Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-26


young girl who before she was wife
expressed her disgust at the women
who continually talked about their
servants, but after her marriage, when
she was in the midst of u discussion
of this never ending subject and re-
minded by n friend of her former re-
marks. said Il wonder that they talk
about anything else" The business
man engaging Il clerk pays him for
certain work and expects him to be
capable of doing that work He needs
a competent bookkeeper Numbers APP
pear to apply for the situation. Each
tells OF his experience. his ability. and
offers his references. The business man
engages that one who seems to be most
competent. most healthy and about
whom the best words are said by a
former employer. who gives a reasona-
BILE excuse for having dismissed him
from his employ. That man expects
that In a few days his bookkeeper viii
have learned the special methods of the
establishment and be competent
workman. He knows that he would not
dare to pose as Il first class bOokkeeper
unless he was one. He understands
that a business man does not write IA
reference for an employee unless 1t is
deserved. and the employer would
think the world was coming to an end
II, at the end of the first day the man
engaged to keep the books announced
that he did not know very much about
hem. but that he was very good at
putting corks In cologne bottles.
But that IL the sort OF treatment that
comes to the mistress of house. She
a a fnr "a n..ut a,Iu ..,ly
cook appears. either in answer to an
advertisement. from an employment
agency or through some friend. She
presents her recommendation It is
written evidently by lady and ac-
eording to 1t this woman has all the
virtues md is n perfectly competent
cook. Her first dinner is an absolute
failure. The meat liz cooked to death,
while watery potatoes, greasy vegeta-
bles and heavy pastry constitute the
menu. The mistress signs. After din
ner she has little talk with her new
employee, only to discover that where
she lived before she did not do the
cooking, lust helped around the
house" but she wanted to be a cook,
and Mrs. Montmorenci Brown was so
kind hearted that she gave me recon-
mend as one" My friend. what right
has Mrs. Montmorenci Brown to tell an
absolute untruth on paper? Yet this
untruth Is not the worst that has come
to you or to me. brought by some one
desiring to literally live with u.s.
A well known woman who would
have been horrlned. for she was espe-
Uially conspicuous in church work, at
being told that she was sinner COM
mitted a crime of the deepest dye.
which she excused on the ground of
,'feeling sorry for the girl" To wait
ress who had been caught stealing
money she gave recommendation for
honesty. From the next household which
this girl entered she stole more than
money. She took magnificent silver,
wonderful jewels, fine pieces of bric-a-
brac. and handed them over to her
sweetheart to pawn, while she disap-
peared. When the detectives looked up
her references, which her mistress
should have done. they discovered that
this lady. knowing her to be n thief.
had yet allowed her to go into other
homes as an honest girl, As u woman
to woman, as a housekeeper to a
housekeeper. have the strength OF mind
to give nothing but an honest recon-
mendation TO the servant who leaves
you or whom you discharge. And new
er fail to date your reference, Tor
girl who may be honest today may be
thief next year while she who may
have been sweet and pure and good
while with you may be deprayed in six
months time.
Each of US, as we enter the little place
that means home, whether 1t be tiny
house or a small Hat in some great city,
is Overlooking with hop about the wo-
man who while we employ her, will
yet help make the house a home. Each