Milford chronicle., 1903-08-14
lonornnle GmrIovmenl.


Honorable Employment.
/ Now, housekecpers is It right to OK
pect your servants to be proud to work
in the kitchen when you yourself are
ashamed to be found doing kitchen
work? Is it more of an intellectual ac-
cOmplishment to be able TO speak poor
French than it is to cook good bread :
Lord Aberdeen, the governor general
Of Canada. did not think so. \ few
years ago, in a public speech. he said
that the most pleasant experience Of
his sOjourn in America was in the fol.
lowing incident: lie was in an official
capacity, travelling through one of the
Canadian provinces and was stopping
ut a prominent officials home. After
an elaborate meal, perfectly cooked
and perfectly served, he turned TO the
hostess and congratulated her upon her
cook. With that the lady's face light
ed up with pleasure, as she answered:
"My lord, ! thank you for your com
pliment Your words of praise sink
deep into my heart This afternoon
our regular cook was taken sick and
so my daughter took her place. She
will be in presently from the kitchen.
You can then. face to face. congratl-
late her upon her success"
Is it a disgrace, as many women seem
to think it is. for Il mother to be seen
wheeling her baby carriage along the
street with her own flesh and blood in
that carriage? For my own part
think such Il public sight Of a wife and
mother is n far more honorable one
than for such a woman tS be seen car
lying around a pet dog or TO be seen /
out driving with a French poodle by I
her side You may smile if you will at /
the figure l have drawn, but l say |
unto you. oh, wives and mothers, that
you can never get your servants to ap-
preciate the nobility of Il domestic call |
ing until you yourself fully realize that /
the greatest work and the most honor |
able work you can have is that which |
is to be found within the four walls OF |
a cOnsecrated home.
The housekceper is her servants
model. Then she must give to them
her love as well as her sympathy "Oh.
no" some housewife answers. Il could |
not love my servants. l could sym
pathize with them in their troubles. but
could not love them. Why. if l loved
them | should have 10 receive them
into the holy of holes of my heart
should in one sense have to make .
them part Of my own family.
cannot place my servants side by side
With my children" Yes my sister.
7ou can love as well as sympathize
with your dOmestics You can give
hem your heart as well as your hand.
You can make them part Of your house
lold. You can look upon your domestic
lelp in the same way that King Solo
non looked upon his He was verbally
the ideal condition of his home
when he wrote, And had servants
,orn in my home" That means. as l
axe it, that the servants were part of
himself. If any troubles should come
hose servants would cling to him and
owe him on account of the love with
which lie loved them. You can learn TO
owe your servants inst the same as
our servants can work for you from a
igher motive than that Of getting
money. They can learn to love you. '
Cords of Affection.
Housewives. if you will only learn to
owe your servants ard make their in
erests your interests, that love would
e returned to yen in a thousand bless
ngs. We can prove this by the silver
Ords Of affection which bound some {
f the southern planters to their black I
laves. Did not those slaves return I
heir masters love by a noble devo- !
ion? There was many and many a
roman in the south who, after her
usband had been shot in the civil war,
-ould have starved to death had not
he strong limbed negroes who worked
or her as "slaves Of the law" contin- :
ed of their own free will, to work for !
er as Slaves Of love" There was
iany a wounded Confederate soldier |
Tho would have died had not his body ]
arvant, who easily could have escaped
Ito the northern lines, gladly and will I
Ugly and prayerfully nursed him back '
, health and strength. There is many ]
servant working today as a hireling
! some home who if she was loved Y
= her mistress would return a wealth S