Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-17
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prepare. I'm not epicure enough, though,
to enjoy anything cooked whole. In
/ cleaned fish somehow seems un-nice; yet
| it's a historical fact that parliament
| gives a certain time to some seaeoast
| town therein to revel In this un-nice
pastime. The pheasant Is delicious
bird, but their turkeys and chickens don't
compare in flavor to ours. Barring roast
beef everything is boiled, from turkey
down to pudding. Vegetables are boiled
| In pure water, and after that spell of "dy-
ing hard" l quite enjoyed them. Their
vegetables surpass ours They havesnone
of that strong, sun-gensfated fiavor;some-
how they seem to drink In all the dewy
| freshness of the green1sle noticed this,
| too, In INDEPENDENTLY in plums, cher
ries and grapes-but in nothing SO much
as their glorious big red strawberries,
with their dusty lusciousness." Straw
berries are always served with their caps
on. You pick one up daintily by the
stem, poise 1t a few moments in midairi
dip 1t now into the cream, now the sugar.
/ then nibbfe it, rat-like. But the best
things l tasted in England were "suet
buildings" and clotted cream. These are
| delicious. When in the crown room at
| the Tower, gazing at the jewels, ETC.,
used to wonder why on earth they had all
those gold salt cellars. I've solved it!
'Twouldn't be the historical reason,
know, but believe it's the right one
viz, they know not the first principles of
ocdSOnluS. Lie CODk SALTS HOlnlHk. OuIn
grano sails should be table maxim, for
at table everything must be literally
taken with grain of salt; even the but
ter escapes 1t.
have sometimes thought this lack of
salt accounted for the brilliant color of
Englands fair women: but you must not
critically examine this dazzling British
complexion. Looked at closely there
seems to be an abruptness about 1t where
the red and white should blend-a sort Of
hard line, as though the painter were a
novice. Then look at the old faces, for
even the old faces are rosy, and you will
| see little purplish veins running through
| the red; and the rudy child faces, too;
they all look as though they'd caught
something-roseola, perhaps. It's all very
beautiful at a little distance, though.
| But 'revenons a nos moutons." Meats
are very high, beef particularly, and-I
| say this tremblingly-it's tough They
| never admit It, but it's tough. Eggs
| abound and you can get a fresh one. You
| call 1t "a new laid egg" and you pay 4
| cents for 1t. For the servant question
| the women are all "maids"-the scullery
maid, the kitchen maid, the house maid,
the nursery maid, the lady's maid. If
| two children two nurses-nurse and I'M
| der nurse. decided 1 wouldn't start
out with one of each-I'd just try gen.
| eral servant. went to the servants d.
| rectory, paid rs cents, told what wanted
1
| again and waited another week; when /
returned the clerk advised me to sit and
| watch for them as they came in. 1t was
| very interesting and very pitiful. I'm
sure 1 took the girl I did because she
| looked SO miserable. Each one OF those
English women knowing bad thing
when they saw it passed her by. But
Ellen was good, as good as she was slow,
and said mum" to perfection. yes
mum, and If you please, mum, the butch
| er Is come, num-" etc. Another thing
| about Ellen. She was always sorry. In
| fact, think Ellen was about the sorriest
servant ever saw. All English servants
know arithmetic and how to read and
/ write, yet you'd be surprised at their
/ general ignorance. They never get tired
of hearing about America, and Ellen
i asked me one day, "Oh. II you please,
streets in American" My other servants
! were models Of neatness and didn't szly
| num-" but the cook was always falling
! down the steps with the tea tray and
| the nurse was forever screaming. fwould
rush upstairs. thinking some harm had
come to babies. only to find that the
| butcher or the baker had been trying to
/ kiss her. You pay your servants by the
year. If they don't suit you give them
q months notice or pay them a months
| wages. If she's not satiefied she gives
you months notice. The wages are
| no cheaper than ours. 4 You pay a nurse
from IS to IS q month. She 3 very partic-
/ ular about what she eats and must have
few pennies extra Tor her beer. You
must have her washing done. Now, q
nurse maid IN England wears white
dresses, aprons and caps the winter
! through; her washing bill is very much
! in excess of yours, and yours il enor
| NOUS They never iron in London, but
have what Is called a "mangle." Every
thing is folded and run Through this
"mangle," which is stone cold; conse-
| quently there's never button left Il
| learned to use cloth ones), - and all the
| clothes must be dried before the fire a T.
| forwards. This is called airing" Great
| 'horses" stand around the kitchen stove
| and they are forever and eternally air
1 ing" Every nurse must be good needle
| woman and keep the childrens garments
/ In perfect order. No servant should be
| hired who does not take her Character
| about In her pocket-a memorandum in
| writing from her former mistress. They
| always speak Of you as 1.-THE Mistress"
your husband as "the master" -
| The English servants of the first and
| even third class rich have every comfort,
but the maid is personally. of so little
| consequence. that II her name be Mary
| and there is another Mary In the house
she must lose her Identity. and the name
her mother gave her, henceforth to be-
Rose, or something Of the mistress'
| choosing. Their ambition is always to.
| have "a young man. Dear me! the old
maids there are In England. Not fro1f
| choice, as ours in America, but because.
there are notify thousands enough men
| to go round. s:t--s = - 80 2
In spite Of wars in the past and the war
| scare Of the present the English and
Americans are " fact one people. The
| English. do not think or speak Of Ameri-
| cans as foreigners. and their common ex~
| precision for America tells the whole
| story, "the other side" II fhis Is some
| what disappointing to the traveller II