Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-02

going along the streeta / am convinced
that boots are always BACKED on ths
cooking table in the Kitchen, close to
the vegetables and joints. Cook can be
sent out on errands, and, indeed, put
to most any work the mistress
pleases. She, like thu other servants,
haa no names fur hsr. employers but
mawster' and nlssis. /"
Those are their titles always, Just as
surely as cook Ia cook And cook 10
very jealous Of any interference In her
kitchen. That In her realm, and neither
mawster nor missis has any business
thers, according to hsr ideas. Far
better let missis ring for her and call
her up two or three flights of stairs to
receive orders than that missis should
descend TO the Kitchen. Perhaps for
this reasont or perhnps from inclination,
| the London missia troubles the Kitchen
very little. This Besms like alipshod
housekeeping at FIRST but on the whole
I think il would be good example for
our American missises to follow, be
cause it would save them go much an
noyance. Missis goes out, or senda
Hlavey out, to buy Huch provisions as
she has selected for the day. There her
bother ends and cook must do the rest
/
cook must make them If cook lops not
know how to make them sne soon dis
appears, and new queen roigns in the
| cellar.
For all this work and responsibility
cook, OF courae, must have good pay.
Alas. for the good old days when com
petent conks could be had at reason
able rates But timea have changed IN
London. Nowadays we cannot get any
sort Of cook for less than Els year,
and cook OF much experience or dex-
terity actually has the assurance to
demand from EGO TO g25 year. But
when we pay as much as E25 year we
naturally expect something quite out
of the common.
The little girl, the marchioness, is
usually child of thu east end, though
sometimes from the country. Hers
must be the most miserable OF exist
ences, one would think, living in tho
cellar doing all the dirty work, ordered
about by everybody. fed on heaven only
knows what. But ahe does not regard
il 80 in the least, 80 We need not waste
sympathy on her. She IN proud of the
position she has made for herself, be-
cause it ia SO much hetter than what
che has been used to- There are at least
scraps for her here, but at home there
are not even scraps she is merry
enough In the early morning, while al
work in halls or kitchen With the othel
servants. bet when mawsier and missi'
are within earsbot she is model of de
murenesR.
When in any emergency the mar
cbioness is called up to the dining
room she resembles nothing in thu
world SO much as scared cat. 81
much elegance and the presence of 81
many people of quality, as she regard
, them, operaws her. Her eyes become n
' round az saucers and she looks as ]
the dog were about to chase hor up
tree. This has boon the case with al
the marchionesses | have seen.
"Will | bring the try, mumY' sh
= invariably asks, meaning the tray. TIT
: tray is her fret notion of dining room
necessities.
. "The lawst Idly sent me awiy hecaus
= | didn't wash my flee, mum ~" hear
!, one OF them explaining in apr lying 10
a place. But l washes 1t now. ?"
The pay Of the marchioness range
0 between l shilling and 8 shillings
Q week, though 10 some caReH she is con
!, sidered we'll paid when she is fed. a
It to clothing, she needs none. At leas
!, there is nothing Visible about her tina
. could fairly be given such name. An
y cast-oif things of the cook or the slave
y make her beautiful working and holi
q day suita.
With cook at ego year, slave
!, at ela ami a marchionsss at even
v shillings a week the wages Of the thre
b amount to Just SOB month, {
i about the average pay of one averng
Q girl IN Now York.