Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-11-13
"Bnt why do you let them steal Sc

but why do you let them steal so
outrageously?' queried the one impe-
ounious guest, who keeps house IN
fiat with single maid, wbereat the
other women agreed that one couldn't
keep house without some leakages, nor
could a busy individual be expected to
eterpally count her husbands shirts,
the fresh eggs and bottles of cham
payne, and thereby earn the everlasting
contempt of ones cook and butler and
reputation for stinginess; all of
which made the impecunious woman
wonder.
However, her fashionable friend is
not SO easy a mistress as she seems
She pays extravaganza wages, and ex
poets her employees 20 be smart in ap-
pearance, always ready. respectful.
eager to humor her every within and
as energetic as machines.
No servant is ever reproved twice
for the same fault. After two bad
dinners the cook is asked to make way
for a new employee. A very good house
maid was once corrected for walking
up the front stairs. Hurrying to an
swer bell, she again went by these
stairs, to find the mistress standing at
the top, who rang for the housekeeper,
ordered the girl dismissed with all
her belongings in an hour and SUBJ
stitute provided. Servants must not
ask for days out at inconvenient times,
ond dismissal follows any quarrels or
complaints. The mistress pays to be
served, not to be annoyed or inconven-
fenced, and the health, griefs, morals,
etc., of her servants interest her not
at all.
Yet there are some woes even the
highest wages will not soothe, and
through the perfectly appointed
kitchens of many fashionable houses
PROFESSIONS of cooks pass. unable to
endure the heavy work. Many chefs
are obliged to stand over their stoves
until long after midnight sending up,
after a huge dinner, hot dishes for 8
party brought from the opera.
In the season two suppers are served
at every ball one at II and one at
o'clock; at luncheon and dinner nearly
every day guests are entertained and
it was not untira woman tainted at
her stove, after cooking for 500 persons
in forty eight hours that one cook last
winter struck her colors and marched
out of her tiled electric-l lighted kitchen
physical wreck. "Get some one who
won't faint" was the direction of the
mistress, who had actually never seer
her unfortunate servitor.
The coachman also has his griev'
ances. He must take his mistress shop
ping in the morning, calling after
luncheon, to the park in the afternoon
and out again in the evening. No one
but fashionable coachman knows the
concentrated agony of sitting hour after
hour immobile in the rain, snow and
freezing air while his fair employer
dwadles long after the hour set for
him to call. His features fall victims
to Jack Frost, his lungs to pneumonia,
or. as was the case last winter when
the master of the house climbed to the
box seat to wake his coachman and he
was found insensible, almost beyond
recognition, from the cold
When Mooney. the second man, fell
ON an icy step and broke his hip, the
night of Mrs. Leaders, dinner party,
she called him stupid, wrote check
for an extra months wages, ordered
the butler to send him off to hospital
or his own home, if he had one, and
get a new man. She forgot Mooney s
name in a few hours. There is no
question of gratitude, fidelity or con-
sideration ON either side and to the
women of impecunious means the con-
dition of the smart servant seemed very
like the well-kept watchdog in the
fable, whose benefits were balanced by
his heavy collar and chain.