The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-28

Whether this is true or not, certain
&c is that the word servant" is partic-
ularly hateful to an American working
girls ear. Her innate sense of equality
as a woman with any other woman who
has happened by fate 10 be more fortu-
nately placed in this little contradictory
life resents it most vehemently. She
AYERS proudly "she wouldn't be any
body's servant" not realizing that a
word is bat word and that in making
shirts or rolling cigarettes or selling
goods over counter she is really sery-
ing an employer and is in that sense a
servant
The word is unfortunate, and one
more suited to soothe ones self esteem
should be selected. The term "domes-
tic" is employed by some considerable
people who make nice distinctions, or
the term "houseworker" for one in gen.
eral service, and those having special I
departments are named accordingly, as 1
a cook, bousemaid, etc. When "serv-
ant" is entirely tabooed, perhaps our
American girls will look more kindly
on domestic service.
Almost every housekeeper gets wrin'
kles in her brow when she talks on the
servant question
I'm afraid, downright afraid, TO get
attached or feel safe and comfortable
with any woman / employ, a young
matron asserted recently in the rooms
of a woman's club. lyon don't know
when YOU have her. You don't know
what she may object to. You don't know
but that, with the sweetest smile ON her
face, she is pl aiming, without any con-
science, to lea ge You in the lurch If 1t
suits her purpose to do it. The only
time / realize fully what American In
dependence means is when analyze my
servants attitude to me. They are al
ways foreigners, but they become red re-
publicans before they know the Ian.
guage.
"Yet these people are not so in their
own lands" said another. Look ut the
Irish, who are considered the most quick
tempered people, born insurrectionsts
! and all that sort of thing as we know
| them here. But the women and men In
domestic service in Ireland have man
ners that charm you and make life
worth the living, besides understanding
courtesy in its truest sense as thorough
" as a duchess should-and sometimes
doesn't. 1t is the same in other Euro
pean countries. Why is it that this
great, broad land Of ours, this beautiful
free, soul satisfying country, should he
the only one where mistress and serv'
ant stand always on the defensive
against each other!"
"a wrong idea of equality, said
one.
"They expect too much of America, v
said another.
"They come here to make money an6
find the market of domestic service de-
, spised by Americans and therefore en-
tirely in their own hands. What wonder
? they abuse it?"
A little woman all in black, who hat
9 sat stirring her iced tea thoughtfully
n now looked up brightly and said (by
! the way, why is it always the littl
a women who utter the most emphatl
q truths and hit the nail on the head):
a Don't you think some of the fault
/ lie with us? These foreigners who wer
q servants worth having in their nativ
Il lands come here to a different condition
Is of affairs altogether. At home they wer
4 brought up for domestic service. just
q their mothers had been before them
|, Times without number you find tn
}, eldest daughter in each generation hold
!, ing the position of lady's maid, for ez
i ample. to the ladies of the squire's fam
|. ily. She is understood and appreciated
r. She is a lady's maid, and she takes
honest pride in being just as good
lady's maid as she knows how. Will
never presuming to consider herself th
10 equal of her mistress, she is confer
with her lot, has no Discrimination abor
he respecting and looking up to her en-
n Movers, feeling that it is for her to sui
~ coed in the station to which it Ia
pleased God to call her, as the cat
he ohism says"
,e "But her attitude is servile." sal
one.
is mot at all. How can she DO servi
IL she feels she is fulfilling successful!
III her allotted mission here3 Beside
r. while her attitude toward her mistre
8: is that of respect, admiration. docilit.
ID her mistress toward her is consider
ke ton, friendliness within certain limi
which the worker would never think
presuming on. The mistress takes
q, interest in her, advises her and takes
o. genuine pleasure in the little things
her life. remember in Scotland an j
o. stance with will show what mean.
happened to be the guest Of great lad
simple, as all we'll bred and truly gre
80 people are. She lived in castle tn
held 100 bedrooms, and she employ
about 40 servants, any one OF who
no would have died for her from sense
stanch fidelity.
,.s "simplicity. considerations, XII
~. 'os tones, we're what the mistress gave \
~ servants, and in return they worked
her joyfully and conscientiously. Thu