The morning times., 1896-02-02
MAICSERVANTS GENEROUS
They Are the Most Patriotic
Women in the World.
GIRLS ARE FRIED IN IRELAND
Pledges Made on Queenstown
Dock Seldom Broken When
They Reach This Side.

Now and then" said the pretty woman
at the pink luncheon, II drop into conversa-
ton with the servants at our home, and
/ rarely fail to hear something to my advan.
tase and interest.
Maggie, our lively parior maid is my
| authority for the statement that every
daughter born into peasant family In Ire
land is regarded as an incalculable blessing
| OF Providence Boys are well enough in
their way. but when the Sullivan sons reach
an enigrating age. they are apt to put
their money into business venture. matri-
inony or politics. Then the auld countI-y
and the aud folks become a vague senti-
ment.
Not so the daughters; they are nearly
always true TO promises made on Queens
town dock. Directly a household can send
daughter over the oceans of say to the
States, signs of prosperity are evident
Maggie helps ambitious members of the
household TO eniGrate. and notwithstand-
ing the trials and temptations to which she
Is exposed nothing seems able to withcr the
passionate patriotism. family affection and
open-handed generosity of the girl who has
come out to make her own and the family
fortunes In new, hard life
FAMILY AFFECTION.
81 never saw but one case where hope
less discourag ement overlook a quict
hard-working Irish girl remarked an
other guest; "a woman whose dearest
object in life was TO educate her only
little sister for a seanIstress. found
she regularly sent two-thirds OF her wages
home for the child's clothes, her schooling
and even her small pleasures. Mary Ann
conrided to me at last that the little sister
was TO make her first communion, dressed
In as fine white frock as two months earn
ings could buy. The sOber-sided spinster's
clation was good to see, until the SorrOwfuI
news arrived that the child had been
buried i'll the wonderful communion clothes
and her broken-hearted elder sister was
called upon in some way to assuage the fam
lily grief.
There was a big. morose-lookins crea-
turc named Nellie in seaside boarding
house. who succumbed to my curiosity
by telling HE she sent all but So of her
wages every month TO support an in
valid brother. The doctors had ordered
hin to Path, in England, aud there. with
her old mnOther, she contrived to keep
nun ia ttil4iOib bil INT hsAStS bl
est work and by dint of forbeu ring from
every superfiuous frill and furbeluw. She
even denied herself that inalienabIe prerog-
ative of the servant maid, having a photo
graph taken, nor did she feel more ilI-used
than 4 consunIptive little German woman
who was laying by against the dismissal OF
her father rromlons confinement in the pent-
teniiary, when she looked forward to sup
porting his declining years with all the
beer and solid comfort he had been denied"
GOING HOME.
THE chief ambition you can quickly
discover of the girl who does up your
bed in the morning or helps the cook
around the kitchen, is To save enough for
a visit home. Here the Irish and Swcd
ish aspirations harmonize. When Mag
gle O'Sullivan goes home for visit,
with a few hundred dollars in her pocket.
not only her immediate family turn
out to meet her, but the entire village,
if she is held in anything like affection
ate remembrance, make the day OF her
arrival into an informal sort of bank
holiday. During her sojurn she is en-
teTtained, admired, praised and tcndeTly
welcomed. She is not asked TO do more
she does with perfect Willingness and grace
after all important duties have been ac''
conlplished.
FILIAL DUTIES.
The prime obligation of every rich
Maggie sullivan, visiting the 'ould ooun-
thry' is 10 provide her people with a
Jaunting car ard tough Irish pony. If,
however, she has prospercd more than
ordinarily, Maggie goes further and builds
tidy stone cottage for her proud and grate-
full parents. Tie Swedish girl fulfills the
same delightful task, and when, with bless
inGs on their heads, they turn toward
America have no more than steerage
uassage and the price or an Intelligence
Office ticket in their pockets. But both
are perfectly happy and content to go
back 10 work, and it is often enough be-
cause OF their family obligations that
many servant girls do not marry. I've
known many Maggie Sullivan TO keep
her lover waiting dozen years wbilo
she labored TO bring her family 10 the States
or strovc to lay up enough money to gain
for her parents sufficient independence
that she might take up her married life with
out ties
Not one servant girl in thousand ever
thinks of seeking naturalization re-
marked a politicians wife. Their pa
triotic love for the native home prevents
But stronger than the love of country is tht
extreme claunishness among these women