The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-26
A PLEA FOR ADULTS.

It is cold comfort to be told that the drama is intended for the debutante, and the novel for her younger brothers and sisters. It is even less agreeable to hear it hinted that if we do not like these pure and wholesome perform ances, it is because we want something evil Does nothing then interest the adult save sin? Are bankers and brewers, anxious mothers and hard working spinsters indifferent to all but vice? Must we either frolic like lambs being lambs no longer-or devote our selves seriously to the meretricious !? Life has issues, not wholly unimpor- tant, yet disconnected with love mak~, ing of any kind. Men-middle-aged men-desre many things beside their neighbors' wives. Women-middle- aged women--are sometimes strangely indifferent to their neighbors' husbands. We may be pure of heart, yet unable to take pleasure in "The Old Homestead" or Ben Hur," We may be virtuous and intelligent adults. Will no one write novels and plays for us?-Agnes Pepplier in Life.
 THE REAL CONQUERORS IN
 SOUTH AFRICA.
 Ladies in England who complain of trouble with their households will per- haps find some consolation in hearing of the far greater difficulties experi- enced by mistresses in South Africa. The services of capable European servants are held at such a premium in the colony that honor among acquain- tance is practically unknown where a desirable maid servant is in question A visitor calling at a friends house will frequently preface her inquiries as to whether the mistress is at home by questions as to the salary the maid who opens the door is receiving, and will then proceed to tempt the girl from her present situation by offers of a higher salary. Neither does a plentiful supply of colored domestic obviate the diff culty A capable colored servant is certainly to be preferred to the incom- petent white woman sent out fom Eng land, but as the following incident shows, the independence and uppishness of the colored woman often renders her presence in the house unbearable
 A colored woman had accepted the position of cook in private family and on arriving at her new situation in formed the mistress she was not given to patroniZing dances or entertainments and would therefore prove an invalu- able servant Gratified by this intelli- gence, the mistress expected great things At the end of the month the cook had attended every dance in the by no means inconsider- able number. On one occasion she did not return home till late the next morn ing, Whereupon the master of the house felt constrained to make inquiries. Re were not to be thought of as anything of that nature would have led to instant departure, so the cook was only asked the reason of her ab- sence. Evidently primed for conflict, the colored lady flounced around, ex- claiming in indignant tones; Master must remember the days of slavery are over" The awe in which servants are crous if sudden departure were not so held by their employers would be Judi very inconvenient and in many of the hotels the proprietress would sooner lose her visitors than offend her ser wants by questioning them on reported to those staying in the house; the guests she can replace, the servants she cannot.-The Empire Review