Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-09-05
ployed to do the work of one, we
are confronted with an absolute
famine in the market. Such condi-

are confronted with an absolute
famine in he market. Such condi-
tions present paradox in domestic
science worthy of Chicago Uniyer-
sity presidents most freakish philoso-
ply. Since the civil war the South
has worried along with the negro
woman as servant in the vain hope
that freedom and independence
would stimulate and encourage an
ambition not previously manifested /;
but this was another Utopian dream,
from which we have been suddenly
awakened. Instead of Improvement
she has grown steadily worse and in
stead of acquiring effioinoy, thrift
and stability, she has lost all claims
she might have had il these quail
ties.
NO WHITE SERVANTS.
There is scarcely such person to
be found in southern towns and
cities as a native white servant.
Those who are compelled to work
prefer employment in the factory or
shop at half the wages paid domestic
help, even though the duties are less
onerous and the pay better. But the
notably the German girl,
is sometimes found here as a domes-
tic, and wherever she works she is
well paid and we'll treated. If
enough of the poorly paid shop girls
of the crowded cities of the North
could be induced in numbers to
come South and accept domestic SER
vice, class would thereby be formed
which would afford them the means
of social pleasure, recreation and
companionship they do not have
when they come here alone. And,
further, it would enable them to
form small communities among them
selves which more than anything
else, would prevent discomfort and
There is no doubt about finding
ready employment, and that, too, at
good wages for the Southern house,
keeper is all TOO willing to try any
thing or any plan looking to relief
from the worry and uncertainty of
negro help. 1t is an honorable, hon
est, self-respecting occupation and
infinitely more elevating and bene-
fetal to the individual than that of
the factory or shop, for the refine-
ment of the home influence and pro-
lection is thrown around the domes-
tic white servant in the South which
cannot, from the very nature of the
calling, be extended to those in the
factory and shop.
MERIT coMPELs RECOGNITION.
While the class distinction between
servant and master is and always
will be observed here as in all other
portions of the civilized world, the
people as whole are democratic
and strongly inclined to reckon a
persons standing by his true worth
rather than by what he has got, so
that it is easily seen how quickly
true merit, even in an humble oocu-
patton, readily compels respect and
recognition. The situation just now
as to providing this domestic help is
one of encouragement. No plan or
effort is being made to supply the
demand for such labor. 1t is one of
drifting and waiting for something
to turn up. But out of it eventu-
ally must grow an organized plan,
and as a suggestion along this line it
would be we'll to give heed and en-
couragement to the immigration
just now being made, for
it is from these immigrants, after all,
that independence of the negro must
be found.-J. T. Salter in the Manu-
facturers' Record.
ManZan relieves instantly the pain