The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24


/ Golden Wedding 1--WE had fifty years
experience at housekeeping my dear and
| WIN never fewer than four servants 50
| You can reap the beneht of my experience.
| I've watched your management of your
! Servants and you make the mistake that
nine out of ten women, od and young
/ make I've felt so sorry for YOU and want
| % 20 help YOU, but feared lest you'd think
that l misht better be attending TO my
| own affairs. To get back to the mistake
tnat / referred to. Fer the first five years
OF my married life my kitchen was a ka-
le'doscope of cooks. 1 changed 50 often
ana the other servants came and went
| with the same frequency, and then
T~learned how to deal with them. l had
German girls, Irish glr,s American girls
! 9"eHes' negroes ana what not lin that
| time, and their ages varied from sweet 16
! 10 sere co. / got them through advertise
! ments ana employment bureaus mostly
ana Wouldnt dream of getting girl thai
way now
WHAT exclaimed the young house
Keeper Il should feel myself lost if
| DION nave a 1east one or Two advertise
Heh1s TO write each month and didn't pay
! several dollars into The treasury of these
servant exchanges"
Quit it," said the old woman. emnnat-
lcaily' When YOU want a cook 20 TO ne
! COOK OF neighb0r or friend one who has
! OeeH IN her place long time and ask her
! 70 recommend a friend When Won want
/ a waitress, 20 to a girl that Won know tn
/ ne Il Sood waitress and ask her to do the
! same Their friends are almost sure to
! o@ women of the same character and cana
! piAty, ana i'm this way you are apt to Get
| excellent girls. You can't Judge a servant
| tH1t you secure through an exchange or
! an advertisement by her recommendations
! Tor housekeepers often give servants a
! me send-otf 60 get rid OF them in peace.
Long ago 1 was guilty OF doing this my
/ sell. but l wouldn't dream of doing such
| thing now
As soon as YOU get a servant show her
/ your way of doing things. Don't expect
her to learn everything in one lesson. Make
! up your mlnd to go over the same ground
| AGAIN and again if necessary, and bv no
| means allow yourself to instruct her in a
! Idult-hnding spirit or spirit of reproof
! Teach her as workman teaches an APP
prentice and your find her eager enough
to learn Above all, if you want to keep
| your servants after you've trained them
don't make their lives a burden by seeing
| that they mind their business; see that
you mind your own"
There, now" calculated June Bride
groom, lighting cigarette and smiling
! triumphanHy, st told you So
You didn't do anything Of the kind.
! You only grunted." retorted his Wife
But tell you just what you mean by mind
ing my business as far as my servants are
concerned?' turning her attention again
to her old friend
Simply this" said she of large expert
! euce. THE average woman takes too
| much interest in the affairs of her SER
| wants She wants to know what church
they go TO, where they spend their even
! ings out who their visitors are what
! time they get in when they go out all
! about their relatives, what they do with
their wages ana thousand other things.
! Servants are human beings and they re-
! sent this. Any living creature who earns
! a living, even If it is starvation living
| acquires the spirit of independence and
/ we should respect this in our servants.
| If you'll learn to treat your servants ex-
| actly as your husband treats the en-
| plOyes in his Office, your domestic troubles
| viii end at once. Men have no trouble in
! retaining porters, clerks, cashiers book
! keepers, ana slenographers in their en-
/ pioy for life time What we women
must learn is 10 treat our servant girls
! as business women, and our grooms and
/ gardeners. and furnace men as business
| men. Suppose your husband asked the
men in his office the questions about their
/ dOinss and gOings and comings that you
| ask your servants. He wouldn't have a
boy or man left in his employ in a weeks
| time if they had any self-respect, and
| know they have. 1t is because the aver
| age woman viii not let her servant he
| independent that she cannot keep her. At
/ ter [ learned to do this l had no more
trouble
But I thought it was the right thing
to look out for the moral and spiritual
| well being Of ones servants" protested
the young wife, and I've been so con
scientious about that"
'Its a great mistake. Take an interest
in your servants" advised Mrs. Golden
Wedding, but don't harass them with
! their souls salvation and such things As
l said, learn to mind your own business;
that's the keynote Of success in getting
1 along with servants. I've followed this
| plan fOrty-five years. and shall follow il
until I'm planted. My girls come and go
| as their work permits; they spend their
| wages as they see fit. l never ask them
question except about their work, but
they voluntarily tell me from day to day
of their pleasures and disappointments, Of
their friends and relatives and SO on
They are satisfied because they know that
when their work is done their private life
is their own, that they have secured the
| reward of a bread-wnuer woman indie
pendence. You try my plan, for I know
it works TO perfection, and don't forget
70 mind your own business"
IT shall certainly try your way" said
the young woman, smiling happily once
more
Forgive me. dearie," said her husband
strolIing her hair.
Forgive your she repeated. "Why.
what for? 1t was all my fault entirely,
| ana I'm sure you do know all about man
aging servants and at this Mr.. and MRS
Golden Wedding exchanged an under
| standing smile.
On the Way Home-Jimmy-Did
you hear the Sunday school teacher say
your conscience is what tells you when
you do wrong?
Tommy-Its a good thing it don't tell
| your mother.-Puck.