The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-02
K IT OVER WITH GIRLS
vICE ABOUT SERVANTS FROM
 MRS. GOLDEN WEDDING.

~ Them Room If You Con to Ro- I've Their Friends In-Bare Your Ani to Them and Treat Them a smans-This is Luncheon Ad sss to Brides.
 What ails all the wonen?" asked Golden Wedding of Mrs. June l1e and half dozen other young wo- as they settled themselves around perfectly appointed lunch table. erywhere you go you hear nothing Servants. servants. You girls have 3A in this house exactly half an @ and you've spoken of absolutely Fling but cooks. waitresses and as.
 |lne can't pick up a newspaper now Bss but it is filled with letters and Es and editorials all about the do- ic service problem. The discus s make mighty interesting reading If mere man, who appears to be as h interested in them as the women once stops to think, he'll conclude woman does not show up very we'll his matter, either as served or as er." here you go again, Mrs. Golden ding" said Mrs. June Bride. You ys have it in for the women. Of !, tn I and worry yourself half crazy, you never have any trouble. You your servants forever, and they you not only perfect but cheerful ce. I never saw such luck as you ave. As for me, I've been married months and I've had nine cooks. other cooks on my street say that It give my servants enough to eat, I'm q devil-yes, they call me that i one of them had the nerve to hd 1t around that the reason Ia not keep a cook was because my hnd gets drunk and discharges .''
 bu have my sympathy said the brunette. we took house last Amber and I've had seven cooks s then. My reputation in my street Ad make me a subject for lynching South. And, like all Southern Aen, I am very easy on servants. or giving them enough to eat, you we Southerners simply can't 10, I think mine get too much to  hey run right over me. But ly refuse to give my husband and ren food that is not perfectly cook nd so I fire a cook as soon as that she is incompetent. Result? h firing has been the rule i'll our all winter. Thank goodness, I an old one back now, and things run smoothly with me until May,
 she expects to take herself to St. 5, along with hundreds of other ones, I suppose. The lids cer- been off in my kitchen all winter. nd in mine" chortled the three syoung things who had been lis must say a good word, though, for es,' put in the mother of three ren. T have followed the discus in The Sun on this domestic prob closely, and it has amazed me that he has put in a good word for the
 girl. Nine out of ten nurses, sure, are faithful and devoted, if many of them are not thorough ompetent. And faithfulness and lion must entail a certain degree mpetency. If the mother is wise the nurse loving the children are to get pretty fair attention.
 y four-year-old had a birthday
 last week, and there were fifteen ren and eleven nurses present. n had been with their charges
 birth and the children were from g years old. The four others had with their employers from two to years. Each nurse there thought hild or children the most beautiful best hammered and best dressed mt, and made no bones about say b. They were as refreshing as the folks themselves. It touched my I tell you, felt like taking off lat to the nurses. and I told them erhaps the reason one hears of so
 trouble with nurses is because are treated more as members of familshrdluemfwpyniyy to giirth amily, or least in a more familiar than the other servants, and then stay less in the kitchen and hear bf the kitchen gossip.
 1e noticed that nurses usually are ful and stay a long while in their s., said the ehildless guest. T ] three hours out of doors each and most of the time I am talk O babies and their nurses.
 know lots of nurses who have been e family from dozen to thirty or
 forty years. And what amazes
 to see the care and devotion that
 nurses give the children in their ge. Why, I've learned that they cize any nurse seen shaking, push pr skipping her little ones, and it times happens that an impatient