New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-24
SOME INTERESTING LETTERS.
SERVANTS. SCHOOLS AND sTREETCARs DIS
CUSSED BY TRIBUNE READERS.
ABOUT FOREIGN SERVANTS.
10 me Editor Of INC Tribune.


To The Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir In your issue OF The Sem-Weekly Tribune
Of December g. 1897 4. a letter from correspond
emit signing herself-or himself-"Reader." No pa
triotic American concur with this woman X
she desires vrtuous servants. Having been en-
ployed translator OF German. Austro- Hungarian.
French and Belgian statistics. car authoritatively
affirm that the immortality OF female house ser
wants in those countries is greater than that OF
women occupied In any other employment. except
millinery and dressmakng. The little books re-
ferred 10 by your Reader were originally insti-
tuted to control the payments on the several In
surances in which all the working classes are
obliged insure themselves and the police au-
thorities are more interested in the collection Of
the marks and pfennings than In keeping track OF
their morals Mstresses In these several coun-
tries do not usually whether their servants
are moral or not. If they understand their work
and do It quickly well and at low wage. 1t IS
TO be hoped that American women have not be-
come so conta minated with French novels and
foreign morals that they have ceased 10 care for
the virtue OF their house servants.
In the apartment and private houses OF Cont
mental Europe the cooks chambermads. walt
resses and men servants sleep in the upper stories.
usually far away from their employers, whose
chief thought is that ali the servants should be
sstir early and that they themselves should not be
robbed
1t is TO be hoped and desired that The Tribune
Will directly or Indirectly encourage me lihihi-
grafton OF such servants. many OF whom leave
their native land because they have become notori-
Gus and all because they earn higher wages
here.
Servants and wistresses are on par as far as
goodness and capablity are concerned In Amer
lea Ignorant. ohiftess. lazy housewives will ruin
a good servant Immediately, because such mis-
tresses are always unreasonable. not knowing now
10 order and command their maids or children;
being exacting the servants become discouraged.
then impairment. but a woman VINO knows now
to do ali kinds of homework and cooking that she
desires her servants to do will be respected and
obeyed by them ,-,.
Every young woman before beginning housekeep-
ing should be carefully instructed In the duties In
cumbent upon a mistress she should. first OF all
learn how 10 do the work herself. then how 10
order the servants do It, and when American
housewives know how to work themselves they
will better understand the length OF tms necessary
for all labor I'm a clean. wel-ordered ana udy
house There will be fewer complaints ABOUT ser
wants when the mistresses know what they want
and how order IL done.
have heard impertinence from servants
in England and France than | ever heard IN Amer
lea II IL only the mistresses who change continu-
ousy that make complaints about the maids.
could not refrain from putting In my protest 10
the immigration OF immoral persons after reading
Readers request. Yours truly. AMERICAN.