The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-27

we nave all tried to make eating sometime
more renned than it usually is in The kitten
en- out the employe not only does not meet
! the mistress half way. but when her
! trends visit her she tells as a great Joke
now the mistress hoped to make her live
| as she wanted her TO. Perhaps YOU not only
! gave your time and your very self. but
| you spent a great deal Of money on this
woman, who was i'll when she came to YOU.
| Two weeks after, when you were tired ont
! IRON general nursing and hoped to be able
| 10 rest little, this young woman appeared
ana informed you that she intended to
leave that afternoon. You said: "What
Maggie Leave me now when | took as
! good care of you when you were i'll as If
! you had been my own sister?" And Mag
| gie' with that wonderful coolness that be-
| longs TO her ilk and that still more Won
derlul 1ngratitude, answered: yes, ma'am
that IS just the reason why. IL you had
been the lady 1 thought you, you would
not have done So"
NOW, what is to be done? You and are
tender hearted women, and when trouble
| comes to some one who is IN our kitchen
our hearts go out TO the sufferer. and we
| give OF our best in every way, only to be
! hurt atterWard. Have you and l. who
| count ourselves and who are good mis-
! tresses, ever known a maid to say, "Bv
| doing thus and so l can save % cents?,
| Oh, no! If you and / see the great need 10
| economic and 90 into the kitchen and in
SYST upon IT, we are spoken of as mean"
! care as to Ghe amount of food used the
! quantity of coal burned, of gas lighted or
! consideration given to clothes is never
| proper in the eye of a domestic servant
| IL Is simply an evidence of close fistedness
| care Tor something because it is beautiful
! because it was given 10 you by somebody
| you loved, Is Greek to the average servant
Dishes and glasses were made to break
! and If you bother people to dust bric-a-
! hrac you must expect it to suffer. The av-
! erage maid-servant not only believes that
dust is the bloom of time but also that it
! should be never fading blossom.
! 1t is all wrong. But how are we going to
| straighten it? Sometimes you do meet
| domestic servant who counts her word as
! worth something and who does not claim
to be able to do everything But why is it
that all are so positively unwilling to
! learn? If you and l were to go out as
cooks, we would make an effort to be the
| very best of cooks so that we might make
| the greatest amount of money. l fear that
too often the employe does bad work be-
cause the employer accepts it. Too often.
| The employer pays high wages for work
| That is done in the most slovenly manner
| the idea seeming to be that to get the work
done, no matter how, is the acme of happi-
ness To do it well is counted as of no
worth You know perfectly well that al
though Caroline, Maggie or Jane may
have five tall feathers in her hat and a
frock of the newest fashion, her under
wear is torn tattered, miserably poor and
| positively untidy. You use all your diplo-
| macy in trying to frame a sentence that
| will suggest to Caroline or Maggie or Jane
the desirability of bath al least once I'm
awhile, and yet little Miss Industry, who
is busy down town, is only too glad to
walk home one day in the week that she
| may give 10 cents TO the chamber-maid in
| her boarding house 10 get the bath wash
ed out so she can use it. But Caroline,
Maggie or Jane does not appreciate the
| blessing of personal cleanliness. She thinks
it all nonsense.
Perhaps you think this is severe you
| who have not been the mistress of
manse or a fiat. But to wrestle, literal
| ~ and physically, day in and day out
with ignorance ingratitude, lazness ana
! slovenliness and a certain particularly
| impertinent self-sausfaction is more than
merely difficult. 1t is time somebody spoke
for the mistress. What can you or l, we
| who are just ordinary women, do? IN
| tell you what l do-just make the best of
a bad bargain. l realize that the maid
in my kitchen is capable of just so much
that is good and of much that is indiffer-
! ent. l have long ago learned that il L al
! low myself TO have a feeling of friendship
| for any special maid / am going to have
my heart hurt. But I would rather have
my heart hurt than allow myself to grow
hard-hearted. You and l. who try to live
| good lives, never refuse to allow a maid
TO go 10 whichevCr church she pleases or
TO have time to give proper attention to
| her religious duties, but when she claims
to be church member surely we have
right to expect something that is good
| from her We must set the example; but,
that given, certainly there should be
! the right path.
Drudgery can be made divine, but then
it ceases to be drudgery. There are good
servants, as there are bad mistresses, but
| one is as few as the other. Away down
| in the southland there was for many years
a dear old colored nanny who nursed
| three generations of babies and then in her
old age had a little home, wherein she
was supported by the youngest members
| of her flock. She had known the skele-
tons in the different households. She al
ways appeared in trouble or illness or in
some great joy. She sleeps a the foot of
! her mistress-the mistress who owned her
absolutely and the mistress who gave her
freedom, the freedom which she never
wanted and refused to take. do not be-
lieve that in the hereafter she will be
happy unless she is serving some of those
she loved. and on the little tombstone that
marks her grave are cut these words:
"She Served Well" VIII that be said of
you or Bah.
SOME KLONDIxE CLAIMS.