The age-herald., 1900-05-06
4 LITTLE SERMON
 BY MRS. WILCOX
The Gifted Authoress Tells How ManyLittIe Domestic Scenes
 Can Be Avoided.

The world is full of the unemployed, yet, it is full of homes where help is needed and vainly sought.
 Volumes could be written of good sug- gestion, which if acted upon, would assist in remedying this growing evil. But just now I have few words only to offer to the mistress seeking good servants and to the servants seeking good mistresses. First, I want to talk to the lady of the house.
 When you employ a servant, madame, to work for you, remember that she is a human being not a machine. Do not ex- pect to wind her up and keep her going as long as you may need her services If you do not allow her intervals of recrea- tion and rest you will find that in winding her up you wound the alarm also. You have absolutely no right, madame, to deny your domestic the privilege of receiving callers. Unless girl who works all day In your kitchen has the evening, or one or two evenings each week, to look forward to her pleasure and amusement, what sort Of life is hers? She might better be a horse tied in her stall
 She has social side to her nature just as you have, and while you should request decency and regularity in hours, she should be allowed to receive callers, male and fe- male while in your employ. Do not expect your domestic to keep well and cheerful, if you grve her shoe box for a bedroom-and that shoe box over the kitchen Architects have much to do with the servant trouble. A servant is of all people entitled to a good bed and well ventilated room.
 If the cook will now lend me her ear, I will offer her word of counsel. Of course l am addressing myself to the intelligent housemaid not to the incompetent, con scienceless unfortunates who, like drift wood, come and go with the tides.
 If you are listening to me at all I am sure you have the capacity to understand what I mean.
 Your profession, or trade, or art, as you choose to make 1t, is the only one on earth which can always, no matter how hard the times, command ready money and be In constant demand. Whatever other ne- cessities in life may be given up people always want good cooks and housemaids. If you choose to make the effort to be a capable and economical cook you are sure Of well-paid employment as long as you de- sire it. Your expenses will be very light, and if you cultivate agreeable qualities you win not only money, but appreciation and affection for your work. Few of us win all of these.
 You say you want a good place where you can feel at home Then begin by mak- ing the place homelike; and, in the mean time, remember it is the home also of your employers.
 Recollect that people keep help in order to enjoy the pleasures of home. Chief among these pleasures is the entertain ing of friends. When your mistress tells you guests are coming do not sulk grumble.
 If you were a saleswoman at a large shop you would not feel you should scowl at your employer when a crowd of people come to be waited upon. That is what he would pay you for-to wait on customers. It is precisely what you are employed in the kitchen for-to wait on your employers and their friends.
 In any business some days are harder than others. Your mistress has her hard days-so does the Queen of England and the lady of the White House.