pillow.
cases to take the places of those she
started her housekeeping with i'll Penn
sylvania.
In New York we did not keep serv-
ants. We had SCI at different times,
but we did not keep them. The trouble
with Il western grass fed man whose
feet easily get tender on the stone side
walks of New York is that he docsn 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. l would lift my hat to the
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