The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07

so 10 make a table look attractive. Il
N1A!Q seem a. II the more cultured a wo-
nan mind was the more she would COM
prehend the exquisite beauty OF a we'll
spread board, and the fact that this beau
~ emanated from her taste and knOwl-
cuse OF what IS right. There must be q
touch Of vulgarity IN the woman who can
eat ner dinner of a sOiled cloth out of
dnleA, chlpped plates, and ind pleasure
u1lltls me warm days In such food as cor
ions.
To me there is something nne in being
me LADY OF the house. The one who uu-
derstands the appetites of the family ana
eaters 10 them mentally and physically
anu an, e5her they are in III or in good
manly art; TO know how to teach a serv-
81 70 COOK Is more than an art. il is a
Dlesslng direct from heaven. We hire
-naIia, whose knowledge of food is limit
60; JUST as she lands. We offer her suit
dDle wages, and we expect her to have the
VII OF "A prime minister She. whose daily
ulet has been limited to bread and tea
win meat once a week. is shown fine
piece or meat, such as she never saw be-
lore, ana expected TO cook it. OF course.
sire Idlis. WHAT else have you a right to
look Tor but failure2 You should take
Maria by the hand, and. with great gen
Ieness and much patience teach her
what you wish her to know. Some times
she Is ungrateful, and shakes the dus, of
your threshold of her feet when she has
acquired little knowledge and accumu-
lates me dust Of some other threshold
Where she Will be paid more money. Some
llIncs she Is grateful. and then YOU have
LOT your trouble a good servant, which
means that life is satisfactory. But
whether you do. or whether you don't get
what you desire, just remember that Ma
RIA is not very strong of brain. and that
70 DE patient. and to be patient and to
be patient all the time, $ the only way 10
achieve that for which You are working.
sometimes what you count as stupidity
in Maria is absolute shyness. She dropped
one or your beautiful cut glass finger
poWls the other night when her master
"a 70 he IA
wept bitterly. But you weren't enough
OF a woman TO think II all out. Maria sell
dom sees her master. 1t was the first time
she mad ever placed the bowls on the
table, and she was looking at YOU TO he
sure that she was doing right The sul-
den speech, addressed to her. startled her,
ana her h9nds went up and the finger
ooWl Went down. Still ] wonder if you
We're Maria and Maria were you if YOU
would do any better2 Everything is
strange to her; your mode Of living, your
1000 possibly your speech. and when
you ma her stupid. you ought TO remeui-
Der now marvellous you are 70 her She
IS a hlt afraid of you, and wondering a
Dlt as 10 whether, in your prettiest gown
You are fairy, or a creature of flesh
ana blood. She is in a strange cOuntrv.
she IS homesick, and there is nobody any
DeHdNe as II you wanted 10 get as muc1
out of her possible. Can YOU wonder
lnen' II she should try 10 do as little
ana get as much in return? Have a
little regard for Maria: don't
gossip with her. but direct her in a
gentle way. Be absolutely honest with
her. Alas! that / should have to even
hlnt that there are women lacking In
honesty! Maria has a heart and some
Inlng OF brain; not the brain of a prime
minister, else she wouldn't be working
Ior "a a week in your kitchen. But il YOU
speak to the brain and think of the heart
as you word your desire. Maria may be-
come as faithful as were those slaves
or oIden days, whose greatest interest
was in the family. This hasn't been a
chatter, not in the usual sense of the
word; II IS only bit of a suggestion to
the housewife, a suggestion that is the
result of experience. and which summed
up means serve every day a dinner that
IS a simple poem. Treat your Ignorant
servant in such way that living with
you VIII be ballad that she can under
stand, and she will grow as eager as YOU
are 70 make what seems the most material
OF an Things, dinner a poem in S65
verses, with an added one for leap year
and chorus of praise for holidays. This
ISM addressed to Mr.. Jack 1t is a Iii
OF babbie to Mistress Dorothy. from