Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-06
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w IfSI W60h to I1N6 III b DOdTuluS house in Brunswick. It was Q very fashionable boarding house, for Ameri- cans only, and the prices would bring joy to the heart Of even New York city landlady. There were eight board CTS beside my wife and myself. There were the father and mother of the fam fly and three grown daughters. We lived in villa with garden attach ment and very imposing entrance adorned with metal that needed polish ing daily. For the work of this whole big house and household there was just one servant, who received just 5 marks, or S1. 25, Q week for her services. She not only cooked all the meals, polished all the doorlnobs, made up all the rooms and washed all the clothes, but she cut the grass in the garden, trimmed the grapevines, scrubbed the fence and weeded the walks. She rose at 1 80 every morning, moreover, and blacked all the boots. Her hours of labor were from 1 80 a. ID. to 10:30 D. m. daily, and she had just one day off month.
 "When we first went to the boarding HOuSGJ aObiGJO blltbU 1llC4 0SsOh hA4lhtl the herr papa went through queer performance. He would mash down two potatoes on a plate, cut two slices of meat and lay them on the potato, add spoonful of each vegetable to the heap aud crown the collection with a thick, unbuttered chunk of black bread. 1 thought he must have high bred dog about the plsce. For the first week or two that was any idea of the purpose for which the dish was prepared. Then learned that the hodgepodge was the servant girls allowance. She was per mitted to clear the plate, but not mouthful more was hers From what observed afterward l concluded that any effort on her part to get more would have had dire results. The herr papa certainly would have had all apo plectio it. The frau mamma probably would have torn her hair and burst On the spot the moment she heard such request The consciousness of such pos abilities evidently was what deterred the girl from asking for more. All the time was in the boarding house she worked her IS hours day with three portions of coffee and black bread and the hodgepodge have described as her sole nourihsment
 "One day last May we made trip in- to the Harz mountains We went US a big German family, carrying all of our three meals, our beer and our wraps with us-that is the servant girl car ried them with Us. She had strapped on her back deep conical basket capable of holding about two bushels. The bas- ket had been packed with ham, sausage, bread, beer and various other resources of the delicatessen shop. On top of the provisions were packed the wraps. Loaded with the two bushels of miscel- lany, the servant girl brought up the rear of our procession through Bruns- wick and was showed into seatless fourth class car, and the rest of us got into q second class car, and away we spun to the foot of the Harz mountains
 Now, not wanting the reputation os long distance liar, 1 shall not tell you ell the wonders performed by that serv- ant girl that picnic tramp Suffice is to say that she was with the procession, up hill and down dale, climbing rocks and sliding down the steep places. We began tramping up the mountains at 6:30, and at II o'clock my wife and were so tired that we took to ponies, but the servant girl, with her wicker cone of delicatessen. didn't turn hair When dinner came. she got only hel little plateful of sausage and black bread When supper came, she got only bottle of beer and black bread Yet when it was all over she stood up in her fourth class car while the rest of us dozed on our second class seats. She walked home uncomplainingly behind us, and the next day not boot was un. blacked or a peg unpublished in the whole establishment. She did not bo- come suddenly lame or weak or get call to go at once to her sick sister OF receive notice of the funeral of all aunt or uncle In short, none of those things shat harrow the souls of American eerg- ant girls with regularity turned up to disturb her industry. She simply work. ed On
 And thas is what they Ill do-work. put their &10Gey III the bank and gtt married Outside of marriage couldn't see Shat anything was likely to move the German servant girl to give notice. Every girl has her book in which are recorded all the changes which the ordi- nary course of human life may cause her to make The entries are made by her successive mistresses, and she is never engaged without her having shown her book. A girl who started out i'll 8 city with book recording semimonth- iy changes throughout tho whole of her working career would have no chance of finding employment on the face of tho whole German empire. That may
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