New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
sSOME WAYS OF THE WORLD
DNE WOMANS EXPERIENCE WITH HER
DoMESTICS-UNSOCI TEN
DENCIES AND THEIR
RESULTS.
rhs Delineetor, tn,

Everything nowadays seems TO IN waves.
nd there is comfort in the theory. for when
any trouble seems particularly enguling can
always console himself by thinking that after it
11as passed his head he may sail in calmer
i~ate-s. The papers often comment on this fact
end speak OF epidemic or wave (for they are
practically the ttling) of suicide, Of murder
%. en1bezziement. etc: but the minor evils which
also seem to bear out the wave theory sell
dom noticed, although they may affect society al
most as much. For instance just there is an
uncomfortable and seemingly far-reaching wave
that is seriously interfering with suburban com
fort and that is the urwillingness that appears
suddenly to have the entire servant class to
go to the country
YOU eeel discouraged because you have changed
cooks four times this autumn. and your last one
IS going leave you," exclaimed woman who
had been rendered calm through desperation
why my dear, 1 have had sixteen cooks since
the beginning of September! You never saw such
g crew. I wish I had taken snapshots Of each one
of therr-it would have been beautiful collection.
One Of them happened to arrive just as my hus-
Eand drove up from the station. GOOD gracious,
-IiEnie: he exclaimed, as he came in now dld
YOU manage to get the fat woman from Barnums :?
.why the woman I engaged was quite slirn.' an
svered; 1t can't be the same person But when L
went TO the kitchen I found that the reason that
she looked SO abnorInaliy fat was. that TO save
the expense of trunk, she had put on all her
wardrobe one dress top Of another.
She stayed a week. but the next one left the
IN the hall and did say good morning to her.
.I have always lived with gentlemen she SAID to
me with great dignity. have no fault TO f1nd with
80, -na,aro she added condescendingly, but Mr
SIS manners ] can't 60
I've almost forgotten the majority OF inena'
they came in such quick succession; but the worst
of all was a blue Scotch Presbyterian woman VINO
ordered me out of my kitchen and who sang
fynns at the top of her voice in shrlA laISetto
ON account Of the fanly's digestion was op'Se
10 keep her until could get some one ese lcI ie
ant
week. / went Into the hlchSI4, Wa -
afraid of her. She would shout in triumph / 1eaT
no foe with Thee hand TO bless be1ng eNl-
Sentlv the foe-anG Christian, dOst thou see them
tho shey prowl aroundF The accent she put upoI.
-xr-r-oHl' which she would prolong into sort OF
q long growl, ininiIa6le, ana then with z
Christian up anG snite themH the enemy again
being myself
the woman / have wishes stay, and that seems
ao he the main thing this year. In better days
might have objected her, but just now am so
utterly humble that 1 feel that any one who does
not give warning is q treasure
"A man who has assumed the burden or hndtne
servants for the household is pathetic OBJECT this
season." said another woman. commenting on the
situation -, =.
i am sure either a Widower or has an invalid wife
fprobabiy the latter. for wtdower would be sure
TO have female friend only too ready TO take
such worries of his ShoulderSB, whom nave seen
several times at the purveyors OF social require
Inents. ard he looks weary and wretched that
feel really sorry for him. Yesterday heard him
YOU sent says she Will not stay. either. And then
with a CLEAN OF hope: How about that crosseyed
bonely woman / last week and said could
not stand2 She seemed so anxious to come thai
perhaps CHE will Try to suit Poor mani 1 hope
she proved kind and worthy, although ugly. and
that his troubles over"