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 the latter latter as much as they appreciate
mhstresses are ladies. They can serve a
superior with self-respect and pleasure;
but when the mistress puts herself on
the same level with her maids by dis
cusslnng 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
SIP, the maids quickly cease to respect
such mistress. A certain woman, who
IN q small! town, received a certain fiat
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.
ent metropolis and really having no
claims for recognition here. ,solaced her
self by, contiding to her maid her former
trlumphs. Il never gave dinner party
i'll - but what it was written ub in
great style. was cohsid the most
tashlona BILE dresser at the hotel" tnaiiing
a famous hostelry). The maid. com.
ihenting on the foregoing condolences.
said: ''Of course, | listened and said
nothing. | knew my PLACE, If she didn't,
IL IL was plain to me that 81 be WASN'T, a real
thiSaas G to shf 6n MYHldht have said ssh
tTfhbtghtlesShess iii Arranging the work
OF the, household So the maid cali Dian
her duties iii order to have certain times
20 90 certain things, ali interest in her
clothes; friendly Concern in her health.
a pot injudicious> attention to. the. Sort
Of ;fr1ends she chooses or the dances and
oa1ls she attends; and, above all, consid-
eration ,and care OF. her when she is ill,
insure the everlasting gratitude of a good
maid, especially if she is Young and
alone. The place where she is EMPLOYED
becomes lmbued to her with the protect
ing atmosphere of a real home, and not
the desolate unattractiveness of O mere
Workhouse.-New York Exchange.
Women and Public Men.
1t is not to be supposed that anyone
can De letter perfect on all the matters
exciting public attention-from the
hoentgen ray, to the disparity Of the
precious metals, from the debt of Spain
to 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 De unable to speak intelligently of the
debates in Congress, to have no i}ea ns
to whether individuals or government
can carry on business most economical-
~; whether freedom is or is not FOR the
best good of a people, and whether that
which 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. 1t does not become ANY
woman now to be unacuuainted with
the relative size of the navies and armies
Of the nations that are called powers,
The mother, by the way, who cannot
tell her boys what they want to know
about our own navy and army is too
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 that
she cannot show her children the al.
vantage of peace, even in the most oh
vious relations and the beautiful ri.
perlorty of Il people of happy homes
and harvest fields over those with the
greatest triumphs ever won in battle.
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 bonbons at Land.
to read nothing but a novel. 1t Is ex-
pected of every woman now that she
shall watch the progress of the world,
report upon it, and apply her feminine
power as she can to assist it.-HarDer's
Bazaar.