The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-10-15
THE TREATMENT OF SERVANTS.

III OrQer 10 De gOOQ mistress, IL Il
necessary to believe in a few funda
mental truths, which may be brif1y
stated as follows:
First, servants are human beings,
and consequently have souls; second,
servants, having souls, are conse-
quently controlled by the motives
which address themselves to common
humanity third, being human, SER
wants have rights which no amount of
service money can buy; and fourth,
transcendent intellectual endowments,
physical development of fifty-horse
power, the broad circle of the Chris
tian graces and virtues, faultless dis
position, a knowledge of French cook
cry, and elegant habits, cannot be OBJ
tanned for nine Yankee shillings a
week. A mistress admitting gener-
ally the truth of the propositions
possesses basis for securing service
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TheSe is quite too much of feeling
among mistresses that they have a
right to use a servant as fast boy
uses hired horse. They are TO get
the most out of them that they can for
the moneythey pay. They take no
personal inerest in them,-extend to
them no maronly care and kindness.
They forget that servant is social
being. They forget that she has
humble loves and hopes, has desires
for freedom and recreation, as impor-
tant to her as the higher loves and
hopes and desires of the more favored
girls who occupy the parlor.
They forget that the labors of the
kitchen are tedious; that the conhne-
ment of the kitchen is irksome. They
become exacting,-strict in rules,
rigid in discipline, and peremptory
in their commands. 1t is not in hu-
man nature to stand this kind of thing,
so the servant gets hardened at last,
or wilfully careless. She receives no
praise, any way, and therefore tries
to get none. A servant, generally
speaking, whose feelings as humble
woman are appreciated by her mis-
tress, who is praised for what she
does that is, we'll, and kindly and
patiently instructed to correct that
which is not we'll who is treated to
sympathetic and considerate words,
and indulged in that liberty which is
absolutely essential to her bodily and
mental health, will love Eer mistress
and have a desire to please.
This, in all good and tolerably SEN
sible natures, will settle the matter.
A girl exercised by this love and this
desire will be a good servant ninety
nine times in a hundred. 1t is under
relations like these that attachments
are formed which are as tender as hu-
manity and as lasting as life.
sThere is a broad view i'll which
S and all kindred matters are to be
syarded. The mistress is quite as
.pendent upon the servant as the SER
Kant upon the mistress. She renders
ana ner Service Is 5-salasets5eaitrasiye i3eE.
IS your money is to her. You can.
lot get along without her nor can
he get along without you. Your
'osition, to be sure, issuperior to hers,
'ut she owes you nothing, save faith
al service and respect. The obliga-
ions are not all upon one side. tits
ust as much your duty to be kind
mistress and friend to her as it it her
[uty to give faithful service and re-
pectful treatment to you. If, then,
lou fail in your duty, you must not
blame her for failing in hers. have
lever seen a good servant who had
lot either a good mistress, or one who
was actually inferior to herself. HUI
man nature is very prevalent among
women, and especially among maid:
Df all-work.