Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-02 | Page 6 | Maid Knew the Situation

MAI MAID D effew THE SITUATION mrs wood swift president of the national council of american women was praising servants servants get too much abuse too little praise she said the have the worst house and the unpleasant est work in the world yet they are cheerful they have too many temptations and too many responsibilities but they try conscientiously to be equal to any task imposed on them consider for example the many scandalous quarrels that servants hear suppose they told of these aels but servants as a class tell nothing mrs swift paused then smiling she resumed A san francisco woman had one morning in a maid s presence a dis graceful squabble with her husband both lost their tempers completely tely they shouted that they hated one an other they said a number of things i they dian didn t really mean all this mind you in the presence of a mild mannered maid of some for ty years the lady afterward was ashamed and frightened she wished to remove from the maid s mind the impression that there had been a family quarrel she called the young woman to her and said I 1 suppose ou heard my husband and me conversing rather earnestly this morning marthaa the maid blushed yes madam she replied I 1 hope ou thought nothing un usual was going on nothing worth re beating or talking about oh madam t say a word the maid exclaimed earnestly I 1 once had a man myself and I 1 assure ou never a day passed that the neighbors dian didn t believe one or the other of us would be killed