Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-09

tho movement for factory hands, and
those sorts OF people. Your arguments
for that would be the usual ones, I sup
pose, and | know all about them, and
really could not work up a semblance
OF interest l mean. how did you come
to take the idea homer"
IF I must tell you"
"oh, you must, Of course; 60 far, I
have done all the talking"
Wei the affair was simple enough.
l had been at the meeting Of a debating
society. serving my apprenticeship for
greater things, which have not yet ar
rived: and I believe l expounded my
views warmly, and advocated the public
movement with enthusiasm. On my re-
turn home. 6red with my " ardour,
and not a little pleased with myself as
a budding friend of a man, l found a
drowsy footman waiting for me in the
hall, and had my brandy and soda
brought me by an anaemic. 1adedIook-
Ing maid. Something In the faces Ut
those people reminded me OF the pathet-
&c picture I myself had drawn a couple
OF hours before. Of the commercial oper-
atives who have no time to call their
souls their own. 1 asked the girl when
she had risen; she told me at SIX
o'clock: it was then 2:30; I inquired ii
she was likely to rise at that same hour
that morning. She answered hastily
and apologetically: oh, yes, sir, of
course told her to go away, AMI
have her breakfast in bed. She de-
camped, convinced that I was either
mad or drunk. certainly dangerous, and
resolved then and there on the course
have adopted since"
With success?"
We'll. possibly. only with partial
success at first"
i don't understand 1t. II your se.-
wants work only eight hours a day. it
seems to me that you must get your
breakfast or your dinner for yourself.
Fancy the clock striking, jus: as Mary
Jane has sent the soup up, and having
to come down oneself to take up the
fish, only to find it In rags"
Osborne laughed. I'VE did have one
or two mishaps at first, admit" he
said. Overtime saved us from a do
nestle crash, however, until [ had got
my system cut and dried. My people
now begin at different hours; shifts is
the commercial term, Lady Emilia. At
ter the expiration OF the eight hours.
they are no more my ervan than
the cotton operatives outside the mill.
should no more ask one of them to
hand my hat and cane. than | should
think of flying. To our domestic state
occasions they look forward as to a har-
vest, the harvest of overtime, and we
rub along c%ontentedly, I assure you"
Yet you don't live en- garcon?"
No; my sister heads my household
at present, and my cousin, Miss Rayne,
is always with u.s."
And isn't 1t very expensive?"
"No. l don't think SO. l cut my coat
according to my cloth, for I am any
thing but a millionaire. My peoples
eight hours work is real work. 1t is
not that weary, purposeless dwadling
about. waiting at the beck and call of
others. which constitutes the existence
OF the average domestic. 1t is brisk, in
MIGRATING, lively. If I have-and | am
not sure of that-one or two more hanls
that 1 absolutely need, what does It
matter? No la can hate me because
he feels himself my drudge; no, ror
woman, neither, thank heaven!"
And your men-servants-I don't
mean your bailiffs and stewards, and
the like-but your grooms and foot
met-are they really married mem"
why not? Having but eight hours
work to put in at my house, they are
at liberty to live in cottages On my es-
tate II they like. 1t would be contre
regle to discuss the question in all its
bearings with you, Lady Emilia, but
do not our newspapers constantly de-
plore the vices OF the servants hail?
Does not every householder know,
from some sort of painful experience,
what those vices are. and what they
lead to? tell you ~candidly that the
easements Of some houses to which our
women-folk go, unhesitatingly, are lit
tie better than-but there, this is not
the time or place to mount my hobby.
I only bore you"
There was a sparkle OF interest in
Lady Emilia's eyes; not that he told
her anything new; she had kept house
too long (Mr. Dachet's house. which re-
iected in the basement the Characters
tics OF its proprietor) not to under
stand all that he left unsaid; but 1t
amused her that any man should carr
about these things. or trouble his head
so long as his dinner was served pro-
perly the attendance neat and p~unctual.