The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
DUTY OF THE MISTRESS.
ONE SECRET or GETTING ALONG
WITH ONES SERVANTS.


From the New York Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. June Bridegroom had their
first out-and-out quarrel the other day. 1t
was about the management of domestic
servants. You see The June Bridegrooms
We're married a year ago last June and
have had time a-plenty to gain lots Of OK
perience along this line. And they haven't
wasted any time either. They've had
nine cooks and thirteen upstairs girls Mr.
June bridegroom says he never could IN
derstand before why a combination cham
bermaid and waitress should be called an
upstairs girl, but since he's learned how
lofty these servants are and how high and
mighty in their ways he does now. He
thinks, though. that the description up
stairs is too lowly ono to be applied to
this creature, and that war-baloon sirl
would be a far better name.
on each one of the twenty-five occasions
when Mr. June Bridegroom has hurried
from his Office 20 his wife and home, to
be met with the fearful announcement.
The cooks gone, or THE upstairs girls
gone, he has felt like saying things but
he has restrained himself, He really de-
served the pats that he gave himself on
the back for preserving his patience and
remaining silent, for he sincerely believed
that he knew as much about how to man
age servant girls as he thought his wife
didn't know, He went home last Thurs
day earlier than usual, skipped up the
steps three at a time, grabbed his wife in
his arms and announced triumphanuy:
Three of my old college chums are
coming out with me on Saturday al noon
to stay until Monday"
Mrs. June Bridegroom pushed him back,
looked up at him in startled way, and
burst into tears.
Why. what on earth is the matter,
dearie?" asked the surprised young hus-
band. Have you a headache?"
Mrs, June Bridegroom shook her head
negatively.
Bad news from homer"
Another negative shake.
Did the dressmaker spoil your new or
gandie?"
A vigorous, protesting bob emphasized
by a sob
wen, what is the matter with you?
Have you gone mute?'
MOO" came very family, "but she's
going"
who is going and where and when?"
inquired June Bridegroom impauently.
do you take me for a professional mind
reader?"
why, the co-h-o-oks going Saturday.
She's given me notice, and the upstairs
girl says she really likes us very well and
that we are more agreeable than most
folks, but chat, if the cook goes, she'll go,
too she says it's too hot to be bothered
with getting acquainted with a strange
cook and learning her ways"
well, I'm hangedi' exclaimed Mr.. June
bridegroom. and he yanked off his coat
and waistcoat and flung them down on the
floor
you never used such a word before me
before, sobbed the wife. If my mother
heard that she'd take me straight home
You ought to feel sorry for me instead of
getting angry and using such dreadful
language. ii isn't my fault if tine cook
won't stay and the upstairs girl follows
her. I'm sure it's no picnic hunting for
new servants and breaking them in. 1
think you are just 100 mean for anything
It's just like my chum Dorothy Dickens
told me She said a sweetheart was one
thing and husband another. and ! real
ize now that she knew what she was talk
ing about. She hadn't been married five
years for nothing. 1t isn't my fault if the
cook
The sentence ended in choking guteral
sobs that would make Buffalo Bits In
dian squaws ashamed of their utterances
I'm bet Bob Dickens thinks he hasn't
been married five years for nothing, too
answered June Bridegroom, with what his
wife calls his very hatefulest smile. 1T is
your fault that the cook is going, and I've
known all along that it was your fault
that the other nine went, to say nothing
of the thirteen upstairs girls who have
sneaked off or taken violent leave 1t all
comes of you not knowing how TO manage
your servants. Whose fault is il if it
isn't yours2 never interfere with the
servants and you needn't tell me that
they'd walk out Of an easy berth such rs
they have here of their own accord. OF
course it's your fault If ] could only
get couple of weeks off I'd show you
now to manage servants. My mother used
to keep her servants years al time, and
when woman doesn't do chat 1t shows
that there is something wrong, not with
the maids, but with the mistress. All
that | want to know about a woman 10
read her character is the number of times
she changes her servants. Talk about
reading the lines in a womans hand 10