Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-08-15

yay. II death comes, or sickness
ONES. or great trouble comes. they
will heartlessly leave us at a moments
lotice and let US get along the best
way we can.
Mutual sympathy.
But, housekeepers, why should you
.xpect your domestics to sympathize
With YOU in your time Of trouble? You
ay that your cook left you during
hat awful crisis when your husband
vas lowering between life and death
IN account of typhoid fever. But have
-ou ever sympathized with your serv'
mt in her sickness? Tell me frank
V. have you ever stopped for one mo-
nent TO realize that you had human
being. an immortal soul, working fol-
-ou in the kitchen, or have you regard
d her only as a little cog in the domes
ic machinery, which can be thrown
,way as soon as 1t is useless? Your
yves have been red with weeping from
sitting up by your baby's crib. DIG
you think to ask why your chamber
maids eyes were red with weeping
IN the day after she received that let
ter with foreign postmark? You have
had hard financial struggle to ge
along and make ends meet. You have
again and again because
the female help is SO wasteful. Yol
say: "They will let the furnace go out
and then you must start 1t up agar
with extra coal and wood. They VIII
not turn down the gas In the dining
room and the parlor and in the halls
md they do not care il the bills ruI
up. They will throw away good meat
because they are too indolent to cool
It in another FORM" But, my sister
did you ever stop to sympathize witt
your servants financial struggle
Some of those girls are humble
heroines. We think Of heroine as
Grace Darling, rowing away from ne
fathers lighthouse, in the teeth OF al
awful storm. to save a shipwrecket
crew. Under the plain dress OF you
humble domestic there may be beating
as brave a heart as that Of the famou
English girl. Why is she working ant
so carefully econOmizing? For herself
Oh. no. She is perhaps sending nom
all her wages to support her old par
ents or to help educate her orphane'
brothers and sisters. If you were t
90 into your servants room today pei
haps you would find they did not hav
sufficient clothes to keep them warm
Why should your servants sympathiz
with your troubles if you care 80 littl
for theirs?
Duty OF the Housekeeper.
Sympathy, God given, practical syn
pathy. can break down many a barrie
which today separates the kitche
from the parlor. Christopher COlun
bus life proves what we'll directe
sympathy can do. After the grea
Genoese mariner had returned from hi
voyages of discovery jealousies arose
He was thrown into prison and mar
acled with irons. The effects OF thes
prosecutions was to make Columbus
heart as dead as stone. A popula
writer of that day described the ne'
world and stole away its rightfl
name. The two continents whic
should bear the title of Columbia ar
called America. Columbus said notl
ing. His enemies lied about him an
called him a traitor. Columbus sal
nothing. But one day he was brougi
before the Spanish throne. He cam
into the royal palace a stern race
man. He looked up and saw tn
eyes of Queen Isabella wet with syn
pathetic tears. At once this stron
and sulIen hero wavered. He kne
before the throne and buried his fac
IN his hands and wept until his fran
shook with emotion. Sympathy, Go
given sympathy, placed Columbus
Isabella's feet; not the chains, not Il
prosecutions, not the upbraidings, N
the indifferences. SO, my sister, II yo
expect your servants to be sympathet
with you, be as Queen Isabella, WI
sympathized with Columbus trouble
You must sympathize with theirs.
The housekeeper Is the servant
model also in devotion to the HON
The servants will inevitably fail
appreciate the dignity and nobility
domestic service unless their mi
tresses feel that the highest honor al
woman can have is to preside over al
dedicate her life to her home.
The name Of home ought to have +
every true housewife charmed SCUM
1t ought to be spelled by her, as n
grandmOthers used to spell 1t, In maj
letters of gold. 1t ought to be spell'
in tongues of flame, glowing above Il
hearthstone. 1t ought to be spelled
a word of eleven letters, opportunity
in another word of nine letters, "ha
piness." 1t ought to be spelled In tv
words, the one of eight and the oth
of three letters, maternal JOY"
ought to be spelled in another word
seven letters, liberty" The true WI
should never want to be anywhere b
under the shadow Of her home. b
though Mary Anderson, the queen
the American stage, gladly abdicat
her theatrical throne in order to
queen Of her domestic fireside, ola
gerous tendency of this age Is I
wives and mothers to vacate their q
nestle thrones. They want to hal
over the kitchen to their cooks. Tn
want to leave their children under Z
exclusive control Of the nurses. Tn
want to be separated from their hi
bands, on account Of their clubs. tn
want to be literally educated in ever
thing on earth, except In the old fas
toned way of learning how to be
gool housewife and mother.
Honorable Employment.
Now, housekeepers, is 1t right to G
pect your servants to be proud to wo
in the kitchen when you yourself q
ashamed to be found doing kitch
work? Is it more of an intellectual
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