New-York tribune., 1895-02-10

complished waitress. when the girl hasn't had
chance TO sit down since before daylight that
morning The gir.s, too. make stipuauons car
culated TO frghten off the consderate en-
ployer. 1 won't do shirts announces prospective
servant just the employer is trying to find out
what she will do Il won't clean piazza or WASH
! windows another says decidedly. when she knows
that the place she is applying for Is in the country
where most OF the houses abound in pazzas ana
/ windows. 1t is the coachmans place TO clean
piazzas and wash windows. IL '-ou haven't man
about the mousse contends the girl. But, II
haven't coachman about the house,
asks the woman helplessly. Then she wonders
which is fitted to do these odd jobs she or the
girl"
when ] go hire a girl" says a housekeeper
wei versed in the diosyncraces of servants f she
is a Catholic / ask her If she is particular about
going to church. That is question that nearly
every Irish applicant is asked because most mis-
tresses dislike the interruption that much church
going involves. As rule the girl is afraid to say
that she is a stcller in the matter of church at
tendance. knowing that such a confession will en-
danger her likelihood of getting the place l in
that she isn't particular about her religious obllga-
] know she will never make good servant. Being
Catholic If she is conscientious about her church
tious about any duties she under axes. for that
regard and veneration for the Church is insiled In
those OF that denomination from their birth in
sist my girls going regularly TO church. and the
priest realizes that the girl has good place and
out, perhaps in certain ways. but gain in the end.
and ] always have good -humored willing servants
/ give them a day off every other week, and two
weeks vacation in the summer, When they are re
between twenty and thirty servants to manage.
and have had for tweniy-fye years have little
against. and that is the hiring of any girl who ad-
is Wanted p more than Invariably they are
Of no account. ! can think OF one now An Ameri; Ai
trial and she was the worst-tempered and most
shiftess help ever had In my opinion references r0s
don't amount to much because what suits one house.
hold doesn't suit another" 49,,
1t Is the practice in conscientious. reliable intel
submitted How should feel says the mistress
OF the establishment. ITO have message come mere
maid last week telling me that. the cook was
ysg drunk M the S or s article M OF %
iewery? II girl comes to ask me 10 get get her er
II discover that she only remained two or three
months at that place and only a short time az tne
one previous. or see that her dress Is untidy and
her hair neglected decline to have anything to do
with her. II. on the contrary she gives me refer,
send a blank containing certain questions regard
ing her to the address she gave and n brief @ time
reference which consider somewhat indefinite and
! am willing TO give girl a chance although the
is sober and honest"
The reference read as follows; M G. is ni good
housemaid and paror maid and kind TO children;
but is slow ironer and apt to get homesick, and
want to and stay with her sister IN BROOKLYN
As postscript Is added: I'm times of sickness she
Is Kindness Itself -
''In this instance I think the evidence of NJ. C.'s
possessing good heart more than compensates Tor
her being slow ironer and being apt to think or
her sister In Brooklyn. Some girls are recommended
as good tempered but not apt TO season Just right
or rise early enough In the morning, and others
are thoroughly competent. but sur,y and hard to
get !ong with and the story goes.
THE authorities are not aware OF II, out there
are some employment bureaus In this town that
ought to be closed and are doing harm In several
WAYS Some OF the agencies are at the bottom
OF good deal Of the unruliness and disorder among
servants. In other words. they put notions In the
girls heads so that they may change often and the
is positively that peoDle go TO these bureaus.
pay their foe. engage a girl. and that is the last
they ever hear Of the matter unless they go back
10 complain. At some OF these agencies there Is n
certain we-appearing girl retained for the purpose
OF being hired over and over In the same day. a
customer OF mine who had formerly dealt with one
OF these bogus agencies told me that when she
went TO the Office TO complain Of the non-appearance
OF girl she had hired another woman came to
complain OF the thing The two compared
notes and found they had engaged the same
servant within an hour. I know girl employed as
one OF these decoys. who having had a falling out
with her employer. went TO reliable bureau and
stated her case. but said that Sne WAS soHS u oe
honest In future"
The bureaus for employment work cheaper than
any other class said one Of them. TWO dollars for
two months adjustment OF ill-assorted rnlsresses
and servants is very little compensation. Time was
when families going travelling left retinue or
servants in their homes 10 await their return Now
ll are discharged. People are not In their houses
more than four six months AZ a time They go
10 Europe the mountains. the seashOre ana change
their help with each move.