The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

up an allowance, nobody need give very
much, and when I went to my southern
home on a visit, IL was my greatest de-
light to drink tea with Aunt Julie, for
though she was half blind, she refused to
sit down with me-she had too much pride
Tor that-but her great-granddaughte
waited on me. There are no preserves
den corn bread and I don't believe any
body ever knew how to make coffee as she
did Then, when the day Of her death
came We We're all there, and women and
men who hadn't seen each other for ten
or twenty years, shook hands at her grave
and remembered the years gone by. And
she was lad 10 sleep at the foot OF her
mistress, and I believe, she hoped that
when the resurrection day came, she
would be allowed to wait upon her, for
tnat would be heaven to her Where are
these servants nowadays? Money cannot
buy them. What is the matter with the
women in our kitchen and the women who
nurse our children? They have no respect
for the mistress who cares for them, they
nave no love for the children they nurse,
and everything is a matter of dollars and
cents. Whose is the fault? l cannot be-
ueYe that 1t is entirely with the mistress.
Not long ago dear friend of mine hired
a maid; -FOUR weeks after she came to the
mousse she was struck down with typhus,
not typhoid fever. During her long ILL
ness she was faithfully nursed by her
mistress; when she was able to go out in
the fresh air her mistress took her in her
own carriage; when strength had fully re-
turned to her she gave her mistress a
months notice.
The too kind woman looked at her and
said; why, Mary, how can you leave
me when have cared for you through all
your sickness?"
That is the very reason" she answer
ed If you had been as much of lady
as l thought you were when l hired my
SELF TO you, you wouldn't have done it,"
A less fragrant case was this: An Eng
llSh lady was told by her own maid that
she would not come to America with her.
As she had been very kind to her, she
discharged her, and took one who brought
good recommendations, into which she
inquired carefully. Before leaving Lon
don she paid IS to have her taught hair
dressing and flo to make her an adept in
manicuring. All the way over the maid
Her first month was up two days after
landing. When she was paid, she said:
You viii have to get somebody else,
am going to leave this afternoon" An
absolute MISUNDERSTANDING brought out
the truth. She wanted to come to Ameri-
ca. she felt sure that this lady would
nave her properly trained for a first class
maid, and that II would cost her nothing
to come over. And the consequence was,
as Madame Fin de Steele says, that a
lady, used to having a maid wait upon
her, was left without one in a strange
country.
Is gratitude an unknown quantity7 Just
among ourselves, you and that other wo-
man and me, we three women together,
I think 1t is. THANK you" is said as
one says Good morning." but it is usu-
fan or a handkerchief It is not in ap-
probation of the real kindnesses of life.
1t is true that, when we do what is right
and womanly, we ought not to want
thank you"-but, alas! we are only wo-
men, and we like gratitude expressed in
some way. Men laugh at US for expect
ing it. The best of them do what is right
and are satisfied because they have done
it, but we women, we'll we are a little
weaker and when we deny ourselves some
good thing for somebody else's sake,
when we give the helping hand to some
body, or when we aid somebody by MAX
ing the rough path of life a little bit
easier to tread, we like to think that what
we do is appreciated. And we think so
much for little bit of gratitude. A wo-
man can nurse the man she loves through
may get no change, and the sick room
will be her abiding place, day in and day
out; but she is satisfied, OH so thoroughly
satisfied, IT, when that man is well, he
puts his arm about her and whispers
some loving words, that tells of appre-
citation. But nine times out of ten, men
take the service of women for granted
A woman may take two or three of her
old frocks brush them and freShen them,
make them over into nice new ones, and
hand them to that poor relation who needs
a gown. And If the recipient will only
say, II was glad to get the frock, for I
know you put yourself to I much trouble
days will be as nothing, and that wo-
mans heart was full of happiness for
that the good deed ought to be enough in
itself, but you know we are only human;
only those poor, miserable creatures who
can stand pain that would kill men, who
can face troubles that men would fall
down before, and who are true-true al
ways to the people they love. We shed
tears about nothing-but OIL how fine we
are when real trouble comes. I often
wonder if mankind will ever realize the
greatness of a womanly woman-if they
will know what it means to be mothers
daughters and wives, with all the small
woes and great troubles attached to
each vocation. I suppose not. When they
do when they realize all that a real wo-
man can suffer for dear loves sake, can
suffer with smile, they will fall down
and worship her; but that will be when
the millennium comes. However / do
believe that when it arrives there will be
a collection of worshiping men around
you and your neighbor and Bah.