Year: 1861




we copy the following very readable article
"Jennie June,"-Mrs. CRoLY, formerly of
Rockford, ILL.,, Daily News, writes more
sense in week than "Fanny Fern has in
all her writings. We quote:


WOMEN WATERS.


A lady writer in Once Week says:


81 like woman to wait at the table. -
If ever have $40 900 a year, mean to
have the incest and the smartest and the
best looking women instead Of footmen,
and their livery with lavender silk dresses,
white silk stockings, and lace caps trimmed
with lavender ribbons"


Evidently this writer is an old maid, or
else English husbands differ greatly from
their American prototypes. We should
like to see woman courageous enough to
introduce handsome waiter girls, dressed
in lavender silk, in New York city. And
we should like to see the chance there
would be that she would ever get any thing
to eat. unless it was poisoned, after that
event had taken place.


Wonderfully would it aid her digestion to
see how suddenly helpless her husband
would grow at the dinner table, the innum-
erable articles he would require to have
handed to him, and the frequency with
which his glass would want filling and his
plate changing. The lady, of course, would
wca, ring.ets, and every graceful droop Of
her head would watt them in close proxim-
Unity with the gentlemcn's moustaches, and
if he did incline his head so as to get a
more distant odor of the lovely Macassar,
how difficult to bring him guilty of the act?
The only chance for defense would be to
have one side Of the dining room lined with
plate glass, so as to be able to watch ope.
rations and manRuvcrs without being OBJ
served, but beside the humiliation of it, the
necessity would spoil the flavor of the most
delicate spring chicken and the sweetest
strawberries, and make dining a penance
instead of pleasure. No, indeed, no female
walters, even if, unlike males, they never
do wear " creaking shoes" There is a
worse evils than creaking shoes and the vel.
vet step Of the lady in lavender might serve
to conceal 4 purpose as well as to execute
one.


| But the dress is another evidence that
the lady correspondent of Once Week is
only posted on the side of her tastes or her
inclinations, and that they have never
been controlled by regulations matrimoni.
al. White silk stockings and lavender silk
dresses are good. We are acquainted only
with two or three gentlemen who allow
there wives such an outfit as that, and they
are only or full dress occasions Should
the maids exhibit themselves in such an
attire, they would be taken for mstresses
in full party costume. Then imagine these
young ladies sailing into dining room
with their hoops and lavender, trying to
squeeze through the lines fguests Would
you think of asking them to carry the fish
and poultry, or vegetables? What dismay
it would strike to the inexperienced young
gentlemen to be helped to soup by such an
elegant figure at their right hand?


Should fortune cver attack us at the rate
of $40 600 per year, of which there, unfor
tunately, is not possibility, not more than
one female domestic should be admitted in.
side of the house. The walters should be
light, active, and expert young men, whose
dress should be white in summer and gray
in winter. They would be required to be
noseless, prompt, rapid, active and eff.
cient; and where could women be found
possessing those qualities. Only one kind
word, in reference to the woman, would &c
far to settle the point in sustaining woman
in her sphere.