Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
Washington Cold1iists in New
York Homesick Lot.
CONDITIONS DIFFERENT
THEY GET ToaETHeR AND TELL
THEIR WIPES
Servant Girl Problem sUne Of the Diff
ficulties the Women Have
to Encounter.
j Correspondence Of The Krening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening STAR
NEW YORK. February s. 1903.
A patty of ten or a dozen young married
couples, all Washing tonians. living over
here "for their SINS" az they quantity ex-
press the matter, are talking OF Organizing
among themselves into an association to be
known as THE Washington Exiles'' The
idea occurred to several Of: them simultane-
ously. because whenever they get together
at little card parties, or Dutch luncheons
or affairs Of that sort. all Of them are con-
tinually making moan over their separation
from 1.-The little old place down on the Po-
tomac" They are meeting at each, Others
flats pretty constantly, and their walls of
comparison between life IN Washington as
they used to know it-before the men. most
Of whom were in the government employ In
the capital. became ..ambitous"-and. life in
New York. as they find 1t. are heartrending
enough. There are many thousands, prob
ably hundreds OF thousands Of men and wo-
men from other sections OF the country fv-
ing in New York who do not become recon
ciled to the conditions Of life in the big
city for many years after their arrival here
As for Washingt onians who come here to
live, they never do become reconciled to
reason for their consistent and persistent
dislike of this place as q residence town
than the people from any other American
city. 3.
IL IdCu6T- auuuSII8 W. -tDTC&sAtueE Win
these young Washington people when they
get together for an evening. The women
barely have their wraps removed before
they get onto the servant question.
DO you remember that Irish girl I en-
gagged last week?' says one Of the young
matrons. well, she's gone. And she took
two of my silk skirts and don't know how
many handkerchiefS and pairs OF stockings
day was her day off, you know, and in the
morning she asked me for an advance of
so on her wages, saying that she wanted
to take the money to her sick aunt in Ho-
boken. let her have the money, although
she had only been with me day or so
more than q week. She hasn't come back.
Of course. and now I'm advertising for an
other girl. found that she had had her
trunk taken away on the afternoon be-
fore, Willis was down town, and when she
failed to come back began to go through
my things, Well, she had just helped her
self, and I haven't half looked yet to see
what else she has taken besides what I've
told you Oh, II only fhad igoed old Lily
Euthanasia Rebecca .Janikson:s over here
with me! She was with .sus during the
three years that my husband and lived
in Washington after we margled, and what
black diamond she wAs!' I'm perfectly
Swede girl. My husband told me this even
ing that all Swede servant sErls in Now
York are young and pretty, and of course
I don't want any such pert; saucy Things
around"
Environment Counts. with Servants.
''WelI, you need not long for your Lily
Euthanasia Rebeeca jackson over here"
puts in another of the young Washington
women. washington servants-the black
er the better-are the very best in the
world. Who knows it better than II But
they are only black Jewels On their native
Washington. They won't do at all
; when you bring them oversher You know
we brought our Rosalie- Eulalie Eustfs
Johnson over here teaNew York; last year.
She had been with us for six years In
Washington, and she was g. prize. had a
dreadful time with servants when came
over here-I had two Irish girls, then a
Norwegian girl, then three German girls In
quick succession, then a Hungarian girl;
then. finally, q girl who seemed to be a
little bit of all that had gone before, except
that she had the habit Of getting dead
drunk in the kitchen and then shrieking at
the top-o her voice. We had to have her
taken out of the fiat to an alcoholic ward,
and the disgrace was something frtghtful.
wouldn't dare write about 1t to my poor
mother In Washington or she would sit
down and order Jack and me to come right
back to Washington at once, on the first
train. Then went to an employment
agency and engaged colored gfrl-a New
York colored girl. Well, it didn't take me
a day to find out that there's all the diff
ference in life between New York colored
one didn't talk with any more Of a darby
accent that did. and she was as indepen-
dent and perky as you please, and-would
you believe 1t - she swished around the
kitchen in a silk skirt It was brilliant
yellow silk underskirt, II you please. There
reminiscent of the Washington black girls
about her at all, and had to let her co.