Milford chronicle., 1903-08-14
grumble If her servants treat her in
( the same way.

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unfaithfulness does not always ente
a home by the back door. 1t IS some
| times comfortably installed In th'
| boudoir long before it appears in the
| servants quarters. and its first nap il
a household is taken upon the parlol
sofa and not by resting in a kitchen
chair. The mistress, in spite OF her
self, is an exemplar TO the domestic
/ Very often when the housewife is find
ing fault with her servant she is de
nouncing the malformed results of her
| own evil life.
The housckeeper is the domestic's
model also in the matter of sympathy.
If she wishes the servants to be SYM
| pathetic with her troubles. then the
houseleeper must be sympathetic with
theirs. Her knowledge of her servants
ought not TO be limited TO their serv-
ice she should take an interest in their
personal concerns and give them cOun
sci and help in their difficulties. Trials
are the common lot of our race. The
trials of the household will be all the
easier to bear If the housekeeper and
her servant meet them with cllapcd
hands. each calling the other her sister.
Servants sometimes seem to have no
sympathy with the wear ana tear and
the sorrows and the sicknesses Of their
housekceper's life. They seem to be
foreigners dwelling for a little while
under the roof of a home with nothing
in common between themselves and
their mistress Mr. Beecher once de-
scribed a summer jaunt through Ger
many. He said that it was one OF the
strngest experiences he ever had, be
cause up to that time he had never
placed his foot upon European soil. All
about him were men and women living
a distinct life Of their own. They
bought and they sold, travelled in rail
road trains and ate in hotels. These
people lived alongside of him. Yet he
was thousand miles away from them
He could not speak their language He
had nothing with which to draw him
and them together SO some of the
servants living under our roofs seem
to speak a foreign tongue They never
seem to become "familized." They do
not care what happens TO us i'm any
way. If death comes, or sickness
comes. or great trouble comes. they
will heartlessly leave us at a moments
notice and let us get along the best
way we can.
Mutual sympathy. /
But, housekeepers, why should you
expect your domcstics to sympathizc
with You in your time of trouble? You
say that your cook left you during
that awful crisis when your husband
was lowering between life and death
)n account of typhoid fever. But have
you ever sympathiZed with your serv-
ant in her sickness? Tell ne frank
", have you ever stopped for one mo-
nent to realize that you had a human
being, an immortal soul working for
You in the kitchen, or have you regard
ID her only as a little cog in the dOmes-
lie machinery, which can be thrown
lway as soon as it is useless? Your
yes have been red with weeping from
sitting up by your baby's crib. Did
ron think to ask why your chamber
maids eyes were red with weeping
ID the day after she received that let
er with a foreign postmark? You have
lad hard financial struggle to get
ilong and make ends meet You have
again and again because
he female help is so wasteful. You
ay; They will let the furnace 20 out,
md then you must start it up again
With extra coal and wood. They will
lot turn down the gas in the dining
DOM and the parlor and in the halls.
nd they Go not care if the bills run
p. They will throw away good meat.
ecause they are too indOlent to cook
{ in another form" But. my sister. !
id you ever stop to sympathize with
our servants financial struggle?
ome of those girls are humble ]
eroinrs. We think Of a heroine as a S
trace Darling. rowing away from her
lthers lighthouse, in the teeth Of an {
wful storm, TO save a shipwrecked
rew. Under the plain dress Of your y
umble domestic there may be beating v
S brave Il heart as that Of the famous I
ll-liHi -ltl' " AF - ollt " Dl hllE dllu
, carefully economizing? For herself? i
il, no. She is perhaps sending home b
u her wages to support her Old par Il
lts or to help educate her orphaned p
rOthers and sisters. If you were to v
} into your servants room today per- b
lps you would find they did not have t
Efficient clothes TO keep them warm. h
'hy should your servants sympathize Il
ith your troubles if you care so little Il
II theirs! Nv
Duty of the nOuseKeeper. !;
God given. practical sym ;,
ithy. can break down many barrier
hich today separates the kitchen
ON the parlor Christopher Column
Is life proves what well directed II
mDatlV can do ftpr fhp 0rpat ! u