Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-10
A Servant Girl Writes.

| Slr:-ln an issue of the Wheeling
| News l noticed an article headed Ser
want Girl Problem" which read as if
| it were that the mistress of the house
had been very much abused while the
! servant girl had everything her way.
| /, being a servant girl, as you style
girls who work in other peoples
| houses, am in position to solve the
problem in a way which might better
the conditions to these much abused
mistresses were they to take time suf-
| ticient to read this answer.
| In the first place the person in need
of help advertises.
| Several idle ones answer Finally,
| after having had almost everything in
/ the servant line, the mistress selects
| one. She gives the newcomer her
plans of managing a house, and in most
cases the girl, or servant | should have
| said, laughing in her sleeves at her in
Structions, for in most cases the wis
! tress can talk, not act She begins tell
ing the first day the girl is there, and
| continues forever and always; but, 0
my! the poor girl. She drags and
drudges all day long from six in the
morning until-well she has no quit
ting hour, for the supper work can not
| be done until the family coErescends
/ to take their meal; then after her
/ supper work is at last finished some
time, and the poor girl is SO fatigued
| she does not care to become more so,
\ so concludes to remain in that even-
I ing. Well, where shall l sit? Not in
! the kitchen, for | have worked and lived
! in it most of the day; another reason
| very often the mistress comes peekin'
around to see how high the gas is
| burning, and ends by suggesting that
/ the girl had better retire for the night,
| so as to be able to rise early the next
| morning, and so she concludes to re-
| tire. SO she begins to reach her
room. OF course, l suppose you know
what her room is? o, yes, always in
the garnet, if any in the house, or some
other remote part where it looks as IL
/ they could hide you any farther back
| they surely would or any higher up.
If they had thought properly they
| IIould have had one made on top of
| the roof for you to count the stars if
| you weren't too tired. Well, having
reached the room the next is to reach
| the bed, and behold it if you can. A
| single little bed so hard that you'd feel
as If you had been down in the La
/ Belle mill lying on a piece of pig iron
| Scarcely any covering and no fire. Oh,
no, no fire, for the servant she don't
need any. She is a poor ignorant I'M
| feeling piece of humanity, who don't
and wouldn't know whether she had
| fire or not, for she has no feelings.
| Then when she goes out in the even
| ing to see her Ma" If she has any
or if not, her nearest relative she has
| to go around TO a most obscure en-
| trance. 1t would not do for her to
| have the privilege of the front door,
| Oh. no, she IS the servant. and that
would be too much for MS to allow her.
| So she keeps the front of the house
clean, the halls swept and busted. the
pavements scrubbed, and the street
cleaned, that's all the front privileges
we allow her. Then in disgust the POOR
| girl leaves. and what she gets into
| next is worse than first So it goes
with the poor servant girl.
| Their feelings are hurt so much and
in 50 many ways by the many differ
| ent women who want to be consid-
cred ladies that they become hardened
| 10 it, so it is that the once servant girl
| seeks entrance to our potteries. glass
| houses; yes, even tin mills, which were
| never intended for any ether but able
bodied men So the sooner the would
| be or so-callea mistresses treat their
help as they want their help treat
them. just SO soon viii they get a girl
who knows good thing when she has
it, and appreciates the same by liy-
ing with the family until she takes
upon herself the duties OF her own
household and then. when through
living out, she is usually very com