El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-28
The Spectator.


long been one of the most difficult
with which good house wives have had
to grapple. Mexicans are about the
only class in this vicinity to draw on
for a supply of servants aud they to say
the least make unsatisf actOry domest CT.
Cinnamon are to be had but generally
they require as much salary as the
head of the family earns and people
not in affiuent circumstances cannot
afford to hire them. In speaking OF
servants an exchange says: 'Mistresses
stand in need of reform IS we'll as
maids, and the time has come when
housewives must realize that the re-
lations between them and their ser
want cannot be those of slave and his
owner. Moreover, the sooner it Ia res-
LIKED by every mistress that ell the
cardinal virtues are not to be found in
q single individual, the sooner will she
establish the domestic peace OF her
household. Even were it possible to
find young women SO richly endowed
by nature, that no fault could be found
with them, they would be worth more
than few pounds per annum to any
family. Directly we produce servants
with angelic tempers and an abnormal
love for work. who never want rest or
holidays, or watchful eye over them.
en- may we rest assured that wages
will 60 up by leaps and bounds, and
truly they will be we'll worth what
ever they demand. But until the mil
ing domestics ofthis type andmeanwhi e
our. best chance of securing better SER
vice is to realize that, as the mistress
is! the pivot of the whole domestic
machinery, she ought to come much
nearer to perfection than those she
governs"
Ell Paso has had considerable ex-
perience with the hobo problem. In
fact the police of this city have found
it to be one of the most difficult with
which they have to deal. The Dallas
News tells of a new kind of oum as fol-
lows: THE hospital buns have arriv-
ed and will spend the winter here, "
ence yesterday. Never heard
of that kind of bum?
Well, he's the slickest kind there is.
They live in the hospitals of the coun-
try-in those of the north in the sum-
mer time and in those of the south
during the winter. They have always
got sore on their left legs and just
enough fever to gain admittsnce.
Then they pretend to get awfully sick 3,
and 1t takes them long time to get we'll
enough to be discharges. They work
high, 1 can tell you. One applied for
admission to Falkland hospital re-
GENTLY. He bad little fever. and
took him in. A day or two sfterward
he told one of the olher patients
that he had been in every hospital be-
tween the state of Connecticut and the
, Rio Grande, and by the way he des-
| cribed the different places 1 knew that
he was telling the truth. Well, he
won't come back TO Dallas soon. He
was at the hospital four days. made
him work for three days harder than
he ever worked before in his life, and
then discharged him as cured. and he
was, so far IS Dallas is concerned. But
there are auy numb of these impOst-
ors who come to Dallas during this sea-
son of the year, and he is very shrewd
man who can not be imposed upon by
them"
The Epicure club is one of the latest
organizations in the City of Mexico;
the object of this unique club is to
cultivate knowledge of the edible re-
sources of the republic. Visiting
strangers of distinction will be enter
tanned Col. Henry Wat erson, author
of IA Thousand and One Salads" will
visit Mexico in February and will re-
ceive banquet from the Epicure club
A series OF remarkable menus on the
vegetable basis will be given. Re-
cipes will be used for cooking maize
| and celery, says Mexico letter, tina
! were handed down from the family of
Emperor MOntezuma. Data regardin z
the reed birds of the Jalisco Lake
region has been secured. A report is
to be given on the xltonopith bird, of
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