Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-08
AB IN "ROASTlNG' MOOD
r Description of the lmpu-
dent Kitchen Lady.
WHO WONT Be "BOSSED'
I'd Wants Her Thursday and
Alternate Sunday.
! Creature who Is Driving the Ameri-
IN Woman Ont of Her Home Into "a Ho-
b. and From Whom the Housewife
sses Every Kind of Impertipsnce. VI

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1rrce intelligence offices in New York. |
WIN they are called intelligence Offices
has always been q wonder to me, Tor, |
Although there is plenty OF almost every. |
khfng else. there is general lacking OF
EVEN the ordinary intelligence. The dra-
1natis personfe we're big Irish lady. high |
of color large of teeth, long of iin, big OF
bono and dressed--well one would not be
exAggerating IL one said there were peck
of..fiowers OH her hat and the product OF
ribbon factory on her frock, but her shoes
WHre dirty and broken, and her hands
ioDked AS If their tips might be in mourn
'InE for her general lack OF knowledge.
Then opposite her stoud an inonensive
lady, quietly dressed. polite in her manner,
Nhn was being closely and keenly eyed by
1his daughter of Erin as she demanded in
bud tones, "Who is the boss 2" 1t was
n rerfectly certain that this applicant for
II POSITION in the Kitchen would permit no
body to "boss" her. She inquired, or
Rthther announced, at what time she would
Nerve dinner; she declared she would stay
Ih no house where they had late dinner
ID Sunday; she assured the listening world
Mat she wanted her Thursday afternoon,
her every other Sunday and an occasional
might to run out; she said she knew as
much about cooking as the next one. and
Bic probably did, for the next one knew
hothing.
This is the creature who is driving the
american woman out of her home into
hbtel before whom she bends the knee and
ffom whom she takes every kind OF i'm
}iertineDce as expressed i'll voice or manner.
Fins lady (2l who tasted butchers meat
only once n week in her own home, will six
months after her arrival in this country
l turn up her nose at anything but dollhouse
grapes.
II At her first appearance she has shawl
over her head and is willing to run an
Htrrand without any head covering. This
humility lasts about q month, however,
and then ii u pint of milk is wanted the
Kitchen lady devotes one hour to her toilet
having the vanity to believe that somebody
Oh the street is looking at her.
8 Do you know that it's dreadful state of
affairs? The housekeeper takes i'll an
utterly unframed worker and pays her the
!. Wages of an expert, Here is a sample OF
tue ability on sale. A woman who de-
handed SIS a month absolutely did not
kpow how to boil an egg Her idea of this
hlmple operation was to drop the egg out Of
ber hand into the teakettle, permitting 1t to
l5eak. then to fill the Kettle with water
md finally to take the egg TO the table with
more Of the white on the outside than the
INNER side. After one years training she
still has to be watched to see that she puts
the egg in spoon and lowers the spoon into
lhe proper egg boiler
"A Then, too, after short residence in this
hnd of plenty, the lady from the other
AIDE is so eXtravagant that you wonder II
HDe has any ldea OF tDe meaning OF money
No matter how kindly and sensibly you
may talk to her as 10 The value of economy.
she will regard your efforts to save as
npthiug but stinginess. That a bar OF soap
shoud wash away amid the greasy water
xieft i'll dishpan is nothing to her that
4YAucepans are allowed to burn out on the
+t;ery range is a ma ter of indifference as
asSttr as she is concerned. Her one idea is TO
<tiet through the work in the easiest way, to
put on her finest clothes and to gad about
y the streets.
@ Where is the fault In the first place, the
average mistress is ignorant herself, and SO
6fannot command properly. In the second
3,ace, she has not realized that the day Of
<rnltTa consideration has gone by ana thai II
<1s time for the mistress to demand work for
z The money given and to discharge that
worker who is incapable. The American
woman wants to he inoculated with q little
more dignity, a little more sternness and a
9reat deal more determination. Then the
lady with the long lip will not ask her,
fWho is the boss ?'
The power of the needle is greater than
ffhe power of the press. But, as there are
II omen in bondage to their servants. so there
are women entirely governed by their dress
4 makers. These are the women who make
I flressnakers inso ent, who by their foolish
pleading to have their froCks made give the
clever needlewoman perfect knowledge oil
4Nher power. And she Is the boss. There are
X 4 women who dare not complain of a frock
women who say, "lf find fault with this
Nine. Snip will never make me another
ffone. aud | wouldn't have that happen fol
! thc world! !" That's a weak woman. There
js always one worker who is just as good a;
the other one ana if Nine. snip makes Q
\ Failure Nine. Tuck can make success. II
81 Nine. Snip is not honest with YOU, give he
sSi31lo more WORK. The woods are full o
Hressmakers hut the average woman forgeti
Hithis and humbles herself, while she pay!
IN har t,,tuI ~ huya "a H,r Ian
Urapcd.
DO you suppose tailors dare to treat men
d: the fashionable modiste behaves to he
N1Etomers2 The tailor is servile in his de
tIe TO please the man who pays his bills
and, while | am not particularly fond o.
servility, do approve of civilty. The re
lafion between dressmaker and customer
ts4 Should be buslnesslike, and "A lady is always
polite when she is most btlsinesslike, but i
2 isnot necessary for her to persuade. to en-
treat or 10 Use terms ot endearment to thu
& Noman who, being paid tor poor work, il
will mistress OF the situation. Think i
t,ver and, remembering about your las
frock, just ask yourself the question, "Wh,
IS the boss"
n Not long ago YOU went out to do som,
thopping. You asked in rather low voic
Y fpr Just what vuu wanted. and then yol
Waited patiently. The young lady on tn
ther side of the counter, with an lS-incl
2 waist and an elaborate array of ribbons ant
itce about her neck and with her hair fiXet
4in the latest fashion. criticised your COS
ffime, looked at you i'll naughty manne
md waited on you when she felt ike it. |
sic were q little more wise, she would no
be SO invariably impertinent. 1t is posi-
BIC that she did not send you Just the siz
Of hairpn that you selected yesterday; tina
Where You asked for "a velvet binding sh
tAreessly threw in n mohar one and vol
tfeing that you do not care to throw none
away. have come back with beating hear
and frightened manner to ask her to max
Epod her own mistakes-mistakes that sh
Np puldnt acknowledged If she were put o.
Hfr OATH
ffelhe shopgirl certainly bosses the woma
On the other side OF the counter, What
the remedy? How is she going to be taugh
fiiAt the public has the right to deman
good manners from her? How is she goin
80 be taught that she is not paid to max
"A mistakes? And how is she going to b
Eade to understand that the public, e:
IHcally the feminine public, is in realit
Aer mistress and that she is only its servant
Nobody has more sympathy with i'll pait
Rverworked women than |, but this type q
Eirl is overpaid. The remedy is sever
'ane-to report the misbehavior of this girl {
fhe proper person. "Ah," YOU say, "bu
she'll be discharged" Not ii you manag
u properly. The first time she ignores he
n dnty and is impairment to you tell her tht
M 1inless she behaves better you will repol
4f her. lf she errs the second time, speak I
fhe fioorwalker about her, and at her thir
&pfence 20 to the heud of the firm. talk [
PIN plainly and give him q general idea
Ho the behavior of the girls employed b
'<hlm to wait on people and not to boss then
U Then there's the district messenger be
8 who will contradict what the tariff boo
1 says and demand more money. There's IL
MW laundress who disobeys your orders in r
gard to starch and mutters at having TO e
cold luncheon on a hot July day. There's u