The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-03
TIREsoME PEOPLE.

uc reason tnaL women were as
signed to the position of house-keep-
ers IN the eternal scheme of things
was because an omniscient Providence
knew that only those who possessed
patience in a well-developed state
would do for this work. And women
are patient
If Moses was the most patient per-
son on earth at the period his history
was written, why have none of his
masculine descendants this virtue in
our time? That's the question wo-
men would ask.
But the house-keeper? Here is
what one of her has to put up with.
She must have on her table at each
meal three kinds of sugar, granulated,
loaf and pulverized. The loaf is used
in the coffee of all of the members of
the household save one. He declares
It doesn't sweeten things for him and
mea1, Dur at uInner It IS partularly
priced by one of the grown-ups, who
has a sweet tooth or whole row OF
them, and who eats sugar IN his to-
mato soup, sugar on his hominy,
sugar piled up on his pie and sugar
on his ice cream. He is even said to
eat molasses on his Goldfish cakes, but
this is almost beyond belief, and the
readers are not called upon to credit
it if they find the story too much for
their credulity.
To satisfy the varied tastes for
sugar is, however, far easier than to
satisfy capricious appetites for other
things.
| When, for instance, one member OF
the household refuses to eat veal on
the ground that it tastes like baby /;
and another will not eat pork because
it disagrees with him, and still an
other likes his beef done to crisp,
while his brother takes his rare, then,
indeed, is it time for the house-keep-
er to retire to her den and in sack
cloth and ashes and bemoan her un-
happy fate. 80
In an uptown family four different
kinds of bread are found on the break.
fast table each morning. There is
toast for the head of the house, who
has dyspepsia cold light bread for
maiden aunt, who comes from Yer
mont hot rolls for son, who viii
eat nothing else, and corn pone or no
cakes for the others. Here's econo
my for you with a vengeance.
One sensible woman holds that tn
| troubles with servants had their r1s
! in the idiosyncrasies of those VIII
: were in authority over them. Sh
contends that when Bridget foun
E that vagaries were fashionable sh
e laid in a stock on her own account
b and has been adding to them eve
e since.
d But to return to Our muttons, whic
e have to do with the mistress and nC
the maid, it is doubtful if in one fan
e ily out of every dozen there is an e1
l. act similarity of tastes. One fruitf'
:. source of disagreement concerns sa
l. ad dressings. Now there are SON
Ie very nice and respectable people
the world, with orthodox religion
n beliefs, who yet do not like the tas
l. of olive oil, and these persons al
" quite fierce when the subject is mel
st toned to them. No, they don't Ill
e. oil, they say, and what IS NOR
is neither does any one else who has al
.y sense. Oil is all very well when o.
wants a machine to run smoothly, b
ly as an edible it is unspeakably hor
as Bile, and the unfortunates who do IL
f. it feel that this leaves nothing to
n said. 1t does leave something for
it. house-keeper to do, however.
ce gives her fine opportunity to try b
be hand at making two salad dressin
he instead of one.
nd OF the persons who will not eat CO
,ss bage, but who love sauerkraut
Ie. those which rice makes i'll and chez
elk unhappy, there is not time to !
is here. This story was meant or
yn nally to sing the praises of the sym
thetic person who attempts to rec'
GER cile all discrepancies of appetite
he make everyone happy she who is
ace object of everyone's displeasure
tn dinner time if things do not go to S
in and whose gentle form acts as but
his to avert sad consequences from
his cook. But her virtues really sho
, of be sung by more eloquent some
By who could do her justice, for, go
! in ness knows, she needs some comp
: to sation in this world for what she
eet fers at the hands Of her dear o
age every day.