The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-23
IbHY SERVANTS LEAVE.
HE CASES or TROUBLES OF
 N HOUsEK PEPPERS.


 Sys yvhim Enough to Mako servan, IHN1& Her Employer--One Case in
 yltsA Servants Had a Motive for x &1Sy 1tnink k-Deterioration - of Ser. ;Satss
 Here Is some material on which a Psychological study of the servant girl eetlon might be based. Tn theory al {ets spsych hology offers much promise as #flltIhE .else in sight of affording re- X& fxpm the conditions Of which house. 4&pars complain. Get clear under
 mqing of the menta! processes by men a servant arrives at a decision to |4YeHa place and you will be on the )4d to discovering a means, if there is $ 1eans, of inducing her to keep a
 he melancholy tales that follow are XIV selected from the personal eXpe- 45lESs of many housekeepers. While | x rp WAY unusual they were chosen <n4uSeg they seemed to throw light on {0{6 plases of the workings of the ser-
 3& RIrl's mind.
 4& Hher0ines of these tales were all
 And most of them had just start
 &lBE ' pn their career. For that reason
 TIN 0ase exhibit better the nature of
 Influences and opinions and ambi-
 That mould the average servant
 (x1t as to the influence of the ser lI etniIy:
 ( 1et came from small place in &3HA4 She lived with her mother, l09A yas very poor, and occasionally
 worked in, the fields along with the |Sf ThAt was the training on which frlva1 in America she based an Getnent that "a competent girl, &lH lapded, desires place to do gen.
 h1usework."
 he had an elderly aunt here whose &b&&d was we'll to do and she stopped
 ner till she got g place. In the
 tg1s EIace she got, she was treated Ie| Ely. 6ver-worked, ill-fed and ill., 9E$ N The second place was kind of | d family of two and they lived x which made the work easier. T z fA practically the same fare as f up30yers and had a better room |638 blV than any one in her native vil-
 tl Ireland. As she knew nothing
 most of the washing
 &&fit out. As she knew nothing of
 VQrk, her mistress did about half
 sEQrk. As she knew nothing of lef{MK her employers dined out as he Rs they could.
 4aE wHges were several times as large Es man would have received in her RSIS&s village. From an uncouth, gaW- |si. 12Sns 4 woman she grew plump and
 N aunt, a sensible woman, kept
 fuIat ting her on her good luck, 41 E6rning her to do nothing to lose r place. Bridget agreed with her.
 wrote to her sister in Ireland to 9i ' over, and gave so rosy an account x! n3erica that not only her sist CT but tio hcr as well came here. That
 2fae Beginning of the end
 }f mother told Bridget that so fine 15nS Q girl ought to have a better
 2ild higher wages. Bridget began i1satisfied. a5t ...,.f NIT Hitter got place at higher wages E1f midget, though she kept 1t only |2a sSg&ak, Bridget felt that she had b0hind her sister and threw out fo her mistress about raising her
 mother being idle and the sister
 f0le they were able to go about
 TIT their friends, and they told Z If about it all. Bridget demand {! Gr4 nights out.
 Xt tliis point the end was merely a z of time. Bridget was a warm
 fG4 girl, and she wept as she left. Ifs he felt. Her mistress saw her go <& relief and vexation maingled, {8UB fa fair servant was spoiled by f frtends. Her mistress heard from x Skt intervals for six months or more kGNerd through various women who 2lIed up her references. Sometimes XSl TT sA cook, sometimes an up stairs |is4 6llt she stayed in no place long. kii6fher view of housework was that 1Slted by girl of nineteen. Her 3lgiite were Swedes and she was born v town out in Jersey, where her pa made their home. This experi- aSMconcerns her first place. She was |EIff. quick to learn and found a 2130ye On the third day the girl said 11 6be had received letter from her }fIIer summoning her home. Fiia nitstress replied with such argu- N te Sae that no letter had been deliv- I6 there, but in vain Consent to her |tIrninE home being given, the girl |s Induced to confess that she was Inx home simply because she wanted ,PS fhe work here too hard?" asked ! Mistress. IT no, the maid replied; che had to l fd much harder at home. Are you not well fed?' Is your l Irn not comfortable?" the mistress fnd. ltSh. yes," the maid replied; indeed l aEhad never had anything like it be- | Are you better paid for your work at 1 ne 2? the mistress asked. oh. sno,' the maid replied; her moth never gave her any money at all. ,ressed then for her reason for leav- %sl1e eaid she had got tired of her