The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-21
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V,Ty Quaint he'pIea'"'
alton, old Case
no,ls IN Frank Laslie's Weekly; And
,,bst Is your new girls Nance my
,e,rbbor asked, as we fingered over the
8 o'clock tea cups
oHer name Is Gertrude"
enc you think she will live up to It7"
asbs NAV. never knew a Gertrude
,so dl5 outside of a novel. And asked
w. bor name and began TO call her BY
=, ,t once, as Il had a perfect right
"yy dear, hadn't you?
No real right, OF course; only the
r,gbt OF lmpertinent custom, Think
he e would have stared II she would
H %o" asked me my name and then pro-
coded 10 call me Doris
Nv neighbor herself stared for mo-
ment or two
exactly parallel. Gertrude Ander-
son gives me her services for what We
cal a sufficient recompense, though she
yrows. and know, that the benefit Is
largely on my side hut this places our
r.I5tonshlp on a purely business foun-
JatIou. There is nothing In me that en-
,I,les me to any service from any hu-
man being except that for which can
Cive,n equivalent. So Ehile pay Ger
,rude we stand on equal grounds, and n
were really a lady | would call her
Miss Anderson"
AN, that theory is very nice, but /;
UnuId never work Servants, as q class,
are too presumlng."
at ls the class feeling that makes
them so-our attitude of placing our
selves above them Nature has nos
placed US there. We are all Gods
women, and while l might be able to
teach my housemald to play sonata,
she might In return give me lessons In
some far higher grace | know the
woman grandest In Christian virtues
who ever came into ms life was little
irish washerwoman, with a face like o
saint and soul to match Il. When she
toll me the history of her early days
felt that / could sit at her feet and learn
10 be noble And she did not know
tbe greatness OF the life she unfolded
before me. She spoke deprecatingly-
ashamed to trouble me with her trou-
bles.' She did not realize that she had
taught me a lesson In courage. In low
Ing klndness-yes, In sub,lmity of soul
that has helped me to be a better
Tomap ever since"
well. you will certainly admit that
she was tho exception to the rule?"
Just as a specially high-minded
woman is the exception to the rule In
what we call our class Not long ago
met, at woman's club OF esthetic
tendencies, half dozen women whom
knew well. and who employed each
from ono to four servants. One of these
'mistresses before her fortunate mar
rIage, had made sheets on n sewing
machine for dollar and half dozen.
Another had walked through snow and
rain, ill-fed and ill-clad, to sing In the
chorus OF an opera. Another had worked
IN restaurant where only men re-
eeFted-meR who smoked In her pres
ence and talked slang and perhaps lam
guage less permissible occasionally.
Another had spent the best years of
her life behind counter selling goods
20 the multitude. Not one OF these
women had had the advantages OF ed
ucation. Two of them could not write
nor word an ordinary letter with per-
feet correctness; yet these were the
women who talked OF servants as a
class" creatures by nature inferior
not to be considered as beings on the
came plane with US"