The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

"Do not think that in the South you have the only servant problem, for I can assure you that the white Ameri- can girl in the North regents domestic service now quite as much as does your Southern white girl who has as her idea >of racial distinction and that distaste of sharing responsibility with the ne- gro servants employed in Southern households.
 "The American white girl seems to prefer almost any form of labor to that of domestic service, and fs willing to accept less wages in the factory, bus insss houses or any institution where there is nothing akin to domestic ser vice. We are dependent, therefore, ale most exclusively now upon foreign ser wants that we may engage. They, realizing that they are now exclusive ly the serving class, are making de- mands almost preposterous.
 For instance, cook in a cofnpara- lively small Northern family will ask, VIII I have any help in the kitchenT And she will at once state that her wages must be ss a week, that ap- parently being the standard settled upon by the women making cooking their speciality"
 when asked as to what time they require -oN. Mir. Evans said that 1t was an Understood thing now that they were all to have half of Sunday and one afternoon and evening in the week besides. She said that at present the most satisfactory servants in New England were Swedes. the Irish and some of the Germans, but that the Ital- ians and other continental people pre- ferred the factory as a medium of livelihood. to Che most compensatinK positions as domestic servants.
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 Now and then comes a rumor of "the decline of the bridesmaid" in England. It certainly has not. come about yet, as the accounts of the wedding to occur next month of Miss Blyth. of Brawith Hall. Thirslk. state that she is to have sixteen, positively . record breaking number.
 Mrs. Richard Henry Savage who Is now in Berlin deliyering a series of lectures on the Dowager Empress of China, Empress CatheriEe IT of Russia, and Marie Antoinette has arranged for lecture tour through the United States this winter.
 The play, Modern Lady Godiva," in which Amelia Bingham Is starring through the South. is by Frederick Schrader, for years dramatic editor and critic of The Washington Post, whose wife was an Alabama girl. Mrs. Schrader was formerly Miss. Marie Bailey, daughter of Mir. Edward Bailey. for years editor of a Rome, Ga, daily paper Her mother was Misas Emma Mosely. of Talladega. sister of Robert Mosely, consul to Singapore under McKinIey's administration. Mir. Schra- der Is now living in New York.
 Mrs Schrader. whoN was formerly dramatic interviewer for The Post, is now a brilliant writer on The New York Times on all sorts of live subjects of the day including a wide range from chocolate bonbons to electrical appliances
 among the notable women of the South, who will be delegates to the ccnven- ton of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to convene at Norfolk No vember 1S.-17. are Miss Sophie D. wright and Mrs. W. J. Behan. both dent of the Southern Confederated Me morial Associations. Miss Wright has devoted iher life to the education of the poor. It was to her that the citizens of New Orleans presented a munificent gift in recognition of her splendid ser vices.
 Tn speaking of the ills to which poul- try flesh is heir and of the hopeless ness of chick raising in city lots, Montgomery woman remarked:
 'I know cure for sore head. It is lard and camphor, and three applicas tions will do the work. Just as eff caci0ys, however. is camphorice, which of cdNurse is a preparation containing the two necessary ingredients. cam phor and a cream"
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 To cook a cake on gas stove the chief thing to learn to do Is to DON'T, waste the gas by turning the burners too high. This results in burning up your cake, wasting the gas, increasing the gas bill, an addition to the income of the gas man.
 Both burners should be turned half way down and the cake placed in the stove on the rack in the middle of the burner and then learn to DON'T, look at the cake every moment. Ton have pressed the button, the stove will do the rest in about fortyiive minutes