The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-29
SERVANTS Nv NEW ORLEANS.
Trials of Housekeepers with Colored Help,
md Their Peculiarities.

ana lnelr fecul1arltles.
No doubt there are intelligence offices and
hther modern means OF obtaining servants
uptown" but downtown" In New Orleans
the long established custom is to ask the milk
man. the washerwoman the vegetable seller
h he or she knows OF girl. He always does
know OF a girl-several girls apiece. in fact
Ind candidates for office soon begin to drop in
by twos and threes. not quite sure that they
want place. but willing to try it. You engage
three or four. for some sure not to come.
though all will dlsavow in a shocked way any
intention OF disappointing you.
Il have a word" remarked one candidate
severely: but she was among those who were
never seen again.
II the freshly engaged girl Is a cook she will
always behave in a lost and bewildered way
during her first days in the strange kitchen.
You see. I don't know you-aIfs ways she
will explain. las IT," remarked one house
keeper. water isn't always boiled in kettle
and battercakes fried on griddle In every
kitchen!'
Colored servants are quarresome among
Themselves as naughty children. Totote and
Nounoune-" little names" for Charlotte and
Jua-will get along beautifully for months.
perhaps. In the pauses Of their work-and
there are so many pauses!-the will waltz
together in the courtyard to the strains OF
some hand organ. play Jaokstones on the
kitchen floor and galiop neck and neck to the
courtyard gate at the slightest sound In the
street that promises anything like sensation.
Then. with the sudden uneNpectedness OF a
tropical storm. quarrel bursts forth. Totote
calls fat Nounoune an Attakapas beef" and
Nounoune retorts by calling lean Totote "a
black lizard" Family history on both sides is
ransacked to furnish material for taunts and
insults and the tempest RACES until some one
in authority appears and commands silence.
Then it subsidies into grumbings and mutter-
ings but ready to break out again at mo-
ment's WARNING.
Jealousy is fruitful source OF disse nsion
among colored girls With them " Cherchex
rhomrnp" might be substituted for the more
familiar "Chsrclez la fe,une' queer light
was cast upon the customs OF coored society
by the reply OF a housegir. when her employer
asked, why is Vctore the cook always so
dread'uIly cross the day alter BALI Does she
Tn girl gIgged as she answered: Nom;
that amt IT,. You see Nictoire's so ugly she has
and that way she spends IN. all her money,
and tho mrH day it makes her feel mad to think
On the other hand. il you have. belle IN
your employment, the aftermath OF a ball will
be series Of visits made by Jealous syains.
well. didn't dance, with you, and p'omepade
y Your coat on" tails ali night"
No" snarled tho Jealous lover. you was
wouldn't never have, looked at you II you
hadGt oered aIter him hi 50 g much IN
the n prd 5H H n. SS beauty don't have to
t tReE r Ike your %% ~ Wien that has t
Their family relations, indeed. form so tan
gcd a sken that only sage could unrayel 1t.
But your mother is Marie" said her en-
roy"r and hers is Madeleine. How then are
'By mch paw" answered the girl.
II is only Just to say that the colored men are
rule the coored swain f1rmly refuses to go
Ia Cathedral with the girl OF his choice, He is
quito willing to loaf on her earnings, but he
hun, He "ain't goin' to be tied TO no one
oman" But, oh, the pride OF tho girl who
manages 70 be lawful marTeid an" sian can m q hr
tR S n" e% r% aoW any one to forget stfayed
rcyc.icr. who was sprawnG on Somenouy
IRON, steps in an cXtrome state OF SpirituoH,s;
hcwildrrnl"nt. was heard announcing herself
as a "'sprctahlo married oman and Offering
to show her "hccnt' to any one Interested IN
WIEN grand Saturday night ball churcn
festival or u moonlight picnic is in prospect
Of the DOMESTIC servants. 1t i like my my
grandmothnr's funeral during n" baseball
season. The employer Is accordingly asked
for an advance to pay for medicine. candles Tor
he iuncrHl' &c. III was raised up with that
boy" Claire will sigh. wrlng away an imagl-
nary tenr supposed 70 Gei tTlnui9
d"scrihcs the sufferer dying moments. and
h"'TToI d 10 az kti-him It IS pGzzIipS to know
why they shout keep M tins Transparent
farce. since Southcrners are provcrbally easy;
going. and recognize fully the negro's need oil
diversion.
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