The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

stream, does not turn soon, it won't be
long before the first ladies in our land
are Obliged to do their own general house
work and light cooking
1t was a housekeeper who had suffered
the Christening effect of the servant strug-
gle through years of experience at the
head of her own home, who delivered her.
self of this dark prophecy.
There is a stringeney in the inteli-
gence offices I've never known before" she
went on, land if any woman is lucky
enough to have a fairly decent housemaid
a possible cook, or a waitress that is even
moderately satisfactory, let her think
twice before Diminishing her and then don't
do it. As a matter of fact, it is wiser
now to show your servant every consid-
Grafton, even to voluntary raise in her
wages. Intelligence office benches are
bare or adorned with a few asplrants for
places whose eXactions are so exorbitant
or whose accomplishments are so few that
none but the sinfuly wealthy or the
craven-hearted could tolerate or employ
them.
when l made my complaint to the wo-
man in the employment bureau she con-
fessed that there were simply no better
material to be found and that If the status
of hired help didn't soon improve she and
her fellow professionals would be obliged
TO get out of the business. No more good
servants are coming over was her sad
dening assurance, and by every steamer
she tells me hundreds. not only of the
best Irish, but the Swedes and Germans
were going back to their respective faith
erlands. With this distressing informa-
ton. l went to see one of the heads OF the
immigrant station and he corroborated the
tale.
The Return of the Native.
bag and baggage and a-hre with love
of country the Irish especially are turn
Ing back to their own land and this led
me- TO make personal inquiries of NV
housemad Her story was the same
Whole families, she assures me, are sell
ing out and packing up to desert the Unit
ed States, men are going as well as wo-
men, and the women are leaving excellent
positions al high salaries 10 go back to
the old country. In ihe month OF May
she could give me the names of thirty re-
turning to County Cavan alone, ana for
the first time she said she knew of no
friends of her own, or friends of her
friends, who were arranging TO come out
to the new world.
Now this seems positively appalling.
does il not? But the closer you invesu-
gate AlllS question: the clearer comes the
reason for this migration that threatens
to utterly overwhelm the American house
keeper 1t is going to overwhem us be-
cause the price of servants Is going up
like a rocket but if you viii talk 10 the
Irish, Swedes and Germans you will be
sure 90 find that they are complaining
strenuously Of III health panic has
gone through the ranks of the Irish new
corners owing to the rlgors of our climate
One year in America will transform
buxom beauty from Ireland into a shad-
owy, feeble, white-faced creature living
on drugs. The serrors of accllmitization
have now struck home to the asprants for
travel on the other side
1T requires at least three years for an
Irish girl TO harden TO the conditions of
this country, and in an intelligence Office
the greenhorns and the Old stagers may be
classified at once by the different hue of
cheek. texture Of hair and DROPS of the
shoulders. our summers and winters alb
soiutely destroy all the beauty of the Eu-
. ropean peasant class, and not only the
beauty but the vigor of the women, so that
ind it is health quite as much as auy-