The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20

to worry. And assuredly you will want hear all the things this 'garcon" can do-anything in fact from backing boot to buying skein of embroidery silk
 Miss Freeman told me some of her reasons for this new change of hers, somewhat reluctantly it must be ad- mitted, for she dislikes notoriety, and expressed the most genuine surprise that her practical plan should have been regarded as a freak or fad.
 How did I come to have a man in- stead of the time honored maid?" said Miss Freeman
 That is easy enough told-he is better servant-men make better ser wants in the duties that this one has to meet than the best maids that ever were born. Why? Well, they-or rather, he-can buy my tickets, run my errands, announce my carriage at re- captions, and see me to and from the theater at night. No maid could do all this.
 Why. not long ago while in Europe I was trying to make a train, and if 1t had not been for this man I would have lost it, for the porters and guards had finished their work and All aboard!' was the word. My boy here just threw those trunks on and off we went. Moth ing easier. Where is the maid who would have been even rational at such a point? They lose their heads, you know, and go to pieces at a - at the very time when you need them the most. As I said if it had not been for that boy I should either have had to stay behind or have gone without my luggage. virtues of man and maid, do you not see how it is %
 As for Miss Freeman, she can get along without a maid.
 q can do up my own hair" she said, and she looks as if she could do other things that would put the novel-read- ing, maid-ridden woman to shame The pompadour of rather heavy, dark hair only adds to the independent spirit that shows out of the firm blue eyes, and one can understand just why Miss Freeman would prefer to adjust her own coiffure-though "men, she re- marked always were the best hair dressers."
 I glance at the red-cheeked young foreigner who hands m card just then, and the American servant sinks to the dust in my estimation. But then It is Miss Freeman's estimation we want to hear about. Just so, and the ''man maid,' with foreign politeness, bows himself out of her presence and she can resume
  of" she continued; 'fblack my boots, and button them if necessary. He runs thirty errands a day sometimes. Does wonders for me, and he begged me to bring him along, to see America.
 He carries notes, announces the car riage, as I told you, and buys me things as I need them-smaH articles, of course I told him I should hold him responsible for every sou piece-he is honesty itself, and I am the one to be pleased, after all. if they do call this fad of mine. It is common sense, say, and-oh, I forgot, he cleans my palettes and brushes-that is such miserable work for painter to do for herself
 ''In Warsaw, Poland, in France and England they have valets,' said Miss Freeman, "and it is such a common thing that no one ever pays any atten- tion to it and no one ever comments on it. It is queer how they do in this country-they will go over to France and go into all sorts of things Frenchman never thinks of doing or seeing. and come back and tell how dreadful it all is over there-and then they never can take an innovation with composure''-
 And then this "boy" of twenty or whereabouts appears and the possibili- ties of him as errand runner and care taker cover him with a sort of nim- bus of glory and the American woman's trials with her so-called> ser wants come to mind. The American woman generally runs her own errands, does her own little odd pieces of work, and yet calls herself "advaneed."
 "Oh, but I have not told his chief virtue added this independent woman, hastily. "He can mend and sew very well-little things of course-but saves me great deal of trouble"
 And every bachelor girl in the land ie, Tod fo foin of Iii last alluring summing up of this va let's qualities-every muddy sl<irted one, especiaIly-and when they "cone to" they are supposed to be seized in the instant with undying envy, which they have probably not altogether out grown along with their shuffing off the "yoke" in other respects. q
 Miss Freeman is only visiting her native land-she was born in New York City-and is soon to return to Paris and her work there.