Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-27

and eats her dinner after civilized
fashion, but this never happens again.
She is too lazy to care about being
dainty, and she would rather eat lit
tie now and a little then, standing or
sitting, as she fancies, and not be
bothered with being, as she puts it.
so awful particular. A fit of cry
ing? Of course you have had it. We
all have had it, We have all arranged
comfortable bedrooms, we have all
tried to make eating something more
refined than it usually is in the kltch-
en-, but the employee not only does not
meet the mistress half way, but when
her friends visit her she tells as
great joke how 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
great deal OF money on this woman.
who was i'll when she came TO you.
Two weeks after, when you We're tired
out from general nursing and hoped to
be able to rest a little, this young wo-
man appeared and 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 Maggie, with
that wonderful GOODNESS that belongs
to her ilk and that still more wonder
full ingratitude, answered: 1es'
ma am, that is just the reason why
If you had been the lady | thought
you. you would not have done So
Now. what is to be done? You ana
are tender hearted women, and wnen
trouble comes to some one VINO IS IN
our kitchen cur hearts go out TO the
sufferer, and we give OF our best IN
every way, only to be hurt afterward
Have YOU and |, who count ourselves
and who are good mistresses, ever
known a maid TO say, BY dong thus
and so I can save 20 cents? On, no!
If YOU and | see the great need TO
economic and go into the kitchen ana
insist upon it, we are spoken OF as
mean Care as to the amount OF
food used, the quantity Of coal burned,
of gas lighted or consideration gwen
to clothes is never proper in the eye
of the domestic servant 1t is simply
the evidence of close fistedness Care
of something because it is beautiful,
because it was given to you by some
body you loved, is Greek to the aver
age servant Dishes and glasses were
made, TO break, and if you bother peo-
pie to dust bric-a- brac you must expect
it to suffer. The average maid servant
not only believes that dust is the
blood of time, but also that 1t should
be a never fading blossom.
1t is all wrong. But how are We going
to straighten il? Sometimes You do
meet a domestic servant who counts
her word as worth something and who
does not claim to be able to do every
thing. But why is It that all are so
positively unwilling to learn? If you
and | 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 rooney. | fear that
100 often, the employee does bad work
because 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 happiness. TO DO it well
is counted as Of no worth. You know
perfectly we'll that although Caroline.
Maggie or Jane may have five tau
feathers in her hat and a frock Of the
newest fashion. her underwear is torn.
ta.terod, miserably poor and positively
untidy. You use all your diplomacy
ntrying to frame a sentence that will
suggest to Caroline or Maggie, or Jane