Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-03

must be sent: to them, and if a friend
comes for a visit her papers must also
De furnished to those vigilant guardians
OF the public and the emperor's safety,
says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. ,f.
by an unwritten social law the mis-
tress must delegate the marketing to the
COOK. We strongly suspect that coming
out of her Savings from this source,
for since her %besrothal the price of ev-
cry article has risen a krutzer or two.
Grocers and butchers give her many a
good "trlnkgeld" in return for the Gus
tom she brings them. Peppi, our last
cook, was too suspiciously eager to warn
her mistress against other servants.
Marie had emptied the decanters, Anna
had slipper pats of butter into her peck
et,' bat 1t was always last evening" or
before breakfast" ooh, Peppi, tell me
at the time or don't vex me with your
storles!' cried my rRuch-vexed cousin.
Peppl was suddenly taken i'll with chick
en-pox, and was sent to the hospital.
Then the locksnnith ventured to reveal
that she had tried to bride him to make
her a duplicate key to the storeroom.
:" Not for fifty gulden.' told herr So
Lima reigns in her stead.
The kitchen here, as in most Vienna
apartments, faces the front door. Every
one knows that a good cook is always a
sloven. Margaret's sou was sorely tried
under Peppis regime. All that was ask
ed of her was to cook to market and to
keep her kitchen tidy. She was an ideal
cook. 1t was absurd to expect her to be
an ideal cleaner. Moritz protested when
ever Margaret threatened to send her off.
Now, the kitchen floor shines with con-
slant scrubbing. Moritz groans over
burned soups and tough steaks.
Margaret threatened, after five Or six
~lncaDables had tried her soul, to do as
many women do here and in Germany,
and cook herself, but this Moritz will not
allow. Most Germans would think it an
excellent arrangement. THE cook has
left" is no excuse here for a picked
u%p-dinner.'
"Gretel,' said our friend Herr c. the
other day to his pretty eldest daughter,
Il have paid enough for your school, for
your music, drawing, sewing and cook
lessons. Now you may step into the
kitchen, for I shan't keep the cook any
longer" So Fraulein c. will put on
her neat apron over her nice gown, and
prepare excellent soups, ~roasts, salads,
buildings and pastries till Sister Ann
turn comes; each will fill later house
maids and seamstress's place, finding
time meanwhile to prepare piles of sheets,
pillow slips and table cloths, so that
when the hoped-for bridegroom comes
they may be all ready. A father can't
always give his daughter a dowry, but
he must give her a complete "setting
out" furniture, silver and household
linen, SO it's well to take the stitch in
time"
At Christmas it is usual to give SER
wants a ont wages extra, besides a
handsome present. The gentlemen friends
of the family often give them a gulden or
so as "~trinkgeld.'
'"Sundays OUT do not come to SER
wants very often. The day before Christ
mas they fast rigidly, confess and take
the sacrament, but if they went to mass
every week they'd be looked upon as
"unco guild" They're more eager to go
to balls than a church. After a hard
days work making fires in every room,
polishing the floor, brushing coats, cloaks
and skirts, busting, sweeping and MAX
ing beds, setting tables and washing
endless dishes, how can they waltz five
or six hours at night! But if permission
is refused they go on the sly; Lima will
sleep with one eye open, so that she
may let Mary or Anna slip in "un
knownst'' at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Next time they'll watch for her. They
can never get dancing enough.
In the open pavilions in the parks Tve
seen BONES in their pretty, coquettish
caps waltzing with one soldier after
another paying a kreutzer for each
dance as long as the stock of kreutzers
held out. The gallant sons of Mars sup
ply themselves with a many glass of beer
from this source. Meanwhile the poor lit
tie babies walled forgotten in their gay
carria ges outside.
Our janitor, the Hausaneister Braun, is
an autocrat within his domain, but
knows when to hide the iron hand under
the velvet glove. Economic anywhere
but here is a wise maxim. Indeed,
Braun will earn his "trinkgeld." No beg
gar, peddler or organ-grinder dares
show his face in the court; in spite of lit
tie feet tramping over them all day, halls