Connecticut western news., 1903-07-30

profits or in raising potatoes and apples In the Dakotas or Montana if the rail- road freight to bring the fruit to the market costs more than the goods are worth. No financial advantage in be Ing a downtown clerk and receiving $S or S1O week if the expenses of room rent and car fare and the lunch counter and board and laundry bill and extra clothes absorb Ill the salary. And so when you place the net, Income of an average servant girl aeafist that of an average clerk you find her salary is mostly gain, while his, at the end of the week, after his legitimate ex- penses have been met, Is absplntely nothing or about nothing.
 Income of Servant Girls. 0sses x
 I am talking about the princelH
 income of an average servant girlA 18dt if you are going to judge the condition of each class of laborer by the standard of money then the servant girl Is not only better paid, but she receives steadier service all the year round. She Is not laid of like the masons or car penters or the lake sailors or like the many employees who, though during the busy seasons they receive high wages, are idle during certain months of the year. The royal domestic can have perpetual employment. Thus, from a financial standpoint, l would commend to our sisters and daughters this noble work of the kitchen and the nursery. 5. I scommend the occupation to you becauie the financial returns are princely in comparison with the mental equipment which many of you are able to consecrate to this service.
 But there is still another advan- tageous aspect of the question which should not be overlooked. Eliezer, the servant was the chief man in Abra- hams household. In how many Amer ican households, think you, is the cook the principal functionary, upon whose skill and proficiency the physical, and to a very large extent also the moral, condition of the family depends? There are, I will venture to affirm, hundreds of thousands of homes in our large cities, to say nothing of as many more in the towns and villages, where the defection or incapacity of the cook or housekeeper would mean confusion and misery. A good. honest, intelligent cook is a conservator of health and happiness. Brillat Savarin once said that he who invented new sauce was a benefactor to mankind. So the cook who brightens your table with well ordered dinner and whose culinary skill gives Zest to appetite is bene- factor to. the home. There are chefs, many of them, who by reason of their skill command salaries reaching up in to the thousands of dollars. They un- derstand the chemistry of the kitchen; they have made study of dietetics, and their experience is quite as valu- able to their employers as that of the skilled physician. There Is abundant scope for ambition in the kitchen.
 Advantage of Domentic Service.
 Another advantage offered by do- mestic service is that its surroundings are purer. The royal doDlestic is sub jected to less temptations than are her sisters who are earning their livelihood ill other walks of life. Queen Victontd in Windsor castle for over fifty years refused knowingly forgive audience to any man or woman of impure and wicked ltfa. royal servant girl, If slse3 nj ' C xs..se en- n |
 IOe1 ciat tee Ghs can W with 9Ood people if she will The elaotee rests wlth her and iS.' \ q alona.
 This statement Is not always true in reference to women who have to work for their living outside of the four walls of home. Without they are wills, to inhale the vitiating atmos- phere of sin. They are often com peIled to see sights which their eyes ought never to behold and to hear say. ings which ought never to be heard and to stand shoulder to shoulder witl
 moral lepers, whose sins, if not con
 tagious, by too much association may become fatally infectious. Here, fol instance, Is young girl just arrived
 from the country. She decides to enter factory and become a day wage
 earner. That factory has scores oi
 girls whom she would never dare in
 troduce to her old Christian mother
 That young girl within four weeks
 service In that factory has seen an(
 heard more wickedness than she ha!
 ever known before. Then this young girl goes from her factory to her board ing house. Upon her small salary sht cannot afford to pay a very big board bill. The result is that she lives In q boarding house near her daily work That boarding house in all probability has young girls in it whose lives are not what they ought to be. Seeing sin by day and necessarily seeing and hearing about sin by night has hard ening influence upon the young girls soul. Of course, the Divine Protector can and will preserve that young coun- try girl true and pure and noble if she keeps clinging to the omnipotent arm, but without that superhuman aid the moral tendency for the female worker in the factory is downward. The life there Is in some respects the same as that upon the theatrical stage. about which a noted actor once wrote, ''The OooNOot A0Sl oDOol HhJ RAOlSoSlOh ID that the constant seeing of what one ought not to see has a tendency to blunt the moral sensitiveness and blind ones eyes to his moral duty and to right"
 Temptation Avoided.
 Then consider the sbeseting tempta- tions ready to greet the ysang girlw applies for u position as clerk in a large downtown store. Parents, 1t Is high time that you fully realize there are among the owners of large down town dry goods stores some who do not expect their clerks to live upon their salaries. There are hundreds and thou sands of those young girls whose cost ly dress proves that they are not living upon their weekly wages. Everywhere In those downtown stores sin stands around with outstretched arms crying Come! Come and wear ane clothes! Come and be respected as you cannot be in the kitchen or the nursery! Come