Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-31

bloom of time, but also shat II should be
never.fading blossom.
II is all wrong. But how are we going to
straighlen it' sometimes you do meet Il |
domestic servant who counts her word as |
worth something and who does not claim to |
he able To do everything. But why is it hat |
all are 50 positively unwilling to learn u |
YOU and were 80 20 out as cooks, we would |
make an effort to be the very best ot cooks
so that we might make the greatest amount
of money, lear that too often the EN-
Dloye does bad work because the employer
accents il, Too often the employer pays
high wages for work that 10 done in the
most slovenly manner, the idea seeming to
be that To get the work done. no matter now,
is the acme of happiness. 70 do it well is
counted as Of no worth. You know per-
fecty well that. although Caroline Maggie
or Jane may have five Iatl feathers IN her
hat and a frock OF the newest fashion, her
underwear ~ torn, tattered, niseraoly poor
| and positively untidy You use all your
diplomacy iE trying to frame sentence
| that will suggest to Caroline or Maggie or
| Jane the desirability Of n bath at least once
in awhile, and yet little Miss Industry, who
1 is busy down town, is only too glad g walk
/ home one day in the week that she may
give 10 cents to the chambermaid in her
| boarding house to get the bath washed out
so she can use it.. Bur Caroline, Maggie or
Jane does not appreciate the blessing OF
personal cleanliness. She thinks u all non
| sense.
Perhaps you think this is severe, you who
have not been the mistress of manse or
fiat. But Ia wrestle, literally and physically,
day in and day out, with ignorance, in
gratitude, lazines5 and slOvenliness and a
certain particularly impertincnt self salts
faction is more than merely difficult 1t Is
time somebody spoke for the mistress.
What eau you or we who are Just ordi-
nary women, do? III tell YOU what do
lust make the hest of a bad bargain.
realize that the maid in my kitchen i
CAPABLE Of Just SO much that IS good ana OF
much that is indifferent. ! have long agc
learned that if allow myself to have q
feeling Of friendship for any special maid
J am going to have INV heart hurt, But
would rather have my heart hurt than
allow myself to grow hard hearted. \ OF
ami /, who try TO live good lives, never re
, fuse to allow maid to go to whenever
church she peases OF to have time TO CIV
Q proper attention to her religious duties. bu
when she claims TO be church memhe
surely we have right to expect something
I that is good from her. We must set tn
$ example; but, that given, certainly ther
< should be enough womanliness IN her
: follow in the right path.
u Drudgery can be made divine. but then
e ceases to be drudgery. There are goo
y servants, as there are bad mistresses, OF
n one is as few as the other. Away down
l. the southland there was for many years
dear old colored NANNY VINO hurseu tht;
l. generations of babies and then in her oil
IS age had little home wherein she was SUI
ie ported by the youngest members Of he
lie iiock. she had known the skeletons III It
$, different households. She always appeaIt
"a in trouble or illness or in some great jo
le She sleeps at the foot of her mistress--tl
ld mistress who owned her absolutely and u
III mistress who gave her freedom the freedo
US which she never wanted and refused to TAX
$. ! do not believe that in the hereafter 81
te will he happy unless she is serving some
OF those she loved, and on the little tombstol
e. that marks her grave are cut these word
ly "She Served Well" VIII that be said
YOU or lab.