The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-03
BAB'S TAloM ON SERVANT QUESTION

20 straighten Il? Sometimes you do meet
a domestic servant who counts her word
as worth something and who does not
claim 30 be able TO do everything. But
why is II that all are $40 positively unwilling
TO learn? IL you and I were 10 go out a 8
cooks: We would make an effort to BE- the
very best Of cooks 50 that we might make
the greatest amount of money. l fear that
too often the empsoye does bad work be-
cause the employer accepts X, Too often
the employer pavs high wages for work
that is done In the most slovenly manner
the idea seeming TO be that to yet the work
done. no matter how. is the acme of hapni-
ness. To dc IL we'll IL counted as OF M
worth. You know perfectly well that, al
five tall feathers In her hat and n frock
or the newest fashion, her underwear Is
torn, tatteresi. miserablv poor and rostiya-
w untidy. You use all your diplomacy in
irving 20 frame a sentence that viii slIp-
gsS ~ Caroline or Maggie or Jane the de-
sira5ility OF bath al leas. once in a
while. and yet little Miss Industry. who
Is busy down town. s. only toe glad 10
walk home one day in week that she
NAV give ten cents 10 the 3mherrna.d in
her boarding house TO get the bath washed
oit hefoTe she can use il. But Caroline
Maggie or Jane does not appreciate the
blessing OF personal cleanliness. She thinks
* all nonsense
Peraaps YOU think this severe yo., who
have not been the mistress az manse or a
nat But 70 wreStle. literally and physi-
caily, day In and day out with ignorance
"a =
certain particularly impertinent self salts
ftcfloH "a more than merely giifficnlt l. fv
time somebody spoke fer the mistress
What can Won or L. We who are i,,s, ora
mary women. do I'll tell You wha; 7
do-iuet make the haxs Of a bad bargain,
! realize thar the maid in nv kstche-, IL
ealahie az lust so much tha. IL good and
o. much that is indifferent I have long
ago learned that u allow myself "a baya
a feeling ~ friendship for any special r,a.a
l asn going to hav. nv hear hrrf ~.
/ would rather have nv heart hu-. than
%iscv, myself ~ grew ha~3-hear.ea yrr,
ana /. who try TO live good lives meyer 20
f8Se "a allow a maid TO go 10 Whichever
c7uFCa she Dieases Or 70 have time 10 rg,s
proper attention 70 her religious dr.sieS h,,.
wher she claims 10 ne church rnernhsr
f0FNtT Ne have a Ftgh. - exnect so,,e
INNS that Is good srsm her. We must Sc.
ta@ example bat that given certainty
tnere s4foaid hs enough worman!iness in her
So follow in the right path
prc4zerv can be made divine. tlt Tho,
u ceases 20 he fr3dgerv There are good
servants 3 f9F-e sra had raIssre<Ss~s hst.
ere u a. Few a the other AWAY anvyr
IN ne soui Eiand there was FOR many Years
= dear cid co3ored NANNY wh, ni,~Sea
5srSst generations sf babes ard ,b.n e.
her el3 age rad a ifft!e home wherein ~La
vas SGrsf~orfs3 by the yosingDs. rnarnkev.
81 rsr naesE she had knovn ,he sksia.n,,
IN the different households She alwayS
a1'iseare1 tn treahls or Illness or In Soma
great boy SIZE Steers al the foot - hsr
mast Ff~Ss-:5e mistress who owned her sbso
.sf@iy art the mistress who gave t.r fras
dom he freedom which sA. never warte,s
and refused - take. 40 no. believe tina.
II the hsr@after she viii be harry .srlsss
she ia serving FoTae of thos@ she issFa6 and
0a the little tGrrhstars sha. marks he-
crave ARE ext these wo-fs. STE Ssryefs
Wen" VIII that be said CT yea or
BAB.