The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-22
Familiarity and Kindness.

Kindness and familiarity are two very
different things in the government of
servants. The best of servants resent
the latter as much as they appreciate
mistresses are ladies. They can serve a
superior with self-respect and pleasure;
put when the. mistress puts herself on
the same level with her maids by dis.
cusslng personal affairs with them which
they nave no reason to know, and chuin-
ming with them. simply BECAUSE there
may be no one else with whom to Cos
slp the maids quickly cease to respect
such mistress. A certain woman, Who
i'll a small town, received a certain flat
terlng social recognition and was cunsid-
cred to be such fashionable dresser
that her clothes were described in the
local papers, game to this great, indiffer.
eht metropolis and really having no
ciaims Tor recognition here, solaced her
self by, contiding to her maid her former
!rlumphs. Il never gave dinner party
great style. was considered the most
tashlonabl dresser at the hotel" tnafning
a famous hosttelry(. The maid, com.
said: "Of course, listened and said
nothing: | knew my PLACE, If she didn't.
II was plain to me that she wasn't, q real
t tbIS,,s or n she es W3pHldht have said sash
of the, household So the maid can MA n N
her duties iii order to have certain tines
t2 90 certain things, ali interest in her
clothes; friendly Concern iii her Health.
pot ihjudicious attentioni to the Sort
OF friends she chooses or the dances aid
Dalls She ATTENDS; and, above all, consifI-
eratlon land care Of. her when she IS iii:
, ms;d tne everlasting gratitude of good
n analu, especially if she is young and
alone The place where she is employed
becomes imbued to her with the ;ratcct
ing atmosphere of a real home, and not
the desolate unattractiveness of mere
"orkhouse-NeW York Exchange.
Women and Public Men.
II IS not to be supposed that anyone
can be letter perfect on all the matters
exciting public attention-from the
itoentgen ray, to the disparity Of the
precious metals, from the debt of Spain
20 the last whim of the Kaiser: but it
is demanded that everyone shall know
something of all of them. and all there
Is to know of some of them. It does
not, for instance, become any woman
among us to be ignorant of the whole
pan ana system of our own government.
to be unable to speak intelligently of the
debates in Congress, to have no idea as
~ WHETHER lnulVluualS or government
can carry on business most economical
~; whether freedom is or is not FOR the
best good of a people, and whether that
winch tends to strengthen the central
power does not work against freedom:
or to know nothing of what is ,aeant
when people discuss the coinage Of gold
and silver. It does not become any
woman now. to be unacquainted with
the relative size of the navies and armies
OF the nations that are called movers,
The mother, by the way, who cannot
tell her boys what they want to Know
about our own navy and army is too
soon soon going to have her boys know more
than she does. Nor does it become ANY
woman to be so ignorant or careless Of
the vast recoil and retrogression forced
on the whole human race by war ;Aat
she cannot show her children the al
vantage of peace, even in the most ut-
vlous relations, and the beautiful su-
perlorlty of i people of happy homes
and harvest fields over those with he
greatest triumphs ever won in ba1tlc.
In fact. the. time has come when no
woman can afford very often to sit back
among her sofa cushions. with her hair
loosened and a box of bonbohs at Land
to read nothing but novel, It IL ex-
pected of every woman now that she
shall watch the progress of the world,
power as she can to assist it.-Harnnr's
Bazaar.